Fracture Sounds has released Blueprint: Textural Sax, a free preview from its library Trails II, offering composers, producers and sound designers a hands-on taste of its cinematic, textural sound design tools. Blueprint: Textural Sax features a resonant, textural saxophone performance recorded against a large thunder sheet and captured through multiple microphone techniques — including contact…
Blue Cat Audio Updates Connector, Freeceiver and Fader Hub with New Workflow and Connectivity Features
Blue Cat Audio has released new versions of Connector, Freeceiver and Fader Hub, bringing major workflow improvements to its inter-app and network audio solutions. Connector 1.5 and Freeceiver 1.3 now support offline bounce, freeze and rendering, enabling users to render audio and MIDI through plug-ins or external hardware connected across applications, and even remotely over…
JUCE 9 Now Available
The JUCE team has announced the launch of JUCE 9, which focuses on UI features and performance, embedded support and cross-platform compatibility. Pricing and licensing terms have been kept identical to JUCE 8, and all JUCE 8 subscriptions have been automatically upgraded to JUCE 9. New in JUCE v9.0.0 Added a new SVG parser. Added…
cloph-dsp releases Grungr, a FREE drive pedal plugin
cloph-dsp has released Grungr, a free/pay-what-you-want drive pedal emulation for guitar, bass, and anything else that needs more bite. You might remember Pedro Castro from Freeze95, the fun little stochastic stutter and freeze effect we featured on BPB earlier this year. I loved that one, so Grungr is another interesting free effect from the same…
Baby Audio Super VHS is on sale for $10 until July 26
Baby Audio’s Super VHS lo-fi multi-effect plugin is on sale at Plugin Boutique for $10 until July 26. The regular price is $69, so this is a good time to grab it if you have been waiting for a bigger discount. Super VHS is still one of the easiest-to-use lo-fi VHS-style plugins out there. It…
Pleatech Audio offers WorldVerb reverb plugin for FREE (Windows)
Pleatech Audio is offering WorldVerb, a creative reverb plugin for Windows, as a free download for BPB readers. Developer Niels posted the offer in the BPB community section and shared a coupon code that unlocks the full version, with future updates included. That code is KAAPXM3; I tested it, and it works. Thanks to Niels for…
AOFN Audio releases Grizzly, a FREE Gristleizer-inspired modulation plugin
AOFN Audio has released Grizzly, a free stereo modulation plugin for macOS and Windows. Grizzly is modeled on the 1979 Gristleizer circuit, the strange little LFO-driven pedal that Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle famously used on drum machines, tapes, synths, and plenty of other sources. Developer Marcel describes Grizzly as his software interpretation of that…
Sonicware Ambient Ø Review
Ambient music is easy to make badly and brutally hard to make well, which is why most instruments aimed at the genre end up as reverb vomitoriums. The Sonicware Ambient Ø is a $279 plastic box that actually understands the assignment: four independently sequenced layers, an engine built specifically to keep tones from ever settling,…