I am not against paying for software. I have bought plenty of it, and some of it was worth it twice over.

What I am against is renting it.

Somewhere along the way, buy became subscribe. You don't own the synth any more, you rent access to it. Stop paying and the sound stops. A song you finished three years ago can open with silence where the bassline used to be.

And it goes beyond the monthly bill. The model wants everyone on their own: one person, one account, one licence, one payment. Somebody two streets away might have the same instrument, the same stuck track and the same monthly bill, and nothing in the arrangement has any reason to introduce you.

Now multiply that by a city.

Fifty thousand people making music means fifty thousand licences for the same synthesizer, paid for fifty thousand separate times.

One instrument, fifty thousand players. That was always possible. It was never sellable.

So mine are free.

Not freemium. Not a demo. No account, because I don't want your email. No tracking, because which knob you turned is none of my business.

Your work saves as a small file that you keep. Whatever you make with these instruments is completely yours. Release it, sell it, put it in a car advert. I don't want a cut and I don't need a credit.

The code is licensed PolyForm Noncommercial. That's the one string attached, and it points away from you: nobody gets to take these instruments, wrap them in a subscription and sell them back to you.

They'll follow you around. A page now, a plugin in your DAW next, whatever comes after that.

Same instruments. Free, for good.

Play them with people. Pass them on.