Remi Blaze has released Bouncit, a free BPM-synced stereo delay for macOS (AU / VST3, Apple Silicon native). Bouncit is part of a growing collection of free tools built by a house and tech-house producer and DJ with a catalogue of 170+ original tracks across 35+ labels. Delay is the effect that most often fights the mix. Repeats stack up behind the dry signal, wash over the next transient, and drift out of the groove the moment they aren’t locked to the tempo. Bouncit is built to stay out of the way. Ducking pulls the repeats down while the input is present and lets them return in the gaps, and the feedback loop runs through low-pass and high-pass filters with tanh saturation, so each repeat is gently driven and tone-shaped rather than piling up brighter and louder. From there it goes as wide as you want. Delay times sync to the host across six note values, or run free from 1 to 2000 ms, with independent left and right timing and a Link mode when you want them locked. A Swing control offsets the right channel up to 100% for a shuffled bounce, tape modulation puts a sine LFO on the delay time for analog pitch wobble, and mid/side width opens the wet signal to 200%. Freeze captures the buffer and loops it indefinitely for builds and transitions. A tanh soft clipper and hard limiter sit at the output as a safety net. Prefer speed over control? Bouncit Raw is the free one-knob companion. A single ECHO knob drives a tempo-synced ping-pong, a 1/4-note on the left against a dotted-quarter on the right, with feedback and wet level rising together and auto-leveled so it grows wider and deeper with no volume jump. It’s part of the Remi Blaze Raw Series, a growing line of one-knob plugins that boil a full effect down to a single move, made for fast ideas, live tweaks, and anyone who wants the sound without the menu-diving. Price: Free. It ships as AU, VST3 and Standalone, a Universal Binary for Apple Silicon and Intel, code-signed and notarized by Apple, with 14 presets including Ping Pong, Dub Echo, Vocal Throw and Long Wash. Read More

Mork Studios has announced the release of Revelation Drone, a new VST3 instrument for Windows/macOS dedicated to creating slow, evolving ambient music and post-rock textures. Described as an instrument “built for people who think a chord should last four minutes,” users simply choose a key and a flavor, and the engine’s drone generator holds the chord endlessly, allowing the user to sculpt and shape the swelling atmosphere in real-time. Key Features & Signal Chain: Drone Key: A supersaw drone generator featuring sub, noise, and a ladder filter. “Swell” and “Rate” controls dictate the slow breathing movement that brings the drone to life. Atmos: An evolving noise bed that layers tape hiss, wandering wind, distant rumble, and sparse crackle underneath the main signal. Warp: Detuned unison utilizing two granular voices per channel that drift apart in cents, driven by a slow random walk that mimics the pitch modulation of a dying tape motor. Delay: A character-rich tape echo featuring wow, flutter, feedback tone, drive, and ping-pong capabilities. Reverb: A lush shimmer reverb. The reverb tail feeds into a pitch-shifted octave-up loop, transforming held notes into ethereal choirs. Mixer & Master: Includes input trim, a three-band EQ, output gain, and live meters housed in a pop-up window, all finalized by a built-in limiter to prevent clipping. Revelation Drone comes with 22 presets ranging from “F# First Light” to “B Seasick Choir,” offering starting points that evoke massive walls of sound, oceans, cathedrals, broken tape, and radio static. Pricing & Availability Revelation Drone is available for macOS and Windows as a VST3 plugin for $9.99 USD. YouTube.com/watch?v=lMH0KG0ucFk Read More

HOFA-Plugins has announced the release of ThirdPartyPluginLoader, an add-on for its modular processing environment HOFA SYSTEM. The ThirdPartyPluginLoader allows producers, mixing and mastering engineers to load their existing plugins directly into HOFA SYSTEM and combine them freely with SYSTEM’s modules, routing structures and modulation sources. HOFA-Plugins explains: The result is a significant expansion of an engineer’s existing plugin collection. A classic 1176 or LA2A emulation can be run as a multiband compressor. A Pultec-style EQ can be placed in a dedicated mid/side configuration for mastering work. Two plate reverbs can run in parallel for greater spatial depth, or a tube distortion and a reverb can be inserted into a feedback loop together. None of these plugins need to offer such features themselves – SYSTEM supplies the surrounding architecture. This is possible now with any plugin: Multiband – operate any loaded plugin frequency-dependently within the SYSTEM Multiband module. Mid/Side and Left/Right – process each component of the stereo image separately. Parallel – blend dry and wet signals or run several independent signal paths side by side. Feedback – build creative feedback loops around third-party processors. Oversampling – reduce aliasing on saturation, distortion and clipper plugins that offer no internal oversampling. Plugin chains – assemble custom channel strips from favourite plugins and save them complete with routing, modulation and all plugin settings for recall in other projects. Parameter modulation and automation – control the parameters of loaded plugins from the DAW and from SYSTEM’s own modulators. Cross-Format Compatibility Because HOFA SYSTEM itself runs as VST3, AU and AAX, the ThirdPartyPluginLoader also resolves another problem: plugin formats a given DAW does not natively support. VST plugins become usable in Logic, AU plugins in Cubase, and both VST and AU plugins in Pro Tools. Free and Full Versions Like every plugin in the HOFA SYSTEM series, the ThirdPartyPluginLoader is available as freeware with a reduced feature set. The free version loads one external plugin into HOFA SYSTEM – enough to extend a single plugin with multiband, mid/side or oversampling capability. The full version removes that restriction, hosting as many third-party plugins simultaneously as the project requires and wiring them into complex chains, parallel setups and multiband racks. About HOFA SYSTEM The ThirdPartyPluginLoader is a part of the HOFA SYSTEM modular plugin platform which offers a flexible environment for audio processing. With over 30 effect modules – including EQs, compressors, reverbs and modulation – users can create custom signal chains tailored to their workflow. Features like drag-and-drop routing, parallel and serial processing, multiband capabilities, and mid/side options make HOFA SYSTEM a versatile tool for mixing, mastering and sound design. HOFA SYSTEM ThirdPartyPluginLoader walkthrough video: YouTube.com/watch?v=KWG1LY2yJdk Pricing & Availability ThirdPartyPluginLoader is available for the introductory price of €49 (Reg. €60). Read More

MeterPlugs today announced the launch of DeliveryQC.com, a free website that checks a mix against a broadcast or streaming delivery specification and reports whether it passes. Here’s what they say: Delivery specifications can change, and each platform sets its own loudness, true peak, and dialog targets. DeliveryQC.com measures a file against the selected spec and returns a pass or fail result with the reasons attached: a true peak over the limit, dialog that falls below the target level, etc. The site accepts WAV files from mono through 7.1.4 immersive (Dolby Atmos bed) at 44.1 or 48 kHz, and covers the specifications published by Netflix, Disney+, Apple, and others. DeliveryQC.com performs every measurement locally in the browser. Audio is never uploaded to a server and never leaves your computer. The measurement engine is validated against the industry’s standard compliance material. It passes the complete ITU-R BS.2217 test set for ITU-R BS.1770, and the full EBU Tech 3341 and Tech 3342 test signal sets for EBU Mode and Loudness Range. Results are presented as full plots of loudness, true peak, and L/R correlation across the entire program, so engineers can locate exactly where a problem occurs rather than only learning that one exists. Findings can be exported as a PDF report, and true-peak overload positions can be downloaded as markers for import into Pro Tools. What DeliveryQC does Pass/Fail Against a Delivery Spec – Measures a mix against the selected specification and reports whether it complies, with the specific reason for every failure. Runs Entirely In-Browser – All analysis is performed locally. Audio is never uploaded and never leaves your computer. Loudness, True Peak, and Dialog Checks – Program and dialog-gated loudness, loudness range, maximum true peak, etc. Validated Against Standard Test Material – Passes the complete ITU-R BS.2217 compliance set for ITU-R BS.1770, and the full EBU Tech 3341 and Tech 3342 test signal sets. Mono Through 7.1.4 Immersive – WAV files in any channel configuration from mono to a 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos bed, at 44.1 or 48 kHz. Full Plots Over Time – Loudness, true peak, and L/R correlation plotted across the entire program, so issues can be pinpointed rather than merely detected. PDF Reports – Export results as a report for delivery documentation. Pro Tools Marker Export – Download true-peak overload markers and import them straight into a Pro Tools session. No Login or Signup – The site is free to use with no account required. Read More

