Analogue Samples

mfkne has released PUNCHDUST, a character dynamics and texture plugin for macOS and Windows, free to download. PUNCHDUST works on three coupled ideas at once. PUNCH drags the attack forward through a dual-stage transient shaper into a soft clipper at 2x oversampling, using a 97-tap linear-phase half-band filter so the boosted highs stay clean instead…

Shadaloo Audio DSP has made Density EQ, its four-band presence and weight-shaping equalizer, permanently free. Fabio “Shadaloo” Caterino shared the news in the BPB Community yesterday (thank you!), explaining that he wanted to make the plugin accessible to anyone who would like to try it. Density EQ previously cost €19, but it is now available…

W.A. Production is offering Presser, its $29.90 creative compressor plugin, as a free download with the code TBC100 until September 6, 2026. The giveaway is a collaboration with The Beat Community. To claim it, add Presser to your cart on the W.A. Production website, enter TBC100 at checkout, and complete the order for free. W.A….

apulSoft has updated apUnmask to version 1.0.7. Changes: Linux support. Better compatibility with macOS 26 Tahoe. Improved handling of Unicode in preset names. Various bugfixes. Read More Read the full story

AudioThing has released Orbita, a Euclidean drum machine plugin. Orbita is designed for creating evolving, interlocking grooves with ease. Built around a circular sequencer, it lets you distribute beats across eight sample tracks and instantly explore polyrhythms, shifting accents, offsets, swing, etc. Shape each sound with flexible controls, load your own samples, and transform simple…

Harmony Lab Audio has released Harmony Pro, a free harmony assistant for musicians and composers for macOS and Windows. Harmony Pro is designed to help users explore chord progressions and discover alternative harmonic directions. Its harmony engine analyzes the current musical context and proposes chord suggestions that can be shaped using style profiles, musical directions…

Audiofier has released Micron Strigor and Cineloops Extreme, two new additions to its catalogue of cinematic instruments. They cost $29 each and require the full version of Kontakt. Micron Strigor Micron Strigor takes a more unconventional approach to source material, combining environmental noises, insects and critters, organic foley and other environmental textures with raw analogue…

Decomposer has released Dert, a free distortion plugin with one knob and four increasingly mangled flavors of dirt. If the developer name sounds familiar, Decomposer is the team behind Sitala. I love Sitala; it is one of my go-to tools when I want to load and play drum samples quickly without firing up a more…