PreSonus teamed up with Waves to offer the OneKnob Louder plugin ($49 value) as a free download until March 15th, 2021. OneKnob Louder is a loudness booster by Waves, available in VST, VST3, AU, and AAX plugin formats for DAW applications on PC and Mac. It combines limiting and dynamic range compression with auto makeup…

Beat Magazine issue #183 includes free copies of IK Multimedia’s Syntronik Bully and the Halls Of Fame 3 Studio reverb plugin with 1GB of impulse responses. You can download a PDF copy of issue #183 from Producer Spot for €5.49 or subscribe via Plugins-Samples. A subscription gives you access to over 90 back issues and…

99Sounds has released Electromagnetic Sounds, a free sound effects library created by Marcel Gnauk of Free To Use Sounds. Electromagnetic Fields contains 2.4 GB of various electronic noises like humming, buzzing, static, interference, and glitches. The sounds were recorded by Marcel Gnauk, the sound design artist behind the Free To Use Sounds label. Marcel hooked…

In the first installment of a two-part story, we look at the evolution of vocal synthesis, from primitive speech-mimicking machines to modern software vocoders. It all started in 1974 with four Germans singing about a roadway. With its Beach Boys-style pop vocals and Minimoog bassline, ’Autobahn’ was a surprise hit single. It was also one…

sonicLAB has released the iOS version of its stochastic filter bank PaSSBot and updated it to version2.1 for the VST3 and AU formats. PaSSBot is a sound designer’s chisel…. Read More Read the full story

FrozenPlain has released Terracotta: Mirage, a tonal-percussion instrument made from sampling a unique terracotta-pots instrument. Terracotta is powered by FrozenPlain’s sample-based-synth… Read More Read the full story

Rast Sound has released Calm PRO for Kontakt, featuring a collection of solo instruments, ambiences, patterns and an engine that can play itself. Rast Sound says: … Read More Read the full story