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Free custom presets for Baby Audio’s Smooth Operator Pro
Baby Audio’s Smooth Operator Pro delivers powerful ways of dynamically sculpting sound and applying spectral processing. To round out the offering, here are some CDM-exclusive presets. You can try them out alongside the factory presets in their free trial.
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HyperSplash is glitchy hyperactive fun – $3 Max for Live from MIRA新伝統
If you don’t know the hyperfuturist post-anthropocene duo* MIRA新伝統 aka Honami Higuchi and Raphael Leray, you need to. But now for three bucks – $3!! – you can drop their absolutely addictive Max for Live mayhem into your Ableton Live set. Should you? You should.
Peter Kirn - April 23, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
Nasko’s completely free N-IRIS is a spectrum disperser – why that’s cool
Nasko, the prolific and imaginative software developer, is back with a new one – and it’s completely free, running in Plug Data (Pd) on Mac, Windows, and Linux. It’s a convolution-based spectrum disperser. Say what? Well, you get a powerful, precise, fairly rare method for generating impulse responses for convolution tools, like Kilohearts Convolution (now on sale), the one just added to Serum 2, and more. Or just play it live, because that also sounds kind of awesome.
Peter Kirn - April 21, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
Roland SP-404MKII V5 now does Serato DJ and Studio: free update
Peter Kirn - April 3, 2025
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Reason’s classic ReCycle is updated, free, and more useful than you might think
Peter Kirn - April 2, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
Three free spectral synths to try after the new Serum spectral oscillator
Peter Kirn - March 19, 2025
Music tech Software Stories Tech
Befaco’s new, updated modules in hardware and free for VCV Rack
Peter Kirn - March 10, 2025
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Software Tech
Freebies: Universal Audio Pure Plate Reverb
Peter Kirn - December 19, 2024
Music tech Software Tech
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