Ample Sound has released Ample Ethno v4, featuring three instruments: Lapsteel, Ukulele, and Banjo. New Features: Riffer 4: A MIDI editor tailored for plucked string instruments. All-new Strumming and Chord System: The innovative “Strum Note” treats multiple sub-notes within a chord as a single editable object, allowing unified control over strum time, velocity gradient, and…
Solid State Logic Releases autoSeries Plug-ins – SSL Modeling Meets sonible AI
Solid State Logic has announced the release of the autoSeries, a new family of plug-ins developed in partnership with AI audio processing developer sonible. The range includes autoEQ, autoDYN, and autoBUS. These tools combine SSL’s emulation of the 4000 Series console architectures with sonible’s machine learning technology for source-based audio analysis. The autoSeries plug-ins feature…
Best Service releases Alpine Volksmusik 1 for Engine Player
Best Service has announced that Alpine Volksmusik 1 is now available for the Engine Player. Featuring 24 authentic instruments – from accordion and Zillertal fiddle to a full brass band – this library delivers a true Alpine folk music experience, performed by leading virtuosos of the genre. All instruments run natively in the Engine Player,…
Windows-G releases E-Expander600 – JSFX Expander Plugin
Windows-G has announced the release of E-Expander600, a JSFX expander plugin for REAPER that features both upward and downward expansion modes: The upward expansion mode can be used for restoring dynamics to heavily compressed or limited tracks, sidechain upward expansion to make a track increase in volume dynamically in response to another track, and for…
FX-Mechanics Releases TeAr – Free Polyrhythmic & Polyphonic MIDI Arpeggiator VST Plugin for Windows and Linux
FX-Mechanics has announced the beta release of TeAr, a free and open source polyrhythmic and polyphonic MIDI arpeggiator plugin for Windows and Linux in VST2 and VST formats. TeAr features four independent arpeggiator engines, each with its own pattern, subdivision, and MIDI output channel, configured using a simple yet powerful language. This allows for the…
Plughugger releases “Hellscape” for Omnisphere 2
Plughugger has released Hellscape for Omnisphere 2, a cinematic sound expander “forged in the ashes of a world burning”. Twisted, fractured and merciless, this collection descends into a brutal sonic environment shaped by destruction, decay and relentless pressure. Built for Omnisphere 2, Hellscape explores sound design where every tone is distorted, desolate and stripped of…
DAWJunkie releases Craze, a FREE crunchy phaser effect
Developer DAWJunkie has released Craze, a free crunchy phaser effect for macOS and Windows. The start of a new year is often when we hope and plan for change. But when it comes to DAWJunkie, I just want more of the same, and, as expected, the increasingly popular developer has delivered. DAWJunkie’s latest release is…
Manifest Audio Unleash Major Update: New Devices, V2 Overhauls & Future-Forward Bundle
Manifest Audio have released their most expansive update yet, introducing two brand-new Max for Live devices, five major version 2 upgrades to flagship tools, and a future-facing Ultra Bundle 2026. Two All-New Devices Expand Generative and Rhythmic Possibilities Conversation Engine A highlight of the offerings, Conversation Engine introduces a dual-voice sequencing system for generative call-and-response within Ableton…