rncbc.org has announced the Early-Spring’26 release of Qtractor version 1.5.12, and the Vee One Suite version 1.4.1 of old-school software instruments, for GNU/Linux. Changes for this Qtractor release: New audio clip capture/recording latency compensation options are now in effect (cf. View/Options…/Audio/Capture/Latency). Filter out zero-duration note events when importing MIDI files. Fixed step input on offsetted…
Sound Dust releases Drift Prequel – Modular Stacking Instrument for Kontakt
Sound Dust has announced the release of Drift Prequel, a hybrid Kontakt instrument built around a modular stacking system and a drift modulation engine. Drift Prequel reworks material from earlier Sound Dust instruments – including Dulcitone 1884, Dulcitone 1900, Tiny Binaural Harpsichord and Grand Thrift Autoharp – into a single playable engine where 20 instruments…
Musical Entropy updates “Spaceship Delay” and “The Great Escape”
Musical Entropy has updated two of its plugins, Spaceship Delay and The Great Escape (an emulation of the Thrilltone dynamic tremolo pedal of the same name). Both plugins are still free and were originally released as part of the 2016 KVR Developer Challenge but hadn’t been updated since, particularly regarding support for ARM/Silicon versions of…
Bjt2 Updates Free “Crescendo” Programmable VST Plugin to v1.0.179 for Windows
Bjt2 has updated the free Crescendo plugin to version 1.0.179 with various enhancements and bug fixes. Changes in 1.0.179 from 1.0.176: UI – Introduced Knob skinning with transparency. UI – Introduced Double Buffering and bitmap caching for flicker free UI even on older systems. Engine and UI bugfixes and performance enhancements. Compiled with the latest…
Timedomain updates ACE Studio to v2.0.7 – Introduces Video Composer
Timedomain has announced the release of ACE Studio 2.0.7, a free update to the all-in-one AI music studio that introduces Video Composer, a new score-to-picture feature. ACE Studio is the flagship product of Timedomain, a technology company with a focus in the AI audio space, featuring AI-powered vocal synthesis, AI instrument software and Generative AI…
Plea Teach releases Spectaverb, a FREE multi-FX reverb plugin for Windows
Spectaverb is the second plugin by Plea Tech we’re looking at in one day, and it seems just as interesting as the first, Pure Amber. Pure Amber is a spectral shaping and resonance suppressor plugin for Windows, and it’s free for a limited time, so don’t miss it. Spectaverb is also a Windows exclusive, which…
Plea Tech offers Pure Amber spectral shaping plugin for Windows for FREE for a limited time
Pure Amber is a spectral-shaping and resonance-control plugin for Windows made by Plea Tech, usually priced at $9.99, but is now available for free for a limited time. You can now download it for free using the promo code “VI-CONTROL” for a limited time. I’m not sure how long the promo code will remain active,…
AlphaTheta Pulls Rekordbox 7.2.12 Over USB Export Bug
AlphaTheta has withdrawn Rekordbox 7.2.12 from distribution after discovering a bug that can prevent tracks exported to USB from loading correctly on Pioneer DJ and AlphaTheta hardware – the third USB-related headache for the company in the space of just a few months. The version, which was only released on 17 March, has already been…