CVA Labs releases FREE Aether Stereo Exciter for macOS and Windows
CVA Labs has released Aether Stereo Exciter, a free and open-source harmonic enhancer for macOS and Windows. Aether is an interesting take on the stereo exciter concept. It gives us two independent channels with Drive, Frequency, Contour, Air, limiter Threshold and Release, Makeup Gain, and Mix controls. You can shape the left and right channels [...]
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NoirSonance releases FREE Headroomer channel cleanup plugin
NoirSonance has released Headroomer, a free/pay-what-you-want channel cleanup plugin for macOS and Windows. We recently featured the developer’s Decompressor upward dynamics plugin, which followed NoirSonance’s decision to make its entire 12-plugin collection free with optional donations. Headroomer is another streamlined yet useful tool from NoirSonance, and it might be their simplest plugin yet. The interface [...]
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Reason Studios launch Reason Free Reason Studios have announced that they are making their popular Reason Rack plug-in free, and bundling it with a selection of instruments, effects and tools sources from their DAW software.

Hardwave Studios WettBoiWettBoi combines a reverb, a tempo-syncable delay and a sidechain ducker in one plug-in. The ducker acts on the wet signal, so reverb and delay tails can be pushed out of the way of a kick drum without routing the effect to a separate bus and adding a compressor. The reverb offers four algorithm types (Room, Hall, Plate, Spring) with pre-delay, size, decay, damping, stereo width and a freeze control. High-pass and low-pass filters are applied to the wet path so the tail can be shaped without an additional EQ. The delay section runs independent left and right times, either free-running in milliseconds or synced to host tempo in note values, with feedback and the option to feed reverb into the delay. The sidechain ducker provides threshold, attack, hold and release, keyed from either the plug-in input or an external sidechain input. An LFO with rate, depth and phase controls can modulate the wet path for movement. Features: Reverb with four algorithms: Room, Hall, Plate and Spring. Pre-delay, size, decay, damping, stereo width and freeze. High-pass and low-pass filters on the wet signal. Delay with independent left and right times, free-running or tempo-synced to note values. Delay feedback, ping-pong, filtering, modulation and saturation. Reverb-into-delay and delay-into-reverb routing, or the two in parallel. Sidechain ducker with threshold, attack, hold and release. Internal or external sidechain key input. LFO with five shapes, assignable to reverb wet, delay wet, delay feedback or filter. Preset handling with a built-in preset menu. VST3 and CLAP, 64-bit, Windows / macOS Universal / Linux. Read More

Shadaloo Audio DSP makes Density EQ permanently FREE
Shadaloo Audio DSP has made Density EQ, its four-band presence and weight-shaping equalizer, permanently free. Fabio “Shadaloo” Caterino shared the news in the BPB Community yesterday (thank you!), explaining that he wanted to make the plugin accessible to anyone who would like to try it. Density EQ previously cost €19, but it is now available [...]
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SSL to introduce O-Series V2.0 SSL's upcoming O-Series V2.0 software will establishing complete project compatibility between the Oracle and the recently launched Odyssey console.

