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…

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 verifi…

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…

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 Vo…

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 i…

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.

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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 m…

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 i…

Week highlights: new releases of Krita, RapidRAW, and Gradia; MIDI strumming in Ardour.

Krita 5.2.13

The Krita team released a bugfix update. Some of the notable fixes are targeted at users of Android and devices with touch input:

Backgro…