zplane has announced the launch of Timbre, their new poly formant shaper plugin for transforming the timbre of any sound. Here’s what they say: Timbre is a real-time formant-shifting plugin for producers, mixing engineers, and sound designers. Unlike EQs that boost frequencies or pitch shifters that change notes, Timbre transforms the formants that define a…
OVNI Audio Releases Telescope – Free Open-Source Audio Analyser for macOS and Windows (VST3 & AU)
OVNI Audio has released Telescope 0.1.0, a free audio analyser VST3 and AU plug-in for macOS and Windows; open-source under the GNU AGPLv3. OVNI Audio makes free, open-source plug-ins in three families: spatial effects that move sound and open up space, Supernova — a visual synth that turns sound into image — and Telescope, an…
Noizefield updates Audio Plugin Coder (APC) to v1.5.1 – Open source AI audio plugin development framework
Noizefield today announced Audio Plugin Coder (APC) 1.5.1, an update to the open-source framework that is designed to help AI coding agents build real audio (VST/AU) plugins on JUCE 9 through a structured workflow. APC guides users through setup, dream, plan, design, implementation, testing, and shipping, while keeping project state consistent across sessions. It is…
2B Played Music SlimVerb2 reverb plugin is FREE for a limited time
The SlimVerb2 reverb plugin from the developer 2B Played Music is now free for a limited time. Some of you probably have the original SlimVerb plugin; we’ve covered it a few times through various offers and limited-time promotions. If you liked the original, here’s your chance to upgrade to SlimVerb2 for free. But you’ll need…
Electro-Harmonix releases the Adrian Belew Echoflanger
Electro-Harmonix has released the Adrian Belew Echoflanger, a hardware analog modulation and time-based effects unit. The pedal is a reissue and expansion of the original late-1970s bucket-brigade device (BBD) unit closely associated with Belew’s studio and live work with King Crimson, David Bowie, and Talking Heads. The unit reproduces the four core routing options of…
The DJ’s Guide to Depreciation: What Your Kit Is Actually Worth
Buying gear feels like an investment. Selling it rarely does. Most DJs learn this the hard way, usually about three years in, when they list a controller they paid good money for and watch the offers come in at half of what they expected. The gap between what you paid and what someone will hand…
Are Fake CDJs On The Way?
A CDJ-3000X is big, expensive, and built to survive a decade of club abuse. It’s what pro DJs expect to find waiting for them in the booth. But a Reddit thread I read recently has been rattling around my head ever since, and it asks a simple question: how long before somebody makes a fake…
orph releases Alias – Sampler, Tape, Vinyl and CD Character Effect for macOS and Windows (VST3 & AU)
orph has released Alias, an effect plugin for macOS and Windows that adds the artefacts of old samplers, tape machines, VHS players, vinyl records and CD players to a signal. Here’s what they say: The result is the sound many of us grew up with: a cassette copied a few times too often, a record…