Developer Rust Romance has released Drive in my head, a free saturation plugin for Windows and macOS. Drive in my head is a physically modeled op-amp line-driver plugin. The developer says it is not designed as an obvious distortion or fuzz effect. Instead, the idea here is to give clean sources the feel of passing…
Hardwave Studios has released the Hardwave Analyser, a free VST3 / CLAP spectrum analyser made for producers working in the harder styles — rawstyle, hardstyle, uptempo, frenchcore and industrial. Where generic analysers show a curve, Hardwave Analyser focuses on what matters in a hard kick: fundamental frequency with its Sub / Punch / Tail balance,…
KVR has teamed up with Freqport to give away five copies of FreqTube FT1-EMU, their tube saturation and harmonics plugin. FreqTube FT1-EMU is built on a SPICE reference model derived from Freqport’s FreqTube FT1 hardware unit. Rather than impulse responses or transfer-function approximations, it models the FT1 circuit at the component level to reproduce tube…
Snorkel Audio has released Little Duck, a free tempo-synced ducker for Mac and Windows, with iPad coming very soon. We just wanted a simple ducker of our own – and once we had the duck, we figured we’d share it. Free. Rather than routing in a sidechain signal from another track, Little Duck locks to…
Arvital Soft has updated AudioRoute to v0.2.5. Release Notes 0.2.5 (2026-07-05) Menu bar icon now Retina-quality (was noticeably softer than the SF Symbols alongside it on high-DPI displays). Floating overlay gets a hover-revealed close button in the top-right corner — hidden while recording so it can’t be accidentally clicked mid-capture. 0.2.4 (2026-07-03) Plug-in editor now…
Quiet Music has released MotionTones, a generative instrument you play with physics. Users drop balls onto a 2D canvas. Gravity pulls them down, they bounce off the frame and off any walls, circles, triangles and gravity fields you draw, and every collision plays a note from the scale or chord you have set, voiced by…
Safari Audio’s Sun Bear Bus Compressor is on sale at Plugin Boutique for $4.99, down from $129. The 96% discount runs until July 31, and Plugin Boutique is also including a choice of free gifts with the purchase. At the time of writing, the available gifts are Cloudmax Breeze Black Edition by Karanyi Sounds, AXXESS…
iZotope has been acquired by Boris FX. It’s fair to say 2026 has been an eventful year so far for Native Instruments and all involved with the audio industry powerhouse, including iZotope. Recent months have been a time of uncertainty for staff and customers alike, with the future of multiple well-established brands hanging in the…
