Unplugred has released multiple well-received plugins over the past couple of years, and the popular developer is back with another typically quirky offering – Magic Carpet, a free delay plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Last year, we got Diet Audio, the free spectral gate plugin, and before that, we had Prisma, a multiband distortion….

Developer KiTiK has just released the newest addition to his sound mangling suite – Krush, a “spectral crushing” effect for macOS and Windows that is available in AU and VST3 format. Do you need to transform a boring track? Make a sound weird and wonky? Are you pining for digital artifacts? Look no further! If…

Now and then, we’re fortunate enough to have a Kontakt library come along that ticks every box; it’s free, incredible quality, and compatible with Kontakt Player- Sonixinema’s Delicate Strings is one such instrument. Delicate Strings is part of the Sonixinema Origins series, a series of free instruments for Kontakt Player. Delicate Strings gives us a…

Looking for new ways to make music pay? Build a catalogue, and it might be worth something some day… Create Music Group (CMG) has acquired the recording and publishing catalogues of deadmau5 and his label, mau5trap, in a deal worth over $55 million. The acquisition includes the rights to more than 4,000 songs and establishes…

Audiomodern’s flagship software, Playbeat 4, uses AI-powered, genre-based pattern generation and a refined new GUI. But does it still rank among the best sequencers out there? Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized industries across the board, and music production is no exception. While AI often sparks scepticism — cue the usual eye-rolls about robots taking over —developers…