DonutsDelivery has updated DonutStudio to version 0.7.2. Since the 0.2.5 release listed at KVR, 19 releases have expanded the free cross-platform workstation across composition, recording, mixing, plug-in hosting, and music-video production. Major additions since 0.2.5 Music/Video Workstation: audio, MIDI, automation, and video share one beat grid, with beat warping, live compositing, grading, effects, transitions, text, subtitles, tracking, depth maps, visual graphs, and export. Harmonic composition: Run Draw, Chord Draw, Auto-Chord Studio, automatic harmony tools, Root Path Tune, EDO and Scala workflows, MTS-ESP, HEJI notation, and deeper just-intonation analysis build on DonutStudio’s editable note-to-note ratio graph. Session Graph: typed Signal, Event, and Audio routes connect tracks, instruments, effects, hardware, sequencing tools, modulation, and music-driven visuals, including controlled delayed feedback. Instruments and effects: expanded built-in instruments, compatible NKI loading, SF2 and SFZ playback, a curated community VST3 Store, stronger VST3 and CLAP hosting, device migration, and 480+ Airwindows effects. Editing and performance: a clip Arranger, split Piano Rolls, advanced transforms, automation curves, recording workflows, a four-level Performance Grid, customizable toolbars, and broader keyboard navigation. Latest 0.7.2 work: harmonic snapping, clone-dragging, arrow-key note movement, measure-step nudging, and Shift-held horizontal drag constraints are more reliable. Availability DonutStudio is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone application and as VST3 and CLAP plugins. The Free edition is a complete Music/Video Workstation. DonutStudio Pro adds advanced sampling, vocal, modular, and score-reactive media tools. Download DonutStudio / Read the complete version history. Read More

DonutsDelivery has updated DonutStudio to version 0.7.2. Since the 0.2.5 release listed at KVR, 19 releases have expanded the free cross-platform workstation across composition, recording, mixing, plug-in hosting, and music-video production. Major additions since 0.2.5 Music/Video Workstation: audio, MIDI, automation, and video share one beat grid, with beat warping, live compositing, grading, effects, transitions, text, subtitles, tracking, depth maps, visual graphs, and export. Harmonic composition: Run Draw, Chord Draw, Auto-Chord Studio, automatic harmony tools, Root Path Tune, EDO and Scala workflows, MTS-ESP, HEJI notation, and deeper just-intonation analysis build on DonutStudio’s editable note-to-note ratio graph. Session Graph: typed Signal, Event, and Audio routes connect tracks, instruments, effects, hardware, sequencing tools, modulation, and music-driven visuals, including controlled delayed feedback. Instruments and effects: expanded built-in instruments, compatible NKI loading, SF2 and SFZ playback, a curated community VST3 Store, stronger VST3 and CLAP hosting, device migration, and 480+ Airwindows effects. Editing and performance: a clip Arranger, split Piano Rolls, advanced transforms, automation curves, recording workflows, a four-level Performance Grid, customizable toolbars, and broader keyboard navigation. Latest 0.7.2 work: harmonic snapping, clone-dragging, arrow-key note movement, measure-step nudging, and Shift-held horizontal drag constraints are more reliable. Availability DonutStudio is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone application and as VST3 and CLAP plugins. The Free edition is a complete Music/Video Workstation. DonutStudio Pro adds advanced sampling, vocal, modular, and score-reactive media tools. Download DonutStudio / Read the complete version history. Read More

Liljeholmen DSP has updated Trumsynt-16 to version 1.3. Changes: Improved sequencer logic: The update refines the built-in sequencer’s reset, run/stop and host-sync behavior for more predictable pattern playback. Trumsynt-16 is available for macOS and Windows as AU and VST3 on macOS, and VST3 on Windows. The price is EUR 49 including VAT. A free 7-day trial of the complete instrument is available. Read More

Mathemagical Music has released Mathemagical Timbres, a unique additive VST3 synthesizer for Windows. It generates 2048 partials and uses mathematical number sequences like Prime or Fibonacci numbers to adjust or modulate their volume, panning and pitch. This enables it to create some very unique timbres that you may not have heard before. Its resonant filters and EQ sound extremely natural because they actually adjust the volume of the harmonics using the same curve that a filter or EQ would use. So it is impossible to have any phase problems or ear piercing resonant peaks. Simple offline registration (no online activation or dongles required). Price: $20.00 on the KVR Audio Marketplace. {PRODUCT-HEADER-37222-mathemagicaltimbres}. Read More

Rust Romance has released BigBlockPre LE and BigBlockPre Pro, two discrete preamp plug-ins inspired by the classic API 312-style signal path. BigBlockPre LE BigBlockPre LE is the free edition and uses a fixed signal chain consisting of a 2622-style input transformer, 2520-style discrete op-amp and 2503-style output transformer. Rather than applying a single static saturation curve, the plug-in is designed around the interaction between the main stages of the preamp, with level-dependent changes in harmonic content, frequency response and transient behaviour. BigBlockPre Pro BigBlockPre Pro expands the same concept by making the key components socketable. Users can independently select the input transformer, discrete op-amp and output transformer, allowing 100 different core signal-path combinations. BigBlockPre Pro includes: Input Transformers: AP2622-style 1:4. AP2622-style 1:8. Jensen-style. Lundahl-style. Discrete Op-Amps: API 2520-style. Melcor 1731-style. John Hardy 990-style. Quad Eight AM10-style. Neumann OA10-style. Output Transformers: AP2503-style. UTM-style. Jensen-style. CineMag-style. Peerless / Altec-style. Changing components affects more than tonal colour. Different configurations alter gain behaviour, headroom, saturation characteristics, frequency response and transient handling. Shared Features Both editions include PAD, GAIN, OUTPUT and LINK controls. LINK moves GAIN and OUTPUT in opposite directions, making it possible to increase circuit drive while compensating for the resulting output level. Two processing modes are also provided: High Quality — full circuit processing. Fast — reduced CPU usage for larger sessions. BigBlockPre can be used for subtle analogue-style coloration, added weight and punch, or more obvious saturation and distortion on drums, bass, vocals, synths, samples and buses. Pricing and Availability BigBlockPre LE is free. BigBlockPre Pro is the expanded commercial edition for 20 Euros. Both plug-ins are available for Windows (VST3) and macOS (VST3 and AU). Read More

