Maniac Audio DarkStudio Daw Free 1.6 BetaDarkStudio — a modern DAW built from the ground up in C++ for engineers who care about sound and speed. Record, edit, mix and master in one clean workflow: a full-featured MixConsole, sample-accurate automation, warp & comping, ARA/Melodyne support, and rock-solid VST3/AU hosting with full plugin delay compensation. Its GuardEngine anticipative processing keeps sessions responsive at low buffer sizes, even with heavy plugin chains. Open your existing projects via DAWproject import/export and keep working where you left off. Designed and built by Maniac Audio — the same team behind the Dark plugin series. Read More

Gospel Musicians release Gospel Drums The latest release from Gospel Musicians combines a pair of meticulously sampled drum kits with a comprehensive selection of MIDI grooves. 

nervosa PREACHERPREACHER is a glitch/reverb/delay/whatever vst. its free. contains weird feedback/delay stuff, distortion, reverb size, etc. https://youtu.be/fROnrbeOTvo?si=XJ7OT-MfAsAcaOpZ Read More

Okina Audio releases Takumi EQ, a FREE EQ and multiband saturator
Okina Audio has released Takumi EQ, a free equalizer plugin with a Pultec-style section and optional multiband saturation. The product page is originally in Japanese and defaults to that language, but you can easily switch to English using the language selector in the upper-right corner. In short, Takumi EQ is a dynamic EQ, a Pultec-style [...]
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JH Audio expand Universal-Fit range Designed to make their renowned monitoring systems more accessible than ever, JH Audio's Universal-Fit range brings the performance and engineering heritage of the company’s custom IEMs to a broader audience, without the need for custom ear impressions.

CarbonDSP Carbon CL-610Carbon CL 610 is a compressor and a peak limiter running at once on a single threshold — one slow and musical for level, one fast enough that transients never get past it. Its knee is fixed, so changing the ratio does not change how hard you are hitting it and you can audition ratios without re-setting anything. There is no threshold control at all: you drive material into the knee, and the plugin holds the point of comparison still while you work. Carbon CL 610 sounds like a compressor you stop noticing. The gain change is program-dependent — the release stretches when a passage has worked it hard and shortens when it has not — so dense material settles instead of pumping, and sparse material keeps its space. Underneath it, a second detector responds in under a microsecond and catches the leading edge of a transient rather than the middle of it. You are not choosing between a compressor that breathes and a limiter that holds; both are running, on the same threshold, on the same gain cell. The thing that changes how you work with it is the fixed knee. On almost every other compressor, turning the ratio up also changes how hard you are hitting the detector, so you go back and re-set the threshold, and by the time the level matches again you have lost track of what you were comparing. Here the knee does not move. Set how hard you are driving it once, then audition ratios freely — the amount of compression stays where you put it and only the shape of the curve changes. It is a small difference in description and a large one in practice, because it turns a two-handed adjustment into a one-handed one. Peak control is where the second path earns its place. A limiter with a time constant can always be outrun by something faster than it; this one is measured in nanoseconds and simply is not. Oversampling up to 32× resolves the peaks that fall between two samples, which is the difference between a true peak you catch and one you find later on the master. Everything on the panel is measured rather than decorative. The transfer curve shows your signal riding it live with the knee pinned in place — turn the ratio and watch it not move. The gain-reduction figure changes colour as the plugin works harder, so you can read how hard it is going from across the room. All 32 presets ship level-matched by measurement, not by ear, so switching between them is a fair comparison instead of a loudness contest. Key Features: A knee that does not move — Change the ratio, keep your place: Turning the ratio does not change how hard you are hitting the plugin. Set the drive once and compare ratios freely — the point of comparison holds still. Two detectors, one threshold — Compressor and peak limiter at once: A slow, musical path for level and a sub-microsecond path for transients, sharing one threshold and one gain cell. Not a chain of two plugins. A release that listens — Program-dependent, 50 ms to 10 s: The release stretches when the plugin has worked hard and shortens when it has not, so it breathes with the music instead of pumping to a fixed clock. Peak control in nanoseconds — Up to 32× resolution: Fast enough that transients do not get past it, with selectable oversampling for the peaks that fall between two samples. Parallel compression built in — Blend, with the output after it: Mix processed and untouched sound, with the output amplifier downstream of the blend — where the hardware it descends from puts it. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Format: VST3, Standalone. System: Windows 10 or later, 64-bit. Host: Any VST3-compatible DAW. Sample rates: 44.1 kHz to 192 kHz. Trial: 7-day demo, fully functional. PRICE: Introductory $49.00 (regular $89.00). VST is a registered trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. Read More

Yorkville launch the EL24S With a peak power output of 5000W and a maximum SPL of 143dB, the EL24S promises to satisfy even the most demanding low-end reinforcement requirements. 

Windows-G releases E-PeakClipper500 as a FREE VST3 clipper for Windows
Windows-G has released E-PeakClipper500 as a free VST3 clipper plugin for Windows. We covered E-PeakClipper500 last year as a JSFX clipper for REAPER, which could also run in other DAWs through the free YSFX wrapper. This new release is a native Windows VST3 version, so Windows users can load it directly without the extra wrapper [...]
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Tuva 1.5 adds project playback across five major DAWs (30% OFF)
Tuva has released its biggest update so far, adding audio and MIDI playback directly inside DAW project previews. BPB readers get 30% OFF with code SUMMERBPB30. We first covered Tuva earlier this year as a smart sample manager with AI tagging and project browsing, followed by the Tuva 1.4 update, which added customizable views, tabs, [...]
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UJAM introduce Virtual Drummer Neon The latest addition to UJAM’s virtual drum line-up has been designed with contemporary pop, disco, dance, and electronic productions in mind, and promises to deliver the punch and precision of electronic drums while preserving the groove and feel of a real drummer.

Ravine DSP update Inter::State Ravine DSP's latest Inter::State update kits the plug-in host out with a Slot Scenes function that offers yet more modulation and control possibilities. 

What happens when a plugin finally meets its users
When VATRA launched, it finally stopped living in a vacuum of my own ideas. I knew v1.0 wasn’t the end, but after almost two years of development, it felt like the plugin had finally left my hands as the thing I wanted it to be. Then the customer feedback started coming in. People loved VATRA, [...]
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KNALWERK Hard Techno Sample Pack BundleGet all 3 KNALWERK Hard Techno Sample Packs for the price of 2. The complete Vol. 1–3 collection gives you 165 production-ready samples built for aggressive Hard & Industrial Techno, plus 5 bonus Serum 2 presets. What's inside 30 Industrial Kicks. 30 Rhythmic Kicks. 30 Rumble Kicks. 45 Top Loops. 30 Screaming Vocal Phrases. 5 Bonus Serum 2 Presets. Built for Hard Techno · Industrial Techno · Schranz · Bochka. Each sound is crafted with club and festival playback in mind. Powerful, clean, and designed to hold its weight on large sound systems. Read More

Immanent Audio releases IA De-Esser, a FREE de-essing plugin
Immanent Audio has released IA De-Esser, a free de-essing and resonance suppression plugin for macOS and Windows. IA De-Esser does things a bit differently. Instead of a single module, it has four filter slots for taming sibilance, harshness, and resonant peaks. Each slot can work in De-Ess mode, where it automatically responds to sibilance, or [...]
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VAEMI announce the Synterra The Synterra analyses changing data from a wide range of sources including plants, fungi, fruits, organic materials, conductive surfaces, light and human touch, turning them into evolving musical structures.