Make dense, dreamy sound design with Lunacy’s free Haze
Lunacy makes "sonic playgrounds for music makers," with several popular plugins like granular synth engine Grains and the Beam effects rack. This year they dropped a couple freebies, the best of which is Haze.
Random Acts of Acid with Sting 2
Click the eyes for a big surprise! From the maker of the popular Max for Live device Sting comes a device akin to an acid randomizer built on top of an emulated TB-303.
Emulating the classic Rhodes sound with Magic Tines
If you don't already have a favorite plugin (or a real Rhodes), GSi has a unique take on the timeless sound of the electric piano.
Granular synthesis made beautiful with Motion: Fractal
Add motion to your music productions via granular synthesis and an amazing rhythmic toolbox with Excite Audio’s dreamy new plugin.
Synth Strings: AudioThing RES-09 emulates the warm strings of the Roland RS-09
An innovative new plugin recreates the sound of Roland's classic analog string and organ synth from the early 1980s.
Hands-on looping with Audio Damage’s Circa
The six-track Circa is a gnarly pedal looper plugin with an open environment that inspires creativity.
Download ReCycle and sample like it’s 1994 again
The app that refuses to die, Propellerhead's sample-flipping tool ReCycle is back and available for free.
Lo-Fi & downtempo by design: adventures with Orange Dreams
ZAK Sound's revised plugin packs a bundle of creative power inside a small package.
Adding space, texture and ambiance to your music with Airspace
Mode Audio's first VST is a reverb & delay plug-in that creates huge sounds out of very ordinary source material.
Funding Yourself To Death: The Strange Story of Aodyo
After several successful crowdsourcing campaigns, French synth maker Aodyo crashed into bankruptcy. What went wrong?
Waldorf compacts the classic Blofeld synth into a plugin
Hot on the heals of the Microwave, Waldorf offers a bit-by-bit emulation of another classic synth: the Waldorf Blofeld.
Introducing Flite, a powerful and (mostly) free new creation tool from Wavea
Flite is a multi-sampler and synth workstation aimed at music producers from Sharooz Raoofi aka Principleasure's new company.
Waldorf takes the Microwave into the DAW
Waldorf steps up with their own deluxe "bit-by-bit" plugin emulation of the famed Microwave synth, the first unit created by German manufacturer.
Generating dreamy delta waves with ZAK Sound’s Skyridge plugin
Ed Martinez generates gorgeous, sculptured atmospheres with vocal samples with ZAK Sound's latest plugin.
Syncussion Mania: For the Love of Synth Drums
A brief history of the once-unloved Syncussion, a drum synth designed for actual drummers that became a mainstay of modern electronic music production.
AI Comes for Music Mastering
Cheap AI mastering by music distributors is pricing out a modest but important side hustle in the music industry.
Carving icy soundscapes with Tundra
Ed Martinez on another niche plug-in from SoundGhost that manipulates richly textured and frozen sounds within your DAW.
Breaking out of the box with Catalyst
Toneworks' combo sequencer, arpeggiator & harmonizer inspires creativity for music production.
DRUMLESS drags AI extraction into the DAW
The DRUMLESS plugin from AudioSourceRe takes audio separation for music producers out of the cloud and onto your desktop.
Make Music 2024: LUNA DAW is now free
Universal Audio has made a fully featured version of LUNA, their proprietary daw, free for all Mac users with very few strings attached.
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