Free Friday: D16 is turning 20 and they’ve got a new free stereo delay

Straight outta Katowice, our friends at D16 Audio Group are celebrating 20 years with an all-new stereo delay: Echolite. And don’t let the “lite” in the name deceive you: this all-new giveaway has some power beneath its simple UI.

Reason 14 RV-9 guide: it’s a reverb, a granular and spectral effect, more

Reason’s RV-9 is a major addition to Reason 14, with algorithmic reverb, spectral and granular effects, and plate, spring, and reverb, plus a ton of extras from shimmer to patchability. Let’s take a deep dive and learn how to get the most out of it.

Peter Kirn - May 13, 2026

Make Noise and Tom Erbe have made a mighty morphing spatial Plexiphon

Soundhack creations endure years and decades, and now we get a new one. Think mighty morphing modeless modulation. Plexiphon is neither reverb or echo. It’s both, simultaneously, for spatial textural sounds you can shift fluidly. And in my quest to avoid being consumed by a sea of modules, this one just rose way up the list.

Peter Kirn - May 7, 2026

NEL Incline gets an Easter update with improved display, output quality — and echo

Peter Kirn - April 5, 2026

Super Massive 5 adds Sirius echo/reverb to the best free plugin in the galaxy

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2025

Valhalla’s all-new reverb, 8 years in development, goes clean and natural

Peter Kirn - November 13, 2025

Befaco Oneiroi, all-in-one soundscape module, now in VCV Rack

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2024

Tour Collage, a colorful playground for endless custom effects

Peter Kirn - February 16, 2024

The greatest hits of Electro-Harmonix are now in pico-sized pedals: NYC Series

Peter Kirn - September 21, 2023