Dystopian Waves has released Arche, a bassline generator designed for creating, editing, and exploring bassline ideas from a key and scale or an imported MIDI chord progression. Arche includes 16 dedicated style engines, each built around a different musical approach, including Disco, House, Acid, Pop, Cinematic, and more. Each style engine generates basslines according to its own rhythmic and melodic characteristics. Users can generate basslines from a selected key and scale, or import a MIDI chord progression. When working with an imported progression, Arche uses the chord information to guide pitch selection and harmonic movement. Features: 16 Style Engines for generating basslines in different musical styles. Four Rhythm Modes: Style Specific, Euclidean, Turing, and Fibonacci. Density, Complexity & Voice Leading controls for shaping generated basslines. Custom Intervals for controlling pitch selection. DNA Engines for extracting and manipulating characteristics from imported basslines. Mutation Engine for generating variations from existing or generated basslines. Phrasing System with patterns such as ABAB, AAAB, ABCD, and custom variations. Humanization Controls for Pocket, Velocity, and Syncopation. Anchor Range controls for keeping generated basslines within a selected pitch range. Piano Roll Editor for adding, removing, moving, transposing, and resizing notes. Snapshot System for saving, comparing, and developing different bassline ideas. Preset Saving for storing custom settings. Resizable Interface with multiple UI themes. Internal Audio Engine for quickly auditioning generated basslines. Drag & Drop MIDI Export directly into the DAW. Pricing & Availability Arche is available now at an introductory price of $12.99 (regular price $30) until September 10 as a Windows VST3 plugin and Max for Live device. Walkthrough Part 1 Walkthrough Part 2 1.1.0 Update Overview Read More

Hot Shower Audio has released bathROOMs, a reverb plugin built from five different bathrooms. bathROOMs is made by Alejandro Ramirez (Ramalejo), a mix engineer who has been part of 4 Latin Grammy-winning projects across 23 nominations. Features: Reverb plugin built from five different bathrooms. Each bathroom has its own size and tonal balance: Porcelain, Cove, Greenhouse, Lavender and Baldosa (a Colombian bathroom with hydraulic tile and an electric shower). They range from small and bright to large and dark. Controls are Pre-Delay, Decay, Position, Surface, Temp, Wash, Slap and Dry/Wet. A built-in ducker — threshold, ratio, attack, release, with an optional sidechain input — pulls the reverb down while the source is playing, so a vocal stays intelligible without automating the send. 27 artist presets from five mix engineers and producers, organised by artist in the preset menu. There is a full walkthrough of the plugin here (in Spanish): YouTube/jhWFxq50cgQ Price & Availability bathROOMs is free (pay what you want, from $0) at hotshoweraudio.com/bathrooms. It’s available for: macOS: VST3, AU and AAX. Universal binary (Apple Silicon and Intel), macOS 11.0 or later, signed and notarized by Apple. Windows: VST3 and standalone. Read More

HARMONICO dsp has released its first four plug-ins for macOS and Windows. Each one is built around a mechanism drawn from physics rather than an emulation of existing hardware. The company says at least four more titles are in development. Airy Airy is a stereo widener that synthesises side content rather than relying on phase manipulation. It uses a bipolar width control — clockwise widens, counter-clockwise narrows toward mono — and includes a live stereo field display. Airy is free; an email address is required to receive the download link. Spectral Mass Rebalance Spectral Mass Rebalance is a multiband EQ that operates on spectral energy rather than fixed curves. Each band tilts its spectral mass around a pivot derived from the band’s own centre of mass, tracked from the incoming material (mean, peak or median, or set manually). It offers zero-latency and analog phase modes. Earthquake Distortion Device Earthquake Distortion Device is a 24-band saturator in which a simulated clay terrain fractures under the incoming signal. Each band distorts according to the damage accumulated in its frequency range, and that damage persists and heals over time. It includes 12 character models, ADAA and up to 8x oversampling. Murmuration Murmuration is a reverb whose tail is modulated by a flocking simulation. A 64-line FDN is driven in real time by the swarm, with 7 voicings, startle and modulation controls, and ducking via external sidechain. Pricing & Availability All four are available in VST3, AU and AAX formats for macOS 10.15 or higher (universal binary, Intel and Apple Silicon) and Windows 10 or higher. Each paid plug-in can be run as a full 14-day trial with no feature restrictions. Licences are file-based, work offline and cover two machines: Spectral Mass Rebalance is €74 (regular price €99). Earthquake Distortion Device is €66 (€89). Murmuration is €59 (€79). The three paid plug-ins are available together for €149. Introductory pricing runs until 12 September 2026. Read More

Wild Surmise has released Ispín, a free saturation plugin for macOS, Windows and iOS, designed to add weight, warmth and grit to thin-sounding tracks. Ispín can be pushed gently for compression and glue, or driven harder for full distortion. Its three main character controls are: Richness controls density and drive, ranging from subtle thickening to heavy saturation. Colour tilts the harmonic character from dark to bright. Roughness drives the waveform off-centre to introduce buzz, grind and edge. The plugin is designed as a quick, simple processor for adding body and character without a complicated interface. The name Ispín comes from the Irish word for sausage, based on the idea of taking something thin and making it fuller and more satisfying. Read More

Notewerks has updated StepStrum, its real-time MIDI strumming sequencer, to v1.1. StepStrum turns chords played on a MIDI keyboard into tempo-synced performances for guitar libraries, synths, samplers and other virtual instruments. Version 1.1 expands the sequencer beyond full-chord strums, allowing patterns to combine strummed motion with individual notes from the held chord. New in StepStrum 1.1 Four single-note step types: Low, Mid-Low, Mid-High and High. Full strums and individual chord notes can be combined within the same pattern. Single-note selections automatically follow the harmony as the performer changes chords. StepStrum Pro users can switch between pattern slots using MIDI keyswitches. Strums and Single Notes The new single-note types select notes by their relative position within the chord rather than using fixed MIDI pitches. When the performer changes chords, the pattern follows the new harmony. This allows a single pattern to move between upward and downward strums, picked notes, rhythmic pulses and melodic figures while the chords remain under the performer’s control. All four single-note step types are included in both StepStrum Lite and StepStrum Pro. Pattern Keyswitching StepStrum Pro 1.1 adds MIDI keyswitching for its eight pattern slots. Users can switch patterns from a MIDI keyboard or controller, making it easier to perform rhythm variations, fills and different song sections without using the mouse. Pattern keyswitching is exclusive to StepStrum Pro. Availability StepStrum 1.1 is a free update for existing users. StepStrum Lite is free, while a StepStrum Pro license key is available for $39. StepStrum is available for Windows and macOS in VST3 format, with Audio Unit support on macOS. Read More

Snorkel Audio’s summer offer on Little Arp Monster is in its final days. Until Sunday, 23 August 2026, the MIDI arpeggiator is EUR 29, 40% off. Little Arp Monster is a MIDI arpeggiator that goes well beyond the usual. Its grid works in scale degrees rather than fixed notes, so notes, full chords, and rests all move with you when you change key. Scenes and an Arranger let a motif evolve across a whole arrangement, a modulation lane locks Velocity, Cutoff, Decay, or any CC to the same steps as your notes, and a single Spice dial sweeps from tasteful arpeggios to ideas no traditional arp would land on. It outputs MIDI, so it drives any synth or sampler you point it to. Read More

