Analog Obsession releases TheBus, a FREE analog-style compressor plugin
Analog Obsession has released TheBus, a free analog-style compressor plugin for macOS and Windows. Coming from one of my favorite indie developers, I was super excited to test this one. Analog Obsession describes TheBus as a fully custom compressor rather than a clone or variation of a specific hardware unit. My first impressions are good. [...]
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MonkeyC update Rando sampler plug-in Described as “the sampler that made thousands of producers fall in love with their sound library again”, Rando 2.5 builds on the success of previous versions, introducing the ability to create multiple keyboard zones that each correspond to different search criteria. 

Get 50+ FREE plugins in the KVR Developer Challenge 26
KVR is celebrating 20 years of its Developer Challenge, as Developer Challenge 26 gets underway! For anyone new to the annual Developer Challenge, it’s a chance for developers to showcase their creativity by creating a new free plugin, app, or sound library/pack that benefits the broader music production community. KVR members vote on their five [...]
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Studio Kozak GRISTLEIZERDescription Gristleizer is a two-mode modulation effect: a gritty, asymmetric-saturation tremolo (VCA mode) and a resonant sweeping filter (VCF mode), both driven by a 4-shape LFO - Triangle, Ramp, Pulse, Skew - that can run free or lock to your host tempo across 9 divisions, triplets included. Inspired by a very particular piece of 1970s industrial-music gear (full story on the GitHub page), Gristleizer isn't trying to sound clean. Asymmetric saturation, a touch of hiss, and 4x oversampling keep things textured rather than sterile. Stereo handling ranges from fully linked to hard ping-pong, and Bias/Depth take you from a barely-there wobble to full-on chaos. Features - VCA (tremolo/grit) and VCF (resonant filter sweep) modes - 4 LFO shapes: Triangle, Ramp, Pulse, Skew - Free rate (0.02-115 Hz) or tempo sync, 9 divisions incl. triplets - Linked / Stereo / Ping-Pong stereo modes - Asymmetric saturation for organic grit, not digital cleanliness - 4x oversampling - VST3 (Win/Mac) and AU (Mac), Universal Binary. Note for macOS users: Gatekeeper may block first launch since the plugin isn't notarized - see the GitHub page for the one-line Terminal fix. Read More

510k Arts releases WOMB intro, a FREE 909-style kick drum synth
510k Arts has released WOMB intro, a free 909-inspired bass drum synthesizer plugin for macOS and Windows. 510k is built by Alexkid, a producer and DJ with decades of experience, releases on F Communications, and a key role in the 2000s French dance music scene. Alexkid develops the concepts and prototypes in Berlin, while Tadashi, [...]
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Heritage Audio unveil the Tubestrip Said to be Heritage Audio's most ambitious piece of outboard gear to date, the Tubestrip combines a preamp and EQ section with a pair of compressors, all of which have been carefully designed to function as a single, cohesive tool. 

Mix Buddy instrument mixer from Heritage Audio Equipped with 19 inputs and eight outputs, the Mix Buddy has been designed for both studio and stage use, and boasts a high-quality design that promises to preserve the tone of any source. 

Air-G Audio releases 18 FREE Airwindows plugins with custom GUIs
Air-G Audio has released Air-G Plugins Collection, a free/pay-what-you-want bundle of 18 audio plugins built on open-source DSP algorithms from Airwindows. Airwindows plugins have been around for a long time, and they have an almost legendary status among us bedroom producers. Chris Johnson’s approach has always been more about sound and speed than shiny interface [...]
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M Media Audio Curve ControlDual-Channel. Twelve Bands. Hardware Weight. Curve Control is a mix and mastering parametric EQ with six fully parametric bands per channel and three channel modes: linked stereo, fully independent L/R, or M/S with each channel running its own separate curve. Always-on level-dependent saturation adds 2nd harmonic weight at the output of each channel. Two large VU meters with switchable source give real-time level feedback on Input, Output, or Mid/Side. Delta, Gain Sync, and Mono monitoring built in. Oversampling up to 8x. VST3 on Windows, macOS, and Linux. AU on macOS. Six Bands Per Channel Band 1: high-pass, 20-400 Hz, 6/12/18/24 dB/oct. Bands 2 and 5: shelf or bell, independent Q, low and high end. Bands 3 and 4: fixed bell, low-mid and high-mid. Band 6: low-pass, 8-20 kHz, 6/12/18/24 dB/oct. Every band has frequency, gain, Q, and independent enable. In Dual and M/S modes all 12 bands are fully independent. Three Channel Modes Link - Both channels ganged. Standard stereo EQ. Dual - Fully independent L/R curves. Per-side surgical correction. M/S - Channel A shapes Mid (L+R). Channel B shapes Side (L-R). Re-encodes to stereo at output. Hardware Weight Level-dependent soft saturation after the EQ on each channel. 2nd harmonic bias. Not a user control - no knob, no bypass. Oversampling at 2x, 4x, or 8x wraps this stage only, keeping added latency minimal. Monitoring Tools Delta - Isolates what the EQ is adding or removing. Near-silence on a flat curve. Gain Sync - Output tracks inverse of input gain for loudness-consistent evaluation. Mono - Collapse to mono for translation checking. Meter Source - VU meters switch between Input, Output, and M/S. Platform Support Windows - VST3 (64-bit), Windows 10 / 11. macOS - VST3 + AU (64-bit Universal Binary, Intel + Apple Silicon), macOS 11 Big Sur or later. Signed and notarized - no Gatekeeper warnings. Linux - VST3 (64-bit), Ubuntu 22.04+. Tested with Reaper for Linux. All three platforms in a single download. System Requirements 64-bit VST3-compatible host (Windows, macOS, Linux) or AU host (macOS). Compatible with Reaper, Cubase, Studio One, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Bitwig Studio, Nuendo, and others; AU format for Logic Pro, GarageBand, and MainStage on macOS. License $49. Perpetual license - one purchase, yours forever. No subscription, no renewal, no cloud dependency. 3 simultaneous activations. Activation over HTTPS, then fully offline. No telemetry. Nothing phoning home during your session. Free demo mode included - fully functional with a brief silence every 30 seconds. No account required to try it. Download and demo at mmediaaudio.com. Read More