Saint Mike DSP Abyssos Bass Amp ProFinding a bass tone that actually holds a mix together is harder than it looks. Getting a usable bass sound is quite the challenge. Abyssos Bass Amp Pro was built to solve this issue. This is a fully unlocked ecosystem built around a single cohesive signal path: Pre-Pedal Dynamics Triple Amp Architecture Cabinet & User IR Loader Surgical 9-Band EQ Post-FX. You get a fully integrated workflow featuring an advanced "Pro Quality" oversampling engine, a precision noise gate, a mono-safe stereo widener, a global Blend control, and a mutable visual tuner to keep your session moving. Each amp head has its own character. Paired with six voiced cabinets and custom IR loading, three pre-pedals and two post-pedals, you have a production-ready rig on day one. Features. Complete Bass Rig: Combines input dynamics, three amplifier characters, cabinet environment, a surgical EQ and time-based effects in a single cohesive workspace. Three Modelled Amp Heads: Each head is a distinct circuit with its own control set, not a shared engine with different voicings. ΒΥΘΟΣ (Bythos): The all-rounder. A full-range valve head with Gain, Bass, Mid, Treble, Output and a sweepable Mid Selector covering 200 Hz to 1.6 kHz. Clean and articulate at low settings, thick and compressed when pushed. Responds to playing force, dig in and it closes down, back off and it opens up. ΑΒΥΣΣΟΣ (Abyssos) [PRO EXCLUSIVE]: The heavy one. Three controls: Gain, Tone and Output, because it does one thing extremely well. Built for doom, sludge and anything that needs to sound enormous. ΜΕΣΟΠΕΛΑΓΟΣ (Mesopelagos) [PRO EXCLUSIVE]: The clean, articulate one. A high-headroom head with Gain, Bass, Low Mid, High Mid, Treble and Output. Voiced for post-punk and anything where the right hand is the tone. Pre-Amp Dynamics & Drive: Shape your attack before it reaches the amplifier. ΠΙΕΣΗ Compressor: A bass-focused compressor that tightens transients and evens out note-to-note level without squashing the attack. ΟΚΤΑΒΑ Octaver [PRO EXCLUSIVE]: A low-latency monophonic octaver with independent Sub, Up and Dry levels. The octave-up voice is generated instantly with no tracking delay; the sub is built from a harmonic ladder so its pitch stays audible on small speakers, not just felt on a subwoofer. ΦΘΟΡΑ Fuzz: Adds aggression and fuzzy character early in the chain, with Gain, Tone, Level and a Mix control so the low end survives. Cabinet: Replicates authentic speaker responses to bring raw DI tracks to life. Includes low-cut and high-cut frequency trimmers and a dedicated level control. Free Version: 3 voiced cabinet models. Pro Version: 6 cabinet modes plus an integrated User IR Loader for your own impulse responses. ΖΥΓΟΣ 9-Band Surgical EQ: A bass-focused graphic equalizer mapping the frequencies that matter on this instrument: 31 Hz, 62 Hz, 125 Hz, 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 4 kHz and 8 kHz, with a ±12 dB range. The bottom band reaches below a low B, where a guitar-derived EQ cannot. Post Effects (FX): ΔΙΝΗ Chorus (Free & Pro): A bucket-brigade-voiced chorus with Rate, Depth, Mix and a dedicated crossover control that keeps your fundamentals dry while the upper band modulates. Cold and vintage rather than glossy, the post-punk chorus sound, without the mud. ΗΧΩ Space [PRO EXCLUSIVE]: A combined delay and reverb engine with DAW tempo sync, standard and ping-pong routing, and a Wear control for tape-style degradation. Ranges from tight slapback to enormous ambient wash. Global Utilities & Performance Controls: Blend: Mixes the processed signal against your untouched DI. Automatically delay-compensated, so the two paths stay phase-aligned no matter what is engaged in the chain. Spread Widener: A toggle that expands a mono track into a wide stereo image. Genuinely mono-safe. Noise Gate: A tight threshold barrier that removes hum and hiss. Pro Quality Mode [PRO EXCLUSIVE]: Engages higher-rate anti-aliasing across the drive stages for a smoother, cleaner top end at high gain settings. Curated Preset Library: An integrated preset manager for browsing, saving your own, and instant A/B comparison between two states. Includes 50 presets (Pro Version). Built-In Utility Tuner: Activating the footer utility mutes the plugin output and brings up an accurate visual tuner with adjustable target calibration in Hz. Read More

Voxis from CEDAR Audio Voxis is a low-latency voice isolator that has been optimised for live environments where engineers have to contend with troublesome background noise.

Decomposer releases Dert, a FREE one-knob distortion plugin
Decomposer has released Dert, a free distortion plugin with one knob and four increasingly mangled flavors of dirt. If the developer name sounds familiar, Decomposer is the team behind Sitala. I love Sitala; it is one of my go-to tools when I want to load and play drum samples quickly without firing up a more [...]
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IK Multimedia announce Sinphonica Maestosa Strings IK Multimedia have announced the upcoming launch of Sinphonica, a new family of Italian orchestral virtual instruments designed for modern composers and created entirely in Italy.

