GetYourGrooveOn StarveSTARVE lives in the moment a fuzz pedal stops behaving. You know that sound when the battery is nearly gone, the circuit is hanging on by a thread, and a held note starts to sag, choke, and fray around the edges? That is where STARVE begins. It turns a dying power supply into part of the performance, giving you a fuzz that can sound worn out, wounded, unstable, or ready to fall apart completely. This is not a layer of random noise pasted over the guitar. The virtual power supply reacts to what you play. Dig in and the circuit pulls harder against the rail. Hold a bend and the note can slowly lose its footing beneath you. Leave space between phrases and the supply begins to recover. The distress moves with your hands, so it feels played rather than programmed. The large Power knob sweeps from 3V to 12V. At 9V, STARVE is fully fed and delivers a thick, direct transistor-style fuzz. Turn left and the battery starts giving up. The sound compresses, darkens, coughs, and fizzles as the voltage falls toward 3V. Turn right past 9V and the circuit becomes pushed and tightly compressed, with a little extra level but no unwanted jump in fuzz. Fuzz decides how hard the circuit gets hit. Keep it low for an open sound with just a hint of strain, or turn it up and make the virtual battery work for every note. The harder the fuzz stage pulls, the more the supply sags and the more dramatic the end of the phrase becomes. Mix lets you run the whole thing fully wet or bring the dry attack back underneath the damage. STARVE is at its best on the parts where feel matters: a bent note that starts strong and dies fighting, a single-note riff that coughs between hits, or a solo that sounds like the amp might not survive the take. It can also sit at a solid 9V for heavy, dependable fuzz or move above noon for a smoother pushed lead tone. The Starved, Fed, and Pushed LEDs follow the state of the circuit in real time. When the virtual battery is taking a beating, you can watch the Starved light weaken along with it. Six factory presets get you moving quickly: Starve Default, Dying Lead, Voltage Cough, Fed Fuzz, Pushed Solo, and Parallel Starve. Formats: AU for Logic Pro. Platform: macOS. Trial: 14-day full-function trial via GYGO Portal. Read More

Modbap release Fidelity Theory Described as a “character effect", Modbap’s first plug-in takes the hands-on approach behind their Eurorack modules and applies it to software.

Penombra Celli & Viole from Sonora Cinematic The Founders Locker line-up has just gained two new libraries began life as source recordings for the Sonora Cinematic's popular Movimento Strings series.

Beat Magazine #250 includes Super VHS and Cubase LE 15 for €4.99
The November 2026 issue of Beat Magazine includes Baby Audio Super VHS and Steinberg Cubase LE 15 alongside its usual collection of sounds and production software. The English digital issue costs €4.99 from the publisher. This is issue #250, and its main focus is on microphones, room treatment, recording chains, and getting a vocal from [...]
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Skynr Labs StemquillStemquill is a free, open-source standalone application that converts audio stems into MIDI files. It writes one MIDI file per stem, ready to drag onto a track in any DAW, so drum, bass, keys and vocal parts can be replayed with different instruments, edited or rearranged. Drums Drum stems are split into kick, snare, closed hi-hat, open hi-hat, high, mid and low toms, crash and ride, each written to its own note. Drum maps are included for General MIDI kits (MT Power Drumkit, EZdrummer, Addictive Drums, Superior Drummer) and for pad samplers (FL Studio FPC, Ableton Drum Rack, MPC-style pads), and custom note numbers can be entered. Melodic stems Bass and vocal stems are transcribed as single-note lines. Guitar, keys and synth stems are transcribed as chords. An optional chord-detection add-on based on Spotify's basic-pitch, selectable in the installer, improves polyphonic accuracy. Features Tempo detection from any stem. Optional snap to grid: 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 or triplets, or the original timing. Preview of each stem with built-in sounds before saving, with the original audio mixed in to check timing. Humanize control for timing and velocity variation. Per-stem sensitivity, humanize and drum selection, with an Apply to all option. Drag and drop of files or whole folders. Status for each stem showing when its MIDI is saved and when its settings have changed since. History of each conversion, with the drum hits or note range found. Command-line interface for scripting and batch use. Runs fully offline; audio is never uploaded. Input formats WAV, MP3, FLAC, AIFF, OGG and M4A. System requirements Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), using the installer. macOS and Linux: Python 3.10 or newer, installed with pipx. Pricing Free, with an optional pay-what-you-want donation. Released under the MIT license; source code is available on GitHub. Read More

Song Athletics launch Song Keys Song Keys includes eight instruments that have all been multi-sampled in a world-class studio, and hosts them all together in a simple and intuitive plug-in. 

Stylophone introduce the Stylophone Mini The Stylophone has returned to the market in miniature form, delivering a fully playable instrument that’s small enough to use as a keyring!

