1986, meet 2026. Music Mouse from Laurie Spiegel is available now as a new Eventide application — completely faithful to the original, ground-breaking compositional application, but fully modernized.

Revenge of the Nerd: Look Mum No Computer, aka Sam Battle, will represent his country in Eurovision this year. And just like that, 100% of us are tuning into Eurovision and rooting for the UK. (Sorry, ‘schland.)

Surprise! We get a second free Robert Henke device for Ableton Live Suite, built in Max for Live. And this one is inspired by 60s techniques of Andy Moorer and Manfred Schroeder, and eminently hackable if you’re ready to dig into the patch. It’s “not exactly a realistic room simulation.”

Eventide has posted a fantastic archival video in advance of their remake of Music Mouse. In this 1987 episode of Midnight Muse, composer and programmer Laurie Spiegel explains the software and takes call-in questions. “Even if we’re very good at the keyboard, sometimes we want our habits broken up,” she says, and “[this] allows you to push melodic lines around in space.”

Here’s a surprise, an evidently spontaneous drop from Ableton co-founder Robert Henke in Max for Live. Filter Delays provides three filtered stereo delays with some very clever twists; it’s a free download for Ableton Live Suite 12+ users.

Dive deep into these explosions of sound, light, and shape from Munich-based Perplex On, as the musical act pairs compact instruments with visuals made in Lottie and Imaginando’s VS – Visual Synthesizer. Dazzle at these eye-popping, brain-tickling audiovisual explorations. Warning: contains flashing lights and rapidly changing patterns. As perfectly structured as these are, they also […]

FFmpeg, the free multimedia toolkit, is so powerful that, honestly, it’s entirely possible not to know all that it can do. For audio, the new FFAB offers a graphical front-end on Mac and Linux, with real-time preview, drag-and-drop filters, parallel processing, and useful visualizations that even command line lovers won’t want to miss.

MetaSounds is a powerful platform for sound, synthesis, and procedural audio and music. And the price is right (free). But in the past, it had some gaps in out-of-the-box functionality. Epic has quietly released TechAudioTools Content, a bunch of free editor tools and widgets that anyone interested in Unreal or MetaSounds should go grab right this second. It’s always the little things.

Mario Nieto’s Novagrid opens up sequenced volume, pan, filter, and bitcrusher effects in plug-in form. And while that may sound a bit familiar, Novagrid has some tricks up its sleeve. If you like animating sound, you’ll definitely want to take a look. If you buy something from a CDM link, we may earn a commission. […]

Take a moment for the arresting stillness of “all dolls go to heaven.” IOWA, the full-length opus by film composer Lia Ouyang Rusli (“OHYUNG”), hits you deep in the gut. The first 2026 release by must-follow label Trans Music Archive is both an essential meditation and a call to arms.