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FUSE for vvvv is a visual revolution – free, always-runtime patching right on the GPU

Add free, open-source visual programming on the GPU to the free-for-noncommercial-use vvvv - and get materials, lighting, effects, particles, and...

Top music gear news from Superbooth 2021 – the CDM monster guide

The music nerd cultural happening - modular pilgrimage is back, and with it... way too much gear to wrap your...

Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters

Afrorack continues to make richly textured polyrhythmic music and share secrets for cheaply producing powerful modular instruments with open tools....

VCV Rack 2 teaser gives us reasons to be excited about Rack again

After a long silence, VCV reveals some of what's coming in VCV Rack 2, the new edition of the free...

A free, open-source collection of building blocks unlocks expressive motion in Houdini

It's powered by math but doesn't require you to remember your, uh, linear algebra. It's not a set of presets,...

Playtronica’s Orbita explores sequences on physical, kinetic turntable, launching soon

Inspired by objects like wall clocks and reel-to-reel tape machines, Orbita is a sequencer whose interaction is physical and kinetic,...