Plea Tech is giving away 1,000 free licenses for the full version of WorldVerb with code KVR1000 at pleatech.gumroad.com WorldVerb combines up to four of 170+ captured acoustic spaces using seven blend operators including Morph, Carve, Shimmer, Scatter and Split. With new performance improvements and Dark Mode. Windows VST3 Only. Read More

Voleor has released TrapMan, a drum sequencer plugin for trap, drill and hip-hop producers. TrapMan combines lane-based sample playback, a step grid, a linked piano roll, a sample editor and a pattern arranger in a single window, so a full drum part can be programmed without leaving the plugin or fighting the DAW’s piano roll. The idea behind TrapMan is simple: many producers work in Logic Pro, Ableton Live, ProTools, Studio One or Cubase, but still open FL Studio just to program drums. TrapMan brings that step-grid workflow and more to every DAW, then hands the result back as MIDI or audio with a single drag. Features Step grid sequencer from 1/4 down to 1/128, including triplets, with per-step velocity. Built-in piano roll, linked to the grid, for 808 lines and hat rolls. 24 patterns of 1 to 16 bars, MIDI keyswitch recall from C0, and a 64-block pattern chain. Drag-and-drop sample import (WAV, AIFF, MP3, FLAC) across the lane rack. Sample editor with trim, fades, pitch, normalize and ADSR. On-device AI sample sorting that classifies kicks, snares, hats and 808s automatically. Slow for instant halftime and pitch, Slap for soft-clip knock. MIDI drag export as a keyswitched clip, plus audio and stem export as 24-bit WAV. Multi-output routing: 16 stereo outputs (Main plus Out 1-15). TrapMan Core Kit included: 808s, kicks, hi-hats, snares, claps and percussion. Price and Availability TrapMan is available for macOS and Windows (AU, VST3, AAX) for $59, a one-time perpetual license with no subscription and two machine activations. It works fully offline once activated. A 7-day free trial with every feature unlocked is available, no credit card required. Read More

Noisebud has updated PER, the free blind listening test application for macOS and Windows. This update makes PER much more flexible and faster to use, especially for anyone who compares mixes, masters, or processing chains and wants to avoid the usual bias that comes from seeing filenames, track names, plugin chains, or level differences. PER was already made to keep blind listening tests simple: load a few audio files, choose a LUFS target, and start listening without knowing which version is playing. This update expands that workflow with new test methods, analysis caching, keyboard shortcuts, recent files, adjustable crossfade time, and better handling of removed tracks. The result is a smoother way to run the kind of comparison many people know they should be doing, but often skip because setting it up in a DAW takes too much time. New test methods PER now includes several different ways to run a blind listening test: PER Rating: rate each version from 1 to 6. Forced Choice: choose the preferred version. Best / Worst: choose the best and worst version. Accept / Reject: accept or reject each version. Rank Order: rank the versions in order. This means PER is no longer limited to one type of decision. Sometimes you want a detailed rating, sometimes you just need to know which version wins, and sometimes you want to reject the versions that clearly do not work. Analysis cache PER now includes an Analysis Cache for faster loading of previously analyzed files. The cache stores analysis metadata such as LUFS, waveform, peak/loudness data, sync position, and file format information. It does not store the audio files themselves. Cache size can be adjusted in Settings, and there is also a Clear Analysis Cache button. Keyboard shortcuts PER now has keyboard shortcuts for faster testing. Shortcuts can be used for playback, selecting Listen rows, moving between versions, moving to the next round or showing results, and rating the active mix. The shortcuts can be customized in Settings. Number keys can also start or resume playback when the transport is stopped, making it faster to move between versions during a test. Recent files, crossfade and revoked tracks The latest version also adds a Recent Files window, making it quicker to load material that has already been used. Crossfade time can now be changed in Settings, from 0 to 1000 ms, with 180 ms as the default. Deleted tracks can now be Revoked instead of disappearing completely from the test. This makes it easier to remove something from the actual decision without losing the ability to go back and check what was removed. Availability & Pricing PER is free, but it requires that you follow Noisebud’s Patreon campaign. You do not need to be a paying member to use it. Read More

ABYZOR has released ABYZOR Genesis version 2.0, a major update to their free MIDI generator for Windows and macOS. Genesis V2 introduces a completely redesigned interface and a new workflow focused on generating, exploring and developing musical ideas. Genesis V2 – The Ecosystem Update 4 Ideas: generate multiple musical directions and choose the one with the most potential. Lock Rhythm & Lock Pitch: explore variations while keeping the elements you like. Morph: transform ideas across different musical styles. Ancestry Tree: track how your ideas evolve through Generate, Mutate, Edit, Import and Variation. Seed Share: share and recreate deterministic musical ideas. Improved History: save up to 20 patterns with preview, editing, playback and drag & drop. Harmonic Context: generate melodies, basslines and arpeggios that follow the harmonic structure. Progression Library: genre-aware harmonic progressions. Bass Motion: control bass movement with multiple modes. Expanded Style Library: 10 categories and 51 presets. Improved Piano Roll: a larger and more powerful MIDI editing workspace. Improved Audio Preview: role-based sounds, EQ, reverb and limiting. Genesis V2 video ABYZOR Genesis V2: The Ecosystem Update Read More

ABYZOR has released ABYZOR Genesis version 2.0, a major update to their free MIDI generator for Windows and macOS. Genesis V2 introduces a completely redesigned interface and a new workflow focused on generating, exploring and developing musical ideas. Genesis V2 – The Ecosystem Update 4 Ideas: generate multiple musical directions and choose the one with the most potential. Lock Rhythm & Lock Pitch: explore variations while keeping the elements you like. Morph: transform ideas across different musical styles. Ancestry Tree: track how your ideas evolve through Generate, Mutate, Edit, Import and Variation. Seed Share: share and recreate deterministic musical ideas. Improved History: save up to 20 patterns with preview, editing, playback and drag & drop. Harmonic Context: generate melodies, basslines and arpeggios that follow the harmonic structure. Progression Library: genre-aware harmonic progressions. Bass Motion: control bass movement with multiple modes. Expanded Style Library: 10 categories and 51 presets. Improved Piano Roll: a larger and more powerful MIDI editing workspace. Improved Audio Preview: role-based sounds, EQ, reverb and limiting. Genesis V2 video ABYZOR Genesis V2: The Ecosystem Update Read More

Carbonated Audio has released Still, a free noise suppressor designed to reduce steady background noise in voice recordings and tracks. Still keeps the workflow simple with one dial and no account, trial, or catch. Still is free forever and is available now for macOS as VST3, AU, and AAX. A Windows version is in development. Read More

