Ewan Bristow’s UZU spectral phaser is FREE for 7 days (regularly $17)
Ewan Bristow has officially hit 10k followers on Twitter/X, and as promised, his UZU frequency domain phaser is now free. The plugin normally sells for $17, and you can grab it from the developer’s website for free. We covered the initiative back in October 2025, when Ewan announced that UZU would be made free for [...]
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CPU Productions Groove DetectiveGroove Detective: The only search engine for drum loops based on patterns and 'sounds like'. As producers' and musicians' collections of audio loops used in music productions of all stripes grow steadily year by year, so does the accompanying problem of finding exactly what you need, when you need it. Even though individual collections may be sensibly organized into styles, tempo and so on, there is no agreed-upon system for doing this and rarely does a user take the time and effort to consolidate all these disparate libraries. The result is that the collection is spread over a large number of folders, making it exceedingly difficult and time consuming to audition potential candidates when it matters the most: at the moment of inspiration and creation. Groove Detective solves this problem in a musical way. By analyzing all the loops the user has and consolidating all the data in a single searchable database, it no longer matters where the loop is stored. The information in the database allows the user to search for loops based on the pattern of drum hits in the loop itself, not on how it is named or in which folder it resides. The search pattern can be made as narrowly specific or as widely fuzzy as one wishes, depending on the need of the moment. There is also an option of including a "sounds like" dimension to a search. For example, if one is looking for loops that have a particular snare drum sound, one needs only provide that sound to the search engine and the degree to which the sound should match. In the result browser one can further refine the search by filtering on tempo, 'pitched-ness', file type, sample rate and so on. Once a choice has been made, the loop can simply be dragged into a track in the DAW production software (if it is so enabled), without ever having to enter any file open or import dialog. This technology is based on decades of research in audio analysis and Music Information Retrieval (MIR) systems and utilizes an advanced expert system. Read More

Universal Audio release UAD Enigmatic ’82 Overdrive Special Amp Already available as a hardware pedal, Enigmatic ’82 Overdrive Special Amp has now made its way into the UAD line-up, bringing the same iconic tones to DAW users. 

Heritage Audio announce the Baby RAM Black Edition Created in celebration of the company’s 15th anniversary, the Baby RAM Black Edition offers the same performance and functionality as the original, but in an alternative finish.

Tuva 1.4 adds customizable views, tabs, and pinned items for faster sample browsing
Tuva, the standalone sample and project manager we covered earlier this month, has just been updated to version 1.4. The update is focused on workflow customization, with new left bar views, tab-based navigation, and pinned items. As a quick recap, Tuva is a desktop app that helps you organize, classify, and search audio samples, MIDI [...]
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Samples From Mars Serum Presets Vol 1 From Mars235 Serum Presets Built From Vintage Hardware Serum Presets Vol I From Mars is a bundle of five original preset packs built around one idea: taking our hardware samples and turning them into something fully playable inside Serum. Lately we've been searching for a way to sample more synths consistently, and when we realized Serum 2 could load custom samples, it immediately opened up a new workflow. The moment we started dropping our own recordings into Serum's engine, the results were better than we expected - raw analog samples just sound so good in Serum, it's immediately inspiring and enjoyable to use. This bundle includes 235 presets across five distinct packs, covering a wide range of tones built from vintage synths, drum machines, electric pianos, voices, and analog hardware. Because everything lives inside Serum, you get the same experience in every DAW - no multisampler setup, no custom mapping, and no compatibility issues. Just load a preset and play. https://soundcloud.com/samplesfrommars/samples-from-mars-serum-2 Five Packs, One Bundle The five packs inside Serum Presets Vol I each explore a different direction, but all share the same foundation: original Samples From Mars recordings shaped specifically for Serum's architecture. Vintage Synths From Mars focuses on classic analog synth tones, using custom oscillators built from vintage hardware samples. Wurli From Mars explores the sound of three different Wurlitzers, from traditional electric piano tones to stretched textures, pads, and more experimental sounds. Analog 808s From Mars centers on analog-sourced 808 basses, kicks, subs, and drum presets, ranging from smooth low-end to heavily saturated tones. Voices From Mars uses human voice recordings - singing, humming, choirs, and vocal textures - as the basis for playable synth patches. Analog Techno From Mars pushes further into modular synth sources, and hardware-driven sounds designed for movement, weight, and modern club production. Built From Samples Unlike most preset packs that rely only on stock oscillators, every preset here begins with custom source material recorded from real instruments and hardware. Vintage synths, drum machines, voices, and electric pianos were sampled, edited, and transformed into oscillators built specifically for Serum. Some presets stay close to the source, preserving the tone and feel of the original recordings. Others move much further, using Serum's modulation, filters, macros, and effects to create sounds that would be difficult to reach with samples alone. Why We Like This Format One of the biggest advantages of putting our samples inside Serum is consistency. Instead of loading raw samples into different samplers depending on your setup, everything works identically inside one instrument. It makes the sounds faster to reach, easier to shape, and often more inspiring to play. And simply put, it's just FUN. A Diverse Range of Sounds Across the bundle, the presets cover basses, leads, pads, keys, techno sequences, vocal instruments, electric pianos, drums, and hybrid textures. Some are immediate and simple. Others are designed to evolve over time and respond heavily to macro movement. That range is what makes the bundle especially useful - it moves easily between traditional synth duties and more unusual sound design, while keeping a clear hardware identity throughout. Serum Presets Vol I includes all five preset packs together at a discounted price, while each pack is also available separately if you want to start with one focused direction. If Serum is already part of your workflow, this is a huge range of new sounds in one place. And if it's not.. it might be worth considering;). Contents: Serum 2 Vintage Synths From Mars Serum 2 Wurli From Mars Serum 2 Analog 808s From Mars Serum 2 Voices From Mars Serum 2 Analog Techno From Mars Leads, Bass, 808s, Sequences, Arps, Pads, Keys, Pianos, Soundscapes, Chords, Drums and Percussion presets, and more. (235) Serum Presets. (5) Serum Packs. 586.6 MB (unzipped). Read More

