You wait years for someone to work out how to turn an ordinary Midi controller into a standalone unit, and then two solutions come along at once. Days after we wrote about Stembox, a small Seattle outfit called Deckshark has started shipping the Mako, a $299 box that bolts to the back of your controller,…

Piruz Labs has released Pre Doom, a pre-distortion processor for macOS and Windows. Most distortion plugins begin after the signal arrives. Pre Doom works one step earlier. It does not replace the amp, distortion or saturator you already own. It decides what that thing gets to eat. Five shaping controls do the work: Mass rebuilds…

Golden DSP has announced the release of Silkbrush, an algorithmic reverb plug-in designed to streamline ambient mixing. Silkbrush combines classic Lexicon-style spatial characteristics with built-in intelligent ducking and dynamic frequency carving. This allows the reverb tail to automatically duck behind the dry signal without requiring external sidechain routing. Engineered from the ground up, the plug-in…

SampleRoll has released drft, an audio effect and visual processor inspired by circuit-bent CRT televisions, damaged tape machines and unstable analog video hardware. drft. is built around the idea of making audio and visuals malfunction together. Its processing affects both the sound and the built-in CRT display, so dropouts tear the image, pitch instability bends…

Techivation has released T-De-Breather, a zero-latency breath suppression plug-in for macOS and Windows designed for vocals and dialogue. T-De-Breather automates breath level adjustment while offering detailed control over its detection algorithm, helping users identify and suppress unwanted breaths. T-De-Breather’s hybrid audio engine combines advanced algorithmic audio analysis with real-time predictive forecasting using a Recurrent Neural…

Finishing a song feels like the finish line. It is not. The gap between “the mix is done” and “this is actually ready to release” is where a lot of good tracks quietly lose – they come out quiet, distorted, mislabeled, or impossible to remix later. None of the fixes are hard. They just get…

AudioDeluxe is offering PSP 2445 EMT for only $29, down from its regular price of $149. That is a huge 81% discount and a $120 saving on PSP Audioware’s vintage digital reverb plugin. At the time of writing (August 24), there are just over seven days remaining, so there is still time to pick it…

Rust Romance has released BigBlockPre LE, a free discrete console preamp plugin for macOS and Windows. BigBlockPre LE is inspired by the classic API 312-style signal path, combining an input transformer, a 2520-style discrete op-amp gain stage, and an output transformer. It does not emulate one particular hardware unit. Instead, this is a custom channel…