Arturia has released Rev OCEAN, a reverb plugin built around a feedback delay network (FDN) reverberator with multi-stage diffusion and three selectable modulation modes. The plugin shares its FDN engine with Arturia’s Efx AMBIENT but pairs it with finer parameter control and a more focused interface aimed at fluid tails and evolving atmospheres rather than…
Waldorf Updates Microwave 1 Plugin to Version 2 – 32-Voice Polyphony, Two Arpeggiators and a New Delay
Waldorf has released Version 2 of its Microwave 1 Plugin, the software recreation of the company’s first hardware synthesizer from 1989. The update raises the instrument’s polyphony from eight voices to 32 by emulating additional voice cards, and adds two arpeggiators, new voice-allocation modes, and a multi-effect delay. The original Microwave was a rackmount wavetable…
Arturia Releases Rev OCEAN – FDN Reverb with Three Modulation Modes and Tail Freeze
Arturia has released Rev OCEAN, a reverb plugin built around a feedback delay network (FDN) reverberator with multi-stage diffusion and three selectable modulation modes. The plugin shares its FDN engine with Arturia’s Efx AMBIENT but pairs it with finer parameter control and a more focused interface aimed at fluid tails and evolving atmospheres rather than…
Jun Murakami Releases Synth-80 – plugin inspired by the Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter (VST3, AU & AAX)
Jun Murakami has released Synth-80, a software synthesizer inspired by the Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter (Rev.4). According to the developer, the instrument was modeled using more than 100 automated measurement programs covering every circuit and parameter of the original hardware, with DSP tuning carried out alongside a long-term analysis of an MKS-80 Rev.4 unit. The…
D16 Group Releases PunchBox 2 Bass Drum Synthesizer Plugin
D16 Group has announced the release of PunchBox 2, the next generation of its bass drum synthesizer plug-in. The new version features an improved processing engine, a more accessible and streamlined user interface, and a wide range of new features designed to enhance workflow and sound design capabilities: New Wavetable engine for Kick generator. Advanced…
Plughugger releases “J60 Heatwave” for Omnisphere 3
Plughugger has released J60 Heatwave, a soundset for Omnisphere 3 inspired by one of the defining synthesizers of the 1980s: the Roland Juno-60. Built using both the newly added Juno waveforms in Omnisphere 3 and the classic soundsources included in earlier versions, this collection dives into everything that made the instrument popular — warm chorus-drenched…
Dusty Plugins releases Dusty Tube 2, a FREE guitar/bass amp sim for Windows
From developer Dusty Plugins comes Dusty Tube 2, a free guitar & bass amp sim for Windows. We covered the original Dusty Tube plugin in early 2025, and for anyone who missed it, it’s an amp simulator built on the Neural Amp Modeler (NAM). Dusty Tube 2, as you’d expect, is the same thing with…
Safari Pedals gives away 10,000 Gorilla Drive licenses to BPB readers
Safari Pedals is giving away 10,000 free Gorilla Drive licenses exclusively to BPB readers. Gorilla Drive normally costs $39.99, but you can get it for free at checkout with the coupon code BPB-Gorilla100. The offer is limited to 10,000 copies, so it is absolutely worth grabbing sooner rather than later if you want it. Gorilla…