#musicproduction

ZL Audio just put out a free, open-source limiter, and it's a proper one — true-peak limiting with up to 32x oversampling, a scrolling waveform display, and full loudness metering (momentary, short-term,

How virtual singers changed my music, opened new creative doors and brought my songs to life.

Flame Sound's Tomislav Zlatic dropped a free one-knob mix enhancer for his birthday, and it's a stripped-down version of his VATRA mix finisher. One macro knob, three modes: MSTR adds a bit of punch and

UJAM is giving away UFX Distort free to BPB readers until November 1 — it's normally a $49 plugin, and all it takes is an emailed code at checkout (just double-check the total reads zero before you complete

Daniel Fernandes just put out Spotlight, a stereo shaping plugin built around one dot on a semicircular pad. Drag it around and you are panning and widening or narrowing a sound at the same time, instead

Vochlea is giving away Empire Breaks, Native Instruments' $49 Play Series drum instrument, free with an email signup, and you get to keep the full license. It is all golden-era boom bap, live breaks recorded

Strezov Sampling just gave away a solo cello that sounds like it was recorded for a film score, not a freebie bin. Solo Cello Sul Tasto is built around their contour idea — each patch is a full recorded

Christmas magic meets disco! Discover Disco Wonderland, featuring virtual singer Natalie.

Cineol-X 224 is a free reverb plugin that brings the sound of Lexicon's classic 224 hardware into your DAW, with one catch worth knowing upfront. It doesn't ship with the firmware inside, so you need your

The Crow Hill Company's latest Vaults freebie is a John Brinsmead & Sons baby grand that spent its life in a school before being donated — and they sampled it exactly as it arrived, road-weary and

Morningdew Media just dropped MorningDAW, a completely free DAW for macOS, Windows, and Linux — no trial clock, no licence key, no catch. You get the usual toolkit — a linear arrangement timeline, clip

Hours spent searching for the perfect preset, unexpected effects, and the sounds that bring a musical idea to life.

D16 Group is celebrating 20 years by giving away Echolite, a brand-new stereo delay built for getting from silence to useful echoes in seconds. The delay engine runs from 0.1 ms all the way up to 400 ms,

GForce is giving away two plugins again — Axxess and M-Tron Select 2 — and this time there's no subscription or bundle string attached, just a free account. Axxess is their take on the 1975 ARP Axxe, the

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,