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Akai MPC standalone sampler with a custom third-party plugin interface on its touchscreen, next to a laptop showing plugin code

news13 Nov 2026

Akai MPC Plugin SDK: Build Your Own MPC Plugins in MPC OS 3.10.1

Akai MPC Plugin SDK arrives in MPC OS 3.10.1: build custom instrument and effect plugins for standalone MPC and Force, with or without an AI agent.

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news12 Nov 2026
Schmidt Eightvoice Emulation: Schmidt Vi Plugin Price & Features
Schmidt Eightvoice emulation Schmidt Vi brings four oscillators and seven filters per voice, MPE and the original factory presets to your DAW. €179 intro.
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news10 Nov 2026
Audio Damage Sandbender: 4-Operator FM Synth for Desktop and iOS
Audio Damage Sandbender is an eight-voice, four-operator FM synth with wavefolding, a low pass gate, GENETICS patch breeding and MPE. $99, or $6.99 on iOS.
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news9 Nov 2026
Oberheim Matrix-12 plugin: GForce's official Matrix-12 emulation
Oberheim Matrix-12 plugin from GForce: the official Matrix-12 and Xpander emulation, built with Marcus Ryle, with MPE and 570+ patches. $119.99, intro $83.99.
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news4 Nov 2026
iZotope Photon: AI Stem Separation App and ARA Plugin
iZotope Photon is a standalone app and ARA2 plugin with 12 local AI models for stem separation, speaker splitting, and noise cleanup. Intro price is $259.
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news28 Oct 2026
Native Instruments Massive XL: The Successor to Massive X Is Here
Native Instruments has released Massive XL, the successor to Massive X, with an audio-to-patch Preset Generator, Mutator, 100+ new wavetables, poly aftertouch, and visible modulation. Features, pricing, and upgrade deals.
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news27 Oct 2026
Loopcloud 8 Adds Inspire Idea Generator, Listen Plugin, and a Mobile App
Loopmasters' Loopcloud 8 brings Inspire, a genre-based loop idea generator, the Listen plugin that suggests samples to fit your mix, new effects, a smart library, and a mobile companion app. Features and pricing.
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news26 Oct 2026
Isla Electronics ASYX Brings the Alesis Andromeda A6 to Your DAW
ASYX from Isla Electronics is a modeled (not sampled) recreation of the Alesis Andromeda A6 analog polysynth for Mac and Windows. Features, A6 hardware link, formats, and the £99 launch price.
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news23 Oct 2026
Blinksonic HOLODRIFT: A Granular and Spectral Synth Plugin With Eight Sample Slots
Blinksonic HOLODRIFT pairs an eight-slot granular sampler with a real-time spectral resynthesis engine. Features, formats, system requirements, and the €119 launch price.
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news19 Oct 2026
Slate Digital Complete Access Free Collection: 16 Free Plugins From Slate, SSL, Harrison and sonible
Slate Digital has launched the Complete Access Free Collection, 16 mixing and effects plugins from Slate Digital, Solid State Logic, Harrison Audio and sonible that are free forever, with no iLok, no trial clock, and VST3, AU and AAX support on macOS and…
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news16 Oct 2026
Push and Groove MICRONIX Is a Free Plaits Synth Plugin With All 24 Models
Push and Groove has released MICRONIX, a free monophonic synth plugin built on the open-source Mutable Instruments Plaits DSP code. It brings all 24 Plaits synthesis models to your DAW with an LFO, a modulation matrix, and ADSR or low-pass gate modes for…
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news15 Oct 2026
UVI Workstation Becomes UVI Player, Now Plays Falcon Expansions for Free
UVI has renamed its free UVI Workstation plugin to UVI Player. The update plays every Falcon Expansion without a Falcon license, adds a redesigned preset browser and improved mixer, and arrives alongside the new UVI Builder Platform for partner sound brands.
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news14 Oct 2026
AudioThing Materia Turns Any Sample Into a Playable Additive Synth
AudioThing has released Materia, an additive re-synthesizer plugin that analyses any sample into 96 editable harmonic partials with 128-point envelopes, plus a material resonator, filter, and effects. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux at an intro price…
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news9 Oct 2026
MAP Audio and Big Tick Audio Bring Back Rhino With Rhino 3 Hybrid FM Synthesizer
MAP Audio has released Rhino 3, a revived hybrid FM synth made with Big Tick Audio, with six oscillators per voice, wavetables, a new FM matrix, four effect slots, VST3/AU support, and a $50 early-access price.
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news8 Oct 2026
Imaginando COLAPSO Is an Atomic Synthesizer That Turns Element Emission Spectra Into Sound