MOTU 16A, 848 & 10pre gain Milan certification MOTU have just announced that their 16A, 848 and 10pre units are now capable of sharing, routing and distributing hundreds of audio channels alongside other devices on a Milan AVB network. 

Pixelsncodes releases Lumen, a FREE open-source Windows synth that turns images into sound
Developer Pixelsncodes has released Lumen, a free Windows-only open-source synth that turns images into sound. Lumen is a free and open-source wavetable synth that turns images into sound. Pixelsncodes created Lumen using the Claude AI coding agent. The synth features two wavetable oscillators, each with dedicated controls, including Morph, Pan, Unison, Detune, Width, and Blend. [...]
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CRB Uranus 1 VST is a FREE emulation of a rare 1970s Italian synth for Windows
CRB Uranus 1 VST is a free emulation of a rare 1970s Italian synth for Windows. We’re used to emulations of vintage synths, like EightyEight by Morphoice, a free Roland Jupiter-8 emulation. And we get some virtual instruments inspired by rare synths, like The Crow Hill Company’s Vintage String Synth, based on the Wersi String [...]
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Rust Romance releases Drive in my head, a FREE saturation plugin
Developer Rust Romance has released Drive in my head, a free saturation plugin for Windows and macOS. Drive in my head is a physically modeled op-amp line-driver plugin. The developer says it is not designed as an obvious distortion or fuzz effect. Instead, the idea here is to give clean sources the feel of passing [...]
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Synth Anthology 5 From UVI From the pioneering polysynths of the 1970s to the flagship and boutique hardware of today, Synth Anthology 5 promises to provide users with “an entire history of electronic sound” at their fingertips.

34Audiovisuals RevenantDieA revenant never truly dies. It lingers, feeds on its own echo, and returns. RevenantDie is a spectral instrument built on that idea: at its heart lives a feedback delay network — four coupled delay lines stirred by time-varying rotation matrices, detuned by a random-walk warble, diffused through allpass filters and closed by a saturating, self-limiting feedback path. Left to itself the network refuses to fall silent; your job is to raise it, shape it, and decide how it decays. The same engine is coaxed into four spirits — an endless Drone that self-feeds forever, a struck Resonator that rings from MIDI notes, a spectral Haunt that captures and freezes incoming audio, and a raw Oscillator fed straight into the network. Feedback delay network engine — four coupled delay lines with time-varying rotation, random-walk warble, allpass diffusion and a saturating feedback path. Four voices from one engine: Drone (self-sustaining), Resonator (struck / MIDI-tuned), Haunt (reverberate & freeze audio) and Oscillator (sine-to-saw). Network macros — Drive, Damping, Motion and Warble — shape every voice. Amplitude ADSR envelope, global Width and Output, plus a license-interlocked soft-clipper that keeps the output under 0 dBFS. Two assignable LFO modulators — drag-to-assign onto any knob. Ships as two builds sharing the same engine: an Instrument version (MIDI / sidechain Haunt) and an FX version (processes its own track). 50 factory presets organised by voice, plus a user preset manager (.rvnt patches). Resizable UI (50%–200%) with per-voice accent colours; all parameters host-automatable. Time-limited fully functional demo — no feature restrictions. Activate on up to 2 machines with a single license. Read More