FrozenPlain has released Floe 2.0, the largest update yet to Floe, the free, open-source plugin its sample libraries run in. Two New Engines Any of Floe’s three layers can now play its samples as grains, turning a plucked or struck sound into something sustained — the free music box, run through the granular engine, becomes a slowly shifting pad. It works on every Floe library, including ones released before 2.0. Each layer also gets its own tempo-synced arpeggiator, with rate, note length, step ties and humanisation. Because they’re per-layer, one held triad can drive three interlocking sequences. A Redesigned Interface Controls now sit across two pages, LAYERS and EFFECTS, plus a stripped-back PERFORM view for live playing. Filters, EQ and LFOs are shaped by dragging their nodes directly, so you see the curve you’re hearing. 2.0 also adds preset randomisation, stereo width controls, extra LFO shapes, undo/redo, and a new .floe-pkg format. Updated libraries FrozenPlain has updated its catalogue of cinematic and ambient libraries alongside the release — every instrument and preset is now fully tagged for searching across libraries. For existing customers the update is free, from the frozenplain.com downloads page; Mirage-era libraries still work too. Free Instruments Updated Free instruments are available to start from — Music Box Suite Free, a multi-sampled Victorian music box, and the community packages at floe.audio (Celtic harp, taiko drums, xylophone, ocarina) — all with new presets built on the 2.0 features. Availability Floe 2.0 is free and open source. It runs as CLAP, VST3 and AU on Windows, macOS and Linux. Full details, video and download: frozenplain.com/floe-2 YouTube.com/watch?v=XNfQvaNWXvU Read More

FrozenPlain has released Floe 2.0, the largest update yet to Floe, the free, open-source plugin its sample libraries run in. Two New Engines Any of Floe’s three layers can now play its samples as grains, turning a plucked or struck sound into something sustained — the free music box, run through the granular engine, becomes a slowly shifting pad. It works on every Floe library, including ones released before 2.0. Each layer also gets its own tempo-synced arpeggiator, with rate, note length, step ties and humanisation. Because they’re per-layer, one held triad can drive three interlocking sequences. A Redesigned Interface Controls now sit across two pages, LAYERS and EFFECTS, plus a stripped-back PERFORM view for live playing. Filters, EQ and LFOs are shaped by dragging their nodes directly, so you see the curve you’re hearing. 2.0 also adds preset randomisation, stereo width controls, extra LFO shapes, undo/redo, and a new .floe-pkg format. Updated libraries FrozenPlain has updated its catalogue of cinematic and ambient libraries alongside the release — every instrument and preset is now fully tagged for searching across libraries. For existing customers the update is free, from the frozenplain.com downloads page; Mirage-era libraries still work too. Free Instruments Updated Free instruments are available to start from — Music Box Suite Free, a multi-sampled Victorian music box, and the community packages at floe.audio (Celtic harp, taiko drums, xylophone, ocarina) — all with new presets built on the 2.0 features. Availability Floe 2.0 is free and open source. It runs as CLAP, VST3 and AU on Windows, macOS and Linux. Full details, video and download: frozenplain.com/floe-2 YouTube.com/watch?v=XNfQvaNWXvU Read More

discoDSP has announced the release of version 7 of Corona, a hybrid synthesizer combining virtual analog and wavetable synthesis, with three VA/WAVE oscillators, 16 combine modes, dual zero-delay feedback filters, a 32-step arpeggiator and an 8-destination modulation matrix. Version 7 adds MPE support routed into the modulation matrix, a Sequencer arpeggiator mode with step recording and MIDI export, a Super 7+ unison mode based on the JP-8000 supersaw, an 8x oversampling engine with Draft Playback, live modulation display across the panel, and an Effects Lock that holds the effects section across preset changes. New in Corona 7 MPE Support: Per-note pitch bend, pressure and timbre available as modulation matrix sources, with MPE Mode, Zone and Pitch Bend Range settings in the MIDI menu. RPN parsing for MPE Configuration Messages, polyphonic aftertouch as an alternative mode, Brightness (CC74) as a new modulation source, and status pills for MTS-ESP, MPE and Poly AT in the Global panel. Settings save per instance, so two instances in a project can use different configurations. Sequencer Mode: New SEQUENCER arpeggiator mode turning the velocity lane into a 12 semitone note grid drawn over a piano grid. Held keys transpose the pattern from the lowest key, with three triggers (hold, toggle and sync). Record arms a step cursor driven from MIDI in, Export MIDI writes the pattern as a one-bar loop with ties merged into held notes, and Generate Sequence builds a playable bassline. Super 7+ Unison: New Super 7+ option in the Unison Voices dropdown with a JP-8000-style mix law, per-saw stereo panning and a Unison Panning Spread control. Oversampling: Engine now runs at 8x instead of 4x. Offline bounces use a linear-phase FIR with reported latency while realtime keeps the zero-latency path. New Draft Playback option halves the oversampling factor while auditioning, applying to realtime only so offline bounces always render at the full factor. New 1:2 interpolator for 88.2 and 96 kHz. Modulation Display: Live modulation shown on knobs that previously had no indicator, envelope stage progress on the ADSR knobs, and each super saw voice drawn as a glowing dot on the unison pan control. Preset and MIDI Handling: Rewritten Synth1 preset importer with fixed silent oscillators and a new File > Import Synth1 Folder command. Rewritten JP-8000/8080 preset converter and SysEx parser, with a fix for the combine mode that silenced the second oscillator on most imported presets. Effects Lock: New Effects Lock holds chorus, delay, distortion and limiter settings, including their on/off states, across preset and bank changes, with a lock button in the effects header. The Edit menu now groups the Arp, Effects, Tuning, Velocity Curve and Voice locks together. Performance: AVX2 oscillator kernels on Intel with bit-identical output, plus an AVX1 fallback with runtime dispatch so pre-Haswell Intel Macs are supported. Bug Fixes: Fixed effects DSP chain clicks and pops on toggles and parameter changes, limiter clipping and latency reporting, knob indicator rings trailing behind the pointer while dragging, silent offline renders on instances after the first, and blurry non-retina (100% GUI) assets. Availability This update is free for all Corona 6.x customers. Corona is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux in VST, VST3, AU, AAX, and standalone formats. Read More

2Rule has updated 2RuleSynth to v3.3 for macOS, Windows and, for the first time, Linux. 2RuleSynth 3.3.0 is up. It’s the first real update since September 2023, so there’s a fair amount in it. New in 2RuleSynth v3.3 (highlights): Effect routing is a live graph. Drag the nodes around, draw cables by hand, click a node to get its parameters next to it. Four macros and a MAP mode. Draw a cable from a macro to any knob, then drag the connection itself to set how far it swings. LFOs and envelopes can drive parameters the same way. Four LFOs inside the effect window, and two new effect nodes: Resonator and Modal. 16 voices instead of 6, aftertouch, mod wheel vibrato, unison detune and stereo spread, and MTS-ESP microtuning. A sample & hold LFO wave: a new random value every cycle, held flat in between. The preset system was rebuilt. One file per preset, categories, and presets now carry the effect graph and macro routings with them. Fixes. The chorus Delay knob genuinely did nothing before. The reverb was pulling the waveform off centre. Both are sorted, along with a longer list. There is a Linux build now. Notes before you install: The plugin is called just 2RuleSynth now, with no version number in the name. Please delete the old 2RuleSynthV-3-2 files first: on macOS from ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/ and …/Components/, on Windows from your VST3 folder. If both versions are on disk, your DAW has no way to tell which one you meant. Your existing projects and presets are safe. The plugin identifies itself to hosts exactly as before, so old sessions will still find it, and your saved presets stay where they are. Read More

