Mastodawn

^There are exceptions I know, but the problem is: knowing WHICH are the free-free ones and which are the irritating ones that show DEMO and stop working after 10 minutes?

The Deer, The Fox and The Guitar is a great case of a fully free Kontakt plugin. I am not sure how, I think it has to be approved or digitally signed or something?

It don't think it's anything people who just own a copy - cos people who make the free plugins have to buy Kontakt - can just do.

But that's why if you look online about the excellent The Deer The Fox and The Guitar the comments on YT and reddit are full of 'UGH NOT KONTAKT'. Really please avoid Kontakt or provide other more open formats!

Also having made a simple DecentSampler plugin from some Freesound CC0 Harrnonium samples it's everything Kontakt should be - free to use, free to make, free to share.

Not open source, and the Dev GUI is a bit crashy - but fuck of a lot closer than the mess that is Kontakt.

#nativeinstruments #musicsoftware #plugins #opensource

David Abravanel May 15

Asked Amorph to vibe code me an Autechre track (FM drum machine with sequencer seen & glitch effects that are always in time) and this is the result of the many seconds of not-hard work. Obviously far from perfect, but it definitely got what I wanted to do and with no errors or heavy lifting on my end.

There are zero barriers to everyone doing it this quickly.

Really hard to know how to feel about this. It'll be impossible to detect in a final track since there's no spectral signature (that I know of - and which would be nigh on impossible to find if there are any other plugins or processing involved).

To say nothing of someone selling vibe coded stuff they don't know how to improve or fix in the already-packed plugin market.

Brave new world, how do we work with this, well now.

https://artistsindsp.gumroad.com/l/amorph

#AI #AIInMusic #MusicAI #MusicTechnology #MusicSoftware

ZeBleu Troute Feb 3

I just discovered https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org, and it has a "stop after this song option". Chuffed doesn't even begin to describe my state right now. Please spread the word.

#music #musicsoftware #foss

KilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀Jan 28

1/2 Wednesday #DailyTracks : We warned extensively, probably five years ago now about #PrivateEquity deals and rollups in the #MusicSoftware industry and #MusicInstrument retail spaces having come to own more than ~ 70% of businesses in the US marketplace. We talked about why that was dangerous and that if things went south more than half of total industry could be at risk…
#NativeInstruments has just entered insolvency hearings. #Izotope, #PluginAlliance and several others are rolled into that…

KalaSudha Jan 21

Our development team has something to share! We’ve built a cutting-edge, open-source notation editor for Hindustani classical music. 🎶

Experience the Bhatkhande system in your browser with multi-language support and Raga management.

Read the blog: https://kalasudha.com/article/introducing-kalasudha-composer-revolutionising-indian-classical-music-notation

#KalaSudha #MusicSoftware #OpenSource

Introducing KalaSudha Composer: Revolutionising Indian Classical Music Notation

Explore the new cloud-based music notation editor by KalaSudha. Built on an open-source stack, this tool brings traditional Bhatkhande notation to the browser with multi-language support, Raga management, and seamless sharing for Hindustani classical musicians.

KalaSudha

Hacker News Dec 31

Scamp (Suite for Computer-Assisted Music in Python)

https://scamp.marcevanstein.com

#HackerNews #Scamp #ComputerAssistedMusic #Python #MusicTech #MusicSoftware

SCAMP (Suite for Computer-Assisted Music in Python) 0.9.2 — scamp 0.9.2 documentation

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WIP #gamedev #mnemonic #gibson #neuromancer #sprawltrilogy #musicsoftware #edm #techno #keanu

https://youtu.be/NU4euh-Qkd0?si=rrJIOq-iMwXjTg3K

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Gravitas Sep 17, 2025

Can This Actually Retune Music In Real Time?

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/jnWv5Rc7CQB78Qvvi2hpUt

Can This Actually Retune Music In Real Time?

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Tekknovator Sep 2, 2025

Just made casual git pull in my local checkout and realized that midish 1.4.0 was released in may! Congrats, I love that tool. It lifts all the heavy midi routing in my work in progress liveset.
I also subscribed to the donations today, as I plan to keep using this.

#midish #midi #midishell #fossaudio #opensource #audio #musicsoftware

https://midish.org/#download