Matari Audio has updated BUFFR, a cross-platform retrospective audio and MIDI recorder designed to recover performances beyond the currently armed DAW track, to v0.5.81. BUFFR continuously captures the computer’s System Audio and can open a hardware MIDI controller directly through Global MIDI. It does not need to sit on the track being played, and no…
Quantastical updates STRÄNG to 2.3: Subtractive synth with a convolution body, now with MPE
Quantastical Sound has released version 2.3 of STRÄNG, a subtractive synthesizer built around a single idea: real-time convolution running inside the voice itself. STRÄNG takes the bones of a classic subtractive synth, one core oscillator with its helpers and filters that bite, and gives it a physical body. Every note resonates through a short, tonal…
Clack.DIGITAL adds AUv2 support to A-SID, Amp Squeezer, and Uè Uè
Clack.DIGITAL has released new versions of A-SID, Amp Squeezer, and Uè Uè, introducing AUv2 support and compatibility bugfixes. They are free to download for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and also support VST3 and LV2. Amp Squeezer and Uè Uè are also available on the Darkglass Anagram Marketplace. Read More Read the full story
Tunary Instruments releases SILT – Generative tape-loop instrument
Tunary Instruments has released SILT, a generative tape-loop instrument for macOS and Windows. Four short melodic loops of different lengths run through a warm tape machine and slowly drift out of phase with each other, so the music writes itself from the phasing and does not repeat for minutes. The voice is a soft, dark…
iZotope Japan is giving away VEA for FREE until July 31
iZotope Japan is giving away VEA, the Voice Enhancement Assistant plugin, for free until July 31st at 23:59 Japan time. The giveaway is part of the Japan-limited iZotope Mix & Master Sale 2026, which celebrates iZotope joining Boris FX. The broader sale runs until August 16th, but the free VEA offer ends much earlier, so…
RealCassette is a FREE cassette tape plugin and standalone app for Windows
Jan Schulten has released RealCassette, a free cassette tape effect plugin and standalone app for Windows. Most BPB readers already know that I absolutely love processing sounds with cassette tapes. That probably became obvious somewhere between BPB Cassette 808, BPB Cassette 909, and the newer BPB Cassette Drums plugin. So yes, RealCassette is my kind…
Hvoya Audio releases Gneiss, a FREE morphing multistage filter plugin
Eugene Yakshin of Hvoya Audio has released Gneiss, a free morphing multistage filter effect plugin for macOS and Windows. As I mentioned before, I am taking a look at some of my favorite KVR Developer Challenge entries this year, and Gneiss is another one I really liked. It is free to download as part of…
Dystopian Waves makes DroX II Pro FREE for a limited time
Dystopian Waves has made DroX II Pro, its glitch and stutter audio effect, free for a limited time on Gumroad. The Pro version is currently listed as $0+ and 100% off, down from its regular $35 price. I do not see an expiry date on the Gumroad page, so it is probably best to grab…