Two and a half years ago, LWN posted my introduction to CLAP, a new MIT-licensed API for audio and MIDI plugin developers. The response to CLAP was mixed: some users and developers welcomed the new API, but some expressed skepticism. Let’s take a look …

Week highlights: Dune 3D release, newly discovered projects for musicians and astrophotographers, an update on Scribus development.

Astra Lite and Electra Stacking

Astrophotographers who choose Linux don’t have a terrible lot of options. M…

Week highlights: new releases of Inkscape, Friction, and Ardour, update on upcoming major releases from GIMP and FreeCAD.
Disclaimer: yes, it’s been quite a while. I’m bringing back weekly recaps under different terms. Now they will show up for Patreon…

David García Goñi released a new version of Elektroid, a sample and MIDI device manager for devices by Elektron, Arturia, Eventide, Moog, and Novation.
The project started out as a FOSS alternative to Electron Transfer, then the developer merged code f…

There’s a million reasons why you would want to record audio coming from your browser, some — innocuous, some — nefarious. You can definitely record blank video with just the sound in OBS, but that’s not necessarily what you want.
So to rec…