From Beirut to their current home, Prague, Rust - the duo of Petra Hawi and Hany Manja - have created an anthem and reflection on life far away from home. The video came out this week, at a moment when I know many, many diasporas are watching crises unfolding in parallel across the world. The post In music video, Lebanese duo Rust captures emotions...

The iconic monome grid just got native support from Cycling '74's RNBO, the patching tool for exporting Max sounds on other hardware and software environments. There's a fun, free example patch to get you started, too. The post monome and RNBO now play together – with a free drum sampler patch appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Fully free, completely open source, Ubuntu Studio can breathe life into old machines and give you powerful free toolsets on new ones. It's one of the easiest ways to get creative with Linux, and this new release looks better, supports more audio configurations, and is simpler to install, as well as bringing the latest-and-greatest package support. The...

You might have forgotten with the Move launch, but Ableton this week also shipped the release versions of Live 12.1 for Mac and Windows and Note 1.2 for iOS. So, to anyone complaining about Move's cost, you can get Note on your iPhone for $8.99. The post Ableton Live 12.1, Note 1.2 are here too – and $9 Note has Move features appeared first on CDM...

Storm surges—like those from Hurricane Milton, which will hit Florida tonight—can be devastating. But it took 3D xR visualization to translate what that means in real terms before it's too late. Here's how that technology has arrived in recent years in another job for Unreal Engine (a tool you can use for free). The post How Unreal Engine visualizes...

Tom Whitwell and Thonk have revealed their latest: a complete modular system ready to be tote in its own hard case. The Workshop System has all the modular, patchable goodness you'd expect—contact mics and guitar/stereo line inputs—but it's also got a computer inside, with unique programmable cards. The post Music Thing Modular Workshop System: patch,...