Ronan Fed releases Pneuma Pro, a freeware polyphonic synthesizer plugin for Windows. Happy New Year to you and yours, dear readers! Hopefully, you’re recovering from the festivities with minimal issues. We’re back in the fray today with a new synthesizer from developer Ronan Fed. Pneuma Pro is a fully-featured polyphonic synthesizer for Windows computers. So, [...]

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Kiive Audio released XTMax, a freeware drum compressor plugin based on the Distressor hardware compressor. XTMax is a drum compression tool inspired by the Empirical Labs Distressor and similar hardware units. However, it’s not a direct emulation of any particular hardware. Kiive Audio states that it analyzed various compressors and used those findings to create [...]

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Lotus Sound has just released Aerial EQ, a free semi-parametric tube EQ for Windows and macOS. The company states that its innovative feature is its ‘Air’ function, which should bring brilliance and spaciousness to your audio. As I tested the plugin and delved into the manual, I realized that the Air knob acts as a [...]

View post: Lotus Sound Releases FREE Aerial EQ Tube Equalizer Plugin

Mercuriall Audio updated the Ampbox guitar suite, offering everyone FREE access to the included guitar pedals. Firstly, I hope you and yours had a wonderful holiday; maybe you got some extra goodies this year under the tree! That aside, today’s little tidbit of news is highlighting one of my favorite amp sims. I’ll just go [...]

View post: Mercuriall Ampbox Now Offers FREE Guitar Effect Pedals

Audiolatry has just released Easy Strings – a free (or ‘pay what you want’) ROMpler for macOS and Windows users. This ROMpler features samples recorded from violin, viola, and cello ensembles.  It’s not a deeply sampled instrument, as the developer Audiolatry states; hence, only one velocity layer is available.  The goal of this plugin was [...]

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Bless Audio released a free distortion and reverb effect plugin called Abyss. It’s available as a ‘pay-what-you-want’ on Gumroad, with no minimum price for both Mac and Windows machines. Abyss is a creative tool with simple controls spread out on a captivating interface. Layout-wise, you can access controls over the distortion (DISTO) module on the [...]

View post: Bless Audio Releases Abyss FREE Distortion And Reverb Plugin

Dub Stage Piano is an acoustic piano plugin for Reggae, Dub, Hip-Hop, and Rock. It’s a sample-based virtual instrument, but the developer SoundFingers provided plenty of options for customizing the sound. The plugin features an ADSR envelope, an EQ, a filter, a reverb module, and a set of modulation effects. SoundFingers also included an Impact [...]

View post: SoundFingers Dub Stage Piano Is FREE For A Limited Time

Excite Audio and Plugin Boutique offer the Lifeline Console Lite analog enhancement plugin as a FREE download until January 2nd, 2024. Lifeline Console Lite offers five modules for audio processing, including preamp, EQ, compressor, modulation, and wear. Its main purpose is to add warmth, character, and other analog-style enhancements to digital audio recordings. The preamp [...]

View post: Lifeline Console Lite Is FREE Until January 2nd!

Acustica Audio offers the new Grey compressor plugin as a free download until January 7th, 2024. Grey is an audio compression plugin that uses Acustica Audio’s Hyper 3 technology to replicate the sound of a classic VCA compressor. Acustica Audio uses a unique type of dynamic impulse response technology to capture the sound of analog [...]

View post: Acustica Audio Offers FREE Grey Compressor Plugin Until January 7th

Retornz released Tonez 2, an updated version of the Tonez freeware synthesizer plugin for Windows, macOS, and Linux. As the big holidays finally come to a close, we’re going to be bombarded with a deluge of free stuff.  If you somehow have space in your heart and hard drive for another synth, then Tonez 2 [...]

View post: Retornz Releases FREE Tonez 2 Synthesizer Plugin

Ircam announced that the Partiels audio analysis software is now free to download and use. Partiels is an audio analysis suite consisting of a standalone application and a collection of Vamp Plug-ins. The collection is now free to download from Ircam’s website. To download Partiels, you must sign up for a free Ircam user account. [...]

View post: Ircam Partiels Audio Analyzer Is Now FREE

HoRNet Plugins released TreBande, a freeware three-band equalizer plugin for Windows and macOS. HoRNet TreBande is a free three-band semi-parametric equalizer VST plugin. It was designed to replicate the sonic characteristics of a traditional mixing console equalizer. The underlying DSP code was originally part of the Cassette644 plugin. According to the developer HoRNet Plugins, TreBande [...]

View post: HoRNet Releases FREE TreBande Classic Equalizer Plugin