South African Producer Kyle Watson has spent years carving his own path within House Music, building an international career outside of the traditional electronic music centres, from performing at festivals like Ultra South Africa and Coachella to developing a distinctive body of studio work. With a new collaboration alongside Body Ocean and a second album…
Fracture Sounds has announced the release of Trails II, the second library in its collaboration with composer and artist Alexander Parsons, following on from the original Trails. Trails II brings together solo trumpet, bass clarinet, synths, and percussion, including a rare Canna Sonora tuned percussion instrument, sampled for the first time, all resonating off different…
discoDSP has updated FX Bundle to v3.9 adding Finalizer, a complete one-window mastering chain modelled on the classic TC Finalizer, joining the bundle for the first time. FX Bundle is a collection of ten audio plugins for mixing, mastering and sound design: Distortion, EQ10, FFT Analyzer, Finalizer, NightShine 2, Samurai Delay, Schroeder Reverb, Scope, Spectrum…
United Plugins has released FireSnareVerb, a specialised parallel spatial processor developed by FireSonic. The plugin is available through the United Plugins store and introduces a dedicated approach to processing snare drums. Traditional reverb plugins can sometimes wash out the initial impact of transient-driven instruments like snare drums, muddying the stereo field and disconnecting the drum…
Rawl has announced the release of Anchor, an audio plugin that analyzes the “stable components” and “transient components” of a sound, shaping its character across frequency bands. Rather than working like a traditional EQ or compressor, Anchor takes an analysis-first approach — it reads the unique “stability profile” of the source material and applies custom…
Morphulus has updated Spectrus to 1.4.0, adding Mirage (a granular pitch-cloud), a Master Limiter, and a restyled rack. Spectrus is a modular multi-effect: 24 effects across four freely-routable slots, 951 presets, dark/light themes. Windows / macOS / Linux in VST3, AU, LV2 and CLAP. New in Spectrus 1.4.0 Mirage – a new granular pitch-cloud: Mirage…
Developer Pixelsncodes has released Lumen, a free Windows-only open-source synth that turns images into sound. Lumen is a free and open-source wavetable synth that turns images into sound. Pixelsncodes created Lumen using the Claude AI coding agent. The synth features two wavetable oscillators, each with dedicated controls, including Morph, Pan, Unison, Detune, Width, and Blend….
Plugin Boutique is offering Solid State Logic’s SSL Native X-Comp for $10, down from $99. The 89% discount runs until July 13, and Plugin Boutique is also including a free gift with the purchase. At the time of writing, the available gifts shown on the product page are Cloudmax Breeze Black Edition by Karanyi Sounds,…
