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.

AudioRoute from Arvital Audio Depending on your setup, capturing system audio in a DAW can be a tedious process, so much so that Arvital Audio have set about developing a tool dedicated to making the process quicker and simpler. 

Hell Yes Loop Lab Tape It EasyTape It Easy is a tape-inspired audio effect by Hell Yes Loop Lab for saturation, weight, movement, wear and analog instability. It can be used subtly to soften peaks, add density and introduce gentle movement, or pushed further into heavier low-end bloom, darker wear, pitch drift, hiss and unstable transport behavior. The main controls are: Push: saturation and input drive. Glow: openness and tape brightness. Weight: low-end body, pressure and bloom. Wear: transient softening, darker tone and aged compression. Drift: non-repeating wow, flutter and transport instability. Dust: hiss, grit and worn texture. Blend: dry and processed signal balance. Level: final output level. Tape It Easy includes three tape speeds: Slow, 7.5 IPS: darker, heavier and less stable. Classic, 15 IPS: balanced body, saturation and motion. Fast, 30 IPS: more open, tighter and controlled. It also includes seven factory presets, user presets and A/B/C snapshot slots for comparing temporary plugin states. Tape It Easy is available for macOS as Audio Unit and VST3, and for Windows as VST3. Read More

Dusk Audio releases Tape Echo 2, a FREE Space Echo-style delay plugin
Dusk Audio has released Tape Echo 2, a free three-head tape delay and spring reverb plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux. I am a massive fan of tape delays, especially when there is a spring reverb involved. This one is clearly going for the classic Space Echo-style workflow, which has been emulated many times already. [...]
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Triton Audio launch the Tilt EQ Triton Audio's latest compact device packs 22dB of gain and a one-knob EQ circuit into an enclosure that's around the same size as an XLR connector. 

Raccoon Audio RoboCompRoboComp RoboComp is a flexible compressor built for both everyday dynamics control and creative stereo shaping. Dial in clean, musical compression with familiar Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release, Makeup Gain, and Mix controls, then take things further with M/S Focus. M/S Focus lets you shift RoboComp's compression toward the Mid or Side information of your signal. Tighten the centre while leaving the stereo field more open, control wide material independently, or use long release settings to create dramatic stereo movement and blooming effects. RoboComp works just as well for subtle control as it does for aggressive sound design. Tighten drums, add sustain to guitars, smooth vocals, glue buses together, create pumping effects, or make reverb and delay tails gradually expand from mono into stereo. Key Features Flexible Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release, and Makeup Gain controls. M/S Focus for Mid/Side compression and stereo shaping. Create evolving mono-to-stereo bloom effects Mix control for instant parallel compression. Ideal for drums, guitars, bass, vocals, synths, buses, reverbs, and effects. From transparent dynamics control to exaggerated pumping and movement. Available for macOS and Windows AAX, VST3, and AU plugin formats. RoboComp. A compression with a wider perspective. Read More

Boris FX reveal Sequoia 2026.5 Sequoia 2026.5 introduces a new Spatial Panner that unifies the software’s stereo, surround and immersive audio panning capabilities, along with a whole host of other new features and improvements. 

GIVEAWAY: Win Buckets And Decay delay plugin by Bjango
Bjango has released Buckets And Decay ($49), a BBD and PT2399 delay, chorus, flanger, and vibrato plugin for macOS and Windows. We are giving away five free Buckets And Decay licenses to BPB readers. To enter the giveaway, leave a comment below, and we will randomly pick five winners from the comments. We have already [...]
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Picking Fingers is a FREE plugin for changing bass pick and finger tone
Box of Rules has released Picking Fingers, a free bass guitar processing plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Picking Fingers is designed to process a bass recording played one way so it sounds as if it were played the other way. In other words, you can push fingerstyle bass toward a picked sound, or move [...]
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Emergence Audio unveil Envoy Emergence Audio's latest instrument captures an array of percussive analogue synths, and includes a Flux Randomizer function that continuously applies timing, velocity, length and pitch changes to its sequencer steps. 

GroovEmu is a FREE REAPER arranger system for Windows
SlapAsSound has released GroovEmu Arranger, a free Windows system that turns REAPER into a live arranger-style workstation. This one comes from Marko Karja, a developer from Estonia who has sent BPB some unusual free plugin experiments over the years. His product pages usually have a strong sense of humor, but under the playful presentation here [...]
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LILJEHOLMEN DSP TRUMSYNT-16TRUMSYNT-16 is a single-voice percussion synthesizer with an assignable step sequencer. The voice combines two oscillators, noise and click layers, LP/HP filtering, pre/post drive, envelopes, FM, hard sync, LFO and per-step modulation. The oscillator stage runs at 8x oversampling and is downsampled through a 31-tap FIR decimator. A 7-day trial and audio examples are available at liljeholmendsp.se. Read More

Sound Radix launch Radical1 Solo Sound Radix have just released a free monophonic additive software synth that’s based on the same engine as their Radical1 instrument. 

TubeOhm releases TO-Sampler, a FREE SynthEdit sampler for Windows
TubeOhm has released TO-Sampler, a free sampler plugin and standalone instrument for Windows. The main reason I’m featuring this one in the news is that we recently covered SynthEdit 1.6, which finally added native macOS support after decades of being a Windows-first plugin development environment. TO-Sampler is Windows-only for now, so it is a good [...]
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