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Pac-Man, Befaco RANDOM8, and more free modules of VCV Rack
Your sequencing gets upgraded — including cameos by Pac-Man and the LOGO turtle. You get even more secret weapons for drum synthesis. You get the hot new RANDOM8 collab from Befaco and Mylar Melodies, cloning their new hardware. There’s just so much goodness in VCV Rack that covering the free stuff has me dizzy. Here’s your June update, with some sound examples.
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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
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MSteppySnap for Ableton Live makes modulation playable, maleable
In a way, it’s funny how complicated we make modulation. We wind up creating layers of envelopes and free-running oscillations just to get what we want. Tomavatars’ MSteppySnap, once you grok its approach, is nothing like that. This is steppy snappy whooshy glorgy modulation you can play, capture, and trigger intuitively.
Peter Kirn - April 24, 2026
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Absynth 6.1: Audio modulator, LFO retrigger, sound content, more
Peter Kirn - April 17, 2026
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Intellijel made Swells a playable reverb with faders, rise, fall, ebb, and flow
Peter Kirn - April 14, 2026
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Electro-Harmonix pedal classics are now available in plug-in form
Peter Kirn - March 31, 2026
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The developer of Tweakbench wants to remake the DAW without linear time
Peter Kirn - March 4, 2026
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