SynthFest UK 2026 Announced SynthFest UK is the largest event of its kind in the UK, bringing together the top keyboard synthesizer and modular brands from across the electronic music industries.

Baby Audio Atoms is 60% OFF at Plugin Boutique until May 13
Plugin Boutique is running a 60% discount on Baby Audio Atoms, bringing the physical modeling synth down from $99 to $39 until May 13. Atoms is Baby Audio’s second virtual instrument, following the analog-flavored BA-1, and it’s a very different animal. Instead of oscillators, Atoms generates sound using a physical model of interconnected masses and [...]
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Lewitt introduce the LCT 440 Pure stereo pair Lewitt are now offering matched pairs of their LCT 440 Pure that come with an array of accessories aimed at tackling stereo miking duties. 

Audio Fusion Bureau releases RoomDiY, a FREE acoustic room simulation plugin
From developer Audio Fusion Bureau comes RoomDiY, a free acoustic room simulation plugin for macOS and Windows. RoomDiY offers advanced real-time acoustic modelling and room analysis. In short, the plugin allows you to design the ideal acoustic space for any given project. We’ve covered many convolution reverb plugins that offer impulse responses of real-world spaces, [...]
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No Type No Tag Beats StuttermationStuttermation is a dynamic, timeline-based stutter, glitch, and time-manipulation multi-effect built for precise rhythmic audio editing inside a DAW-synced plugin. Instead of relying on MIDI triggers or static LFO patterns, Stuttermation lets you draw audio manipulation events directly onto a timeline and shape each moment independently. The plugin is built around Blocks. Each block can have its own rate, buffer behavior, gate shape, pitch movement, probability, direction, filtering, drive, volume, pan, and envelope curves. This makes it possible to chain tight stutters, halftime chops, reverse cuts, pitch ramps, gated 808 tail edits, accelerating glitches, distorted rhythmic effects, and full-loop transformations inside one continuous sequence. Main Features Timeline-Based Block Sequencing: Draw, resize, duplicate, delete, and arrange stutter blocks on a DAW-synced timeline with customizable snap settings, zooming, smooth scrolling, and an interactive minimap. The timeline is capped at 500 bars for stable large-session behavior. Per-Block Slice Engine: Each block renders through a strict slice-local playback core, so the block's rate controls slice count while pitch, halftime, reverse, and buffer length shape what happens inside each slice without changing the number of slices. Dynamic Rate Morphing: Set independent Start and End rates for a block, from slow rhythmic chops to rapid glitch bursts, for smooth accelerations, decelerations, and evolving stutter movement. Musical Buffer Length Control: Choose Match Rate or shorter buffer lengths per block. Shorter buffers play only that portion of each slice, then smooth to silence without stretching or repeating the audio, preserving pitch and transient integrity. Advanced Audio Grabbing: Choose how each block captures audio: Start of Block for classic stutter sampling, Moving Playhead for live granular behavior, or Fixed Offset for repeatable delayed capture. Gate Shape Modes: Shape every slice with dedicated gate modes: Truncate for tight cuts, Fade for smoother exits, and T-Safe for transient-conscious slicing. Gate percentage, Attack, Release, Reverse, and Halftime are all set per block. Bass and 808 Tail Handling: Designed to work cleanly on sustained low-end material, including 808 tails and bass notes, with adaptive entry smoothing, safer slice transitions, and pitch-aware rendering. Transient-Aware Pitch Rendering: Pitch ramps and pitch-shifted blocks use improved slice handling to preserve punch on transient-heavy material while keeping sustained bass and 808 content stable. High-Quality Interpolation: Includes multiple interpolation modes, including an upgraded HQ sinc mode for smoother pitch movement, cleaner high-rate stutters, and improved resampling quality. Per-Block Curve Envelopes: Draw automation curves directly onto blocks with adjustable tension for ease-in/ease-out movement. Available lanes include Volume, Pitch, Pan, High-Pass Filter, Low-Pass Filter, and Overdrive. Envelope Workflow Tools: Copy and paste envelope shapes between lanes, apply built-in shapes such as ramps, saws, squares, and pulses, and use slice-aligned visual guides for faster rhythmic editing. Drive and Distortion Control: Shape distortion per block with the Overdrive envelope, optional drive-only 2x/4x oversampling, and a 2x Drive option for more aggressive saturation when needed. Output Safety Stage: A transparent final safety stage helps catch stacked blocks, heavy drive, and dense overlapping effects before they create unexpected output spikes. Generative Probability: Use Block Probability to decide whether an entire block triggers, and Stutter Probability to control whether individual slices play, creating evolving rhythms from static loops. Randomize and Humanize Tools: Quickly generate new ideas with randomize options for selected block settings and envelopes, plus humanize tools for subtle rate and probability variation. Polyphonic Micro-Grain DSP: A 16-voice slice/grain engine with explicit voice allocation, click-conscious transitions, and stable voice stealing for dense overlapping blocks and fast stutter patterns. Channel-Safe Automation: Volume, pan, filter, wet, and drive transitions are smoothed and audited to avoid block-entry leaks, center blips, and opposite-channel artifacts. Global Playback Modes: Fine-tune the overall engine behavior with global Transition, Interpolation, Timing, and Mix modes for different editing styles and playback needs. Visual Slice Feedback: Timeline blocks show slice shapes, gate behavior, probability markings, envelope overlays, reverse direction, and compact gate-mode badges for quick visual editing. Built-In Preset Manager: Save, load, and browse XML-based stutter sequences across sessions and DAWs, including block settings, gate modes, envelopes, probability, global modes, and timeline data. Support. For support or inquiries: NO.TYPE.NO.TAG.BEATS@gmail.com FAQ. Does Stuttermation use MIDI triggering? No. Stuttermation is timeline-based. You draw blocks directly where you want the effect to happen. Can each block have different settings? Yes. Every block can have its own rate, buffer length, envelopes, gate mode, reverse, halftime, drive, filter, pan, probability, and more. Does it work on 808s and bass tails? Yes. The engine has been tuned for sustained low-end material, including 808 tails and bass notes. Can I use it for glitch effects? Yes. Use rate morphing, pitch envelopes, buffer length, probability, reverse, drive, and filter envelopes to create glitch builds and rhythmic edits. Read More

