Chaos Tones has released Deviant Drums FREE II, a free acoustic drum instrument for Kontakt Player 8.1 and up. It’s the sequel to the Deviant Drums FREE Edition we covered last July, and it builds on the same concept. You get one kit pulled from the paid version, served in a 2GB download. The thing…
You can now get HoRNet Plugins’ Graffio multi-band distortion for free for a limited time. You might get a strong sense of déjà vu from this offer because we’ve seen it before, and more than once. But it’s always worth sharing a freebie, no matter how many times it’s been available, because there are always…
As VirtualDJ software actually works with pretty much all DJ gear, every year I ask the boss of VirtualDJ the same question: which five controllers do you reckon work best with your software? He has skin in the game, he knows the mappings inside out, and his picks go straight into our annual Gear Guide…
Versilian Studios has released three new products for Kontakt 7.6.1+. Whistles D, C, and low F diatonic whistles with full true legato, 15 articulations total. 6 mixable mic positions including ribbons and measurement omnis. Ideal for folk, world, and game scores with flexibility to blend with other libraries. 2,445 unique samples/14,670 sample files, lossless NCW,…
Audio Hertz has released Ten Piece, a new guitar amp plugin for macOS and Windows in VST3, AU, and AAX formats. Inspired by a cult-classic small-format practice amp known for its distinctive distortion and musical EQ section, Ten Piece was designed to capture the feel and character of the original hardware using detailed neural modeling….
IMS has a way of compressing a year’s worth of industry conversation into a few days. Here’s what cut through for us in 2026. With Rising Revenues In Electronic music, Where Is The Money Actually Going? The IMS Business Report points to another year of growth for electronic music. The numbers are compelling. But spend…
Swar Systems has released a new update to SwarShala that bridges live audio input and classical notation. Create sequences by singing You can now create new melodic sequences in Bhatkhande format by just singing or playing them. The software registers the pitch curve of your performance and uses that to create a proper sargam sequence…
Imaginando has updated VS (Visual Synthesizer) to v2.2.0, featuring texture support inside shaders, drag and drop media, BPM detection, and a handful of improvements that make the whole thing feel snappier. New in VS 2.2.0 You can now load an image directly into a shader via the imageTex uniform, opening up a whole new category…