Imaginando's new COLAPSO synth plugin builds its timbres from the measured emission lines of 22 chemical elements, with 3 oscillators, 8 voices, 200+ presets, and a €69 launch price for macOS and Windows.
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news7 Oct 2026
Cherry Audio Revives the Ultra-Rare 1981 Gleeman Pentaphonic as a $59 Synth Plugin
Cherry Audio's Pentaphonic plugin recreates the 1981 Gleeman Pentaphonic, a hybrid DCO polysynth with fewer than 70 units made, and expands it to 16 voices with a step sequencer, polyphonic aftertouch, and 22 effects for $59.
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news5 Oct 2026
Spitfire Audio and BT Release Phoenix, a Six-Engine Hybrid Synth
Phoenix is Spitfire Audio's third instrument with BT: a cinematic hybrid synth with six synthesis engines, a 40GB sampler, 37 effects, and 16-voice MPE. It's £199 until 25 October, then £249.
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plugins22 Jul 2025
Universal Audio intros Volt - USB Audio Interface with analog compressor built in
Universal Audio intros desktop USB-C, iPad and iPhone compatible audio interface series: Volt
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plugins22 Jul 2025
Tracktion intros Kult: a new powerful VST synth
Tracktion has released Kult, an innovative software synthesizer from DAWesome. It brings together a vast range of sound creation options, including immensely powerful oscillators based on the mathematical theory of chaos
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effects22 Jul 2025
The Fairchild Compressor: A Legendary Sound Shaped by Tubes and Time
Discover the timeless legacy of the legendary Fairchild compressors, renowned for their warm tube-driven sound. Explore their origins, features, and impact on music history.
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daws22 Jul 2025
Stability AI Releases Stable Audio 2.0: Improved AI Music Generation with New Features
Stability AI enhances AI music creation with Stable Audio 2.0, offering improved song coherence, audio-to-audio generation, and future plans for open-source models. Explore more at stableaudio.com.
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plugins22 Jul 2025
Output releases Arcade 2
Output released a new version of their subscription based software instrument Arcade 2
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plugins22 Jul 2025
New Creative Possibilities with Arturia's Free Filter MS-20 VST Plugin
The free Filter MS-20 plugin is great for both experienced and beginner music producers. With this plugin, you can easily recreate the classic sounds of the Korg MS-20, or you can experiment and create entirely new sounds. Whether you want to lay down a…
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hardware22 Jul 2025
Dynamic VS Condenser Microphones
Condenser mics are one of the most popular in recording studios. They are mainly used on instruments with lots of dynamics and less volume – sudden transients. Dynamic microphones can withstand lots of transients and pressure from hard hitting instruments.…
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plugins8 Jun 2020
Eventide Crystals – a new effect (VST/AU + AUv3 iOS)
A new effect from Eventide arrives Today! Crystals combines twin reverse pitch shifters with reverse delays and reverb. This iconic H3000 Harmonizer® effect can be used to create out-of-this-world climbing and cascading pitched delays or unique sounding…
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plugins22 Jan 2020
Klevgränd new plugin: LUXE Audio Enhancer
LUXE is an effect plugin that compress and saturate an audio signal in a subtile but musical way. It's very useful for making a track "fit in the mix" and can be used on anything from a drum bus to a vocal track. Its only continuous user parameter…
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plugins16 Jan 2020
Universal Audio announces Luna – full featured DAW for MacOS
Universal Audio announces today a new DAW – LUNA Recording System that will be available for free for Apollo and Arrow interface owners. Luna is a full-featured creative suite for recording that follows an analog-style production system. Additionally, the…
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plugins16 Jan 2020
OVox Vocal ReSynthesis – a new plugin by Waves
Waves has released a new plugin OVox Vocal ReSynthesis Description from Waves website: Transform your vocal productions with the next-generation voice-controlled synth and vocal effects processor. Create a limitless palette of vocal morphing, tuning,…
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plugins23 Nov 2019
Black Friday Deals on VST synths and effects
This year Black Friday deals started early. Here’s a great selection of best deals on VST plugins from Native Instruments, Arturia, Sonnox and many others Get best Black Friday Deals (updated on 24th November)
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plugins31 Oct 2015
Kilohearts Multipass – new plugin announced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWonFksCK0s Kilohearts announced new multi-FX plugin Kilohearts Multipass . It is a multiband FX processor
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