SonaMetro has released Guitar Notebook version 3.4.1 for Mac, iPad, and iPhone with automatic chord detection. As you tap in notes on the fretboard suggested chord names are now shown, making it easy and accurate to add chords names to the patterns you play. The Chord Detector works seamlessly with the Chord Keyboard, which allows…
Venomode updates Mesa and Mesa Lite to v1.1.0
Venomode has updated Mesa and Mesa Lite This update fixes a rendering issue and includes some general quality of life improvements. Changes since 1.0.1 Fixed: Knob track value not starting from centre on +/- parameters. Added: Increased Mesa Lite knob size. Added: Increased font size and contrast slightly. Added: Save last author name in preset…
Rust Romance releases Drive in my head, a FREE saturation plugin
Developer Rust Romance has released Drive in my head, a free saturation plugin for Windows and macOS. Drive in my head is a physically modeled op-amp line-driver plugin. The developer says it is not designed as an obvious distortion or fuzz effect. Instead, the idea here is to give clean sources the feel of passing…
Hardwave Studios releases free Hardwave Analyser – Spectrum Analyser built for Harder Styles
Hardwave Studios has released the Hardwave Analyser, a free VST3 / CLAP spectrum analyser made for producers working in the harder styles — rawstyle, hardstyle, uptempo, frenchcore and industrial. Where generic analysers show a curve, Hardwave Analyser focuses on what matters in a hard kick: fundamental frequency with its Sub / Punch / Tail balance,…
KVR Audio Giveaway: Win a Copy of Freqport’s FT1-EMU
KVR has teamed up with Freqport to give away five copies of FreqTube FT1-EMU, their tube saturation and harmonics plugin. FreqTube FT1-EMU is built on a SPICE reference model derived from Freqport’s FreqTube FT1 hardware unit. Rather than impulse responses or transfer-function approximations, it models the FT1 circuit at the component level to reproduce tube…
Snorkel Audio Releases Little Duck, a Free Tempo-Synced Ducker Plugin
Snorkel Audio has released Little Duck, a free tempo-synced ducker for Mac and Windows, with iPad coming very soon. We just wanted a simple ducker of our own – and once we had the duck, we figured we’d share it. Free. Rather than routing in a sidechain signal from another track, Little Duck locks to…
Arvital Soft updates AudioRoute to v0.2.5
Arvital Soft has updated AudioRoute to v0.2.5. Release Notes 0.2.5 (2026-07-05) Menu bar icon now Retina-quality (was noticeably softer than the SF Symbols alongside it on high-DPI displays). Floating overlay gets a hover-revealed close button in the top-right corner — hidden while recording so it can’t be accidentally clicked mid-capture. 0.2.4 (2026-07-03) Plug-in editor now…
Quiet Music releases MotionTones – A generative instrument you play with physics
Quiet Music has released MotionTones, a generative instrument you play with physics. Users drop balls onto a 2D canvas. Gravity pulls them down, they bounce off the frame and off any walls, circles, triangles and gravity fields you draw, and every collision plays a note from the scale or chord you have set, voiced by…