Is your main DAW computer struggling to handle all of your plug-ins? AudioGridder lets you offload DSP processing to another computer over the network. And it's free!
A new addition to the growing range of modules from Kassutronics is a usually designed Quantizer based on the bracelet representation of scales with a lot of creative functionality behind the scenes.
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The Raspberry Pi miniature computer is more powerful than ever in its fourth generation. Could it become an option as a DAW computer for music applications in the near future?
Dadamachines Composer Pro is a standalone MIDI performance sequencer with a massive 192 button matrix and support for open source audio engines. Here's what it can do.
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With version 0.6.2 of VCV Rack you can now load up all your VST plugins and virtual instruments as virtual Eurorack modules and control them with CV - genius!
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4 voices, 16 samples per voice with independent pattern lengths, a low pass filter and a bitcrusher. And then a breadboard on which to develop your own expansions for the Shapeshifter Open Hardware DIY kit.
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PsyTrance producer Raphael Huber has designed a 60-knob MIDI box that lays out controls common to many analogue-style VST synths, helping you jump between them yet stay in control.
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The MINI.MU is a simplified gesture-controlled musical instrument based on the MI.MU glove developed by Imogen Heap. But this one you get to sew the gloves and write the code yourself.
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DU-INO is a hackable Eurorack Arduino shield that can be anything you want it to be. Download programs or write your own it's fully open source and fully programmable. On Kickstarter from Detroit Underground.
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NonDestructive Design squeezed a Bastl Kastle into a VHS cassette, added some stuff like a keyboard and are moving forward to turn it into Kasetta - a very cool synthesizer.
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A remarkable open source MIDI project that creates the feel of strumming a guitar. Feed chords from a keyboard into StrumPad and then strum away with your fingers to output a very expressive strummed ...
$20 will get you the Audible Instruments Preview module for virtual Eurorack VCV Rack. You can then run fully functional virtual versions of Mutable Instruments Plaits and now Marbles for free.
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Third party developer bsp804 has come up with a version of VCV Rack virtual Eurorack software that can run as VST plug-in within your favourite DAW. It's a work in progress but you can try it out yourself.
You can now get to preview Mutable Instruments modules inside VCVRack before they release the source code. Audible Instrument Preview currently has Plaits ready for you to try and there will be more to follow.
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A polyphonic virtual synthesizer that integrates perfectly with a knob and touch-screen controller. Giving you the tacticity of hardware with the versatility of software. Is it the best of both worlds?
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Bringing together aspects from the Organelle and Pocket Piano ONDA is an open platform of synthesis, effects and sampling in an enhanced, Raspberry Pi based form factor, with cool light up buttons.
