It’s always cool to see a free and open-source tool that offers a more comprehensive feature set than some paid alternatives, and that seems to be what we have with AudioAuditor. The desktop and Command Line Interface app offers an all-in-one toolkit for analyzing and listening to music. What is AudioAuditor? AudioAuditor is a free,…
Beehives & Blood has announced the release of 1shot and Dicebox – Make one-shots and presets. 1shot 1SHOT layers four samples into one new sound. You drop a folder of one-shots on each slot, pick a type (snare, kick, etc.), and 1shot keeps pulling matching samples and stacking them. Key Features: Four sample slots: Slots…
Growl Audio has announced the availability of gFractor 1.2.2 Beta via their preview channel. New: Optional piano keyboard under the spectrum, frequency-aligned with the plot (Display tab, off by default). Hovering the plot marks the key under the cursor and carries the crosshair down to it. Add and remove guidelines (up to 6) from the…
Arvital Audio has updated AudioRoute to version 0.4.2. Changes 0.4.2 (2026-07-23): Redesigned trial screen: a cleaner, branded window with one-click checkout when your trial ends. Fixed a rare system-tray crash and a checkout button that could occasionally get stuck spinning. 0.4.1 (2026-07-21): Recording no longer stops if your audio setup changes mid-capture. Switching your Mac’s…
Parish Audio has released Gain Knob, a streamlined utility plugin for making common level, stereo, mono, and polarity adjustments throughout a signal chain. Gain Knob can be placed before or after other processors to raise or lower the signal, manage gain staging, compensate for level changes, or match the loudness of different processing chains. The…
Tweakbench has released Jigsaw, a free pedal board effect plugin for macOS, Windows, Linux, and iOS. This one is not groundbreaking, but it is still a reason to celebrate for me. Tweakbench is an old-school indie developer, and seeing that name in the news takes me back to the old days, when there were only…
Jeesonic has updated EQ Pro, its free 24-band dynamic equalizer plugin for macOS and Windows, to version 1.2.2. I rarely cover free plugin updates in the news section because we get free updates every day. But I felt like sharing this one because EQ Pro is definitely one of the best free EQ plugins right…
Full Bucket Music will soon release FB3, a free software emulation of the Kawai K3 hybrid synthesizer from 1986. I first saw the news on Synth Anatomy, run by my good friend Tom, and the first proper look comes from Espen Kraft’s video based on a beta version of the plugin. FB3 is not publicly…