Native Instruments releases Komplete 26
Native Instruments has released Komplete 26, the latest version of its flagship production collection. The bundle brings together over 190 instruments and effects with more than 180,000 sounds, including professional mixing tools from iZotope and Brainworx. It’s available in four paid tiers, ranging from $99 for Select up to $1,949 for Collector’s Edition. Several new [...]
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Bjooks to launch Beat Gems Kickstarter Written by Oli Freke, Beat Gems will offer an “in-depth exploration of the sounds, circuits and culture of drum machines and their profound influence on modern music”.

Anode Labs bitcrustBitcrust is a polyphonic synthesizer built on in-house MOS 6581/8580 style DSP. Twelve voices, three oscillators per voice, thirty-six independent chip instances. 64-bit float internally. Synth: 12-voice polyphony, 3 oscillators per voice with independent volume, pan, and ADSR. TPT state-variable filter with simultaneous LP, BP, and HP outputs; switch between 6581 and 8580 curves. Modulation: 8-slot matrix, 9 sources, 65 destinations across synth, arp, and FX. 3 global LFOs (7 shapes, tempo-sync, retrig) and a dedicated modulation envelope. Bipolar depth per slot. Effects: 6-slot rack, freely reorderable, per-slot bypass and dry/wet. Drive, Bitcrusher, Delay, Chorus, Reverb, Compressor, Limiter. Sequencing: Tempo-synced arpeggiator (Up, Down, UpDown, Random). 16-step sequencer with per-step pitch, gate, velocity, and slide. Presets and themes: 115 factory presets across 10 categories, with search, tag filters, favourites, and import/export. 14 bundled themes. Monitors 7 real-time displays: oscilloscope, vectorscope, spectrum analyser, 3D spectrogram, correlation history, LUFS loudness, stereo field. Rail, full-screen, and hidden modes. Formats and platforms: macOS / iPadOS: AUv3, Standalone. App Store, $1.99, universal purchase. Windows x64: VST3, Standalone. Gumroad, €1.99. Linux x64/arm64: VST3, LV2, Standalone. Gumroad, free. While the Apple App Store sits on the review of the MacOS desktop version, get it for free here. Manual, changelog, etc: anode-labs.com/bitcrust Read More

DAWJunkie releases Knobs, a FREE random-effects processor plugin
Developer DAWJunkie has released Knobs, a free random-effects processor for macOS and Windows. We’ve been featuring DAWJunkie regularly for a little while now, and over that time, there are a few things we’ve come to expect from every release. The first thing we’ve come to expect is seriously usable sounds wrapped up in a playful [...]
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Avid introduce Pro Tools 2026.4 The latest version of Pro Tools introduces a powerful new Track Pin function, support for the MPEG‑H immersive broadcast standard, built-in Dolby Headphone Personalization and more.

Dezert Audio releases PolyFreq, a free analog modeled synth plugin
Dezert Audio has released PolyFreq, a free analog modeled synthesizer plugin for macOS and Windows. You may recognize Dezert Audio from Freq-2, the premium Kontakt instrument we covered previously, built from recordings taken from Dez Wright’s personal collection of over 20 analog synths. PolyFreq is a different kind of release. It’s a synthesis engine rather [...]
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Triceratops | decap Bless You 2It's Moldbreaker, but slightly different. I bought this new light version of Moldbreaker, and it sounds pretty good, but this *sshole keeps sneezing over my damn knobs! And his seismic sneezes are f*ucking up my whole sound. Read about it and demo here on my website Read More

Get Plugin Alliance Black Box Analog Design HG-2 for $30 (76% OFF until May 31)
Brainworx and Black Box Analog Design’s HG-2 tube saturation plugin is currently 76% off at Plugin Boutique. The regular price is $125, and the deal brings it down to $30 until May 31. HG-2 is the official emulation of Black Box Analog Design’s hardware tube processor. It’s a unit that retails for around $3,000 (yikes!) [...]
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Melbourne Instruments’ Nina gains Braids engine Melbourne Instruments have just released a free firmware update that brings the engine behind Mutable Instruments’ Braids Eurorack module to their desktop polysynth. 

MousePlugins Mastino 60Mastino 60 is a hard-knee VCA-style compressor designed for fast, punchy dynamic control on drums, bass, buses, and mix sources that benefit from firm gain reduction. The plugin focuses on direct compression behavior, clear metering, and a practical modern workflow. It includes threshold and compression controls, output gain, stereo linking, a sidechain filter, parallel mix control, and fixed low-latency processing. Mastino 60 was developed with measurement-guided tuning and listening tests, with the goal of capturing the feel of classic fast VCA compression while keeping the interface simple, responsive, and suitable for everyday mixing. It is available for Linux and Windows in CLAP and VST3 formats. Read More

Warm Audio launch the Reamper Aiming to bridge the gap between guitar rigs and studio setups, the Reamper delivers a multi-purpose tool that’s capable of carrying out re‑amping, placing guitar pedals into a DAW signal chain and capturing a signal from pushed valve amps at studio-friendly volumes.

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.