Acon Digital releases Multiply 2, latest update to its FREE chorus plugin
Acon Digital has released Multiply 2, a major update to its free chorus effect plugin for macOS and Windows. Acon Digital shipped the update earlier today, and I checked it out right away. Multiply has long been one of my favorite free chorus plugins, and this new version is even better than before. If you [...]
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NULLIFY is a new Spotify streaming quality checker plugin, FREE until August 31
Boomer Hotel has released NULLIFY, a codec audition and null-test plugin that is free with a coupon code until August 31st, 2026. NULLIFY normally costs $19, but you can get it for free at checkout with the coupon code BHPLUGINS2026. The checkout runs through Lemon Squeezy, and your email address is required at checkout, but [...]
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Dusk Audio releases TapeMachine 2, a FREE tape plugin with a new interface
Dusk Audio has released TapeMachine 2, a free tape emulation plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux. We featured Dusk Audio’s original Tape Machine plugin earlier this year, when it arrived alongside 4K EQ and MultiComp. TapeMachine 2 is a new version with a redesigned interface and a new tape engine. The main point is that [...]
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TK Audio unveil the TK-Lizer 3 As with its predecessor, the TK-Lizer 3 includes three bands of EQ along with a pair of high-pass filters, and boasts an onboard Mid-Side encoder and decoder. 

