Authentic Soundware Space Age StringsSpace Age Strings features a small violin section of nine players recorded in a large studio using a selection of vintage and modern microphones, faithfully recreating the sound of classic studio recordings from the 1950s and '60s. Features: Small section size for an intimate studio sound. 12 of articulations including legato, pizzicato, marcato, spiccato, tremolo, trills, and more. 5 legato types with user-defined velocity zones, optional speed detection. Vintage romantic vibrato with dedicated espressivo intensity control. Retro pizzicato with lively performance repetition samples. Trills Arranger — play polyphonic trills and chord tremolos on a single MIDI channel, with three modes including diatonic chord trill support. Runs Arranger — play realistic, performance-sampled runs in any key, any scale type, from any note to any note, with control over duration, dynamics, and resolution. 5 microphone positions. Onboard tape, echo, tone, and limiter effects. Custom retro reverb IR. Flexible articulation switching via key switch or MIDI CC. Read More

UAD Luna 3.0: A major upgrade introducing Luna Play and new smart features
UAD has launched a major update to its award-winning DAW Luna (macOS and Windows). The update brings a slight name change, new workflows, and AI-powered smart features. Luna Pro becomes Luna Studio; Luna Free is still free, and UAD Spark subscribers now get more for their money. We’ll take a look at what’s new in [...]
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Image-Line & Antares reveal AutoTune Go AutoTune Go is available via the free tier of FL Cloud, making the iconic AutoTune sound available directly in FL Studio.

This FREE Korg Prophecy emulator lets you sound like The Prodigy
Developer Joe Landers has released Profligacy, a free and open-source emulation of the Korg Prophecy synthesizer for macOS and Windows. This one is definitely rough around the edges, but it is worth your attention if you’re into classic 90s synth sounds. Profligacy emulates the original Prophecy hardware at a low level and runs the instrument’s [...]
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Soundins releases OmniPass, a FREE phase alignment filter
Soundins has released OmniPass, a free all-pass filter plugin for phase alignment and sound design on macOS and Windows. An all-pass filter is a slightly unusual tool. I mean, for starters, it sounds weird. A filter that passes everything through. What’s the point? Unlike a conventional EQ, it keeps the response flat, so it does [...]
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Modartt launch Airteq Rather than recreating specific instruments, Airteq instead provides users with a collection of virtual pipes, allowing them to create their own custom instruments that offer a mixture of acoustic and electronic qualities. 

Beat Magazine #249 includes FREE Synthesizer V Studio Core
Buy Beat Magazine #249 and get the Synthesizer V Studio Core plus a free gift from Plugin Boutique. Beat Magazine is a regular source of good articles, useful tips/guides, and excellent freebies. Technically, the magazine costs $6, but the content alone is worth that; the bundled software is the icing on the cake. One of [...]
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ModulTone ModulTone MS PunchModulTone's MS Punch, Keep the centre punchy and dry the room in the sides. A drum bus where the kick and snare need more crack and the room mics already take up too much space. In Mid-Side mode the mid gets a few dB of Attack while Sustain comes down on the side, so the centre hits harder and the room between the hits gets shorter. Each lane runs its own detector for that: a transient shaper isn't linear, and one set of settings run on mid and side together would shift the stereo image on every hit. Stereo mode links left and right to one detector instead, so the image holds still. Every hit is split into its attack and its body, and the two always add back up to the whole signal, which means the plugin passes audio through bit for bit until you turn something. Then there is timing. Preshift moves a lane's attack ahead of the beat or behind it while the body stays where it was, Humanize nudges each hit by a few milliseconds and up to 3 dB, and Swing delays the off-beats on a 1/8 or 1/16 grid. Shapes include: - Smooth The default. The detector follows the level within half a millisecond and the gain grows evenly with the hit. A preset on Smooth starts at 25 ms Attack Time and 300 ms Sustain Time. - Snap The fastest detector, and a curve that reaches most of its gain early, so the very front of a transient takes the boost. Presets on Snap start at 8 ms and 180 ms. - Bloom A slower detector and a rounded curve that eases in and out, for tails that should swell, like a room or an 808. Presets on Bloom start at 60 ms and 700 ms. - Crush Snap's timing, with the attack gain driven into a soft clipper instead of applied cleanly. The hit gets louder and denser at once. Read More

Rupert Neve Designs introduce three plug-ins RND's debut software release introduces plug-in versions of their Portico II Master Buss Processor, 542 Tape Emulator and 551 Inductor EQ.

LUNA 3.0 & UAD Spark Studio from Universal Audio The latest version of Universal Audio’s DAW software has just arrived, and has been released alongside UAD Spark Studio, an new subscription that bundles LUNA Studio with a comprehensive collection of UAD plug-ins and instruments. 

2B Played Music SlimVerb2 reverb plugin is FREE for a limited time
The SlimVerb2 reverb plugin from the developer 2B Played Music is now free for a limited time. Some of you probably have the original SlimVerb plugin; we’ve covered it a few times through various offers and limited-time promotions. If you liked the original, here’s your chance to upgrade to SlimVerb2 for free. But you’ll need [...]
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malkomich StemSplitter StudioStemSplitter is an on-device, AI-powered audio separation and sample slicing studio built exclusively for macOS. Powered by the state-of-the-art Demucs v4 hybrid transformer architecture and accelerated natively via Apple Silicon Metal GPU, StemSplitter separates full tracks into isolated stems and production-ready one-shot samples in seconds—with zero cloud latency, zero subscription fees, and absolute privacy. Key Features: • 10-Stem Deep Isolation: Split any track into Acapella/Vocals, Backing Harmonies, Full Drums, Kick Loop, Top Loop (No Kick), Percussion Loop, Bassline, Sub Bass / 808, Melodic Hook, and Ambient/FX Textures. • Automatic One-Shot Sample Slicing: Transient-detection engine automatically extracts and trims punchy Kicks, Snares, Claps, Hi-Hats, and Percussion one-shots ready to drag into your favorite sampler or DAW. • 100% Local & Offline Processing: Your music never leaves your Mac. No cloud uploads, no monthly credits, and no waiting queues. • Apple Silicon Metal Acceleration: High-throughput neural inference leveraging Apple M1/M2/M3/M4 GPU and Neural Engine. • Integrated Multi-Stem DAW Player: Audition isolated stems, inspect waveforms, monitor BPM & Camelot musical key, and trigger one-shots in real time before exporting. • Studio-Grade Master Export: Automatic True Peak limiting (-0.17 dBFS) and pristine 24-bit/32-bit float WAV, MP3, or FLAC rendering. • Apple Notarized: Fully notarized and validated by Apple for macOS security and peace of mind. Read More

Audient unveil Horizon interfaces Audient’s new audio interface series runs via Thunderbolt 3, and allows users to combine multiple units to reach an impressive 200x200 channel count. 

ABYZOR releases IZZY, a FREE one-click synth for Windows
ABYZOR has released IZZY Synth, a free synthesizer plugin and standalone instrument for Windows. IZZY takes a different approach from the synths we all grew up with. You know, the normal synths that put oscillator, filter, envelope, and modulation controls in front of you. In this one, you choose between Bass, Stab, Lead, and Pluck [...]
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Polarity releases Polarity-Glue, a FREE SSL-inspired bus compressor
Polarity has released Polarity-Glue, a free SSL-inspired bus compressor for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Polarity-Glue is designed for compressing drum buses, instrument groups, and complete mixes. It applies one shared gain envelope to help multiple elements move together. It’s clearly inspired by Ableton Live’s Glue Compressor (which is basically The Glue by Cytomic). Much like [...]
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