Arturia Pure Sub Arturia Pure SUB is a software bass synthesizer structured around three independent layers: Sub (fundamental), Harmonics, and Texture. Each layer is generated and shaped separately before being routed through a shared filter, effects chain, and output stage. The architecture is designed specifically for electronic bass production, covering 808s, sub bass, Reese bass, and distorted or textured variants. The Sub section controls the fundamental's level, phase, and pitch independently from the harmonic content. Sub Regen is a dedicated function that processes the full signal through filters, distortion, and effects but then replaces only the output's low end with a clean, phase-stable version of the original fundamental, which preserves amplitude consistency on sound systems. The Harmonics section offers two engines: Pressure, which produces low-density harmonic content with a custom waveform editor, and Reese, which generates wide, high-density unison tones. A dedicated Pitch Envelope shapes transient attack and pitch movement independently from the amplitude envelope, and a key-tracked EQ keeps timbre consistent across the register. The Texture section adds a third layer via two modes: Texture, which blends noise samples into the signal using Ring Modulation, AM, or Distortion; and Corroder, which adds Noise, Sine, Saw, or Square sources at fixed or key-tracked frequencies. All three layers can be routed independently to the filter stage. The filter section offers more than 40 modes. Post-filter, the Sub Processor provides 33 modes for distortion, tonal reshaping, and saturation, with a global Amount control and six shaping macros. A 12-slot FX Rack with 18 available effects handles further processing, with saveable presets per rack. The Maximiser at the end of the chain offers Soft (transparent) and Hard (clipped, aggressive) modes alongside EQ, compression, and multiband processing. Modulation covers three envelopes, six flexible modulator slots accepting Envelope, Function, Random, Step Sequencer, and Voice Modulator sources, four assignable macros, a Modulation Sidechain function (one modulation source controls the depth of another), keyboard expression (Velocity, Key Track, Mod Wheel, Aftertouch, Release Velocity), and MPE including Slide. The plugin ships with 300 factory presets and includes in-app tutorials. Features Three independent synthesis layers: Sub, Harmonics, Texture; each routed separately to the filter. Sub section: independent level, phase, and pitch controls; Sub Regen preserves a clean, phase-stable fundamental after processing. Harmonics: Pressure mode (custom waveform editor, low-density) and Reese mode (high-density unison); dedicated Pitch Envelope; key-tracked EQ. Texture: Texture mode (Ring Modulation, AM, Distortion) and Corroder mode (Noise, Sine, Saw, Square at fixed or key-tracked frequencies). 40+ filter modes; Sub, Harmonics, and Texture can be routed independently. Sub Processor: 33 modes, global Amount control, 6 shaping macros, mode and macro randomization. FX Rack: 12 slots, 18 effects, saveable rack presets. Maximiser: Soft and Hard modes; EQ, compression, and multiband processing included. Modulation: 3 envelopes (including dedicated Pitch Envelope), 6 flexible modulator slots (Envelope, Function, Random, Step Sequencer, Voice Modulator). Modulation Sidechain: route one modulator to control the depth of another. 4 assignable macros; keyboard expression: Velocity, Key Track, Mod Wheel, Aftertouch, Release Velocity. MPE support including Slide. 300 factory presets; resizable GUI; in-app tutorials. NKS compatible; MTS-ESP microtuning compatible. https://youtu.be/sKQ2nV0ibE0?si=1l_y10rbRivaX9CN Read More

Arturia release Pure Sub Designed specifically for bass-heavy electronic music, Pure Sub from Arturia aims to offer an all-in-one solution for crafting hard-hitting sub-basses. 

Box of Bass is a FREE complete bass rig plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux
Box of Rules has released Box of Bass, a free multi-channel bass processing rig for macOS, Windows, and Linux. We recently featured the developer’s Picking Fingers plugin, which changes the character of a bass recording between picked and fingerstyle playing. Box of Bass is a much larger project, designed to turn a single DI signal [...]
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Codwaves makes Seaquake techno rumble plugin FREE forever
Codwaves has made Seaquake, its techno rumble generator for macOS and Windows, permanently free to download. The developer confirmed that Seaquake is now free forever, so there is no deadline to claim it. We first featured Seaquake in December 2024, when it was available through a name-your-price offer. The plugin later became a €9.99 product, [...]
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Reason Free puts 15 legendary Reason devices inside your DAW for FREE forever
Reason Studios has launched Reason Free, a permanent freeware version of the Reason Rack with 15 instruments, effects, and creative utilities for macOS and Windows. Honestly, this may be the biggest freeware release of 2026 so far. Reason isn’t giving away a temporary demo or a handful of filler devices. This is a massively powerful [...]
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