Nebula Audio Nebula ClusterNebula Cluster is an open-source dirt box plugin made by Nebula Audio. It is built for one job: take clean, polite audio and give it weight, bite, heat, movement, and attitude. Put it on drums, bass, synths, vocals, guitars, loops, rooms, buses, or anything that needs to stop behaving. Nebula Cluster is released under the AGPL v3.0 license. It is not proprietary software. The Sound Nebula Cluster is not a transparent utility plugin pretending to be exciting. It is a character box. At low settings it adds thickness, density, and subtle harmonic lift. Push it harder and it turns into a crunchy saturation engine with enough harmonic control to go from warm and rounded to sharp, torn, and aggressive. The filter and compressor sections make it easy to shape the chaos into something that still works in a mix. Use it when a track needs: - More grit. - More forward motion. - More body. - More edge. - More impact. - More strange little sparks around the sound. It can be gentle, but it is happiest when you ask it to misbehave. Why Use It Nebula Cluster gives you the classic dirt-box workflow: drive, shape, squeeze, blend, and compare. The controls are immediate, the UI is built around fast decisions, and the post-effects analyzer shows what the plugin is doing to the signal in real time. It is especially good for: - Smashing drum loops. - Making kicks and snares hit harder. - Turning plain bass into a mix anchor. - Adding edge to soft synths. - Giving vocals a gritty parallel layer. - Warming up sterile digital sources. - Creating aggressive transitions and sound-design layers. - Making boring buses feel alive. Plugin Formats - CLAP. - VST3. Platforms - macOS Universal: Apple Silicon and Intel. - Linux x86_64. Nebula Cluster is 64-bit only. Interface The editor uses a deep black neon sci-fi look with resizable controls. The main analyzer stays visible globally while the effect sections live in tabs, so you can shape the sound without losing sight of the output. The UI includes: - Global toolbar. - Post-effects spectrum analyzer. - Waveform display. - Output peak meter. - Gain reduction meter. - Tabbed Global, Distortion, Filter, and Compressor controls. - Preset save/load. - Undo and redo. - A/B comparison. - Chaos randomization. - MIDI learn. The Dirt Engine The distortion section is the heart of Nebula Cluster. Instead of giving you one fixed distortion flavor, it lets you build the character from multiple harmonic layers: - Saturation intensity. - 2nd order harmonics for warmth and thickness. - 3rd order harmonics for bite and aggression. - 4th through 7th order harmonics for extra edge, texture, and fuzz-like complexity. - Dedicated distortion mix. - Distortion phase flip. - Pre-shaping HPF and LPF controls. - Continuously variable filter slopes. Turn up Saturation for more grind. Blend the harmonic controls to decide whether the sound gets round, sharp, buzzy, raspy, or broken. Filter Section After the distortion stage, the filter section lets you carve the result into place. Use it to: - Remove low-end mud after heavy saturation. - Tame harsh high end. - Add resonant bite around cutoff points. - Create focused midrange grit. - Shape parallel dirt layers so they sit under the dry sound. Controls: - HPF. - HPF Slope. - HPF Resonance. - LPF. - LPF Slope. - LPF Resonance. Compressor Section The compressor is there to make the dirt move. Modes: - Down: classic downward compression. - Up: brings lower-level detail forward. - Boost: pushes the signal with controlled upward-style energy. Use it after distortion to clamp, pump, thicken, or pull hidden texture forward. Controls: - Mode. - Ratio. - Knee. - Makeup. - Boost. - Attack Threshold. - Attack Time. - Release Threshold. - Release Time. - Hold. Global Controls Nebula Cluster also includes the practical controls needed to keep extreme tones usable: - Input Level. - Input Pan. - Output Level. - Output Pan. - Global Mix. - Oversampling: Off, 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x. - Global Phase. - FX Bypass. The pan knobs are bipolar: center is 12 o'clock, left turns left, and right turns right. Analyzer The analyzer is placed after the effects, so it shows the signal coming out of Nebula Cluster. It includes: - Real-time spectrum view. - Real-time waveform view. - Output peak readout. - Gain reduction readout. - Frequency grid. - dB grid. This makes it easy to see when the low end is getting too wild, when the high end is getting fizzy, or when compression is pulling the sound into shape. Presets, A/B, and Chaos Nebula Cluster is built for fast exploration. Presets. Save your current setup and recall it later from the preset menu. A/B Set up one tone on A, switch to B, create another tone, then flip back and forth until one wins. Chaos Chaos randomizes the plugin controls and section states. Sometimes it creates something subtle. Sometimes it creates a problem. Sometimes the problem is the sound. Use it when you want the plugin to surprise you. MIDI Learn Nebula Cluster includes MIDI learn for mapping hardware controls. Basic workflow: 1. Click MIDI Learn. 2. Click a knob, button, or menu control. 3. Move a MIDI controller knob or slider. 4. The mapping is assigned. Right-click MIDI Learn to manage mappings: - MIDI On/Off. - Clean Up. - Roll Back. - Save. Safety Nebula Cluster can get loud if you push it. That is part of the point. To keep the output host-safe, the plugin includes a final stereo safety limiter at approximately -0.3 dBFS. This helps prevent extreme settings from overloading the output while still letting the plugin hit hard. Reporting Issues: For reporting any issues create an issue on the Github repository. https://github.com/subhankardas15071992-cloud/Nebula-Cluster Read More

Drawmer reveal the OC1 & FC1 Drawmer have officially announced the introduction of the OC1 and FC1, a pair of 500-series modules which share a common feature set but offer two different ‘flavours’ of compression. 

Tweakbench releases Jigsaw, a FREE pedal board effect plugin
Tweakbench has released Jigsaw, a free pedal board effect plugin for macOS, Windows, Linux, and iOS. This one is not groundbreaking, but it is still a reason to celebrate for me. Tweakbench is an old-school indie developer, and seeing that name in the news takes me back to the old days, when there were only [...]
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Jeesonic updates EQ Pro, one of the best FREE EQ plugins right now
Jeesonic has updated EQ Pro, its free 24-band dynamic equalizer plugin for macOS and Windows, to version 1.2.2. I rarely cover free plugin updates in the news section because we get free updates every day. But I felt like sharing this one because EQ Pro is definitely one of the best free EQ plugins right [...]
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fedDSP introduce Opto compressor plug-in The latest addition to the fedDSP line-up promises to deliver smooth-sounding gain reduction, musical movement and a ‘finished’ tone, all without sounding forced.