2Rule has updated 2RuleSynth to v3.3 for macOS, Windows and, for the first time, Linux. 2RuleSynth 3.3.0 is up. It’s the first real update since September 2023, so there’s a fair amount in it. New in 2RuleSynth v3.3 (highlights): Effect routing is a live graph. Drag the nodes around, draw cables by hand, click a node to get its parameters next to it. Four macros and a MAP mode. Draw a cable from a macro to any knob, then drag the connection itself to set how far it swings. LFOs and envelopes can drive parameters the same way. Four LFOs inside the effect window, and two new effect nodes: Resonator and Modal. 16 voices instead of 6, aftertouch, mod wheel vibrato, unison detune and stereo spread, and MTS-ESP microtuning. A sample & hold LFO wave: a new random value every cycle, held flat in between. The preset system was rebuilt. One file per preset, categories, and presets now carry the effect graph and macro routings with them. Fixes. The chorus Delay knob genuinely did nothing before. The reverb was pulling the waveform off centre. Both are sorted, along with a longer list. There is a Linux build now. Notes before you install: The plugin is called just 2RuleSynth now, with no version number in the name. Please delete the old 2RuleSynthV-3-2 files first: on macOS from ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/ and …/Components/, on Windows from your VST3 folder. If both versions are on disk, your DAW has no way to tell which one you meant. Your existing projects and presets are safe. The plugin identifies itself to hosts exactly as before, so old sessions will still find it, and your saved presets stay where they are. Read More

Alonso Sound has released 19 Year Anniversary Pack, a new 128 preset soundset for Serum 2, Spire, Sylenth1, and Diva. They say: Celebrating 19 years of sound design, the Alonso 19 Year Anniversary Pack brings together 128 presets across Diva, Serum 2, Spire, and Sylenth1. Leads, bass, plucks, pads, acid, sequences, and synths, built for the full spectrum of electronic dance music. Every preset includes modwheel assignments, with full macro control for Serum 2 and Spire. Price: $35. Available for free until August 31, 2026. SoundCloud.com/alonso-sound/19-year-anniversary-pack Read More

sonicLAB has released a major upgrade to its Creation spatial synthesizer. Creation is a spatial sound design tool powered by a gravitational physics engine. Creation v2 Engine improvements: Multi Core threading + GPU assistance. Custom audio voice threads. 1000 simultaneous sounding objects on a MacBook Pro M4 is easy. Up to 400 simultaneous objects on Ryzen 3. Dynamic voice allocation: voices follow the most audible objects in the swarm, so scenes can grow far beyond the voice count without losing the sounds that matter. DSP improvements: True anti-aliased wavetable oscillator: an 11-level band-limited mip pyramid, built by harmonic analysis at load. Cubic (Catmull-Rom) interpolation throughout the wavetable oscillator and the granular engine: greater clarity and harmonic detail. Band-limited granular transposition: a four-level mip pyramid. Reworked distance model: object distance and stereo width are now independent controls, for a far more convincing sense of depth. Updated resonant filter, with automatic loudness compensation as the band narrows. 3D Spatial audio 32-bit float, 48kHz stereo WAV export. 3rd-order Ambisonic export — 16 channels WAV, AmbiX format. Non-realtime Disk Recording Creation V2 addresses up to 9999 objects. The new Non-realtime disk recording captures audio and video in full detail, sample-locked. Availability: Existing users of Creation v1.4 can upgrade to v2 by purchasing the upgrade license on sonicLAB store. The upgrade price is £19. Creation v2 costs £95 until September 2nd (Reg. £115). Creation v2 bundle contains the Creation v2 standalone app and the CreationRemote VST3 and AU plugin which remotely controls the application in a DAW. Creation v2 can be used on OS X (universal), and Windows (minimum Windows 10) systems. YouTube/oZ6Ku2Vfa4o Read More

CarbonDSP has announced the release of their first four plug-in offerings: Vellum: vocal reverb with both simple and advanced controls to easily get great sounds. Carbon CL-610: transparent model of the famous Spectra Sonics 610, up to 32x oversampling for high-end clarity. Biased: a free tube preamp modelled at component level with dynamic bias adjustment. Black Ion 76: A modeled UREI 1176 — real feedback topology, plus the modern controls the hardware never had. All four are VST3 and Standalone for Windows, 64-bit with macOS coming soon. Vellum – Vocal Reverb A reverb designed for one job rather than for everything. Its front panel is deliberately small — each control is a macro over several internal parameters moving along a curated curve, so there is no setting that sounds broken. CarbonDSP says the control that sets it apart is DUCK: a side-chain taken off the input that pulls the finished wet signal down while the vocal is present and lets it back up in the gaps. It does not shorten or damp the reverb — the tail continues behind the vocal untouched, so the space stays consistent while the words stay intelligible. Features: DUCK — lowers the wet signal under the vocal without shortening or damping the tail. Four distinct spaces — Room, Plate, Hall and Air are four separate networks, not one reverb with the decay turned up, spanning roughly 0.6 to 5.6 seconds. Measured impulse display — three per-band energy decay curves, a live T60 marker, and gain reduction traced live over them while audio plays. No latency — no lookahead anywhere in the signal path. Biased – Component-Modeled Tube Preamp Biased models a preamp at component level rather than as a curve. Two cascaded gain stages run into a real grid-bias point that shifts dynamically with signal, a power supply that sags under drive, and independent input and output transformer saturation. Because the bias point moves rather than sitting fixed, the same setting responds differently to a quiet passage and a loud one. Features: Component-level valve model — cascaded gain stages, a dynamic grid-bias point and supply sag under drive, rather than a fixed transfer curve. Independent input and output transformer saturation — colour available with no valve drive at all, from the iron and the ageing capacitors alone. Capacitor-ageing — control across three capacitance sizes, from tight and modern to loose and worn. Live signal-path visualizer — waveform lanes from input to output, a transfer-curve plot taken from the same math the audio thread runs, and a heat ramp that glows hotter as the valve is driven. Black Ion 76 – FET Limiting Amplifier Black Ion 76 is modeled on the UREI 1176 FET limiting amplifier. It reproduces that input-driven compression character around a bespoke nonlinear gain element, then adds the controls the original never had. Ratio emerges from real feedback loop gain rather than from a feed-forward approximation. Features: True feedback topology — ratio from real loop gain, checked against a validated reference on every build. Nonlinear FET grit stage — second-harmonic dominant, 0.2% to 5% THD as drive and gain reduction increase. NUKE mode — Four discrete ratios plus All-Buttons-In ‘Nuke’ mode with a continuous blend between the two responses. Advanced controls — sidechain high-pass, parallel Comp Mix with no routing, post HPF/LPF, Auto Makeup and a transformer-drive control. Oversampling — up to 16x, plus Stereo, Dual-Mono and Mid-Side detection. Carbon CL 610 – Transparent Compressor/Limiter Modeled on the Spectra Sonics 610 Comp/Limiter. A compressor and a peak limiter running at once on a single threshold — one slow and musical for level, one fast enough that transients never get past it. There is no threshold control at all: you drive material into a fixed knee, so changing the ratio does not change how hard you are hitting it. Set the drive once and audition ratios freely; the point of comparison holds still. Measured movement of the knee across the entire ratio range is 0.008 dB. Features: A knee that does not move — turning the ratio does not change how hard the plugin is being hit. Two detectors, one threshold — a slow musical path for level and a sub-microsecond path for transients, sharing one gain cell. A release that listens — program-dependent, 50 ms to 10 s. Peak control in nanoseconds — with oversampling selectable up to 32x. Parallel compression built in — a blend control with the output amplifier downstream of it. 32 level-matched presets — calibrated by measurement rather than by ear. Availability For all free plug-ins: Create a free account at www.carbondsp.com and download them from your account page: Biased Vellum For paid plug-ins, CarbonDSP is instituting an introductory system where any new plug-in released will be discounted until the end of whatever month they release the product in. So these two new plug-ins will be available for an intro price until August 31st: Black Ion 76: $29 introductory, regular price $59. Carbon CL 610: $49 introductory, regular price $89. Both have a fully functional 7-day demo with no account required. Read More

