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Geoffrey D. Bennett has just released a major update of ALSA Scarlett GUI, a control program for Focusrite's Scarlett, Clarett, and Vocaster audio interfaces. DSP control For Vocaster One and Two, Geoffrey added controls for the built-in DSP that includes

Google has just published the list of students accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2026 program. Some of the teams usually participating are off this year: Krita and Inkscape are temporarily out of mentors. Let's take a look at the rest of them. GIMP

Yesterday at LGM2026, GIMP's maintainer Jehan Pagès gave a talk about GIMP as a community project and made several interesting announcements. This post is going to be quite a bit critical, so before I proceed, here is the obligatory disclaimer: I used to

Rolando Trevino recently started working on Open Apollo , Linux drivers for Universal Audio's Thunderbolt and USB audio interfaces. Initial support is now done and available for testing. Apollo x4 and Apollo Solo USB are currently marked as...

oscmix is a relatively new free/libre control program for RME Fireface audio interfaces. It's both a desktop application (GTK3) and a web app with the same functionality. Most vendors of audio hardware either don't bother with Linux support or, in some ca

David García Goñi released a new version of Elektroid , a sample and MIDI device manager for Elektron, Arturia, Eventide, Moog, and Novation devices. Device support Elektroid 3.3 adds support for several devices: KORG Volca Sample; Korg Volca Sample 2; KO

Not much interesting was happening the past few weeks, so this is a multi-week recap. Highlights: release candidates planned for GIMP, Ardour, and FreeCAD; new releases of LSP plugins, new technical preview of Audacity 4.0. GIMP The team is getting ready

Steinberg recently announced that they are changing the licensing of both VST3 and ASIO. VST3 is now MIT-licensed instead of GPLv3+/proprietary, and ASIO is GPLv3+/proprietary rather than just proprietary. Let's pick the news apart bit by bit. VST3 This i

Week highlights: new releases of GIMP and RapidRAW, new features in darktable and Ardour. GIMP 3.0.6 This is purely a bugfix release, don't expect anything new. The release notes are here . darktable and AgX The team recently merged a a href="https://gith

Week highlights: new features in GIMP and Inkscape; new release of MuseScore Studio, first alpha release of Audacity 4. GIMP Here is some of the ongoing work: Jehan is reorganizing the Align/Distribute tool options. Probably not a final implementation, as