Westwood Instruments has relaunched Roots, its series of free virtual instruments, in the developer’s own plugin format. We have covered the Roots series several times on BPB while the instruments were available for Kontakt Player, including Untold Strings and Dust Piano. My favorite one was Dust Piano, but overall these are very cool instruments with…
KIT Plugins has released Blackbird Chamber D, a new plugin that captures the sound of Blackbird Studio’s Studio D Reverb Chamber—an iconic space heard on countless hit records—and brings it into your DAW with modern flexibility. Beyond faithfully modeling its lush depth and musical decay, BB Chamber D adds adjustable Size and Width controls to…
Expressive E has released Noisy 2.6, a free update that expands the synth’s original acoustic and analog resonance engine into a five-way synthesis architecture covering analog, acoustic, FM, harmonic, and wavetable sound generation. The update is available now for all Noisy 2 owners at no cost. Noisy is built around what Expressive E calls a…
Tunary Instruments has released ARGISH, a self-playing generative synthesizer. You set a musical style, a length and a chord progression, and ARGISH composes and performs an evolving cinematic/ambient piece on its own — voicing the pads, weaving the arpeggios, laying bass and a real sampled guitar, and building a structured arrangement with a resolved ending….
Nikolozi has updated Mela, a modular AUv3 plug-in for iOS and macOS, to version 7.12. Renamed Group to Lane Group already represented a lane in practice, so renaming the module to Lane greatly simplifies the core concepts. A top-level lane is now simply a Lane submodule of the root Stack. For consistency, MIDI Group was…
Ravine DSP has updated Inter:State to v1.3, introducing a scene system that turns each hosted effect into a set of playable tonal states. Inter:State is a multi-rack audio effect host for macOS and Windows. It lets users build, route, control, and recall complete third-party effects chains inside one fixed plugin workspace, with three racks supporting…
Artifacts 01: Undervoltage Drift by Plughugger for Pigments 7 is the first release in a new series exploring unusual sonic discoveries. Here’s what they say: The collection began with an unexpected observation while sampling waveforms from a Behringer JT Mini synthesizer. Accidentally powered below its intended operating voltage, the instrument entered an unstable operating state…
Blueprint: Textural Sax is the latest addition to the free and wonderful Blueprint collection by Fracture Sounds. More specifically, it’s the latest addition to Blueprint’s Textural cinematic libraries. Previous releases include Textural Cello and Textural Violin. Like the other Textural libraries, Textural Sax isn’t about making an exact recreation of the instrument. It’s about taking…
