UAD Audio Plugins released Verve Analog Machines Essentials, an analog-style one knob saturation plugin for Windows and macOS. The plugin is free to download until April 30th. A saturation plugin from the DSP giants at Universal Audio is a reason to celebrate, but the good news doesn’t end there. Universal Audio also offers a free…

Audiobro has released a new free Kontakt Player library called Silver. The project is an ambitious, growing collection of carefully curated sounds to inspire creative music makers. Silver started as a single deeply sampled tongue drum library. It evolved into a diverse instrument with enough variety of sounds to create entire tunes with this virtual…

Continuing the Blueprint series, Fracture Sounds’ latest free sound library is Toy Piano, compatible with Kontakt Player. In previous articles, we covered Greenhead Chimes, Festive Bells, and Textural Violin libraries. All of these are free libraries for Kontakt Player. Toy Piano is the 6th library of the series, and it features, as you may have guessed,…

Developer Aurora DSP has released Liver 6, a free VST plugin simulating the early Line6 POD 2.0. I will readily admit I groan audibly for most of April Fools Day. It used to be more inventive, or perhaps I was more tolerant of things as a kid. These days, though, it’s like folks are just…

Spectral Plugins make their plugins free to download and use following the company’s closing.   It is always a sad day when a developer closes their doors. No matter the occasion, something is lost when someone has to hang it all up and move on to other ventures. Unfortunately, the folks behind Spectral Plugins are going…