Author: James Nugent
James Nugent
James is a musician and writer from Scotland. An avid synth fan, sound designer, and coffee drinker. Sometimes found wandering around Europe with an MPC in hand.
Retro Radio from Stone Voices is a free plugin for macOS and Windows that emulates the sound of vintage AM radios. The sound of…
Developer Venus Theory has released forms:tongues, a free tongue drum library for Decent Sampler. Venus Theory has given us so many awesome Decent Sampler…
Wide is a free spatial enhancement tool for macOS and Windows, and the second plugin we’ve featured from Shadaloo Audio DSP over the last…
Temecula DSP is offering two classic Alesis reverb unit emulations (MDV-II & MCV-I) for macOS and Windows for free! It was just around a…
Filtre by Cloudy Samples is a contour filter and modulation engine for macOS and Windows, and you can download it for free now. I’m…
Bloomer Free, from the developer Freequency, is a MIDI chord progression generator driven by emotion. When I say driven by emotion, I mean you…
Developer Tuğrul Akyüz has released TugPhonon, a free vintage rotating tape-delay plugin. We’ve covered a few very interesting delay plugins recently, including Timerift Audio’s…
DAWJunkie, the developer behind Padness 2 Jr, LeadOff Jr, and various other quirky but awesome freebies, is back with another freebie – the DT-600…
Arponaut is a free pattern-based arpeggiator for macOS and Windows from Groove Music Industries. The plugin is available in VST3 format for macOS and…
Intermod is a new audio plugin from Phantom Sounds, the developer behind Orbit (spatial reverb) and 56K (digital decay). We covered Orbit earlier this…
Filament is a new MIDI orchestration plugin from Forma Labs Audio, and it’s currently in the free public beta stage. If you sign up…
United Plugins has launched the UnitedFreeBundle, a collection of professional audio plugins, and it’s free! The one caveat with the free collection is that…
From developer Timerift Audio comes Oh My Grain, a free granular delay for macOS, Windows, and Linux. We’ve seen a few creative delay plugins…
Many people consider 8DIO to be the masters of deep sampling, and that reputation has led to collaborations with iconic manufacturers like Sequential (Prophet…
You can now save 89% on IK Multimedia’s TOTAL Guitar MAX as part of a limited-time deal at Plugin Boutique. It’s been quite a…
MAGDA is a free and open-source DAW built on JUCE and Tracktion Engine, and Conceptual Machines has just released version 0.4.0. It’s very early…
When it comes to soft synths, very few developers do it as well as u-he. Now, their Zebra 3 edges closer to official status…
Developer JonET has released the beta version of MonkSynth, a free Delay-Lama-inspired vocal synth for macOS, Windows, and Linux. AudioNerdz released the original Delay…
Developer Renger Koning has released Felt & Fog cinematic piano for Kontakt, along with a free version. We’re almost spoiled for choice when it…
Artists in DSP have updated the free Amorph text-to-DSP plugin, which now lets you create custom user interfaces. We looked at Amorph earlier this…
Developer Mr Jefferson has released Stepista, a free AI-assisted MIDI pattern generator. Chord and Pattern generators have been around for a long time, and…
April is Vocal Month at Minimal Audio, and the developer behind Ripple Phaser, Poly Flanger, and the free Formant plugin is kicking off proceedings…
Developer Urban Kits has released Plural, which is a free pitch-shifting sequencer plugin for macOS and Windows. Urban Kits is known to provide tools…
Developer dBdone has released Glas, a free spectral chaos engine for macOS and Windows. dBdone has been a fairly busy developer early in 2026.…