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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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Turn Ableton Push 3 into a single expressive percussive surface, free
The most exciting add-on for Ableton Live this spring for me is actually not an Ableton Extension. It’s warpradius, a Max for Live device by Jon Doe One that transforms the entire grid into a single expressive percussion surface. It employs a Bessel membrane resonator model, a modal synthesis method that produces realistic, varied percussion sounds. And it’s free.
Peter Kirn - June 15, 2026
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Free: Minimal Audio Hybrid Filter, and some tips on how to use it
Minimal Audio is celebrating its anniversary, and so we get the excellent Hybrid Filter for free for a limited time. And what a nice multi-mode filter this is, with a bunch of exotic modes, amplitude modulation, and a built-in envelope follower as a modulation source.
Peter Kirn - May 19, 2026
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Free emulations of 80s Alesis MIDIVERB II, MicroVerb, in plug-in form
Peter Kirn - April 27, 2026
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You can now get eight of UA’s best plug-ins free, plus the free LUNA DAW
Peter Kirn - April 15, 2026
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Sonify data in Ableton Live with a free MIDI Tool; weather data walkthrough
Peter Kirn - March 25, 2026
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