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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 appear in recent weeks, and one standout is Sirial by TiagoLR (TiagoLR is responsible for some of the best freeware plugins around, so check out the entire range). This time, we’re adding Oh My Grain to the free creative delay list. Oh My Grain is a free granular delay plugin from Timerift Audio, available as a VST3 plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux. The plugin, like many much-loved delay plugins, features a dual-playhead design. Each playhead…
Orra Audio has released Tone Zone, a free (pay-what-you-can) tonal curve corrector plugin for macOS and Windows. If you’ve used iZotope’s Tonal Balance Control, this freebie from Orra Audio will look familiar. And it’s one of the best freebies for use on the master bus that I’ve seen so far this year. Tone Zone shows your mix’s tonal curve against a target and helps you nudge it into shape. The difference is that it does more than just metering. You also get an auto-corrective EQ, a 6-band parametric EQ, and per-band saturation, all in the same window. It’s insanely powerful…
Universal Audio’s Sound City Studios reverb plugin is currently 84% off at Plugin Boutique, bringing the price down from $249 to $39 until April 30th. If you’re looking for a natural-sounding reverb plugin, especially for rock and pop, this is a great pick. UAD Sound City Studios is more than a reverb, though. It’s basically a studio-in-a-box type of setup that lets you place your tracks inside Sound City’s famous Room A, the same space heard on records from Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, and many others. The studio’s history even inspired a full-length documentary…
Developer Samuel Ferraz-Leite has released RVRSE, a free plugin that turns any one-shot sample into a tempo-synced reverse reverb riser. If you’ve ever built a reverse reverb riser manually in your DAW, you know the drill. You copy the sample, slap a huge reverb on it, render, reverse, and then fiddle with crossfades until it sounds good. I found it fun for the first few times, but it kind of got repetitive after a while. RVRSE is a free plugin that does it instantly. You can load a cymbal, a noise hit, a piano note, or whatever else you want…
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 while now since IK Multimedia’s 2025 Group Buy promotion, and I still think about it every time the developer’s name comes up. It’s the closest we’ll ever get to playing a plugin version of Supermarket Sweep; running through the store, piling products into a shopping trolley before time runs out. Luckily, Plugin Boutique is a consistent source of discounts, and there’s another chance to save big on IK Multimedia products this month. Plugin Boutique is offering…
Sonuscore has released LUX Orchestral Strings Elements, a free orchestral strings instrument for the free Kontakt Player. The amount of high-quality orchestral content available for free nowadays is something I still find hard to believe. Even ten years ago, getting your hands on an in-depth orchestral string library without spending serious money was pretty much out of the question. Nowadays, between something like LUX Orchestral Strings Elements and the already renowned Spitfire Symphony Orchestra Discover, SINE Player from Orchestral Tools, and others (find more in our free orchestral plugins article), you can tackle serious projects without investing in orchestral plugins…
MeldaProduction is offering BPB readers an exclusive 90% discount on MLimiterX, its brickwall limiter plugin. Use the coupon code BPBMLX90 at checkout to bring the price down from €99 to just €10. The offer runs until April 19th. MLimiterX is a mastering-grade brickwall limiter built on MeldaProduction’s MDynamics kernel. The whole idea here is to make your recordings louder while keeping distortion and artifacts to a minimum. I’ve tested countless limiters, and this is one of the most transparent options out there. It is designed to handle the job without making things sound crushed or unnatural. The interface has two…
You Feel It… But You Can’t Hear It “The lowest note is often the most important… and the easiest to lose.” You solo the bass. It sounds huge. Deep. Powerful. Then you hit play on the full mix… And it disappears. Not gone. Just buried. Bass isn’t just about low frequencies. It’s about being heard. Quick Summary 👉 Bass disappears when it clashes with other elements (especially the kick), lacks midrange presence, or isn’t supported by arrangement and harmonics. The solution is better arrangement, EQ separation, sidechaining, and adding harmonic content. Before EQ. Before plugins. Start here.…
Solid State Logic’s G3 MultiBusComp is currently 70% off on AudioDeluxe, bringing the price down to $29.99 (regular price $99). If you’ve ever used an SSL bus compressor on your mix bus, you already know the sound. It’s basically an everything-just-clicks-together glue that’s been on countless records for decades. SSL G3 MultiBusComp takes that same VCA compression character and splits it across three independently configurable frequency bands, so you can treat the lows, mids, and highs separately while keeping that classic SSL feel. Each band gets its own full set of compressor controls (threshold, ratio, attack, release, makeup gain) plus…
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 days for MAGDA, so updates might come with significant additions, but before we get into what the latest version has to offer, let’s take a broader overview. Although it’s early days, MAGDA, which stands for Multi-Agent Digital Audio, has all the fundamental features you’d expect to make new users feel at home. Luca, the developer behind Conceptual Machines, drew inspiration from existing DAWs, such as Bitwig, Ableton, and Reaper, when designing MAGDA’s layout and workflow. We…