Analogue Samples

Scrap Brain Audio’s 2G is a free lo-fi sampler inspired by early-2000s mobile phones, with text-to-sound generation. I’m absolutely in love with the interface. In fact, it’s one of the coolest and most fun plugin interfaces I’ve ever used. I love pixel art, and we’ve been seeing a lot of AI-generated pixel art lately, which…

Tuned Plugins has released Vocal Essentials Bundle V2, a collection of four updated vocal effects for macOS and Windows, with a 72-hour launch offer priced at $9.99. The Tuned V2 launch offer is part of the developer’s “F*CK AI SLOP” campaign, which is the developer’s antidote to rushed plugins made using AI. Tuned is a…

Unusable Engineering has released Currents & Nostalgia, a six-voice virtual analogue synthesizer for macOS and Windows. Currents & Nostalgia uses two circuit-modelled oscillators based on a saw-core oscillator originally designed by Unusable Engineering founder Rasmus Nyåker for an earlier hardware project. The instrument combines these with a saturating waveform mixer, low-pass and high-pass filters, and…

Nikolozi has updated Mela, a modular AUv3 plug-in for iOS and macOS, to version 8.0. Here’s what’s new: Adaptive Layout on iOS Improved the standalone iPhone layout, including iPhone Duo when folded or unfolded. Maximises screen space with a layout that follows the device’s rounded corners, while ensuring camera cutouts don’t prevent access to controls….

Rockheyday has released Smooth 7, a 7-band dynamic equalizer designed for transparent frequency control, resonance suppression, and subtle analog warmth. Combining zero-latency minimum-phase processing with an intuitive node-based workflow, it applies selective dynamic compression only when problematic frequencies exceed the threshold. With per-band soft-knee ballistics, an integrated tape-transformer saturation stage, and comprehensive dual-layer spectral metering,…

NeuSynth is an AI instrument-stem generator designed to create new layers from audio supplied within a DAW. Producers can use up to 60 seconds of a track as Context, select one to six instrument layers, and generate four variation sets to audition alongside their original audio. Each variation set contains a separate WAV file for…

Marula Music has released updates to Spek, its saturation plugin, and Veld, its multiband stereo imager. Spek gains automatic gain compensation for level-matched comparisons, while Veld 1.1 introduces a decoupled mode with independent stereo processing across its four bands. Veld 1.1 adds independent stereo engines per band Veld 1.1 offers linked and decoupled processing modes….