Dystopian Waves has released Arche, a bassline generator designed for creating, editing, and exploring bassline ideas from a key and scale or an imported MIDI chord progression. Arche includes 16 dedicated style engines, each built around a different musical approach, including Disco, House, Acid, Pop, Cinematic, and more. Each style engine generates basslines according to…
StemDeck is a FREE open-source local stem splitter
Solo developer Thales Pereira has released StemDeck, a free and open-source stem separation tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Thales says he built StemDeck to help his kid practice drums, after wanting a way to pull stems without paying a subscription or uploading music to someone else’s server. We’ve covered a few stem tools over…
ZEKAVEO offers FREE Quantum UI & Computers SFX packs and 70% BPB discount
ZEKAVEO is offering two free Quantum UI & Computers Discovery Edition sample packs, plus an exclusive 70% discount for BPB readers on eligible paid libraries. There’s a lot to cover here, so I’ll start with the freebies and then tell you more about the BPB discount. ZEKAVEO’s Quantum UI & Computers is a series of…
HARMONICO dsp releases Airy, a FREE mono-safe stereo widener
HARMONICO dsp has released Airy, a free stereo widening plugin for macOS and Windows. Airy was developed by Nicolas Barreau, a sound engineer and acoustician based in Paris. He reached out via email and described the plugin as a “point source widener,” inspired by the Airy diffraction pattern, in which a single point of light…
Hot Shower Audio releases bathROOMs – free reverb built from five bathrooms (VST3, AU & AAX)
Hot Shower Audio has released bathROOMs, a reverb plugin built from five different bathrooms. bathROOMs is made by Alejandro Ramirez (Ramalejo), a mix engineer who has been part of 4 Latin Grammy-winning projects across 23 nominations. Features: Reverb plugin built from five different bathrooms. Each bathroom has its own size and tonal balance: Porcelain, Cove,…
HARMONICO dsp launches four plug-ins, including free stereo widener Airy (VST3, AU & AAX)
HARMONICO dsp has released its first four plug-ins for macOS and Windows. Each one is built around a mechanism drawn from physics rather than an emulation of existing hardware. The company says at least four more titles are in development. Airy Airy is a stereo widener that synthesises side content rather than relying on phase…
dBaton releases CUE – Share your DAW’s audio with anyone, without a subscription
dBaton has released CUE, a plugin that solves an everyday problem in remote work: getting someone who isn’t in the room to actually hear what is coming out of your DAW. They say: Until now the options were all bad ones. Bounce a file, upload it, and wait a day for notes. Share your screen…
Notewerks updates StepStrum to v1.1
Notewerks has updated StepStrum, its real-time MIDI strumming sequencer, to v1.1. StepStrum turns chords played on a MIDI keyboard into tempo-synced performances for guitar libraries, synths, samplers and other virtual instruments. Version 1.1 expands the sequencer beyond full-chord strums, allowing patterns to combine strummed motion with individual notes from the held chord. New in StepStrum…