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Westwood Instruments has released Tempest Brass, the fourth installment in their Roots series of free Kontakt Player libraries. Tempest Brass is built from a collection of solo brass samples that have been time-stretched and overdriven into something you wouldn’t normally expect from a brass library. I love how they did it, honestly, and I think it’s perfect for modern cinematic scoring. They added just the right amount of processing to add interest while still preserving the core brass sound. I’ve had a soft spot for the Roots series from the start. The previous entries have all carried a unique character:…

Chaos Tones has released Deviant Drums FREE II, a free acoustic drum instrument for Kontakt Player 8.1 and up. It’s the sequel to the Deviant Drums FREE Edition we covered last July, and it builds on the same concept. You get one kit pulled from the paid version, served in a 2GB download. The thing I liked about the original free version was how much tweaking it let you do inside Kontakt Player, and that’s still the main selling point here. You get the virtual drum mixer with volume, pan, EQ, and other channel settings, so you can shape the…

You can now get HoRNet Plugins’ Graffio multi-band distortion for free for a limited time. You might get a strong sense of déjà vu from this offer because we’ve seen it before, and more than once. But it’s always worth sharing a freebie, no matter how many times it’s been available, because there are always people who missed it last time or haven’t seen it yet. So, we have Graffio, by HoRNet, a multi-band distortion plugin that usually costs €11.99, available for free. The offer ends on April 30, 2026, after which, Graffio will return to its regular price. The…

Become the Character “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” — David Bowie Some artists write songs. Others build worlds. David Bowie did both — by becoming someone new, again and again. Different sounds. Different looks. Different voices. Not confusion. Design. Quick Summary 👉 David Bowie used shifting artistic identities to explore different sounds and ideas. Creating your own identity as an artist can clarify your vision, guide your sound, and help you stand out.   Most artists try to “find themselves.” Bowie did the opposite. He created versions of himself. Each…

Saelin Audio has released Shine, a free adaptive clarity plugin built for vocals and acoustic guitar. I love plugins that speed up my workflow, and this one fits that description perfectly. You drop Shine on your recording track, and it adjusts presence and air in real time based on how you’re performing, without any presets or manual tweaking. The main idea here is to solve one common problem – a quiet passage and a chorus don’t need the same amount of top-end lift, and fingerpicking and strumming don’t either. Shine uses real-time audio analysis to shift its processing as the…

Flame Sound has released Free Human Voices, a free collection of non-verbal human character sounds. Upfront disclosure: Flame Sound is my premium sound design label, so this is basically me writing about my own release. 🙂 Human Voices is a new library of 1,400 non-verbal vocal sound effects performed by four professional voice actors (two male, two female). And, of course, there’s also a free version called Free Human Voices that includes 25 sounds from the main collection. Both are available from the Flame Sound Gumroad page. The pack is built for sound design, video games, and animation, but I…

Techivation has released Tilt EQ, a free linear phase tilt equalizer for macOS and Windows. Before we check out the plugin, a quick look at the download process. To get this into your DAW, you’ll need to create a free Techivation account (email and password), which also unlocks the rest of the developer’s freebies in one place. The good news is that Techivation offers a couple of other excellent freebies: the T-De-Esser 2 (one of the best free de-essers, for sure) and the T-Saturator. Those are definitely worth the download, too. Now, the core idea behind Tilt EQ is simple.…

Free Doesn’t Mean Limited “The best way to get started is to stop waiting.” There was a time when making music required: expensive studios expensive gear expensive software Not anymore. Today, you can download a DAW for free… and make professional music.   Quick Summary 👉 The best free DAWs include Pro Tools Intro, Cakewalk, GarageBand, and Waveform Free. Each offers professional-level features, with differences in workflow, platform, and focus.     🥇 1. Pro Tools Intro — The Studio Standard (Free) Pro Tools Intro If you want to learn how real studios work… This is the one. Why…

MNTRA has released FLTRS-LE, a free filter plugin based on the Roland Jupiter-6 filter circuit. FLTRS-LE is a trimmed-down version of the developer’s full FLTRS plugin, which costs $49 during the launch sale (regular price $79) and packs 37 analog circuits and experimental physics engines. The filter we get in the freebie is called EUROPA-6, and MNTRA describes it as a full component-level reconstruction of the Jupiter-6 filter module. That includes the OTA gain stages, the SVF topology, component tolerances, and the nonlinearities that give the hardware its character. On top of the original circuit, MNTRA added negative resonance (a…

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…