Codwaves has released BassXtend, a psychoacoustic bass enhancement plugin for macOS and Windows, priced at €14.99. BassXtend helps kicks, basslines, 808s, bass guitars, and drum groups translate to phones, laptops, earbuds, and other playback systems that cannot properly reproduce the lowest frequencies. As most of us have learned the hard way, simply boosting the sub-bass…
Dreamtonics Completes Its Trilogy With Instrument X
Dreamtonics completes its trilogy with Instrument X, a neural acoustic modelling platform for orchestral instruments Dreamtonics, the Tokyo based developer behind vocal synthesis tools Synthesizer V and Vocoflex, has unveiled Instrument X, a new platform that moves the company from vocal synthesis into full orchestral scoring. Rather than relying on traditional multi gigabyte sample libraries,…
Big Man Labs Releases Bigulator Analog Modeled Multiband Clipper/Saturator (VST3, AU, AAX & CLAP)
Big Man Labs has released Bigulator, a circuit-level model of an obscure analog mastering clipper taken off the schematic and fitted to measurements of the unit. The original is a VCA driven at audio rate by a peak-skimming rectifier. There is no detector, so the shape of the waveform is doing all the work. Big…
Mutagene releases Xoradora Drum Machine as Open Beta (VST3, AU & CLAP)
Mutagene has released 1.0.0-beta.1 of Xoradora, a resynthesising drum machine that analyses and then resynthesises each drum (or other) sample using one of 7 parametric models for high flexility in timbral flexibility. For everything from subtle timbral variations to extreme FSU, the sampler builds on an old warped lattice stack but with a lot of…
rncbc.org updates Qtractor to v1.6.3 and Vee One Suite to v1.4.3 for Linux
rncbc.org has announced the (northern) Late-Summer’26 release of Qtractor version 1.6.3, and the Vee One Suite version 1.4.3 of old-school software instruments, for GNU/Linux. Changes for this Qtractor release: Fix incorrect audio clip offset after tempo change and Automatic time-stretching is in effect. VST3 Plug-ins: make sure initialization and setup are done in correct order;…
ukdf releases GrainCharlie – Free Granular Synthesizer
ukdf has announced the release of GrainCharlie, a free granular synthesizer plugin. For about a year, we were looking for an affordable granular synthesizer that didn’t have anything unnecessary. We wanted a tool that could be opened and used immediately — something intuitive that would let musicians focus on making music instead of reading manuals….
The Gallery Leeds: The Lost Rave Club Before The Pleasure Rooms
The story of The Gallery in Leeds, from Coconut Grove and Ricky’s to Steve Luigi, rave, Sasha, Utah Saints and the venue’s rebirth as The Pleasure Rooms. Read the full story
Initial Audio Releases Difro Melody AI – Free Local Neural MIDI Generator
Initial Audio has released Difro Melody AI, a standalone AI melody generator that runs entirely on the user’s machine. Unlike cloud MIDI tools that send notes to a remote API, Difro uses a local VAE + Transformer model to generate and re-imagine MIDI in real time on CPU, or on GPU when a compatible card…