Initial D artist MOTSU releases FREE zero-latency vocal tuner MotTune MIDI
MOTSU and DeeJei.Tokyo have released MotTune MIDI, a free real-time vocal pitch correction and vocoder plugin for macOS and Windows. Initial D is one of my favorite anime series, along with Slam Dunk. I binged it back when I had time to binge, so getting an email from someone who worked on its legendary soundtrack [...]
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NEVER FOUND releases VT-Mini, a FREE vocal tuner for Windows
NEVER FOUND has released VT-Mini, a free vocal tuning and cleanup plugin for Windows. VT-Mini’s interface has two main panels. TUNE handles the pitch correction, and CLEAN combines a low-cut filter and dynamic de-esser on a single graph. The pitch section gives you Retune, Amount, Natural, and Variation controls, along with a choice between chromatic [...]
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RIPPLES releases Pulse, a FREE rhythmic volume shaper plugin
RIPPLES Music has released Pulse, a free rhythmic volume shaper plugin for macOS and Windows. Pulse combines sidechain-style pumping, rhythmic gating, and LFO volume shaping in a simple interface with an editable curve. This type of plugin was first made by Cableguys around a decade ago with their legendary FilterShaper. There have been quite a [...]
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HEDD Audio update CTRL software HEDD CTRL 2.0.1 introduces per-band bypass of the system’s parametric equaliser, smarter device sorting, enhanced speaker highlighting and updated immersive format labelling. 

Aqeel Aadam Sound SightlinesMake any sound resonate Sightlines is a playable harmonic filter. Built from a bank of tuned resonant bandpass filters, it brings out a customizable set of musical frequencies in any sound. Tune it to a fixed frequency like a resonator, or send it MIDI to make it come alive as an instrument.. Great for adding tonality to percussion, turning found sound into instruments, building synths with shifting harmonic balance, and more. Use it subtly to make noise and texture follow the key of your composition, or go all-in on modal synthesis. Roam the harmonic series Sightlines' filters are tuned like the overtones of a string – each band a natural harmonic of the root note. Customize, randomize, or modulate the volume of each band independently. Then go further – stretch and morph the harmonic series to explore versions of the series not heard in nature before. Play it or pass through it Sightlines loads as an instrument or an audio effect. As an instrument, it filters noise or samples, or skips the filters entirely and plays as a harmonic synth. As an effect, it adds motion, stereo spread, and a distinct tonality to anything you run through it. Set it all in motion Manipulate any control in Sightlines with a fully fledged Modulation matrix, including multiple LFOs, sequencers, smooth random sources, and performance effects. Connect to Sightlines' sibling application, Waymaker, for direct sequencing over Sightlines' pitch without setting up MIDI routing in your DAW. Full preset control over every parameter. Manual Video manual and demo iOS listing Read More

Accentize Chameleon wins Emmy Award Two years after winning an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award for dxRevive Pro, Accentize have been recognised once again for their reverb-matching plug-in.

dBdone releases Wasser, a FREE liquid multiband delay plugin
dBdone has released Wasser, a free multiband delay plugin for macOS and Windows. Wasser splits the incoming signal into frequency bands and lets you draw a different delay time for each one. That’s a pretty cool idea. It’s definitely a fun little tool for sound design because it lets you create rhythmic movement that would [...]
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e-instruments launch Velvet Guitars Fragment Velvet Guitars Fragment introduces a packed-down version of the company’s popular guitar instrument, delivering “the warm, woody resonance and evocative low-end character of a vintage baritone guitar”.

tokyomeltdown LUFSBarLUFSBar sits in the menu bar and shows the loudness of whatever is currently playing on the Mac - a streaming service, a browser, a DAW - using Core Audio process taps. No BlackHole, no Loopback, no virtual audio device. Momentary, short-term or integrated LUFS in the bar itself, with the full readout including True Peak one click away. A reference snapshot captures the loudness of whatever is playing, so a mix can be compared against a reference track in real time. A streaming forecast shows how far the current material sits from Apple Music (-16), Spotify (-14) and YouTube (-14). Measurement uses libebur128 for ITU-R BS.1770-4 / EBU R128 compliance: K-weighting, gating, and 4x oversampled True Peak. No network requests, no telemetry, no account. Audio is analysed in memory and never written to disk. MIT licensed, with the source on GitHub. Read More

Penteo Audio Plugins announce Penteo 8 Penteo version 8 introduces a whole host of new features including advanced independent upmix decorrelation controls, enhanced DSP and a new interface with an enhanced visualiser.

