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

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

Zebra 3 is here, a sprawling semi-modular plug-in that runs deep

Peter Kirn - April 21, 2026

The developer of Tweakbench wants to remake the DAW without linear time

Peter Kirn - March 4, 2026

Hainbach and AudioThing made the HP Word Generator into sonic software

Peter Kirn - November 18, 2025

UZU is a new rubbery spectral smearing phaser effect from CRQL, Ewan Bristow

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2025

plugdata 0.9.2 is huge update for this free sound exploration powerhouse

Peter Kirn - September 24, 2025

LOCD is the free phase lock effect you didn’t know you needed

Peter Kirn - September 4, 2025