iZotope RX 12 is here RX 12 introduces two entirely new modules, Stems View and Scene Rebalance, and boasts a number of improvements to its existing tools thanks to some behind-the-scenes tweaks. 

Expressive E launch the Osmose CE The latest additons to the Osmose family deliver the same playing experience as the originals, but with a companion software suite rather than an internal synth engine. 

Sentinel AV and Bladerunner release Folda, a 4-group morphing distortion plugin
Sentinel AV and UK drum-and-bass producer Bladerunner have released Folda, a 4-group morphing distortion plugin. Folda is available as VST3 for Windows and as VST3/AU for macOS (Universal Binary), with an intro price of $67 for the first seven days after launch (until May 2), regular price $99 thereafter. The main idea behind Folda is [...]
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NatLife Sounds True Trance Sounds V4 for Arturia JUP-8000 VLet's welcome True Trance Sounds V4 for Arturia JUP-8000 V by NatLife. Version 4 is an absolute True Trance blockbuster of sounds for Arturia JUP-8000 V. An exceptional set of diverse sounds was created for this installment, which perfectly complement each other. Every sound is steeped in the atmosphere of 90s Trance, the era when it was born and sounded incredibly inspiring. The soundbank contains 70 Trance presets & patches for JUP-8000 V, which are: 4 Special voice-type AAH sounds. 2 new ARP's. 17 Punchy Basslines, which include special Uplifting Trance Basses and the deepest Basses. 3 Unusual FX's for your transition. 13 absolutely incredible Leads, in which you will find everything from new Supersaw's to Vintage-inspired, poignant Lead sections. 14 super deep Pads that will take you from Classic Trance pads to the most unusual and deep atmospheres. 12 of the Most Beautiful Plucks Ever Created. 3 Sequences packed and ready to go. 2 Synth sounds All of this was created with absolute love for the true and divine Trance music that we all fell in love with in the 90s, and so that you could enjoy these beautiful sounds that take us back to that golden era.\. https://youtu.be/2a_qwcmOhd4?si=lgTaNTzshzs0iAmr Read More