Air-G Audio Air-G Chorus PedalAir-G Chorus Pedal is part of Air-G Audio's Guitar Collection: a growing set of individual pedals built on the open source work of Airwindows, Chris Johnson's long-running project known for some of the most distinctive free DSP code in the audio world. Each pedal is a focused, single-purpose effect aimed at guitar players, and further down the road they're meant to come together into a single unified pedalboard. The Chorus Pedal is a stereo chorus based on StereoChorus by Airwindows. It thickens and widens the sound by simulating several slightly detuned, time-shifted copies, from a subtle shimmer to a lush, wide movement. SPEED sets the rate of the modulation, and with the SYNC button it locks to the DAW tempo in musical note divisions, chosen with the same knob. DEPTH sets how far it moves from the original pitch, WIDTH runs from mono through neutral to a wide stereo image, MIX blends dry and effect, and OUT trims the output level. A blue LED pulses at the chorus rate as a visual reference. The chorus thickens the tone even in mono, while WIDTH opens the stereo image when you have a stereo output. The footswitch is true bypass, tied to the host's own bypass. This chorus is also one of the four effects in Air-G Mods, already released in the Air-G Plugins Collection, which brings all four modulators (Chorus, AutoPan, Tremolo and Vibrato) together in a single plugin with a switch to move between them. As an individual pedal it trades that selector for a guitar-pedal presentation, and keeping the effects separate lets you build a chain of them from lighter, single-purpose plugins. Although its interface is styled as a guitar pedal, the Chorus Pedal works just as well on any source: individual instruments like pads, keys or bass, or full mix buses. --- Air-G Audio is a collection of plugins built on the open source code of Airwindows. The project is built around adding a graphical interface that makes the experience more comfortable and visual, along with a few features that expand the possible uses without straying from the original sound. The simplicity and lightness of Chris's code are the starting point and the guide. Thanks to Chris Johnson for making his work public and accessible. Air-G Audio exists because Airwindows exists. The Airwindows code used in this plugin is published under the MIT License. Air-G Chorus Pedal is free, no strings attached, same open spirit as Chris's own work. It also took real hours to build: designing, coding, testing, writing the manual. If it earns a spot on your board, a donation of any size makes a real difference in keeping this collection going. And if you want to support where it all comes from, Chris Johnson's Patreon is the most direct way to back Airwindows itself: patreon.com/airwindows. Available for Windows and Linux. System Requirements: Windows 10 or higher (64-bit) Linux with GLIBC 2.35 or higher (Ubuntu 22.04 / Linux Mint 21 or equivalent). All formats are VST3 64-bit. ***Windows note: the installer is not signed with a paid certificate, so SmartScreen may show a "Windows protected your PC" warning. Click "More info", then "Run anyway" to continue. This is expected and not a problem with the plugin. Read More

iZotope Japan is giving away VEA for FREE until July 31
iZotope Japan is giving away VEA, the Voice Enhancement Assistant plugin, for free until July 31st at 23:59 Japan time. The giveaway is part of the Japan-limited iZotope Mix & Master Sale 2026, which celebrates iZotope joining Boris FX. The broader sale runs until August 16th, but the free VEA offer ends much earlier, so [...]
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FX-Mechanics MangoMango is a rubber step sequencer of up to eight lanes, each driving one effect. You draw blocks on a lane's strip; while the playhead is inside a block, that lane's effect is processing; outside it, the lane is transparent. So you paint when each effect happens, in time with the host, and the lanes stack into a chain from top to bottom. The character is seeded randomness. Effects that need a rhythmic rate don't take a fixed value: you weight how likely each note length is, and the actual rate is drawn per block. Every draw is a pure function of the seed, the lane and the block, so a pattern always plays back identically (in real time and in an offline bounce alike), and changing the seed re-rolls everything at once. Getting started Insert Mango on a track that already has sound going through it (it is an effect, not an instrument). Drag across empty space on a lane's strip to draw a block, then press play (the lane's effect fires while the playhead is inside it). Click the block to select it (highlighted): the right column shows that lane's effect knobs, and the block overrides field at the bottom lets you retune this one block with a line of text (see below). Change a lane's effect with the dropdown in its header; reorder lanes with the arrows (order is the processing chain); use M/S to mute/solo. Turn the Seed knob to re-roll every random choice at once; set Steps and the step size to size the grid. Demo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsm9x_oHtCg Read More

