Bjango has released Buckets And Decay ($49), a BBD and PT2399 delay, chorus, flanger, and vibrato plugin for macOS and Windows. We are giving away five free Buckets And Decay licenses to BPB readers. To enter the giveaway, leave a comment below, and we will randomly pick five winners from the comments. We have already…
Box of Rules has released Picking Fingers, a free bass guitar processing plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Picking Fingers is designed to process a bass recording played one way so it sounds as if it were played the other way. In other words, you can push fingerstyle bass toward a picked sound, or move…
Gospel Musicians has released Gospel Drummer, a virtual acoustic drum instrument for gospel, contemporary worship, R&B, neo-soul, and urban music production. The instrument focuses on the kind of expressive playing associated with modern gospel drumming: tight kicks, musical snares, warm cymbals, lively ghost notes, energetic fills, and a strong room sound. Gospel Drummer includes two…
DJWORX was there as Final Scratch, Serato Scratch Live and Traktor transformed turntables into controllers for digital music. More than 20 years later, the Skratchworx archive tells the story as it happened. Read the full story
Gospel Musicians has released Gospel Drummer, a virtual drum instrument designed specifically for gospel, contemporary worship, R&B, neo-soul, and urban music production. Gospel Drummer combines deeply sampled acoustic gospel drum kits with an extensive MIDI groove library, flexible microphone routing, drag-and-drop MIDI, and integrated sound-shaping tools for studio production and live performance. The instrument was…
Voting has closed in the KVR Developer Challenge 2026, the tenth free-for-all audio plugin / audio application / soundware design event. With a record 56 entries this year it was quite a challenge just to make the time to download them and put them through their paces, even with the one week extension. You can,…
GSi has released Piano Studio, a new physical modeling grand piano virtual instrument. This new plugin recreates the sound of a generic 9-foot grand piano using primarily complex real-time mathematical calculations and only a few samples for noise and other minor details. Parameters include string damping, detuning, resonance, and more, allowing the sound to be…
Solid State Logic has released SSL 360° V2.1, a significant update to its U Series controller platform that brings deeper integration across UC1, UF8 and UF1, streamlined workflow enhancements for Logic Pro and Pro Tools users, expanded Plug-in Mixer functionality, and native UC1 support for the new Harrison 32Classic Channel Strip V2 Plug-in. Designed to…
