Dirk Ulrich reacquires Plugin Alliance & Brainworx As of 15 July 2026, Plugin Alliance and Brainworx are now officially owned by Ulrich once again, joining high-end hardware companies Manley and Apogee as part of the new RCKFRC audio group. 

Dirk Ulrich reacquires Plugin Alliance and Brainworx from inMusic
Dirk Ulrich has reacquired Plugin Alliance and Brainworx from inMusic. Well, it’s that time again; it’s time for another chapter in the Native Instruments story. With no more obvious moving parts left, I’m fairly confident that this chapter will be the last, but I never thought they’d make eleven Fast & Furious movies, so who [...]
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Sonniss offers FREE Pinball Machines sound effects library
Sonniss is offering Pinball Machines, a vintage pinball machine sound effects library by C. A. Sound, Inc, as a free download until July 22. I love Sonniss as a platform. There is a great variety of sounds to choose from, and the company occasionally releases some fantastic freebies, too. The big one is usually the [...]
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SoundSurf turns music production learning into a gamified practice platform
SoundSurf is a gamified music production learning platform built around the simple idea of helping producers stop watching tutorials and start producing. We are taking a closer look at SoundSurf and giving away two free months of SoundSurf Premium to five lucky readers. The platform is aimed at producers who get stuck in tutorial mode. [...]
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Arturia AstroLab Silver & KeyLab Mk3 Ultra The KeyLab Mk3 is now available with a striking orange paint job, and the 61-note AstroLab can now be ordered in a slick new silver shell.

Your Local Musician SlowVerb StudioIntroducing SlowVerb Studio You know the sound. Songs slowed down until they feel like a memory, wrapped in cavernous reverb. SlowVerb Studio is a Slow and Reverb Plugin that recreates it faithfully and gives you full control over every part of it, without ever leaving your session.At its heart is a true tape-style slowdown engine. Rather than the artifact-ridden pitch-shifting most plugins use, SlowVerb resamples your audio like a tape reel slowing down, so pitch and character drop together, smooth and warm, exactly like the classic slowed-and-reverb songs you know and love. No metallic wobble, no digital smear.Around it sits a lush, modulated reverb with five distinct voicings, from an intimate Studio to a cinematic Hall to a floating Ambient wash, plus the warmth, weight, and clarity controls that make a slowed track actually sit in a mix instead of turning to mud. Controls: SPEED: the classic tape slowdown (or pitch up), from a subtle drag to full dreamstate. REVERB: a rich, spacious tail that stays tasteful, with five reverb characters to choose from. BASS: puts back the low-end weight that slowing down takes away. DUCK: keeps vocals crisp and up-front by letting the reverb bloom between the words. TONE: warm and dark, or bright and airy, across the whole sound. MIX: blend to taste, from a hint of vibe to fully submerged. Presets that nail it instantly: Slowed, Deep Slowed, Daycore, Ambient Wash, and Dreamy R&B. One click and you're there.Save your own, undo freely, and hover over any control for a plain-English tip.Perfect for lo-fi, phonk, cloud rap, vaporwave, R&B, TikTok and YouTube edits, or any time you want a track to feel slower, bigger, and dreamier. Features: Authentic tape-style slowed engine, clean and warm, with no pitch-shift artifacts. 5 reverb voicings: Studio, Hall, Ambient/Space, Large Room, Plate. Ducking to keep vocals and drums clear under the wash. Bass boost, global tone/warmth, and dry/wet mix controls. 5 factory presets, plus save your own. Undo/redo, tooltips, resizable interface. Works in any VST3 enabled DAW. Who it's for? Producers, beatmakers, and editors making slowed + reverb, daycore, lo-fi, phonk, and ambient edits who want the real sound instantly, without re-uploading tracks to a website every time. System requirements Windows 10/11 (64-bit), VST3 host. macOS version coming soon. Audio Preview Before SlowVerb Studio. YLM Samples · Before SlowVerb Studio After SlowVerb Studio YLM Samples · After SlowVerb Studio Read More

Native Instruments announce Super*Saw The newest addition to the Native Instruments line-up introduces a new synth created by A. G. Cook, a Grammy-winning British producer best known for his work with Charli XCX.

Other Worlds Evolved from Zero G Described as  “a deeply interactive synthesis environment”, Other Worlds Evolved packs in a 4.6GB collection of cinematic samples created by sound designer Adam Pietruszko and offers a mixture of sampling and wavetable synthesis. 

Sugoi Audio releases CURVA, a FREE football-inspired modulation plugin
From Sugoi Audio comes CURVA, a free football-inspired modulation plugin for macOS and Windows. There have been times over the years when I’ve felt like the best thing for the track I’m working on was to pick up my laptop and punt it from a great height to ensure the sound that I momentarily convinced [...]
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Big Man Labs Big ListenBIG LISTEN. Big Listen is a referencing and A/B tool for mixing and mastering. Load up to six tracks you know well and keep them one button away from your own mix. Hit MATCH and it trims the selected reference to your mix's loudness, so the louder track doesn't win the comparison. Flip between MIX and REF on one button with both sets of meters live the whole time. Full metering when you want it: LUFS, true peak, LRA, crest, PLR and PSR, a dual analyzer with the reference overlaid, goniometer, correlation, and mono, side and difference monitoring. Poser shows all of it, Pro strips back and switches the analysis off for lower CPU. VST3, AU, AAX and CLAP on Windows, macOS and Linux. $32 one-time, 14-day free trial. Read More

UJAM and Rhodes offer UFX LOFI plugin for FREE
UJAM and Rhodes are offering UFX LOFI, UJAM’s retro degradation effect plugin, as a free download for newsletter subscribers. This is a separate Rhodes/UJAM giveaway page, and the process was a bit smoother than the V-Rack offer I covered earlier today. I entered my email on the promo page, and about a minute later, I [...]
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Baby Audio SubCulture Baby Audio’s latest release has been designed to augment the low-frequency content of any monophonic input signal, allowing users to craft deep and powerful bass sounds from just about any source. 

Get Rhodes V-Rack for FREE via UJAM’s newsletter
UJAM is giving newsletter subscribers a free copy of Rhodes V-Rack, but there are a few hoops to jump through. The offer is available until July 19, so I’m posting this one literally minutes after getting the plugin so that BPB readers catch this on time. I received an email from UJAM with the subject [...]
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Baby Audio releases SubCulture pitch-tracking bass enhancer plugin
Baby Audio has released SubCulture, a pitch-tracking bass enhancer plugin for macOS and Windows. SubCulture is designed to add low-end weight that stays in tune with a monophonic input signal. In other words, instead of boosting a fixed frequency or adding a static sub-layer, the plugin detects the incoming pitch in real time and uses [...]
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Peel Stems 2 from zplane Peel Stems 2 boasts improvements across the board, offering increased speed, audio quality and usability over the previous version.