The holidays are almost here, and it’s the best time of the year to purchase a gift for your music producer friends or yourself (why not?). I handpicked some of my favorite holiday deals for music producers in the article below. Instead of an endless list with hundreds of links, I compiled a shorter selection…

Baby Audio released Beat Slammer, a free compressor plugin for Windows and macOS. We’re back again today with another enticing freebie for your mixing approval. Baby Audio has a slew of other freebies like Magic Switch, Pitch Drift, Magic Dice, and Baby Comeback. Now, you can throw Beat Slammer into the mix, which is their…

Sonible just released the Smart:EQ 4 Intelligent Equalizer and has made it available at an introductory price of €89 for Mac and Windows. Smart:EQ 4 is on sale until January 20, 2024, after which the plugin will be listed at the standard price of €129. On Mac, the plugin is available for VST, VST3, AAX…

French boffins Arturia are giving away their new Efx Refract stereo multi-effects plugin for free until January 4, 2024. The plugin was released today, and you can pick it up via the product page linked at the bottom of this article or the Arturia Software Center app. You’ll need to sign up for a free…

2B Played Music offers the SlimVerb reverb plugin as a free download for a limited time. It isn’t quite the holiday season without some freebies, now is it? Today’s selection covers one of my favorite effects, and I am talking about reverb, of course. SlimVerb is the latest freebie from the folks over at 2B…

Minimal Audio has released a new reverb plugin, Swarm Reverb. Swarm Reverb is now available as a standalone plugin. If you are already an owner of Current, their excellent synth that we included in our “Best Gear 2023” then you will already be aware of the reverb. Now however, the reverb is available as a…

We tested the best gifts for music producers in 2023. Refer to our guide below if you want music production Christmas gifts below $200. ‘Tis the season to be merry, and nothing makes it merrier than some shiny new gear! Throw those socks and undies out of the cart and get that music producer in…

Geonkick is a free drum synthesizer plugin for VST3 and LV2 plugin hosts on Windows and Linux. We’ve talked a fair bit about synths this year, but Geonkick is a novel one. While you can certainly use any sort of synthesizer for generating percussive sounds, few are freely available that have drum sound synthesis as…