Anisotropic Audio has released Anisotropic Piano Tuner, an app that turns your iPhone or iPad into a standalone electronic piano tuning device. The app measures per-note inharmonicity from the live spectrum and uses those measurements to calculate an individual stretch curve for the piano being tuned. Users can select a tuning style (Balanced, Octaves, Fifths, Twelfths, or Equal), run an entropy-based solver, or adjust the target of any key by dragging it directly on the curve. Anisotropic Piano Tuner includes: An electronic strobe and needle meter; A pitch-raise workflow with register-dependent over-pull, which also compensates when lowering a piano sitting above pitch; A guided tuning sequence, an 88-key map of measured and tuned notes, and a reference tone; Equal, historical and user-defined temperaments, with the A4 reference adjustable from 415 to 466 Hz; Unison beat analysis, a voicing map, a stability readout and a tone report covering tuning, timbre and liveness; A before-and-after tuning-work score, kept in the visit history; Instrument records with tuning history, notes, voice memos and reference photos; Tuning reports and a single-file local library backup with restore; A built-in manual in 13 languages. The tuning workflow runs on the device and can be used offline. The app contains no Anisotropic Audio account, analytics or advertising. Version 1.0 requires iOS or iPadOS 15.0 or later. It is free to download and includes three complete octaves — bass, middle (with A4) and treble. Monthly, yearly and one-time lifetime in-app purchase options unlock all 88 keys; prices are localized by the App Store. Read More

Pro2Max has released two free VST3 guitar instruments for Windows. Unirock HumStrat Unirock HumStrat is a a free, full-featured HSS electric guitar virtual instrument for Windows, available as both a VST3 plug-in and standalone application. HumStrat is released as the complete instrument rather than a cut-down free edition. Its approximately 1.7 GB library includes samples across every fret, five pickup positions and multiple performance articulations. Main features include: Five pickup positions: bridge humbucker, bridge + middle, middle, middle + neck, and neck. Every fret sampled. Round-robin variation. Multiple velocity layers. Sustain and palm mute. Dead notes. Natural and pinch harmonics. Slide up and slide down. Legato slide. Vibrato. Pick scrapes. Keyswitch control for articulations and pickup selection. Volume and tone controls. Auto Sustain. VST3 and standalone versions. Unirock Cherry LPS Unirock Cherry LPS is a free virtual electric guitar instrument for Windows. Unirock Cherry LPS is based on the sound and playing characteristics of an LP-style guitar with burst humbuckers, and is designed for rock, alternative, grunge and heavier guitar parts. The instrument includes three pickup positions and a set of playable articulations intended to make programmed guitar performances sound more natural. Features: Three selectable pickup positions. Sustain. Palm mute. Dead notes. Natural harmonics. Pinch harmonics. Slide up. Slide down. Vibrato. Legato slide. Long and short pick scrapes. Velocity-sensitive behavior. Round-robin variation. Volume and Tone controls. Auto Sustain mode. Dedicated articulation keyswitches. Custom Cherry Sunburst-inspired interface. Read More

Pro2Max has released two free VST3 guitar instruments for Windows. Unirock HumStrat Unirock HumStrat is a a free, full-featured HSS electric guitar virtual instrument for Windows, available as both a VST3 plug-in and standalone application. HumStrat is released as the complete instrument rather than a cut-down free edition. Its approximately 1.7 GB library includes samples across every fret, five pickup positions and multiple performance articulations. Main features include: Five pickup positions: bridge humbucker, bridge + middle, middle, middle + neck, and neck. Every fret sampled. Round-robin variation. Multiple velocity layers. Sustain and palm mute. Dead notes. Natural and pinch harmonics. Slide up and slide down. Legato slide. Vibrato. Pick scrapes. Keyswitch control for articulations and pickup selection. Volume and tone controls. Auto Sustain. VST3 and standalone versions. Unirock Cherry LPS Unirock Cherry LPS is a free virtual electric guitar instrument for Windows. Unirock Cherry LPS is based on the sound and playing characteristics of an LP-style guitar with burst humbuckers, and is designed for rock, alternative, grunge and heavier guitar parts. The instrument includes three pickup positions and a set of playable articulations intended to make programmed guitar performances sound more natural. Features: Three selectable pickup positions. Sustain. Palm mute. Dead notes. Natural harmonics. Pinch harmonics. Slide up. Slide down. Vibrato. Legato slide. Long and short pick scrapes. Velocity-sensitive behavior. Round-robin variation. Volume and Tone controls. Auto Sustain mode. Dedicated articulation keyswitches. Custom Cherry Sunburst-inspired interface. Read More

Remi Blaze has released Hazex, a free algorithmic stereo reverb for macOS (AU / VST3, Apple Silicon native). Hazex is part of a growing collection of free tools built by a house and tech-house producer and DJ with a catalogue of 170+ original tracks across 35+ labels. Reverb is easy to add and easy to overdo. Pile it on and the mix turns to mush, the source drifts back behind the wash, and the low end smears once it hits a club system. Hazex is built to sit in a busy mix without any of that. An 8-line feedback delay network builds the space, from a tight room to a long ambient tail, and dynamic Ducking pulls the reverb back under the dry signal so it stays out of the way, then lets it bloom into the gaps when the source drops. A Sub-Anchor crossover keeps the low end mono, so the tail never phase-cancels on a big rig. From there it goes as deep as you want. Size and Decay set the space, from 0.1 to 10 seconds, with damping, pre-delay (free or tempo-synced), a dark-to-bright tone tilt, and stereo decorrelation to shape it. The creative side adds saturation inside the feedback loop, an input-linked high-pass sweep, Shimmer pitch feedback, a reverse Bloom, a tempo-synced Swell build, and Freeze for an infinite hold. A Nebula visualizer and a phase-guard LED show what the tail is doing. Prefer speed over control? Hazex Raw is the free one-knob companion. A single SPACE knob opens the same reverb from dry to deep and wide, level-matched, with nothing to set up. It’s part of the Remi Blaze Raw Series, a growing line of one-knob plugins that boil a full effect down to a single move, made for fast ideas, live tweaks, and anyone who wants the sound without the menu-diving. Price: Free. It ships as AU, VST3 and Standalone, a Universal Binary for Apple Silicon and Intel, code-signed and notarized by Apple, with 21 presets across rooms, halls, plates and creative spaces. Read More

