Brainworx and Black Box Analog Design’s HG-2 tube saturation plugin is currently 76% off at Plugin Boutique. The regular price is $125, and the deal brings it down to $30 until May 31. HG-2 is the official emulation of Black Box Analog Design’s hardware tube processor. It’s a unit that retails for around $3,000 (yikes!)…
MousePlugins has released The Trick, a free passive program EQ for Windows and Linux. The “trick” in the name is the old Pultec move. You boost and cut at the same low frequency at the same time, and instead of the two canceling each other out, you get a resonant low-end lift followed by a…
Developer Rob Kor has released ChugMate, a free zero-latency VST3 doubler aimed squarely at tight, heavy rhythm guitars. Broadly speaking, generic doubler plugins tend to get the job done on clean tones but fall apart on palm-muted rhythm tracks. You usually end up with smeared transients, and the result pretty much collapses into a washed-out…
Kojima Audio has released PanBlur, a free mono-to-stereo spatial enhancer for macOS and Windows. The same developer behind the BandMatrix multi-band dynamics plugin we covered in March is back with something quite different (although I highly recommend giving BandMatrix a try!). PanBlur takes dry mono sources and gives them an ASMR-like stereo image while keeping…
discoDSP has updated Vertigo to v5.2. Vertigo is an additive synthesizer with 512 Euler-generated oscillators per voice, FFT resynthesis from audio and image files, dual morphable A/B states with 256-breakpoint envelopes per partial, two filters routable in series or parallel with six selectable types, 128-band formant filter, eight effects, and 16-voice polyphony. Version 5.2 ships…
Ewan Bristow has officially hit 10k followers on Twitter/X, and as promised, his UZU frequency domain phaser is now free. The plugin normally sells for $17, and you can grab it from the developer’s website for free. We covered the initiative back in October 2025, when Ewan announced that UZU would be made free for…
InnerMost47 has announced the release of Version 2.1.0 of OBSIDIAN Neural. The headline feature is a multi-model architecture that lets you assign a different AI engine to each of the 8 tracks, alongside a redesigned interface and new per-page performance controls. What’s new Multi-model architecture – 8 specialized AI engines Each track now runs its…
rncbc.org has announced the (northern) Spring’26 release of Qtractor version 1.6.0, and the Vee One Suite version 1.4.2 of old-school software instruments, for GNU/Linux. Changes for this Qtractor release: Probable fix to LV2 plug-in UIs in reflecting state/preset changes visually. OSC (Open Sound Control) support has been finally introduced, similar to keyboard and MIDI controller…