Autor: Producer Gang

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 month or so. If you missed the first one, go back and check out H, a free tone and loudness enhancer. If you’ve already tried H, you’ll know that it’s straightforward on the surface. Yet, the way its various parameters interact with each other and react to the incoming signal, the plugin provides results that may feel more organic and musical than uniform. Wide is more of the same, in some ways, but it’s even more…

Developer Venus Theory has released forms:tongues, a free tongue drum library for Decent Sampler. This latest release is forms:tongues, a free library based on the tongue drum. The sound of the tongue drum is easily described as tranquil and hypnotic, but it comes from somewhat comical beginnings. The tongue drum is the result of Dennis Havlena cutting into a propane tank, somewhere in the early 2000s. Although the genesis of this modern instrument is somewhat unconventional, there’s no denying that it caters to its target audience perfectly. The tongue drum looks and sounds a little otherworldly, and, in good hands,…

Retro Radio from Stone Voices is a free plugin for macOS and Windows that emulates the sound of vintage AM radios. The sound of AM radio is generally characterised by low fidelity and numerous flaws. But, if there’s one thing that we all share as music makers, it’s that we strive for imperfection! Joking aside, we love the imperfections of past technology for various reasons: it has an authentic warmth that’s often lacking in modern equipment, and it evokes nostalgia. The sound of AM radio certainly evokes nostalgia, even if I didn’t personally experience the golden age of radio. As…

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 month ago when we covered MDV-II by Temecula DSP. MDV-II is a faithful emulation of the classic Alesis Midiverb II, one of the most iconic budget-friendly pieces of hardware ever made. So, why are we talking about it again? Well, Temecula DSP is now offering two Alesis classics for free: MDV-II and MCV-I. While the Midiverb II is generally the most sought-after model from the Alesis Midiverb and Microverb lineups, the Microverb I (or MCV) has…

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 not certain Filtre will always be free, so it’s best to grab it quickly, just in case. In short, Filtre is a hub for shaping sound, creating texture, and adding movement. The plugin (AU and VST3 formats for macOS and Windows) has two main sections: the contour filter panel and the triple LFO modulation engine. The multi-mode contour filter section offers a pretty hefty sixteen modes, covering most applications. The filter modes include basics like 1-pole…

From Joke to Juggernaut “Don’t judge a tool by its name. Judge it by what it creates.” There was a time when FL Studio wasn’t taken seriously. Back when it was called Fruity Loops, it had a reputation: beginner software toy-like not “professional” Fast forward to today… It’s one of the most widely used DAWs in the world — especially for: hip-hop trap electronic music And that’s not by accident.   Quick Summary 👉 FL Studio offers multiple editions (Fruity, Producer, Signature, All Plugins), each increasing in features, instruments, and capabilities. Producer Edition is the most popular starting point…

The comments under our recent Amorph piece have been bouncing around in my head for the past few weeks. Some BPB readers are excited about being able to type “give me an overdrive that sounds like a Tube Screamer” and get a working plugin out the other end. Others are pretty concerned that we’re about to drown in a sea of half-functional, untested code. I’m somewhere in between. Both reactions make perfect sense to me. And it’s not happening just here on BPB. Over on KVR Audio, there’s a thread titled “Vibe coded plugins” that’s pretty direct. The poster says…

Bloomer Free, from the developer Freequency, is a MIDI chord progression generator driven by emotion. When I say driven by emotion, I mean you don’t need to know lots of music theory to generate a beautiful progression; you just need to know which emotion you want to evoke. Right now, Bloomer Free is available in VST3 and AU(beta) formats for macOS and Windows (early beta). Before you generate a chord progression, you have to set four parameters: Key, Scale, Vibe, and Bars. Once you choose a key, you can select from seven scales: Major (Ionian) Minor (Aeolian) Dorian Phrygian Harmonic…

Slate Digital is running a Spring Sale with the coupon code SPRING26, which knocks $25 off your order in the shop. A handful of paid plugins are currently priced at $24.50 each during the sale, so the discount covers the full price and brings them down to zero. The crazy part is that the code can be used multiple times, at least for the moment. I tested it and can confirm that you can reuse the code. With five separate checkouts, you can grab five paid Slate Digital plugins (totaling $250) for free. Add the two existing Slate freebies (Heat…

DLP Audio (Dean’s List Plugins) has released Smoke Mono 1, a free monophonic analog modeling synthesizer developed by Grammy-winning producer Mike Dean. Please note that it’s currently only available on macOS. Mike Dean has shaped the sound of modern hip-hop for over four decades, with credits including Kanye West, Travis Scott, and The Weeknd. I’ve been listening to his synth jams a lot recently, so I was excited to try the first plugin under his Dean’s List Plugins brand. Check out the Mike Dean jam below if you haven’t already. It’s awesome. A free synth from this guy? Hell yeah!…