Codwaves’ Seaquake Techno Rumble is a free tool to help bring your kicks to the next level.  The plugin is available for macOS and Windows in VST and AU formats. Seaquake Techno Rumble is designed to elevate your kicks by adding rumble with serious depth and resonance.  Codwaves names techno producers as the main target…

Fine Classic Plugins has released Subtle Spaces, a reverb plugin for macOS and Windows. and the developer’s first free plugin. Subtle Spaces is a new convolution reverb effect with a simple and intuitive GUI. The featured IRs (impulse responses) include sixteen rooms and spaces of various sizes. The various shapes and sizes of the rooms…

KVR Audio and Izotope have teamed up to give away Izotope’s new Neutron 5 Elements intelligent mixing suite for free until December 31, 2024.  Neutron 5 Elements is a 64-bit only macOS and Windows release available in AAX, AU, and VST3 formats. The plugin, normally priced at $49, is brand spanking new, having just dropped…

ADSR Sounds is giving away the FRMS granular synth from Imaginando for free, so long as you make any purchase on their website. Synths come in all shapes and sizes, but we do not often encounter a granular synth that you can get for free. There is no minimum spending requirement, and any purchase will earn…

IVH Audio, a plugin developer based out of Japan, has a brand new free release that we’ll look at today – e::Pi and e::Pi Lite. He had previously released a free “supercollider version” of the classic Roland TR-808 drum machine called SC-808, which we covered on BPB in 2020. Back then, the plugin was released…

From the 909 to samplers to Ableton Live, here is the hardware and software that helped shape the sound of techno – in all its many variations. Next year marks an impressive milestone for techno as it approaches 40 years of shaping the music world. If we mark the start of techno with the release…