#synthesizers

Freakshow Industries are back with another one that sounds like it crawled out of a cursed lab. Dicksmasher is a weaponised distortion plugin built around thirteen cursed FMC cartridges, each with its

Fuse Audio Labs just put out Amber Drive, a free amp plugin that bottles the sound of a classic British valve amp — warm cleans that break up into a sweet crunch when you dig in. It models cascading 12AX7

Pulsar Modular just dropped Q BIT, a free bitcrusher that does more than chew up your sound. The star of the show is Hold, which grabs a slice of your audio and freezes its tail until the next slice hits

tinyant's purpl is a free chorus and shimmer reverb that does things its own way. Solo developer Anant spent a year building it, and the Haze chorus, Blend control, and Bloom shimmer that swells up on

Krotos is giving away a proper sound design bundle this weekend, and it's a good one. Simple Monsters takes any voice and twists it into creatures, robots and growls in real time, with five character sliders

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Musical Arts School just put out their first virtual piano, and the free version is a proper Steinway Model D. Live Grand Light is built from their own recordings of a modern Steinway D at River Studios

Sonuscore just dropped a free taster of their cinematic scoring engine, and it's a proper one. Load up a Story, play a chord, and a full arrangement — strings, brass, choir, synths, guitars and more —

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,

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

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

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,