Musical Entropy has released Voyage Voyage, a free shimmer reverb and drone instrument for macOS, Windows, and Linux. This is another addition to the series of articles where I check out my favorite KVR Developer Challenge 2026 entries. We already covered Sucrose, Chance, and Gneiss, and Voyage Voyage is another one I really liked. I…
FlickSwitch Liminal is a confident, genuinely original debut that does something no established competitor does, and it manages to make an unfamiliar concept approachable without dumbing it down. It is not without the rough edges you would expect from a first release, but the trajectory is promising and the core idea is exciting… The post…
Psychic Modulation has updated Phonec3 to v3.0.5. Highlights Bank Import from Phonec2: Full bank import is now available. Installation will provide all the setup needed as well as a copy of the original factory bank so that importing is only a few clicks away. Oscillator Drift: A Drift control has been added to the Oscillator…
Flame Sound has released VATRA, a mix finisher and loudness enhancer plugin for Windows and macOS. The intro price of $39 is available until August 16. As many of you already know, Flame Sound is my cinematic sound label. VATRA comes after almost two years of development, with countless iterations in the meantime. I’ll write…
Greer Studios Presents has released Signature Delay, a free delay plugin and standalone app for Windows. We have covered a couple of interesting free delay plugins on BPB lately, including FRCTL Audio DLAY Lite and Trebless Tesseract Echo, so there’s definitely no shortage of freeware delays. Signature Delay is a relatively simpler one (although it…
Flame Sound released Vatra, a mixing and mastering effect plugin for macOS and Windows in VST3 and Audio Unit formats. Vatra increases perceived loudness and shapes tone through harmonic generation, saturation, and transient shaping instead of compression or limiting. The internal processing does not clamp peaks, so the dynamics of the source material stay largely…
Native Instruments has updated Kontakt to v8.12.0. Overall Changes Added: Phase 1 of the Default View Instrument Header overhaul. Specific controls (such as MIDI Input, Audio Output, and Purge) are slated for Phase 2 in versions 8.13/8.14; these functions continue to be accessible via the Classic View Instrument Header. Improved visual clarity between Instrument Header…
Remo De Vico has released LOOM, a free browser instrument for extreme time stretching, textures, pads, and drones. Time stretching is a lot of fun. I use it for cinematic sound design all the time, mainly for turning everyday sounds into otherworldly textures and ambient drones. LOOM makes that process even more fun by adding…