Tunary Instruments has updated Reheat, adding a free MIDI Driver that plays your own synths. Reheat, the instrument that writes its own basslines, is now two plugins in a single purchase. The original Reheat writes rolling, mutating bass and acid lines and lets you steer them. The update adds Reheat MIDI Driver, a MIDI effect that runs the same writing engine but sends its notes out to any instrument you already own. Put it above a synth in your DAW and Reheat plays that synth for you, so the same writing brain is no longer tied to one sound. Both plugins come with one purchase and one key. Anyone who already owns Reheat gets the MIDI Driver as a free update: re-download it from your library, keep your key, nothing to re-enter. Buyers of the Collection get it too. The price has not changed. Reheat Original runs as AU, VST3 and a standalone app. Reheat MIDI Driver runs as AU and VST3. The Mac builds are signed and notarised by Apple, and there is a Windows build as well. Hear it and read the full guide at tunaryinstruments.com/reheat Read More

Best Service has announced that Arabic Oud is now available for the free Engine Player. Existing owners of Arabic Oud will find the new Engine Player version available as a free download in their Best Service user account. The Unmistakable Sound of the Middle East Warm, expressive, and full of character: The oud is one of the most distinctive instruments in Middle Eastern music. For centuries, its unmistakable sound has shaped melodies and rhythms from North Africa to the Mediterranean and is also considered a predecessor of the European lute. Arabic Oud brings this rich musical tradition directly into your productions. Together with Syrian musician and oud virtuoso Bassam Ayoub, Engine Audio recorded three different ouds with a particular focus on authentic playing techniques, expression, and natural dynamics. From delicately ornamented melodies and fast runs to rhythmic accompaniment, 39 articulations, multiple velocity layers, and up to 8 round robins give you the flexibility to create lively and convincing oud performances. Arabic Oud is equally at home in traditional music, film scoring, world music, pop, and modern productions. Authentic Performances with Microtunings Traditional tuning systems are an essential part of the characteristic oud sound. That’s why Arabic Oud includes integrated microtunings for Bayati, Rast, Saba, and Seka, each available in two variations and with a freely selectable root note. This allows you to create authentic Maqam performances without the need for additional tuning tools. Direct Workflow in Engine Player The Engine Player puts all essential functions right at your fingertips. Latch and Hold keyswitches let you switch flexibly between articulations while playing, making it easy to incorporate ornaments and different playing techniques intuitively into your performance. The integrated MIDI Songs and Loops demonstrate typical phrases and rhythmic playing styles while providing inspiration for your own ideas. The Full instruments offer an expanded selection with 22 MIDI Songs and Loops, while the Lite versions include 14 MIDI Songs and Loops. Full & Lite Instruments All three ouds are available as Full and Lite instruments. The Lite versions focus on the most essential articulations while using fewer system resources. This makes them especially suitable for live performances or whenever you want quick and easy access to the characteristic sound of the oud. At a Glance Three authentically sampled Arabic ouds. 39 articulations for melodic and rhythmic playing styles. Multiple velocity layers and up to 8 round robins. Microtunings for Bayati, Rast, Saba, and Seka. Latch and Hold keyswitches for intuitive performances. 22 MIDI Songs and Loops in the Full instruments. 14 MIDI Songs and Loops in the Lite instruments. Full and resource-friendly Lite versions. Ideal for traditional music, world music, film scoring, pop, and modern productions. Requires Engine Player 1.6.0 or higher. Pricing & Availability Arabic Oud is available for the introductory price of €/$89 (Reg. €/$129). {PRODUCT-HEADER-18009-arabicoud}. YouTube.com/watch?v=diLQkzbFYlk Read More

Music software creator Noizefield today announced Audio Plugin Coder (APC) 1.4.0, a major update to the open-source framework that turns natural-language plugin ideas into structured VST3/AU projects using AI coding agents. APC guides users through ideation, architecture, UI design, implementation, testing, and packaging, while maintaining project state and troubleshooting knowledge. It is designed for producers, sound designers, and developers who want custom plugins without starting from a blank C++ project, and works with agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Kilo, and Antigravity on Windows, macOS, and Linux. New in version 1.4.0 JUCE 9.0.1 – upgraded from JUCE 8 for modern hosts, tooling, and WebView-based UIs. /apc-setup – guided first-run wizard for toolchain checks, optional relocatable plugins/build/release folders, UI defaults, and per-phase AI model preferences. /apc-* workflow commands – unique names such as /apc-dream, /apc-plan, /apc-design, /apc-impl, and /apc-ship to reduce collisions with other AI tools; short aliases like /dream remain for compatibility. Stronger dependency checking and improved WebView plugin documentation. Path-aware build scripts validated with real plugin builds, including WebView UI smoke tests on Windows. Availability APC 1.4.0 is free and open source on GitHub. Demo video: YouTube.com/watch?v=B_hEkSp3tEk Project overview: noizefield.com/news/create-vst-plugins-with-ai-apc Read More

Music software creator Noizefield today announced Audio Plugin Coder (APC) 1.4.0, a major update to the open-source framework that turns natural-language plugin ideas into structured VST3/AU projects using AI coding agents. APC guides users through ideation, architecture, UI design, implementation, testing, and packaging, while maintaining project state and troubleshooting knowledge. It is designed for producers, sound designers, and developers who want custom plugins without starting from a blank C++ project, and works with agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Kilo, and Antigravity on Windows, macOS, and Linux. New in version 1.4.0 JUCE 9.0.1 – upgraded from JUCE 8 for modern hosts, tooling, and WebView-based UIs. /apc-setup – guided first-run wizard for toolchain checks, optional relocatable plugins/build/release folders, UI defaults, and per-phase AI model preferences. /apc-* workflow commands – unique names such as /apc-dream, /apc-plan, /apc-design, /apc-impl, and /apc-ship to reduce collisions with other AI tools; short aliases like /dream remain for compatibility. Stronger dependency checking and improved WebView plugin documentation. Path-aware build scripts validated with real plugin builds, including WebView UI smoke tests on Windows. Availability APC 1.4.0 is free and open source on GitHub. Demo video: YouTube.com/watch?v=B_hEkSp3tEk Project overview: noizefield.com/news/create-vst-plugins-with-ai-apc Read More

DSPTone has updated the free Restrukt plugin to v1.0.2. Restrukt is the evolution of this heritage. It streamlines this historically complex, multi-plugin routing into a single, cohesive interface. By linking multiband sustain reduction, analog tape drive, and modern particle shimmer in series, Restrukt gives you classic acoustic control with modern, pristine digital fidelity. Changes: Add Input level control. Make some design GUI changes. Add LINK (Input/Output levels compensation). Restrukt was an entry in the the KVR Developer Challenge 2026. Read More

Nikolozi is celebrating the Mela 7.13 release with 40% off module collections. Mela 7.13 introduces an NFM-style Matrix module, making it easy to build complex FM patches and delay-based effects with feedback. Get 40% off Collections until August 17. Read More

Ultimate Patches has released 222 JN-80 Ultimate Patches. Here’s what they say: Bring your Behringer JN-80 to the next level — Ultimate Patches (creator of the JN-80s premium-quality factory presets in Banks A-E) has released 222 all-new JN-80 patches (Volumes 1+2) with high-quality vintage, modern and futuristic sounds in addition to traditional instruments: electric and acoustic pianos, vintage organs, guitars, orchestral and more. Get the free Taster Pack today from ultimatepatches.com. Pricing Pricing starts at $19.99 per volume or $29.99 for all 222 patches. A free Taster Pack from the collection is also available. YouTube.com/watch?v=a3GdIruSSnQ Read More