cloph-dsp has released Grungr, a free/pay-what-you-want drive pedal emulation for guitar, bass, and anything else that needs more bite. You might remember Pedro Castro from Freeze95, the fun little stochastic stutter and freeze effect we featured on BPB earlier this year. I loved that one, so Grungr is another interesting free effect from the same…
Baby Audio’s Super VHS lo-fi multi-effect plugin is on sale at Plugin Boutique for $10 until July 26. The regular price is $69, so this is a good time to grab it if you have been waiting for a bigger discount. Super VHS is still one of the easiest-to-use lo-fi VHS-style plugins out there. It…
Pleatech Audio is offering WorldVerb, a creative reverb plugin for Windows, as a free download for BPB readers. Developer Niels posted the offer in the BPB community section and shared a coupon code that unlocks the full version, with future updates included. That code is KAAPXM3; I tested it, and it works. Thanks to Niels for…
AOFN Audio has released Grizzly, a free stereo modulation plugin for macOS and Windows. Grizzly is modeled on the 1979 Gristleizer circuit, the strange little LFO-driven pedal that Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle famously used on drum machines, tapes, synths, and plenty of other sources. Developer Marcel describes Grizzly as his software interpretation of that…
Ambient music is easy to make badly and brutally hard to make well, which is why most instruments aimed at the genre end up as reverb vomitoriums. The Sonicware Ambient Ø is a $279 plastic box that actually understands the assignment: four independently sequenced layers, an engine built specifically to keep tones from ever settling,…
The public beta of the free KVR Studio Manager application for macOS and Windows has been updated to v0.4.0.3. You can download directly from www.kvraudio.com/kvr-studio-manager or if you launch KSM it’ll offer the download automatically. Changes in KSM v0.4.0.3 (Public Beta): AAX scan log now more verbose. Fixed version number detection for Roland AAX plugins….
SonicModeler has announced the release of Syntropy 2.0, a major update to its formula-driven synthesizer and sound-design instrument for Windows and macOS. Syntropy 2.0 introduces a faster and more intuitive workflow, improved performance, expanded sound-design capabilities, and a completely redesigned user interface. New in Syntropy 2.0: Up to 16 directly controllable synthesis parameters per preset….
Aide Audio has released GE-1 Gravity Engine, an effect plugin built for bass and low-frequency instruments that pairs a one-knob tilt EQ with automatic kick-triggered spectral ducking. How It Works Press LEARN and play a short bass phrase the way you actually play it. GE-1 analyses the signal in real time, finds the pivot frequency…
