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.
Tsuga Audio created Envosound, a free retro-gaming-inspired synth for macOS and Windows with ambient and experimental music producers in mind. The free synth combines…
This Christmas, Dutch electronic music producer Legowelt is spreading festive joy by releasing a free sample pack he created with his trusty Prophet 600.…
Fors releases Junior-Lite, a freeware 4-bit wavetable synth plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Fors Junior-Lite is the little brother of Junior (£29), and,…
Justin Ehrlichman’s JDrummer is an open-source VST-3 drum plugin built with the JUICE framework and featuring a range of kits, grooves, and some intelligent…
Skew is an experimental reverse delay plugin that has been around for a few years and was recently updated to Skew v2. With this…
Pigments 7 is the latest (brand-new) version of Arturia’s flagship multi-engine synth, and there are a few ways to get a great deal right…
The Cinematic Metal Whooshes by Slava Pogorelsky is a sample pack that is free for a limited time via A Free Sound Effect. I’m…
We’ve had quite a few Zebralette updates in recent months, as the highly anticipated third edition neared the end of a lengthy beta phase…
Developer Orchestral Tools has released FFOSSO, a freemium instrument player for macOS and Windows. We’ve seen freebies from Orchestral Tools before, like the Berlin…
Kushview is the developer behind the recent DuckDuck and Goose one-knob dynamics plugins, and ReTuner is the latest addition to their catalog. ReTuner is…
Not too long ago, during the chaos of Black Friday promotions, Universal Audio offered us one free plugin from a collection of ten products.…
Insight 2 is a comprehensive metering and audio analysis plugin for macOS and Windows, and it’s available for free until December 31 at Plugin…
Chris Bryant, or S1gns Of L1fe as he’s better known, is a musician who wears many hats. The California-based ambient music producer, sound designer,…
It’s that time of year again, when you’re going to hear some of the cheesiest music ever recorded, whether you like it or not.…
There isn’t much more to say about Zebralette; it has been among the best free software synths for a very, very long time, and…
Strum Plate is a free Omnichord-inspired MIDI effect plugin from Gulf Coast Synthesis, available in AU, VST3, and AAX formats for macOS and Windows.…
As a thank-you to customers for a fantastic 2025, Soundtoys is giving away six free plugins in the 12 Days of Soundtoys promotion. The…
We’ve got something here we don’t come across too often: a Mac-only plugin. Analog Glow is a new saturation plugin from TonalMark, available in…
Synchro Arts is the name behind plugins like RePitch and the recently covered VocAlign Pro 6, and this December, the developer is spreading the…
Xilentch has been busy over the past few months, and after releasing XMLimiter V2 and XMTape&Clip, the developer has added another plugin to the…
Developer Variety of Sound has just released FerricTDS mkIII, a free tape saturation effect for Windows. FerricTDS has had a long and storied journey,…
WideFire is an analogue-style saturation plugin by JMG Sound/United Plugins that takes an interesting approach to audio widening, and now you can get it…
Waves Audio offers the Magma StressBox plugin as this year’s Black Friday freebie. We recently covered the announcement of another Black Friday freebie from…
Valhalla DSP released Supermassive in 2020, and it wasn’t long before people were calling it one of the best freeware audio plugins ever. Supermassive…