Squash plugin UI with X/Y grid, puck, depth on y axis, tone on x axis, and dry/wet control. Menu open, showing framerate / window size/ OpenGL options and oversampling off / 2x / 4x.

Minimal Audio’s Squash is a free OTT that doesn’t sound like OTT

OTT, the “over the top” multiband compression preset that began life in Ableton Live, was due for a modern refresh. It gets just that with Squash, a new free plug-in from Minimal Audio. And if you’re celebrating Buy Nothing Day instead of Black Friday today, you’re having a decent run.

Burn it all down with Obliterate, new free plug-in from Newfangled Audio

If I had to guess what would best fit the current audio zeitgeist, “free” and “violent distortion” would probably be exactly it. Obliterate, released today by Newfangled Audio, delivers. Get angry. Destroy everything.

Peter Kirn - November 29, 2024

FL Studio 2024.2: Transporter looping FX, scalable UIs, latency fix, more

In an unexpected US Thanksgiving Day announcement, Image-Line has a new version of FL Studio. Here’s what’s new, including various goodies but, importantly – more scalable UIs and a fix to monitoring settings for solving recording latency issues.

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2024

BOSS DR-55 drum machine from 1979, now a free plug-in

Peter Kirn - November 27, 2024

Tired of controller lock-in? Mixxx is a free DJ alternative; 2.4.2 out now

Peter Kirn - November 27, 2024

Ableton Live’s new options fix latency recording problems: here’s how

Peter Kirn - November 26, 2024

Tim Exile’s cancer recovery project is a generative, morphing groovebox

Peter Kirn - November 26, 2024

Imaginando TV3 acid synth and bassline generator, free through Dec 1

Peter Kirn - November 25, 2024

Sumu arrives, with unique semi-modular take on spectral sound design

Peter Kirn - November 22, 2024

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