Dystopian Waves makes DroX II Pro FREE for a limited time
Dystopian Waves has made DroX II Pro, its glitch and stutter audio effect, free for a limited time on Gumroad. The Pro version is currently listed as $0+ and 100% off, down from its regular $35 price. I do not see an expiry date on the Gumroad page, so it is probably best to grab [...]
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Vochlea introduce DubBox Designed for producers and beatmakers who sketch ideas with ‘beatboxing’, DubBox detects a kick, snare and hi-hat sounds in a user’s voice, uses them to trigger drum samples in real time and then records, quantises and exports the result as an audio or MIDI file.

Air-G Audio Air-G Dist PedalAir-G Dist Pedal is part of Air-G Audio's Guitar Collection: a growing set of individual pedals built on the open source work of Airwindows, Chris Johnson's long-running project known for some of the most distinctive free DSP code in the audio world. Each pedal is a focused, single-purpose effect aimed at guitar players, and further down the road they're meant to come together into a single unified pedalboard. The Dist Pedal is a distortion based on Density3 by Airwindows. Rather than hard clipping, Density3 saturates with a sine-based curve, so it stays round and musical, from a light crunch to dense, compact saturation. DRIVE sets the amount and character of the dirt, while PUSH (added by Air-G) drives the signal into the saturator: since Density3 reacts to how hot the incoming level is, this is what makes the pedal kick, and it also lets you clean up straight from your guitar's volume knob. HPF is a high-pass placed before the saturation, so it sets from which frequency up the sound breaks up, and DRY/WET blends the clean, full-range signal back underneath (kept genuinely clean, independent of PUSH): raise HPF and pull DRY/WET back, and the lows stay clean and tight while the mids and highs growl, which is especially handy on bass and for coloring the guitar tone. DRIVE VOL sets how loud the distorted signal sits, and an OUT knob (also added by Air-G) sets the final level to match bypass or push an amp harder. The footswitch is true bypass, tied to the host's own bypass. Although its interface is styled as a guitar pedal, the Dist Pedal works just as well on any source: individual instruments like pads, keys or bass, or full mix buses. --- Air-G Audio is a collection of plugins built on the open source code of Airwindows. The project is built around adding a graphical interface that makes the experience more comfortable and visual, along with a few features that expand the possible uses without straying from the original sound. The simplicity and lightness of Chris's code are the starting point and the guide. Thanks to Chris Johnson for making his work public and accessible. Air-G Audio exists because Airwindows exists. The Airwindows code used in this plugin is published under the MIT License. *Air-G Dist Pedal is free, no strings attached, same open spirit as Chris's own work. It also took real hours to build: designing, coding, testing, writing the manual. If it earns a spot on your board, a donation of any size makes a real difference in keeping this collection going. And if you want to support where it all comes from, Chris Johnson's Patreon is the most direct way to back Airwindows itself: patreon.com/airwindows. Available for Windows and Linux. System Requirements: - Windows 10 or higher (64-bit). - Linux with GLIBC 2.35 or higher (Ubuntu 22.04 / Linux Mint 21 or equivalent). *There's no macOS version yet (sorry! I don't have access to a Mac at the moment), but I hope to make one someday! All formats are VST3 64-bit. ***Windows note: the installer is not signed with a paid certificate, so SmartScreen may show a "Windows protected your PC" warning. Click "More info", then "Run anyway" to continue. This is expected and not a problem with the plugin. Read More