FRCTL Audio has released AURA Lite, a free ducking reverb plugin for Windows, macOS, and Linux. FRCTL has been on a nice run of free tools lately. We recently covered DLAY Lite, and before that, SWRL Lite and GRN Lite. I like FRCTL Audio’s free plugins so far, and AURA Lite is another useful one….
Plugin Boutique is offering Excite Audio’s Bloom Synth Analogue Lite for $3 with the coupon code l9ueiios. The plugin normally costs $29 and is currently on sale for $19 until August 31, but the code brings it down to $3 at checkout. I don’t know how long the coupon will work, so hurry if you…
Tunary Instruments has released REHEAT, a generative bass instrument built as a writing tool first and a synth second. Pick one of ten genre grooves, press New LINE, and REHEAT composes a bassline from a real chord progression — root on the change, chord tones on the beats, passing notes between, and a chromatic approach…
I’ve been reviewing audio plugins on Bedroom Producers Blog for more than 15 years. I don’t have an exact number, but I’ve probably tested more than 2,000 plugins in that time. Maybe close to 2,500, depending on how strictly we count the ones I installed, disliked, and uninstalled right away. During all that plugin testing,…
New plugin combines resonator‑based acoustic emulation with subtractive synthesis, launching at an introductory price of $99. reFX has released Rippler, a new plugin that combines physical modelling with subtractive synthesis across two independent layers. The plugin is available now for macOS 10.13 and later, supporting both Apple Silicon and Intel processors, and for Windows 10…
Ample Sound has released Ample Guitar M Lite 4 (AGML4), a free acoustic guitar virtual instrument built on the new Ample Guitar 4 architecture. It features a next-generation sample engine, Riffer 4, Tab Reader 4, strummer, and an integrated effects system. AGML4 uses a streamlined sample library containing approximately 10% of the samples included in…
Matari Audio has released BUFFR 0.6.53, a major cumulative update to the free public beta of its retrospective multichannel audio and MIDI recorder for DAWs. It is available for macOS, Windows and Linux in VST3 and CLAP formats. BUFFR keeps up to two hours of recent audio, system audio and MIDI ready to recover, edit…
Drift Ritual is a new synth plugin from Manu Riga, and you can download it for free now. The plugin is available in AU and VST formats for macOS and Windows. The developer calls this plugin an organic drift synthesizer, and that about sums up the core character of Drift Ritual. It’s about sounds that…