#synthesizers

I've been trying Jun Murakami's ZeroComp for a few days. It's a compressor that lives up to its name by adding zero latency. That's the thing I keep coming back to with this whole line of his plugins.

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

I've been doing the thing where you bounce a mix, drag it into a separate player, and try to level-match by ear, and it's honestly a mess. MixCompare from Jun Murakami fixes that by sitting right in your

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

Been demoing Synth-80 for a few days and it genuinely surprised me. It is a straight emulation of the Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter, specifically the Rev 4 board, and the dev went deep on the analysis. Over

I keep coming back to the TX81Z. It's a weird little 1U rack from 1987 that somehow ended up all over dance records through the late 80s and 90s, mostly because of one preset: Lately Bass. Four operators,

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,