Fors releases Junior-Lite, a freeware 4-bit wavetable synth plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Fors Junior-Lite is the little brother of Junior (£29), and, like its big brother, it simulates the sound of the Nintendo Game Boy. While Junior-Lite doesn’t emulate the Game Boy sound with absolute accuracy (we have GB DrumBox for that), it…
Argentinian gear manufacturer and software developer VZTec has just released the Fuzz plugin, a free emulation of its own Fuzz guitar pedal for Linux, macOS, and Windows. The plugin is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, in AAX, VST, AU, and LV2 formats. I have to give props to VZTec, as the dev made it…
Autodafe has released Autodafe Formant Filter, a new free formant filter plugin for vocal-style filtering, sound design and synth processing. The plugin features smooth, continuous morphing between vowels (A, E, I, O, U) based on classic formant filter techniques, with a focused interface designed for real-time control and musical results. Key features: Continuous vowel morphing….
rncbc.org has announced the Early Winter’25 release of Qtractor version 1.5.10, for GNU/Linux. Changes for this release: Fixed ‘mime-info’ file to the correct MIME-type icon names. Improved/updated audio clip recording latency compensation. Save/load all plugin’s paths always as relative only to declared search paths (cf. View/Options…/Plugins/Paths) Audio Insert pseudo-plugins now have an extra user supplied…
Justin Ehrlichman’s JDrummer is an open-source VST-3 drum plugin built with the JUICE framework and featuring a range of kits, grooves, and some intelligent composition features. As you’ll see from the title, JDrummer isn’t macOS compatible, so before we get into it, let’s look at some alternatives for Mac users. If you’re after a retro…
AudioDeluxe is offering major holiday deals right now, chief among them SSL’s X-Limit and X-Comp plugins, now available for just $9.99 each. The X-Comp stereo compressor offers a larger reduction, dropping to 90% off its list price of $99. The X-Limit limiter has been reduced by 80% from its $49 list price. SSL’s X-Limit and X-Comp…
So far, 2025 has been one of the most generous years I’ve seen for free plugins. I’ve been covering freebies for well over a decade now, and every year, free plugins get a little better and more polished. That abundance comes with a downside, though. We’re starting to see a lot of the same plugin…
GS DSP has updated all its plugins to 2025.5. Changes: Completely redesigned UI: Hi-res knobs and sliders, improved layouts and skins. Gate and Trigger modes for LFOs and Random modulators. Single Slider with BPM type grid control for LFOs and Random modulators. New PulseTrain modulator. Improved Follower range handles. YouTube/f5pP5OUrCbE Read More Read the full…
