The updated popular bass drum synth combines synthesis, samples, wavetable generation, internal effects and multi-output routing. PunchBox 2 is built around four sound generators. Three of these are universal sample-based layers, designed to add transients, body, noise or supporting material around the main kick. The main Kick generator can run in five modes: Sample, 909,…

quanta has updated gen, the MIDI arpeggiator plugin for macOS, to v1.2. What’s New: Range Rand settable by note parameter (note, velocity, duration and octave). Rest Threshold Knob – notes generated with a velocity bellow rest threshold will be muted. UI – Each note toggle button blinks as note is triggered to play. Selected notes…

FX-Mechanics has released MechanOdd, a polyphonic physical-modelling synthesizer plugin (VST3/AU) built with JUCE. It synthesizes sound by exciting simulated mechanical resonators (strings, plates, membranes, and beams) and routing the results through a feedback matrix, effects chains, and a modulation engine. Concept MechanOdd is built around the idea that interesting timbres arise from the interaction between…

Noisebud has released Hiss, a spectral processor for targeting resonant and noise-like parts of a signal independently. Hiss began with a mastering problem: a great mix with vocal sibilance that was too sharp, where conventional de-essers, dynamic EQs, and existing spectral processors either did not catch the right part of the sound or changed too…

Waldorf has released Version 2 of its Microwave 1 Plugin, the software recreation of the company’s first hardware synthesizer from 1989. The update raises the instrument’s polyphony from eight voices to 32 by emulating additional voice cards, and adds two arpeggiators, new voice-allocation modes, and a multi-effect delay. The original Microwave was a rackmount wavetable…

Arturia has released Rev OCEAN, a reverb plugin built around a feedback delay network (FDN) reverberator with multi-stage diffusion and three selectable modulation modes. The plugin shares its FDN engine with Arturia’s Efx AMBIENT but pairs it with finer parameter control and a more focused interface aimed at fluid tails and evolving atmospheres rather than…

Waldorf has released Version 2 of its Microwave 1 Plugin, the software recreation of the company’s first hardware synthesizer from 1989. The update raises the instrument’s polyphony from eight voices to 32 by emulating additional voice cards, and adds two arpeggiators, new voice-allocation modes, and a multi-effect delay. The original Microwave was a rackmount wavetable…

Arturia has released Rev OCEAN, a reverb plugin built around a feedback delay network (FDN) reverberator with multi-stage diffusion and three selectable modulation modes. The plugin shares its FDN engine with Arturia’s Efx AMBIENT but pairs it with finer parameter control and a more focused interface aimed at fluid tails and evolving atmospheres rather than…