The November 2026 issue of Beat Magazine includes Baby Audio Super VHS and Steinberg Cubase LE 15 alongside its usual collection of sounds and production software. The English digital issue costs €4.99 from the publisher. This is issue #250, and its main focus is on microphones, room treatment, recording chains, and getting a vocal from…
BeatSkillz Slam2 is FREE with the SLAMJAM coupon code
BeatSkillz is offering Slam2, its track phattener plugin for macOS and Windows, for free with the code SLAMJAM. Slam2 was heavily discounted when we covered it back in 2021. It is currently listed at $79 on the BeatSkillz site, but the coupon brings the cart and checkout total down to $0. To claim it, add…
Drumforge offers Kickforge kick drum plugin for FREE for a limited time
Drumforge is giving away Kickforge, its kick drum instrument plugin for macOS and Windows. The offer appears as a pop-up when you visit the Drumforge homepage, but the free claim page I linked to below is the more convenient route. It takes you straight to a form asking for your first name and email address,…
Tech House Market launches SPIT bassline generator alongside LOCK and KIX
Tech House Market has released SPIT, a house bassline MIDI generator, alongside its first two instruments, LOCK and KIX. After six years of sample packs, including the Amsterdam Grooves series, its new SPIT plugin offers a quick way to sketch bass parts for house, tech house, minimal, and UK garage tracks. You can pick one…
Styley releases Softbox, a FREE glitch and multi-effect plugin with a Windows 98 look
Styley has released Softbox, a free glitch and multi-effect plugin for macOS and Windows. We’ve already had some amazing freebies in October, but this one is the most pleasant surprise for me so far. I wasn’t expecting much from it before testing, but Styley turned out to be incredibly simple to use and, at the…
AudioThing releases Materia – Additive Re-Synthesizer Plugin for macOS, Linux and Window
AudioThing has released Materia, an additive re-synthesizer plugin. Materia transforms any sample into a playable instrument. Load a sound and Materia analyses it into harmonic partials, each with its own frequency, amplitude, phase, and complex envelope. From there, you can reshape the spectrum, redraw how individual partials evolve, add resonant material models, filtering, and modulation,…
touski releases GrooveBloom – plugin that plays melodies and chords from your drums (VST3 Windows)
touski has released GrooveBloom, a VST3 effect plugin for Windows that listens to a drum loop or sample and plays melodies and chords on its rhythm. Put GrooveBloom on a beat and it detects the key and chords live (or you can set them yourself), then plays a note or chord on every hit it…
Fracture Sounds Releases Alternative Woodwind Soloists for Kontakt Player
Fracture Sounds has released Alternative Woodwind Soloists, a Kontakt Player library focused on the rarely used members of the orchestral woodwind family. It is positioned as an alternative to the company’s earlier Emotive Woodwind Soloists. The library centres on breathy, airy instruments and introduces the alto flute, bass flute, bass clarinet and tenor recorder to…