Positive Grid has updated BIAS X, the advanced guitar tone creation platform, to v1.3, which now lets users load their NAM (Neural Amp Modeler) captures directly into BIAS X. Captures load into the amp slot, where they can be combined with BIAS X’s effects and tone controls. Here’s a video featuring Fluff from Riffs, Beards…

Parallel Minds has released Atavism for iPad, an Audio Unit (AUv3) version of its spectral effect plug-in for macOS and Windows. Atavism makes a pad out of the track itself: the drums fade away, but the chord continues to resonate. The pad stays in the song’s key and follows it through every chord change. On…

Tuned Plugins has released Vocal Essentials Bundle V2, a collection of four updated vocal effects for macOS and Windows, with a 72-hour launch offer priced at $9.99. The Tuned V2 launch offer is part of the developer’s “F*CK AI SLOP” campaign, which is the developer’s antidote to rushed plugins made using AI. Tuned is a…

Scrap Brain Audio’s 2G is a free lo-fi sampler inspired by early-2000s mobile phones, with text-to-sound generation. I’m absolutely in love with the interface. In fact, it’s one of the coolest and most fun plugin interfaces I’ve ever used. I love pixel art, and we’ve been seeing a lot of AI-generated pixel art lately, which…

Unusable Engineering has released Currents & Nostalgia, a six-voice virtual analogue synthesizer for macOS and Windows. Currents & Nostalgia uses two circuit-modelled oscillators based on a saw-core oscillator originally designed by Unusable Engineering founder Rasmus Nyåker for an earlier hardware project. The instrument combines these with a saturating waveform mixer, low-pass and high-pass filters, and…

Nikolozi has updated Mela, a modular AUv3 plug-in for iOS and macOS, to version 8.0. Here’s what’s new: Adaptive Layout on iOS Improved the standalone iPhone layout, including iPhone Duo when folded or unfolded. Maximises screen space with a layout that follows the device’s rounded corners, while ensuring camera cutouts don’t prevent access to controls….

Rockheyday has released Smooth 7, a 7-band dynamic equalizer designed for transparent frequency control, resonance suppression, and subtle analog warmth. Combining zero-latency minimum-phase processing with an intuitive node-based workflow, it applies selective dynamic compression only when problematic frequencies exceed the threshold. With per-band soft-knee ballistics, an integrated tape-transformer saturation stage, and comprehensive dual-layer spectral metering,…

NeuSynth is an AI instrument-stem generator designed to create new layers from audio supplied within a DAW. Producers can use up to 60 seconds of a track as Context, select one to six instrument layers, and generate four variation sets to audition alongside their original audio. Each variation set contains a separate WAV file for…