All the Machines The RemnantThe Remnant is a drone synthesizer. Eight FM voices feed into each other through a feedback network, either on a routing pattern you pick or one you wire yourself, and the sound keeps moving without you touching it. Snapshots capture the entire state, voices, matrix, effects, everything, and you can glide smoothly from one to another. 13 scales keep things musical when you want them to be. The output runs through one of four acoustic filters (Chamber, Cave, Metal, Void), and individual voices can be played from touch pads. Out now for desktop as VST3, Audio Unit and CLAP. An iOS version is in App Store review. Read More

West Highland Sound releases Cinematic Wineglasses, a FREE wine glass library for Kontakt
Cinematic Wineglasses from developer West Highland Sound is a free wine glass library for Kontakt. The library requires the full version of Kontakt 6.8 or later and isn’t compatible with the free Kontakt Player. Composers often look to the acoustic resonance of natural or manufactured materials to create sounds that feel more alive. Cinematic sound [...]
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Arturia update the MiniFreak Arturia have just released a free update that brings wavetable and sample import to the MiniFreak and its software counterpart.

Lunacy launches NOVA platform with five FREE virtual instruments
Lunacy has launched NOVA, a new instrument platform and marketplace for macOS and Windows, with a free host plugin and five free virtual instruments. The basic idea is somewhat similar to what Spitfire Audio LABS used to represent. You install one free host in your DAW and access a growing collection of instruments through it. [...]
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VSL introduce Synchron Cimbalom & World Percussion II VSL (Vienna Symphonic Library) have just launched two new libraries that bring some intriguing new instruments into their Synchron Percussion range.

Smart Audio Plugins launches Timbral Box parallel harmonic processor
Smart Audio Plugins has released Timbral Box, a parallel harmonic processor for mixing and mastering, available for an introductory price of €48.30/$56 through September 30th, 2026. Timbral Box is a parallel harmonic processor. Instead of running the entire signal through EQ, saturation, and compression, it leaves the dry signal untouched and adds four processed layers [...]
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Authentic Soundware Space Age StringsSpace Age Strings features a small violin section of nine players recorded in a large studio using a selection of vintage and modern microphones, faithfully recreating the sound of classic studio recordings from the 1950s and '60s. Features: Small section size for an intimate studio sound. 12 of articulations including legato, pizzicato, marcato, spiccato, tremolo, trills, and more. 5 legato types with user-defined velocity zones, optional speed detection. Vintage romantic vibrato with dedicated espressivo intensity control. Retro pizzicato with lively performance repetition samples. Trills Arranger — play polyphonic trills and chord tremolos on a single MIDI channel, with three modes including diatonic chord trill support. Runs Arranger — play realistic, performance-sampled runs in any key, any scale type, from any note to any note, with control over duration, dynamics, and resolution. 5 microphone positions. Onboard tape, echo, tone, and limiter effects. Custom retro reverb IR. Flexible articulation switching via key switch or MIDI CC. Read More

UAD Luna 3.0: A major upgrade introducing Luna Play and new smart features
UAD has launched a major update to its award-winning DAW Luna (macOS and Windows). The update brings a slight name change, new workflows, and AI-powered smart features. Luna Pro becomes Luna Studio; Luna Free is still free, and UAD Spark subscribers now get more for their money. We’ll take a look at what’s new in [...]
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Image-Line & Antares reveal AutoTune Go AutoTune Go is available via the free tier of FL Cloud, making the iconic AutoTune sound available directly in FL Studio.

This FREE Korg Prophecy emulator lets you sound like The Prodigy
Developer Joe Landers has released Profligacy, a free and open-source emulation of the Korg Prophecy synthesizer for macOS and Windows. This one is definitely rough around the edges, but it is worth your attention if you’re into classic 90s synth sounds. Profligacy emulates the original Prophecy hardware at a low level and runs the instrument’s [...]
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Soundins releases OmniPass, a FREE phase alignment filter
Soundins has released OmniPass, a free all-pass filter plugin for phase alignment and sound design on macOS and Windows. An all-pass filter is a slightly unusual tool. I mean, for starters, it sounds weird. A filter that passes everything through. What’s the point? Unlike a conventional EQ, it keeps the response flat, so it does [...]
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Modartt launch Airteq Rather than recreating specific instruments, Airteq instead provides users with a collection of virtual pipes, allowing them to create their own custom instruments that offer a mixture of acoustic and electronic qualities. 

Beat Magazine #249 includes FREE Synthesizer V Studio Core
Buy Beat Magazine #249 and get the Synthesizer V Studio Core plus a free gift from Plugin Boutique. Beat Magazine is a regular source of good articles, useful tips/guides, and excellent freebies. Technically, the magazine costs $6, but the content alone is worth that; the bundled software is the icing on the cake. One of [...]
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ModulTone ModulTone MS PunchModulTone's MS Punch, Keep the centre punchy and dry the room in the sides. A drum bus where the kick and snare need more crack and the room mics already take up too much space. In Mid-Side mode the mid gets a few dB of Attack while Sustain comes down on the side, so the centre hits harder and the room between the hits gets shorter. Each lane runs its own detector for that: a transient shaper isn't linear, and one set of settings run on mid and side together would shift the stereo image on every hit. Stereo mode links left and right to one detector instead, so the image holds still. Every hit is split into its attack and its body, and the two always add back up to the whole signal, which means the plugin passes audio through bit for bit until you turn something. Then there is timing. Preshift moves a lane's attack ahead of the beat or behind it while the body stays where it was, Humanize nudges each hit by a few milliseconds and up to 3 dB, and Swing delays the off-beats on a 1/8 or 1/16 grid. Shapes include: - Smooth The default. The detector follows the level within half a millisecond and the gain grows evenly with the hit. A preset on Smooth starts at 25 ms Attack Time and 300 ms Sustain Time. - Snap The fastest detector, and a curve that reaches most of its gain early, so the very front of a transient takes the boost. Presets on Snap start at 8 ms and 180 ms. - Bloom A slower detector and a rounded curve that eases in and out, for tails that should swell, like a room or an 808. Presets on Bloom start at 60 ms and 700 ms. - Crush Snap's timing, with the attack gain driven into a soft clipper instead of applied cleanly. The hit gets louder and denser at once. Read More

Rupert Neve Designs introduce three plug-ins RND's debut software release introduces plug-in versions of their Portico II Master Buss Processor, 542 Tape Emulator and 551 Inductor EQ.