A handpicked digest of the most useful audio-production reading on the web, refreshed daily. Plus our own lab notes about building plugins. We always link back to the source, they did the work.
Ohlhorst Digital’s Trama is a free standalone AI stem separator for Windows, macOS, and Linux. We recently featured StemDeck, a free and open-source local…
→ ContinueOpenDAW isn’t the first DAW to claim free, open-source, and browser-based status, but it might be the most ambitious. OpenDAW aims to bring professional m…
→ ContinueBeatSkillz and Tone Empire are offering EDYN Preamp as a free download until August 29th, alongside the launch of the new BeatSkillz Echorium delay plugin. EDYN…
→ ContinueLyre is the latest addition to the Crow Hill Company’s increasingly impressive Vaults series.  If you’re new around here, Vaults is a coll…
→ ContinueSaturation is one of the best-represented categories in our free plugin database, with 94 entries. Saturation covers a wide range of effects, from amp-sims to d…
→ ContinueDownload our free soft synth preset for Splice INSTRUMENT—grab these presets during the drop window and they’re yours to keep forever.…
→ ContinueNUGEN Audio has today announced two new subscription offerings, the Post Plan and the Producer Plan, launched at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam. Aimed at mixers, editors…
→ ContinueJesus Oyola has released Medallo Doubler, a free vocal doubler and stacker available through Patreon. I’ve used various vocal doubling plugins in the past…
→ ContinueAll five core tools within Tamber have new enhancements for improved functionality and organisation. The post Tamber music creation suite gets a 2.0 update: her…
→ ContinueDark Fairytale Instruments has released PIXIE, a free sample-based toy piano plugin for macOS and Windows. With a simple instrument like this, I always wonder w…
→ ContinueSync Audio has today announced Mod Tools, a suite of four plug-ins that add modulation capabilities to Soundminer, the sound library management platform widely …
→ ContinueVATRA, the mix finisher plugin I released three weeks ago, just received its first major update. VATRA 1.1 is free for all existing users and available now. The…
→ ContinueAudio Plugin Deals is offering Samplea, a lightweight sampler instrument from Cloudy Samples, as a free download during a limited two-week promotion. First, a q…
→ ContinueTracktion and Dawesome have launched Abyss 2, an updated version of the Abyss colour-to-sound synthesizer plugin. Designed by Dawesome, the instrument uses a vi…
→ ContinueRemute and Daydream Plus make albums for NES, Sega Genesis and Game Boy using decades-old tracker software, and it's even harder than it sounds The post Meet th…
→ ContinueIn this updated article, we look at what it takes to make your studio suitable for mixing in Dolby Atmos for music, whether you need certification, what hardwar…
→ ContinuedBaton has released CUE, a plugin that streams real-time stereo audio from any DAW's master bus to up to eight simultaneous browser listeners via a shareable li…
→ ContinueAt a glance, Metric Halo's MELD can seem like just another channel strip: EQ, compression, limiting, saturation, and loudness maximisation in one plugin. But en…
→ ContinueHARMONICO dsp, a new audio software company from Paris founded by sound engineer and acoustician Nicolas, has launched with four plugins: Airy, a free mono-safe…
→ ContinueSonniss is giving away two sound effects libraries from 344 SFX until Thursday, September 3: Historical Weapons Vol. 1 and Ultimate Horror – Mini. We regu…
→ ContinueWith a little help from ZAQ Audio, the BCR2000 has been reborn... The post Behringer’s BCR32 is finally available to pre-order after five years: here’s everythi…
→ ContinuePanorama Audio Labs has released Panoramic, a mastering-grade stereo field processor developed by mastering engineer Nick Di Lorenzo. Built around a four-core p…
→ ContinueAudio Spices has launched Ginger Morse Code, a creative slicer plugin that converts typed words into rhythmic gating patterns based on Morse code. The plugin is…
→ ContinueBlack Rooster Audio has launched PS-VC1, a vocal mixing chain plugin for macOS and Windows. The Professional Series plugin combines six vocal-processing modules…
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