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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.
Million Machine March has taken the Bastl 60 Knobs and added 60 Jacks for patching control voltage directly into your DAW or other MIDI device. Is this the CV/MIDI hub we've been waiting for?
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Beautiful little boxes of sound from artist and electronic designer Love Hultén. Based on an Axoloti core and can be programmed for any sort of synthesis and effects. You must have at least one of each.
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The tiny 8-bit modular miniMO open source synthesizer now has an alternative MIDI Sequencer firmware. Add the MIDI Accessory Set and it becomes midiMO the world's smallest MIDI Step Sequencer.
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AudioKit have started the ball rolling with their DX7 instrument but they've made it open source and are inviting you to build your own sample-based instrument for iPad and sell it in the App Store.
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Strange open source Axoloti based Wanderlust synthesizer with cool joystick control strapped to a plank of wood with a MIDI keyboard? Has to be seen to be Believotroned.
