Autor: Producer Gang
SoundSurf is a gamified music production learning platform built around the simple idea of helping producers stop watching tutorials and start producing. We are taking a closer look at SoundSurf and giving away two free months of SoundSurf Premium to five lucky readers. The platform is aimed at producers who get stuck in tutorial mode. And I’m sure we have all done it at some point. It usually starts with watching a mixing video, then a Serum sound design video, then a mastering tip, but the knowledge never really turns into a repeatable skill because there is no structure and,…
Sonniss is offering Pinball Machines, a vintage pinball machine sound effects library by C. A. Sound, Inc, as a free download until July 22. I love Sonniss as a platform. There is a great variety of sounds to choose from, and the company occasionally releases some fantastic freebies, too. The big one is usually the annual Game Developers Conference bundle. Sonniss has been giving away GDC game audio packs for years, and the archive now includes a massive amount of royalty-free sound effects from previous releases. Earlier this year, Sonniss also released the free GDC 2026 Game Audio Bundle, with…
Wavelet Audio has released Runa: Free Edition, an ancient stringed instrument for Kontakt Player, in celebration of the first anniversary of Runa Scoring Strings. Runa Scoring Strings is a library inspired by an ancient stringed instrument, the Kobyz, which originated in Central Asia and is closely associated with countries like Kazakhstan. The Kobyz has just two strings, one for melody and another for resonance, and a one-piece wooden body. The exact origin story of the instrument isn’t one I could share with any guarantee it’s factual, since we’re potentially talking about something that occurred over 1,000 years ago. But the…
“I find it hard to describe my own sound because I’m really constantly trying to break it,” Cook says. “That’s what makes music interesting to me… a lot of the experimentation I’m doing in my own music is really to keep myself interested… I’m trying to just, you know, stay engaged. In a way, that’s what I really love about making music on computers. So really anything could happen very, very quickly.” This tension between the precise and the chaotic is exactly what makes the sawtooth wave such a perfect canvas. A simple sawtooth wave is sharp, aggressive, and harmonically…
From Sugoi Audio comes CURVA, a free football-inspired modulation plugin for macOS and Windows. There have been times over the years when I’ve felt like the best thing for the track I’m working on was to pick up my laptop and punt it from a great height to ensure the sound that I momentarily convinced myself was epic would never be heard again. I’ve never actually thought to myself, what if I could kick sound around like a football? Maybe that’s what I’ve been missing. But before I even thought of the question, CURVA is here with the answer. CURVA…
The DAW That Wants to Be a Console “The medium is the message.”— Marshall McLuhan Most DAWs begin with a blank timeline. Then you build your studio. Add an EQ. Add a compressor. Create buses. Add tape saturation. Build a console one plugin at a time. Harrison Mixbus takes the opposite approach. The console is already there. Every track enters a mixing environment inspired by Harrison’s analog desks, with channel processing, bus compression, tape-style saturation, and a knob-per-function workflow built into the DAW itself. Mixbus 12 keeps that identity intact. But it adds more vocal processing, better clip launching,…
UJAM and Rhodes are offering UFX LOFI, UJAM’s retro degradation effect plugin, as a free download for newsletter subscribers. This is a separate Rhodes/UJAM giveaway page, and the process was a bit smoother than the V-Rack offer I covered earlier today. I entered my email on the promo page, and about a minute later, I received an email from UJAM with the subject “Your Free UFX LoFi Has Arrived.” The email has a button labeled “Get Your Freebie.” Clicking it takes you to the UJAM store and provides a coupon code for getting UFX LOFI for free at checkout. The…
Developer Venn Audio has updated Free Suite, its free essential mixing suite to version 1.5, adding four new plugins. You might remember we covered Venn Audio’s Free Suite a few years ago – a collection of nine essential plugins to help you reach professional standards without reaching into your pockets. The collection went down well with readers who appreciated Venn Audio’s no-fuss approach and unintrusive download process. So, it’s very welcome news that the developer has updated the entire collection and added four brand-new plugins. Linux users who haven’t revisited this plugin suite since our original post will recall that…
UJAM is giving newsletter subscribers a free copy of Rhodes V-Rack, but there are a few hoops to jump through. The offer is available until July 19, so I’m posting this one literally minutes after getting the plugin so that BPB readers catch this on time. I received an email from UJAM with the subject “Sign up to the Rhodes Newsletter for a free gift” around an hour before writing this. The thing is, I was already subscribed, so I am not yet sure if this works for brand-new UJAM subscribers as well. I will test it with another email…
Developer Reyes Amplifonics has recreated the Harmony H303 tube amp with three new plugins (two of which are freebies). Reyes Amplifonics’ three new plugins include Triode, Reyes 303, and Kill Filter. Triode is a paid plugin, costing $39.99, while the other two are free to download. Before we get into the plugins, let’s take a look at where it all begins, with the Harmony H303 tube amplifier. It’s no exaggeration to say that Reyes Amplifonics has crafted these plugins from the ground up, as the developer actually rebuilt a 1959 Harmony H303 tube amp. The part-for-part rebuild includes point-to-point wiring,…