New Google Project, Argos, Will Let You Create Free Multi-Touch Musical Instruments….For The iPad

Free Music Software: This is a video demo for Argos Interface Builder – an open-source drag-and-drop interface tool, for Windows and Mac, designed for building multi-touch music and visual performance applications. Argos was developed as a 2009 Google Summer of Code project. It lets you create multi-touch interfaces for MIDI or OpenSoundControl applications and instruments.

Crafting Digital Media: Audacity, Blender, Drupal, GIMP, Scribus, & Other Open Source Tools

Daniel James’ new book Crafting Digital Media: Audacity, Blender, Drupal, GIMP, Scribus, & Other Open Source Tools is a guide to open source software for digital media. According to the publishers, it offers a “foundation course in photographic manipulation, illustration, animation, 3D modelling, publishing, recording audio and making music, DJ’ing, mixing and mastering audio CDs,… Read More Crafting Digital Media: Audacity, Blender, Drupal, GIMP, Scribus, & Other Open Source Tools

New mOne Open Source Step Sequencer Looks Sexy

mOne is a new German open source hardware step sequencer project. Here are the specifications: Hardware Step Sequencer 8 Spuren a 8 Patterns mit jeweils 16 Steps Jede Spur kann eigenen MIDI-Kanal (Eingabe, Ausgabe) haben Interne Auflösung von 24 Pulses pro 1/4 Note (PPQN) Aufnahme durch externe MIDI-Geräte Externe und interne Synchronisation (Play, Stop, Resume,… Read More New mOne Open Source Step Sequencer Looks Sexy

Free Real-Time Audio Programming Environment For Mac, Windows, Linux

The miniAudicle is a light-weight integrated development environment for the ChucK digital audio programming language. It’s free and is available for Linux, Windows & Mac It can be used as a standalone ChucK development + runtime + on-the-fly programming environment, or in conjunction with traditional command-line modes of ‘chuck’ operation and with other chuck tools.… Read More Free Real-Time Audio Programming Environment For Mac, Windows, Linux

Synthesia – The Open Synth Hardware Platform

The Synthesia platform is a project whose purpose is to create an open analog modeling musical synthesizer – a synthesizer implemented using both analog and digital components that intends to emulate the sounds of traditional analog synthesizers, controllable through Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI). The synthesizer platform exists upon it’s own standalone hardware, and may… Read More Synthesia – The Open Synth Hardware Platform