Soundtoys is giving away free plug-ins for 12 days, starting today

It’s the 12 Days of Soundtoys: the Burlington-based developer is giving away one of its excellent audio effects every 48 hours, free (a total of six plug-ins). That’s on top of their existing sale. The freebies kick off today with Little PrimalTap, a retro delay with extra time warping, looping, distortion, and sound-transforming powers.

A new free Live tool from Robert Henke lets you grab short sounds easily

Quick! Your modular/synth/contact mic/pot-and-pan is making amazing sounds, and you want to capture them for fast 1-shots/drum racks. And you hate the tedious editing/naming admin! Robert Henke’s new Sample Capture is for you — and it’s free, for Ableton Live 12 and Max for Live.

Peter Kirn - December 5, 2025

A free Winamp clone, for macOS, with FLAC and Milkdrop visualizations

It might be a funny intersection of interests. But developer Matt Greenwood built a macOS-native clone of the legendary Winamp in Swift, MIT-licensed, with MP3 and FLAC playback and Milkdrop visualization support (including fullscreen).

Peter Kirn - November 14, 2025

Get a free spoooooky spectrum analyzer plug-in from PSP

Peter Kirn - October 31, 2025

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

Peter Kirn - September 4, 2025

Tekno, new bendable drum machine synth: we’ve got free patterns and kits

Peter Kirn - September 2, 2025

Free Compactor, limiter/ducker with sidechain, joins Kilohearts freebies

Peter Kirn - August 20, 2025

Instant percussion joy with DFAM-inspired Vertex for Max for Live

Peter Kirn - August 13, 2025

AirWindows’ free PointyDeluxe is dangerous, unstable, and wonderful

Peter Kirn - July 29, 2025

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