Mark your calendars, budding musicians! A beginner-friendly sequencer, Bosca Ceoil: The Blue Album, will soon be available on Steam, joining a whole bunch of other creative software on the platform.
While Steam is primarily a platform for distributing games and connecting with gamers, I know that many creatives — developers, artists, musicians — use it to keep all their tools in one place and make sure they are updated with latest fixes and features. Which is why I've decided to bring Bosca Ceoil Blue here as well!
If you don't know Bosca yet, it's a very simple sequencer that aims to be as unintimidating as possible. Just launch it, and within minutes you can have a nice little tune! With a bit of mastery, you can compose something truly majestic, using a broad set of synthesized instruments and a drag'n'drop pattern timeline.
Bosca Ceoil was originally made by amazing Terry Cavanagh, who you may know for his cult classic games like VVVVVV and Dicey Dungeons. He had made this sweet little tool over ten years ago using Flash, which unfortunately made it pretty much unusable a few years later when that tech fell out of fashion. I adored original Bosca Ceoil and wasn't willing to let it die, so I remade it from scratch using modern tools, with cross-platform support and a bright future ahead!
Bosca Ceoil: The Blue Album is a completely free tool, and it's also an open source project, made with the help of its community. There are no strings attached and no EULAs to sign. Just add it to your library, download it, and it's fully yours! Your support of the project's development is always welcome though <3
And if it's your first time using Bosca, try the built-in tutorial to get started. It'll show you around!
See you on March 24th!