Gospel Musicians has released Gospel Drummer, a virtual drum instrument designed specifically for gospel, contemporary worship, R&B, neo-soul, and urban music production. Gospel Drummer combines deeply sampled acoustic gospel drum kits with an extensive MIDI groove library, flexible microphone routing, drag-and-drop MIDI, and integrated sound-shaping tools for studio production and live performance. The instrument was…
KVR Developer Challenge 2026 – Winners Announced
Voting has closed in the KVR Developer Challenge 2026, the tenth free-for-all audio plugin / audio application / soundware design event. With a record 56 entries this year it was quite a challenge just to make the time to download them and put them through their paces, even with the one week extension. You can,…
GSi releases Piano Studio (VST & AU)
GSi has released Piano Studio, a new physical modeling grand piano virtual instrument. This new plugin recreates the sound of a generic 9-foot grand piano using primarily complex real-time mathematical calculations and only a few samples for noise and other minor details. Parameters include string damping, detuning, resonance, and more, allowing the sound to be…
SSL updates SSL 360° to v2.1 – enhances UC1, UF8 and UF1 workflows with deeper DAW integration, expanded Plug-in Mixer capabilities and native Harrison 32Classic Plug-in support
Solid State Logic has released SSL 360° V2.1, a significant update to its U Series controller platform that brings deeper integration across UC1, UF8 and UF1, streamlined workflow enhancements for Logic Pro and Pro Tools users, expanded Plug-in Mixer functionality, and native UC1 support for the new Harrison 32Classic Channel Strip V2 Plug-in. Designed to…
Reveal Sound updates “Spire” synthesizer to v1.5.20
Reveal Sound has updated Spire to version 1.5.20. Changes: Improved overall stability. Corrected a visual glitch in the waveform displays. Minor optimizations to reduce CPU spikes. General code cleanup and memory leak fixes for better long‑session reliability. Read More Read the full story
GroovEmu is a FREE REAPER arranger system for Windows
SlapAsSound has released GroovEmu Arranger, a free Windows system that turns REAPER into a live arranger-style workstation. This one comes from Marko Karja, a developer from Estonia who has sent BPB some unusual free plugin experiments over the years. His product pages usually have a strong sense of humor, but under the playful presentation here…
Audio Spices gives away three FREE plugins exclusively to BPB readers
Audio Spices is giving away 10,000 free plugin bundles exclusively to BPB readers, including full licenses for Salt, Chili, and Basil. These are not demos or time-limited trials. You get perpetual licenses for all three plugins, which normally sell for $59 each. That makes the full bundle worth $177, and Audio Spices is giving away…
TubeOhm releases TO-Sampler, a FREE SynthEdit sampler for Windows
TubeOhm has released TO-Sampler, a free sampler plugin and standalone instrument for Windows. The main reason I’m featuring this one in the news is that we recently covered SynthEdit 1.6, which finally added native macOS support after decades of being a Windows-first plugin development environment. TO-Sampler is Windows-only for now, so it is a good…