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Fracture Sounds has released Blueprint: Textural Sax, a free preview from its library Trails II, offering composers, producers and sound designers a hands-on taste of its cinematic, textural sound design tools. Blueprint: Textural Sax features a resonant, textural saxophone performance recorded against a large thunder sheet and captured through multiple microphone techniques — including contact […]

Icechewing Technology releases ice clip for macOS VST3 & AU 22 Luglio 2026

Icechewing Technology has released the macOS version of ice clip, a soft clipper plugin previously available for Windows only. The plugin now ships as VST3 and AU, as a Universal Binary running natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, signed and notarized. ice clip was built to bring a particular flavor of soft clipping […]

Blue Cat Audio Updates Connector, Freeceiver and Fader Hub with New Workflow and Connectivity Features 21 Luglio 2026

Blue Cat Audio has released new versions of Connector, Freeceiver and Fader Hub, bringing major workflow improvements to its inter-app and network audio solutions. Connector 1.5 and Freeceiver 1.3 now support offline bounce, freeze and rendering, enabling users to render audio and MIDI through plug-ins or external hardware connected across applications, and even remotely over […]

JUCE 9 Now Available 21 Luglio 2026

The JUCE team has announced the launch of JUCE 9, which focuses on UI features and performance, embedded support and cross-platform compatibility. Pricing and licensing terms have been kept identical to JUCE 8, and all JUCE 8 subscriptions have been automatically upgraded to JUCE 9. New in JUCE v9.0.0 Added a new SVG parser. Added […]

KVR Studio Manager Public Beta updated to v0.4.0.3 21 Luglio 2026

The public beta of the free KVR Studio Manager application for macOS and Windows has been updated to v0.4.0.3. You can download directly from www.kvraudio.com/kvr-studio-manager or if you launch KSM it'll offer the download automatically. Changes in KSM v0.4.0.3 (Public Beta): AAX scan log now more verbose. Fixed version number detection for Roland AAX plugins. […]

SonicModeler releases Syntropy v2.0 for Windows and macOS 21 Luglio 2026

SonicModeler has announced the release of Syntropy 2.0, a major update to its formula-driven synthesizer and sound-design instrument for Windows and macOS. Syntropy 2.0 introduces a faster and more intuitive workflow, improved performance, expanded sound-design capabilities, and a completely redesigned user interface. New in Syntropy 2.0: Up to 16 directly controllable synthesis parameters per preset. […]

Aide Audio Releases GE-1 Gravity Engine - One-Knob Tilt EQ with Kick-Triggered Ducking for Bass 21 Luglio 2026

Aide Audio has released GE-1 Gravity Engine, an effect plugin built for bass and low-frequency instruments that pairs a one-knob tilt EQ with automatic kick-triggered spectral ducking. How It Works Press LEARN and play a short bass phrase the way you actually play it. GE-1 analyses the signal in real time, finds the pivot frequency […]

AOFN Audio Releases Grizzly - Free Stereo Modulation Effect based on the Gristleizer Pedal (VST3 & AU) 21 Luglio 2026

AOFN Audio has released Grizzly, a free stereo modulation effect for macOS and Windows modelled on the infamous Gristleizer circuit. Grizzly includes an internal LFO that drives a modelled JFET stage in two modes: VCA: controls the amplitude of the signal (tremolo, gating, rhythmic chopping, ringmod-adjacent tones above 20 Hz). VCF: sweeps a lowpass filter […]

Cloudvocal's improved FlashTrack FT-15 DSP Microphone 22 Luglio 2026

Cloudvocal have just refreshed the design of their all-in-one mic, audio interface and DSP processor, introducing a series of new features which they say make the recording process more intuitive and efficient than ever before.

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ERA II Vocal Codex from Eduardo Tarilonte 22 Luglio 2026

The meticulously recorded vocal performances in ERA II Vocal Codex become the latest Eduardo Tarilonte offerings to benefit from the performance increase and operational improvements offered by Engine Player.

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Dirty Boy Jr. Series from Warm Audio 21 Luglio 2026

The new Dirty Boy Jr. Series promises to bring the authentic Dirty Boy tone to a broader audience while preserving the all-important character of the original designs.

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Musik Hack announce HyFi mastering platform 21 Luglio 2026

Musik Hack’s latest offering takes a step away from plug-ins, and introduces a new pay-as-you-go an online mastering platform that draws on the expertise they’ve honed whilst developing their innovative processors.

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elysia Channex Studio now available 21 Luglio 2026

The Channex Studio is a bold new product for elysia, bringing together an assortment of their praised analogue hardware designs and introducing remote control and recall.

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Audeze launch the Maxwell 2 ANC 20 Luglio 2026

Audeze have announced the launch of the Maxwell 2 ANC, a new headset which adds active noise cancellation to the list of improvements introduced by the Maxwell 2.

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Graph Tech Guitar Labs open UK Online Store 20 Luglio 2026

Graph Tech Guitar Labs have just announced the launch of a new UK Online Store that makes it quicker and easier than ever for musicians, repair shops and guitar builders to get their hands on genuine Graph Tech products.

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Acustica reveal Mystic 2 19 Luglio 2026

Mystic 2 now offers a choice of three preamp models, with a new Vintage option delivering a more aggressive sound character, and Modern offering a more refined and flexible sound.

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