#electronicmusic

UJAM just dropped a freebie for spooky season: Detunicorn, a hypersaw synth built for big detuned leads, chunky chords, and short synth stabs. Two supersaw oscillators plus a sub, with up to four unison

Vocal tuning without the Melodyne price tag is having a moment. Session Loops just dropped PitchNet, a completely free and open-source vocal pitch editor that works a lot like Melodyne: it detects the

SampleScience just put out Compact Acoustic Piano, a free sampled piano plugin that runs straight in your DAW — no Kontakt or separate sampler to mess with. It's only 278 MB on disk, which is tiny for

RiverFlux Audio just added RF-E to their Relic bundle, and the whole collection is still a free download. It's a complete channel strip in a single window — high/low-pass filters, a four-band EQ, compressor,

From Yamaha V50 to VSTs, my tools evolved, but my way of composing stayed the same.

Nembrini Audio is giving away Cali Reverb again, its take on the Mesa Boogie Rectoverb 50-watt head, free until October 31. It's a proper two-channel amp sim: clean and pushed modes on the first channel,

That Worship Sound is giving away Mammoth Bass - a pack of 100 analog bass one-shots sampled from the Moog Subsequent 37 - free until October 31. Sound designer Abel Mendoza captured them from the 50 patches

13x Audio just dropped Colony, a free multi-effect plugin built around one big ENERGY knob. It packs six effect cells — saturation, modulation, reverb, sidechain ducking, stereo widening, and lo-fi color

UVI just renamed its free Workstation to UVI Player, and it's a bigger deal than the name suggests. Every Falcon Expansion now runs exactly as designed inside the free player, which is basically Falcon's

BeatSkillz is giving away Slam2, its track phattener plugin, and the coupon code SLAMJAM at checkout brings the usual $79 price down to zero. Slam2 squeezes a whole mix chain into eight controls: low-end

Music By Mattie just dropped magic.METER, a free analyzer that grades your vocal mix against measurements taken from 3,054 hit songs. It never processes the audio, it only listens and scores things like

Orra Audio just dropped Orra Key, a free key-finding plugin that actually puts the result to work. Drop it on a loop, press play, and within seconds it names the key, the relative major or minor, and the

How a free synth discovered in 2014 became an essential part of my music.

W.A. Production just handed BPB readers the keys to their Techno Mega Pack — a seven-pack bundle that normally sells for $155.85. It's stacked for techno and tech house: Techno Stamina, Dirty House Fever,

Loot Audio is giving away UVI Prisma for free — the $149 hybrid instrument built from 250 UVI instruments, with 1,151 presets on board. Two sound layers per patch, five performance macros for quick changes,

Idle Foundry just dropped CA-72, a free synth modeled on the early-70s Minimoog Model D — right down to the CA3046 oscillator board, transcribed from the original service docs and simulated in ngspice.

Polarity just dropped MEQ, a free spectral matching EQ for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It learns the spectrum of a reference track and nudges your mix toward it, with mid/side handled separately and an

Sidechain ducking usually means routing buses and fiddling with compressor sidechain inputs. Pulse Ducker from j.mp3 labs skips all of that: it's a free volume-shaping plugin where you pick one of 16 ducking

Hivetune's new ENS-86 takes the chorus sound of classic 80s poly synths and old bucket-brigade circuits and drops it into a clean, modern interface. Rate and Depth cover everything from barely-there thickening

Airwindows just dropped ConsoleX3, a free open-source mixing console system that wraps a full channel strip into a single plugin. It packs a four-band EQ, dynamics that can compress or expand, saturation,