Musicdibs is offering BPB readers 20% off its monthly and annual plans with coupon code BPBMUSIC20. The browser-based platform brings several parts of an independent artist’s workflow into one place. It covers demo development, mastering, artwork and promotional content, distribution, and social media promotion. The main goal is to reduce the boring parts of music…
RIPPLES releases Pulse, a FREE rhythmic volume shaper plugin
RIPPLES Music has released Pulse, a free rhythmic volume shaper plugin for macOS and Windows. Pulse combines sidechain-style pumping, rhythmic gating, and LFO volume shaping in a simple interface with an editable curve. This type of plugin was first made by Cableguys around a decade ago with their legendary FilterShaper. There have been quite a…
Audacity 4 is here: The biggest update Audacity has ever seen
To say Audacity has been down a bumpy road since Muse Group acquired the legendary audio editing and recording app back in 2021 would be an understatement. Audacity went from cult hero to villain, then back to some sort of anti-hero; the sort that might save your life then take out a credit card in…
Back to Basics Leeds: How One Club Night Changed the City
From 80 people at The Music Factory to an international house institution: the story of Dave Beer, Ralph Lawson and Back to Basics in Leeds. Read the full story
dBdone releases Wasser, a FREE liquid multiband delay plugin
dBdone has released Wasser, a free multiband delay plugin for macOS and Windows. Wasser splits the incoming signal into frequency bands and lets you draw a different delay time for each one. That’s a pretty cool idea. It’s definitely a fun little tool for sound design because it lets you create rhythmic movement that would…
Yurt Rock releases Pick Pocket audio-to-MIDI drum plugin for $49
Yurt Rock has released Pick Pocket, an audio-to-MIDI drum conversion plugin for macOS and Windows, priced at $49. This one is useful if you want to extract the groove from a drum recording without losing the swing and quantizing the performance onto a grid. Pick Pocket preserves the original microtiming and dynamics, so you can…
MidiStickers expands Lessons & Exercises content in MidiStickers Pro v1.3 update
MidiStickers has released version 1.3 of its music education software, MidiStickers Pro. The update introduces a new Lessons & Exercises hub with more than 30 textual lessons, a new Sight Reading Trainer based on Georges Dandelot’s method, as well as dozens of new exercises and UI improvements. MidiStickers Pro is a desktop music education application…
Native Instruments updates Kontakt to v8.13
Native Instruments has updated Kontakt to v8.13. Added User interfaces improvements to Navigator. Level meters to new Instrument Headers. Selection focus indicator to new Headers. Favorites button to new Headers. Instrument/Tool reordering via the new Headers. Snapshots button to new Headers. New Save dialogue for Snapshots. Fixed Deprecated the New Instruments For You panel. URLs…