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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 […]
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Spring cleaning: free up space by deleting duplicate plug-ins
It turns out you don’t need VST2 and AU and AAX and CLAP versions of the same plug-in. Here’s a free, fast command-line tool that gets rid of them in a hurry, with options for particular configurations, on macOS.
Peter Kirn - April 27, 2026
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Zebra 3 is here, a sprawling semi-modular plug-in that runs deep
What if an integrated plug-in instrument could rival even full-blown modulars? That’s the question posed by u-he’s Zebra 3, out now at long last for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It’s unlikely any other soft synth takes on just this much synthesis territory, or with this much depth. From spline-based morphing oscillators to physical modeling and […]
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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plugdata 0.9.2 is huge update for this free sound exploration powerhouse
Peter Kirn - September 24, 2025
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LOCD is the free phase lock effect you didn’t know you needed
Peter Kirn - September 4, 2025
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