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Developer Urban Kits has released Plural, which is a free pitch-shifting sequencer plugin for macOS and Windows. Urban Kits is known to provide tools and sounds that help musicians create music from the ground up. What I mean is that Urban Kits offers products with no barriers to entry; they are free, easy to use, and typically very well-suited to bedroom producers and beatmakers. In late 2025, Urban Kits released Bedroom Guitar, a free sampled nylon guitar plugin that works well for pop, lo-fi, hip-hop, ambient music, and more. The developer’s latest release is Plural, a free pitch-shifting sequencer, available…
Audio Plugin Deals is throwing a huge sale this month, and you can now get their April Mega Bundle for $9.99. The original price is a whooping $507, so to say this is a massive discount (98% off) is almost an understatement. If you’re into cinematic and ambient atmospheres or on the lookout for percussive sounds to bring life into your productions, you might want to take a closer look at this deal. The April Mega Bundle features five versatile tools ranging from synths to sample libraries with integrated FX processing. Please note that you require the full version of…
Midifex has released Plugoff, a free app for macOS and Windows that scans, organizes, and offloads your audio plugins. It supports AU, VST, VST3, and AAX formats. Plugoff is currently free, but the developer stated that it will become a paid product in the future. So, now is the perfect time to get it. When you test roughly ten plugins a week like I do, plugin folders get messy fast. Things pile up, you forget to install a bunch of plugins, and suddenly the DAW’s plugin list is three times longer than it should be. I’ve been using the Audio…
Audio Assault has released Amp Locker 98, a free guitar amp simulation plugin dressed head-to-toe in Windows 98 aesthetics. Yes, it’s an April Fools’ release, but no, it’s not a joke. Well, it is, but it’s also a real guitar amp plugin. If you grew up in the late 90s like me, this will be a huge nostalgia trip. The whole product page is styled like a 1998 website, with things like visitor counters, forum links, and a note that the site is “best viewed in Internet Explorer 4.0 at 800×600 resolution.” I honestly can’t believe that almost 30 years…
Fantamidi is a step sequencer, synth, and MIDI generator toolkit meant to help producers try different musical ideas effectively. It features a MIDI randomiser that is aware of the musical scale and key you’re in. Key and scale can also be changed on the fly. Additionally, Fantamidi boasts a melody and bass generation section, drag-and-drop MIDI export, a simple synth engine, and powerful controls to reshape chord structures and arpeggios in real-time. Fantamidi works with macOS and Windows and comes in VST3 and AU formats. The plugin comes as a free or paid version, wherein the paid version supports manual…
From developer Wayhan comes Naked EQ, a free stripped-back EQ plugin for Windows. It sometimes seems like we can’t move without falling over another EQ plugin, and that’s not a complaint, horses for courses, and all that. Not all EQ plugins approach things in the same way, but while many focus on doing more and more, Wayhan’s Naked EQ is the plugin that does less. Wayhan pitches Naked EQ as “an EQ for your ears, with just enough for your eyes,” and that about sums it up. The plugin is available in VST3 format for Windows. Naked EQ offers curated…
Developer dBdone has released Glas, a free spectral chaos engine for macOS and Windows. dBdone has been a fairly busy developer early in 2026. In January, we looked at Pentimento (a collaboration with the musician and YouTuber TAETRO), a texture-layering plugin available in both paid and free versions. In February, we covered AI Chords, a chord-progression generation tool with both paid and free versions. Now, we’re looking at Glas, a free spectral chaos engine in AU, VST, and AAX formats for macOS and Windows. Unlike previous releases, there is no paid version of Glas; it’s a straightforward free plugin, so…
XLN Audio has released DB-30 Drum Butter, a multi-effect plugin designed for drum processing. It’s available at an introductory price of $99 until April 30th, after which it goes up to $129. A free trial is also available. DB-30 is built around the same workflow philosophy as XLN Audio’s hugely popular RC-20 Retro Color, so if you’ve used that plugin, the layout will feel familiar. The goal here is to let you have fun with quick experimentation and get immediate results. You can drop it on a drum loop, drum machine pattern, or live recording, and apply a variety of…
Ripple Phaser by Minimal Audio is currently 90% off at Audio Plugin Deals, bringing the price down from $49 to $4.90. Ripple Phaser is a multi-mode phase manipulator that goes beyond conventional phaser effects. It features seven distinct modes covering classic phasing, inverted phase, a clean targeted mode, low pass, high pass, band pass, and a disperse mode. We already covered it a couple of years ago, so check that article for a bit more information. The filter modes combine filtering with phasing for more aggressive hybrid effects, while the disperse mode applies all-pass dispersion and works particularly well on…
WarpCore by ManasWorld is an experimental multiband spectral inversion plugin that can infuse your sounds with a ring-modulated, distorted character that ventures into negative harmony. Similar to the likes of the Wormhole plugin by Zynaptiq or ProSoniq’s PiWarp. The plugin works on macOS, Windows, and Linux and comes in VST3, AU, and LV2 formats. I find the possibilities for sound manipulation with this plugin very interesting! Some parts of the demo video even remind me of the gritty, metallic aliasing in DIY circuit-bent Speak & Spell toys and similar gear. WarpCore has six adjustable main parameters: Warp: Divides the spectrum…