Music By Mattie releases magic.METER, a FREE vocal analyzer plugin
Music By Mattie has released magic.METER, a free plugin that compares your vocal mix with measurements from 3,054 hit songs. Learning to trust your ears is the most important part of mixing and producing music. But I’ve always found vocals harder to mix than guitars, drums, or bass. We bedroom producers rarely have access to [...]
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FSVR brings the Yamaha FS1R to your DAW as a FREE synth plugin
Musica Studio’s FSVR is a free, open-source recreation of the Yamaha FS1R for macOS, Windows, and Linux. The original FS1R is a 1998 rackmount synth that combined FM with formant synthesis. It can produce all of those classic metallic and glassy FM tones, but its formant sequences can also give you moving, voice-like textures you [...]
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Soundtrap adds third-party VST3 and AU effects to collaborative projects
Soundtrap now supports third-party effects plugins in its collaborative music production app. The update lets you use effects already installed on your computer while working on a project with someone elsewhere. The point of Soundtrap’s new plugin support is that your collaborator can hear the processed track without having the same plugin. That could save [...]
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Luxora Audio Corella Summing MixerAdvanced Analog Inspired Summing & Bus Processing. Corella is a high-end channel-strip plugin that brings analog-inspired character and modern DSP precision to every channel in your mix. Each instance processes its own channel independently there's no signal combining or communication between instances. It's the consistency of that circuit character across your whole session that creates the cohesion of a real analog summing console. Three Color Circuits, Two Signal Paths. Corella's color section consists of three dedicated processing circuits: HARM runs in parallel with the dry signal, adding weight, presence and harmonic character while preserving the original signal. P-COMP uses parallel compression to add density and body while maintaining the openness of the direct signal. X-SAT is a series saturation stage that introduces progressively richer harmonics and deeper analog character as drive increases. Console EQ. Corella uses a classic console-style fixed-frequency EQ architecture: 90 Hz Shelf — Weight and body. 250 Hz Bell — Add body or reduce congestion. 3 kHz Bell — Presence and definition. 8 kHz Shelf — Clarity and definition. 16 kHz Air Shelf — Opens the top end without becoming harsh. Bus Dynamics — Glue, Punch, Density. COMP is a stereo-linked soft-knee bus compressor designed to bring the mix together. PUNCH shapes the transient response, allowing the mix to become sharper or softer. The center position remains neutral. DENSITY uses parallel compression to make low-level detail more consistent while retaining the character of the original signal. A Stereo Stage With a Mono Foundation. Corella's stereo section uses a true M/S architecture. The signal is encoded, processed and decoded again. WIDTH controls the stereo image from mono up to twice its natural width. MID and SIDE allow independent control over the center and side information. MONO LOW collects frequencies below the selected crossover point into the center, improving low-frequency stability and mono compatibility. Oversampling Up to 64x. Corella's nonlinear processing stages operate within the oversampled processing block to reduce aliasing and improve processing accuracy. Available settings: Off · 2x · 4x ·. 8x · 16x · 32x · 64x. Latency is accurately reported to the host at every setting. Read More

Pointless Audio offers PortaTwin, a FREE Tascam Porta Two-inspired cassette plugin
Pointless Audio offers PortaTwin, a free cassette channel strip inspired by the 1987 Tascam Porta Two Ministudio. So, yet another tape emulation has arrived in what feels like a sea of them lately. I’m all for tape emulations, but I feel like there’s hardly anything new to offer in that segment of the plugin market. [...]
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Variety of Sound releases FREE edgeRunner retrograde analog processor for Windows.
Variety of Sound releases edgeRunner retrograde, a FREE analog processor plugin for Windows. It’s always a good day for Windows users when Variety of Sound releases a new plugin. You’re almost guaranteed to tick every box; it comes from a trusted developer with a history of high-quality releases built on a solid blend of technical [...]
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WeissKlang reveal KlangFormer 2 WeissKlang have just introduced a new and improved version of the plug-in that pairs up with their V13 modelling microphone.

emptyvessel Moramora is based on a set of samples recorded from a small Tangible Waves modular system and a Novation Summit, processed & sampled using Elektron Octatrack and Tonverk samplers. Additionally a few field recordings captured with an old Sony tape dictaphone and a Sony PCM-D50 digital recorder for noise layers and texture. A great deal of character and imperfection is present in the samples and brought out further within TAL Sampler. As usual for my packs the samples are quite long. With this and the modulation possibilities in TAL Sampler the results are alive, expressive, dynamic instruments which avoid that inherent static, repeating aspect that can afflict sample-based instruments. The patches are rusty, imperfect, liminal, melancholic, hopeful. Cinematic, dark, bright, warm, thin, analog, digital. Tired, faded, like memories. Basses, keys, drones and immersive, evolving pads. Here's a playlist of 3 musical demos using only sounds from mora with no processing or fx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P1dWyWBlkU&list=PLbkQnqWkj3kM 55 presets based on ~470mb of original samples. no AI, just a real, human Scottish person, obsessed with creating sounds that make you want to make music. comes with 4 TAL Sampler colour themes, including a light one for you weirdos who like light themes!;). Read More