Autor: Producer Gang

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!…

Plugin Boutique has Soundtoys FilterFreak on sale for $39, which is 73% off the regular price of $149. The deal runs until April 28th. FilterFreak is still one of my favorite filter plugins for sound design. There are plenty of newer filter modulation plugins around, but I keep coming back to this one. I love the sound, and although the modulation is fairly limited, it feels good, and the plugin is simple to use overall. It’s perfect for quickly getting some nice-sounding filter modulation. I lean on FilterFreak a lot on synths to add movement to pads, and on textured…

More Processing, Less Voice? “If you have to fix it with ten plugins… the problem may be earlier in the chain.” You add EQ. Then compression. Then reverb. Then more EQ. And somehow… The vocal gets smaller. Thinner. Farther away. What happened? Thin vocals often come from over-processing, not under-processing.   Quick Summary 👉 Vocals sound thin when too much EQ, over-compression, or excessive effects remove body and push the vocal back in the mix. The solution is better source tone, gentler compression, subtractive EQ, and more restraint with effects. Magic EQ Guide   Before plugins… Start here. A…