Lewitt releases Space Replicator Free, a virtual monitoring plugin for macOS and Windows
Developer Lewitt has released Space Replicator Free, a virtual monitoring plugin for macOS and Windows. Lots of plugins virtually recreate the characteristics of real-life spaces for various reasons, whether it’s something like UAD’s Sound City Studios providing a touch of LA when tracking in your bedroom or a convolution reverb like NoiseRverb bringing you the [...]
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JAS-I Khorlo is a new FREE physical modeling/resonator synth for macOS, Windows, and Linux
JAS-I Khorlo, a free physical modeling/resonator synth for macOS, Windows, and Linux, is now in open beta. When we post news about new releases, we occasionally run into a few problems. For example, sometimes installers won’t download, or emails take a while, and that’s not ideal if you’re against the clock. On rarer occasions, a [...]
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IK Multimedia unveil the Tonex Board IK Multimedia's new Tonex Board expands on the concept introduced by the Tonex pedals, offering a powerful all-in-one pedalboard-style system aimed at both stage and studio use. 

ukdf releases GrainCharlie, a FREE granular synth for macOS and Windows
Developer ukdf has released GrainCharlie, a free granular synthesizer plugin for macOS and Windows. The developer, who also releases music as uknowdatfeel, created GrainCharlie after spending around a year looking for an affordable granular synth without unnecessary complexity. Granular synthesis can be intimidating at first, so the idea behind GrainCharlie is to provide the essential [...]
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Egowaves AnalogEntropyAnalogEntropy brings organic character to your tracks by recreating the subtle imperfections of vintage tape machines, analog consoles and classic hardware that give analog recordings their warmth, depth and soul. It can be used on anything from a single track to the entire mix. For best results, use several parameters gently rather than pushing one too far. You may not notice it. Until you bypass it. Key Features: COLOR: Drive: ANALOG PREAMP SATURATION: two-zone soft clipping, from gentle tape preamp rounding to heavier saturation. Warmth: TRANSFORMER HARMONICS : even-order harmonics (2nd, 4th) filtered below 280 Hz, the signature of an analog transformer. Saturation: DYNAMIC TAPE SATURATION : envelope-following tape saturation: peaks compress harder than quiet passages, like a real magnetic tape under heavy signal. Air: HARMONIC EXCITER : harmonic exciter à la Aphex/BBE: generates new harmonics above 3.5 kHz rather than boosting what's already there. MOVEMENT: Haze: BBD CHORUS : BBD chorus with two interacting LFOs, the technology behind 1970s tape echoes and classic chorus pedals. Sway: HARMONIC DETUNING : three drifting delay taps creating internal harmonic beating, like a piano whose strings have slowly gone out of tune with each other. Flutter: TAPE FLUTTER : tape flutter with filtered noise injected into the LFO phase, so it never sounds like a mechanical sine sweep. Warp: APERIODIC MODULATION : sslow, unpredictable phase modulation, the kind heard on degraded tape or off-speed playback. IMPERFECTION: Dropouts: RANDOM SIGNAL DROPOUTS : partial random signal fades with independent L/R asymmetry, simulating uneven oxide wear on a playback head. Crackles: VINYL NOISE : granular noise texture, crossfaded grains of 30–80 ms with independent stereo seeds. Hiss: ANALOG TAPE HISS : warm band-passed tape hiss from dual noise sources with a slowly evolving spectral blend. Drift: TAPE WOW & FLUTTER : tape motor instability modelled as a slow sinusoidal wow at ~0.6 Hz combined with a filtered noise flutter. SWITCHES: Vintage: LPF at 13 kHz, S-curve waveshaper and light quantisation at 30 kHz, narrowing the frequency response like a well-maintained 1970s tape machine. Bleed: console crosstalk at −2.5 dB with early reflections at 8 and 13 ms, the natural channel contamination of an analog desk. Spread: 5 ms delay on the right channel only, the looseness of two slightly misaligned tape heads. Smear: temporal blur that rounds transients and pushes the signal back from the source. Buzz: 50 Hz + 100 Hz hum modelling a slightly misgrounded tape deck or console. MODEL: Six converter and tape characters ordered from cleanest to most extreme: Akai S900 (12-bit / 40 kHz, clean filter). E-mu SP-1200 (12-bit / 26.4 kHz, coloured LP, low-mid punch). E-mu Emulator II (10-bit / 27.7 kHz, warm reconstruction). Mellotron (tape saturation, wow/flutter, 8 kHz roll-off). Casio SK-1 (8-bit / 9.38 kHz, heavy quantisation noise). AM Radio (300 Hz–6 kHz bandpass, AM demodulator saturation). EQ / MASTER: Bass / Treble: bipolar vintage tone stack: the cut side behaves passively with interacting bands like a real amp, the boost side is active. Blend: global dry/wet after all processing. Glue: analog bus compression curve, transparent below halfway, character zone above with harmonic saturation on transients. Output: final gain with auto-gain calibration. Read More