#electronicmusic

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,

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