Autor: Producer Gang
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 character, which I always appreciated, but more so than ever in this age of copy-paste AI plugins. And to be perfectly honest, I think this is a great move from Westwood Instruments. Kontakt Player is free, but not everyone has it installed, and the whole…
The Blueprint Behind the Session “Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.” — Oscar Wilde A Pro Tools session can contain hundreds of decisions. Tracks. Edits. Plugins. Markers. Audio files. Crossfades. Months later, you may remember how the song sounded… But not how the session was built. Pro Tools includes a small, easily overlooked feature that can turn much of that hidden information into a readable document: Export Session Info as Text It doesn’t export the music. It exports the blueprint behind the music. Quick Summary 👉 Export Session Info as Text creates a…
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. Like the other Textural libraries, Textural Sax isn’t about making an exact recreation of the instrument. It’s about taking the fundamental character of the tenor saxophone along with textural qualities and blending them with experimental sound design and resonances so that we think about using the saxophone in different ways. The biggest difference between this release and a more traditional sax library is that it’s polyphonic. The thing I like most about…
UnplugRed and BlepFX have released Sucrose, a free harmonic and subharmonic generator for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Sucrose was created as an entry for the 2026 KVR Developer Challenge, and I will cover several plugins I really liked from this year’s KVRDC. This is definitely one of them. I love the overall concept a lot. I use harmonic processing a lot in my sound design work, and Sucrose did really well for that. It is not a regular distortion plugin, even though it can cover some similar tone-shaping territory. The plugin uses a Hilbert transform-based phase multiplication technique to generate…
The Overheads Hear the Drum Kit “If you want a great drum sound… Start with the overheads.” Many beginner engineers think overhead microphones are for recording cymbals. They’re not. They’re for recording the drum kit. The close microphones give you control. The overheads give you perspective. They capture how every drum relates to every other drum. They create the stereo image. They glue the kit together. Without great overheads… Even perfectly miked close drums can sound like individual instruments instead of one cohesive performance. How to Tune Analog Drums & Drum Samples for Recording and Music Production 🥁 Quick…
cloph-dsp has released Grungr, a free/pay-what-you-want drive pedal emulation for guitar, bass, and anything else that needs more bite. You might remember Pedro Castro from Freeze95, the fun little stochastic stutter and freeze effect we featured on BPB earlier this year. I loved that one, so Grungr is another interesting free effect from the same developer. I have said it many times, but I love using simple guitar pedal-style effects. Maybe it is because I was a guitarist many years ago, or at least tried to be one in a few bands, and guitar pedals grew on me. I continued…
Baby Audio’s Super VHS lo-fi multi-effect plugin is on sale at Plugin Boutique for $10 until July 26. The regular price is $69, so this is a good time to grab it if you have been waiting for a bigger discount. Super VHS is still one of the easiest-to-use lo-fi VHS-style plugins out there. It is great for adding some of that 80s vintage vibe to your music, and basically just works on anything from lo-fi and synthwave to modern pop and beyond. I love it on synths, especially when a sound is too static and needs a bit of…
Pleatech Audio is offering WorldVerb, a creative reverb plugin for Windows, as a free download for BPB readers. Developer Niels posted the offer in the BPB community section and shared a coupon code that unlocks the full version, with future updates included. That code is KAAPXM3; I tested it, and it works. Thanks to Niels for sharing it with the community. WorldVerb normally costs $15, and it is always nice when developers bring these offers directly to BPB readers. Similar to Grizzly, which we featured on BPB earlier, I have come to appreciate plugins with some character and uniqueness nowadays. Lately,…
AOFN Audio has released Grizzly, a free stereo modulation plugin for macOS and Windows. Grizzly is modeled on the 1979 Gristleizer circuit, the strange little LFO-driven pedal that Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle famously used on drum machines, tapes, synths, and plenty of other sources. Developer Marcel describes Grizzly as his software interpretation of that pedal, taken from the modulation section of an upcoming reverb plugin. Before getting to the sound, I have to say that I love the interface. The black-and-white color scheme is always nice to see, probably because I’m a Partizan Belgrade fan, so those colors are…
Sonic Republic has released Pluginize!, a native macOS plugin manager for producers with large and messy plugin folders. I’m pretty sure that most of us who have been collecting plugins for years know the problem. The DAW takes longer to scan, some plugins break, and eventually, you spend more time looking for the right tool instead of making music. Pluginize! is built to make that whole mess manageable. It scans your Mac for AU, VST2, VST3, AAX, CLAP, Waves, and UAD plugins, then lets you organize, enable, or disable them without uninstalling anything. The most interesting part is the Waves…