#musicproduction

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

Editing drum maps inside Cubase is tedious enough that a free standalone editor is genuinely worth grabbing. Jun Murakami's Cubase DrumMap Editor (v1.5) does the whole job: New, Open, Save, plus Import.csv