CloudSynth – The First SoundCloud Synthesizer
Developers Brio Taliaferro, Alessandro Contini & Daniele Guevara have released CloudSynth – a free app that lets you browse and play sounds from SoundCloud.
Developers Brio Taliaferro, Alessandro Contini & Daniele Guevara have released CloudSynth – a free app that lets you browse and play sounds from SoundCloud.
Partikkel Audio has released Hadron – described as the ‘ultimate granular synthesis tool’ – as a free download. “In fact,” notes the developer, “it is such a complete implementation of granular synthesis , that we’ve renamed the technique to ‘particle synthesis’.” Hadron is free and open source.
Teenage Engineering has responded to criticism about the high cost to buy and ship its collection of OP-1 accessories by letting customers ‘print’ their own parts: We work hard to make our OP-1 users happy with free OS updates and added functionality. But sometimes we fail. As some have noted, the shipping cost of the… Read More Teenage Engineering Says ‘Print Your Own Accessories’! Should More Companies ‘Open Source’ Their Parts?
If you took all the stuff we like – synthesizers, video games, open source software, etc – and combined them, you might get something like the Pianocade chiptunes style synthesizer & MIDI controller. The Pianocade Synthesizer The Pianocade is a synthesizer designed to sound, look, and feel like vintage arcade games. The Pianocade’s built-in synthesizer… Read More The Pianocade Is An Open Source Chiptunes Synthesizer Arcade Keytar Thing!
Retronyms has announced that it has open sourced the code for CloudSeeder – its SoundCloud-powered in-app community. CloudSeeder is designed to put SoundCloud-powered social networking features into music apps. For example, you could create a track, share it on SoundCloud, and then check views and comments on your tracks, without leaving your music app.

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Developers have announced that MusE 2.0, a major update to the open source DAW for Linux, is now available to download. MusE aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio for Linux, it is published under the GNU General Public License.
The RetroCade Synth is a new synth, being developed as a Kickstarter project by Gadget Factory, that boasts the capability to play the built-in Commodore 64 SID chip, the Yamaha YM-2149 chip, .mod files, and MIDI files – all at the same time. The RetroCade Synth can be played via any external MIDI control interface or… Read More The RetroCade Synth Brings MIDI Control To Classic 8-Bit Sound
Reader Neil Cosgrove sent word about an update to LNX_Studio – a free music environment for OS X that’s designed for realtime Internet collaboration: LNX_Studio is a way of bring people together to make music with new and innovative tools. It’s all about creating and sharing ideas. There are many features in LNX_Studio and it’s strength… Read More LNX_Studio For Mac Updated, Gets SuperCollider Synth-Building Action
The free multiplatform digital audio workstation, Audacity, has been updated to version 2.0. Here’s what’s new in Audacity 2.0: Many effects significantly improved, especially Equalization, Noise Removal and Normalize. Vocal Remover now included plus GVerb on Windows and Mac. VAMP analysis plug-ins now supported. Improved label tracks with Sync-Lock Tracks feature in the Tracks Menu.… Read More Free Digital Audio Workstation, Audacity, Updated With Vocal Remover, Updated Effects