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Eminently controllable, accessible by design, Sting is now a plug-in
Now this is how to do generative melodies. Add expression. Get control with your hands. Make melodies accessible — including if you’re blind and visually impaired. Sting, the beloved maker of acid melodies and other patterns, is confined to Max for Live no more: now, it’s available as VST3, AU, CLAP / macOS, Windows, Linux.
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Organismi OR—1, free for iPad: breathing, stochastic pattern generator
OR—1 is an artful, generative MIDI sequencer maker. It’s free for iPad as an AUv3, with a desktop macOS version available for €19.99. And it’s an exquisite experience feeding these into synths.
Audio Damage ShinRonin, now free, is a throwback to 2003 plug-in design
You wake up. It’s the year 2003. Some upstart software developer called Audio Damage wants to let you patch a combo filter-delay however you like, including ways that will break your ears. Ronin is reborn as ShinRonin, from a time when software developers let you run with scissors and do strange things. This is one […]
Peter Kirn - July 6, 2026
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Spring cleaning: free up space by deleting duplicate plug-ins
Peter Kirn - April 27, 2026
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Zebra 3 is here, a sprawling semi-modular plug-in that runs deep
Peter Kirn - April 21, 2026
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The developer of Tweakbench wants to remake the DAW without linear time
Peter Kirn - March 4, 2026
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UZU is a new rubbery spectral smearing phaser effect from CRQL, Ewan Bristow
Peter Kirn - October 11, 2025
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