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,…

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 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 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 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…

tokyomeltdown has released version 2.0 of EQ Mirror, an update to its analysis plugin for macOS that shows the frequency response an EQ is actually applying. The update adds a second plugin, EQ Mirror Dock, covered by the same licence. EQ Mirror Dock hosts the EQ itself. It lists the AU and VST3 EQs installed…

Jeesonic has released version 1.3 of EQ Pro, a free update to its 24-band dynamic equalizer for macOS and Windows. A long click on a band handle now makes the band dynamic, the release adapts to the material, and Undo and Redo keep the last 50 edits. Alongside the update, Jeesonic has introduced EQ Pro…

Music By Mattie has released magic.METER, a free plugin that compares your vocal mix with measurements from 3,054 hit songs. Learning to trust your ears is the most important part of mixing and producing music. But I’ve always found vocals harder to mix than guitars, drums, or bass. We bedroom producers rarely have access to…