57 Results for "open source"

Ableton Push Hack: Videos, MIDI Takeover, and a Custom UI on the Push 3, No Ableton Blessing Required

Ableton Push Hack gives the Push 3 Standalone full SSH-based control over its display, MIDI, and LEDs. Unofficial, but genuinely fascinating.

Alchemy Lab, a Controller for your SID and an Editor for your Oberheim: Synth Journal

This week: Alchemy Lab, an exciting new open-source DSP platform for Eurorack, the ultimate SID controller, and a free Oberheim Xpander and Matrix-12 editor.

Beat Gems is Synth Gems 1 for Drum Machines! – Synth Journal

Boutique synth book publisher BJOOKS has announced their latest publication, Beat Gems, a quality tome that does for drum machines what Synth Gems did for synths!

Polyend Endless: Prompt Your Favourite FX!

Polyend Endless is a customisable effect pedal that uses AI to turn text descriptions into playable effects

Ardour 9.0 Proves a Free DAW Can Feel Modern, Fast, and Musical

Ardour 9 streamlines recording, MIDI editing, and clip workflows, bringing musical decisions closer to performance and modern production practice.

Audiotool Studio & NEXUS: DAW Reimagined – Collaborative, Open, in Your Browser, and Free!

Audiotool launches with NEXUS. The new era of cloud-based music production has begun. Collaboration meets creativity. Free of charge!

openDAW: A Completely Free Browser-based Music Production System

Introducing openDAW, a free web-based audio workstation for any computer, designed to be the perfect way to learn about music production.

Secure your Componental Dubby now via Kickstarter

Componental Dubby, the quadrophonic groovebox instrument is now available via Kickstarter, with the first batches arriving in 2025.

Modular Drum Fusion, Creatools Keys, Love-Fi 4 Lite: Free Plugins of the Week

This week’s collection of free plugins brings you 3 sample-based instruments to spark your creativity: Modular Drum Fusion, Creatools Keys, Love-Fi 4 Lite.

Aphex Twin: New Album and free Samplebrain App

Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II will be re-released this year! That's the perfect opportunity to check out his free Samplebrain app!

Synthux Academy Simple Touch: Daisy-Powered Touch Synth can be Anything

Simple Touch by Synthux Academy is a Daisy-based touch device that can be anything: synthesizer, looper, drum machine, effect, you name it!

Live Enhancement Suite: Turbocharge Your Ableton Live Workflow!

Ready to turbocharge your Ableton Live workflow? The Live Enhancement Suite is an open-source toolkit that'll change the way you use Live.

InfernalSynth, Wasted Audio, KClip Zero: Free Plugins of the Week

InfernalSynth is an impressive semi-modular synth and a sound designer's dream! We've also got some free mixing tools and a variable-curve clipper.

201 Musical Synthesizer from Critter & Guitari

Our wooden-buttoned friends Critter & Guitaru are at it again with a super-portable, fun and dynamic synth that's just appeared on Kickstarter.

Best free plug-ins this week: BlackVibe, Codec, Oi, Grandad!

This week’s collection of free plug-ins includes a custom tube amp, a digital degradation tool, and an open-source granular synthesizer.

MicroDexed: an 80s home studio in a Teensy box

Floyd Steinberg is at it again with MicroDexed which offers 2 DX7s, a VA synth, drum computer, piano, audio tracker and effects in one tiny box.

Best free plug-ins this week: PaulXStretch, Tarabia Distortion and DH-TransientShaper

This week’s collection of free plug-ins includes the return of everyone’s favorite time stretching tool, a distortion effect and a transient shaper.

MiniDexed: Run 8 DX7s on a Raspberry Pi for free

Floyd Steinberg shows us how to run 8 instances of the DEXED free DX7 plugin as MiniDexed on a Raspberry Pi with minimal setup and hardware accessories.

Best free plug-ins this week: Room Reverb, Retro Keys VII and TheUtility

This week’s collection of free plug-ins includes a reverb, a retro ROMpler and a useful mixing utility: Room Reverb, Retro Keys VII and TheUtility.

Best free plug-ins this week: CqtAnalyzer, DSPplug mark3 and TS-M1N3

This week’s collection of the best free plug-ins features a colorful spectral analyzer, a mid-side limiter and an open-source clone of a famous overdrive pedal.

Superbooth 2021: Sucofunk Beatmaker’s Sketchbook

Open source and DIY the Beatmaker's Sketchbook is a portable music-making device with sampling and sequencing coming in October.

Leaked firmware claims to turn PLAITS into BRAINS

Apparently, a leaked Behringer BRAINS firmware can be run on the Mutable Instruments Plaits giving access to the display software.

Celemony makes ARA open source, releases software development kit

Celemony has made the ARA protocol available under an open source license. Does this mean that we'll soon see many more ARA-enabled plug-ins?

Best free plug-ins this week: Ocean Swift Synthesis, Surge 1.9 and G395a

If you’re a synth geek, you’re going to love this week’s collection of free plug-ins! We've got a whole bunch of free synths, and a vintage 3-band EQ to round things off.