GIMP 3.0, free and open source image app, looks brilliant

The culmination of seven years of open-source development, GIMP has reached its milestone 3.0 release. GIMP was always powerful, but this feels more like the mature, usable release to take on the proprietary heavyweights.

Spectral Plugins are now free as maker goes out of business

Spectral Plugins, a relatively young plugin maker, has announced the end of its business. They’re making their three excellent plugins available for free download, complete with macOS and Windows VST2/VST3/AU/AAX support, so grab them while you can.

Peter Kirn - April 2, 2024

Moog’s new Mariana is a monster bass soft synth with dual engines and CV

Moog’s Mariana is here on desktop (macOS, Windows) and iOS and – it’s about as much Moog sound as you can imagine in software. Here’s what’s in that architecture, some hands-on first impressions, plus details of a significant update for the Moogerfooger software effect range that goes perfectly with the synth.

Peter Kirn - December 5, 2023

Percussa’s SSP Eurorack powerhouse does 3D, plugins, SDK – and kind of everything

Peter Kirn - May 9, 2022

Get a free plug-in version of the 1176 Peak Limiter

Peter Kirn - December 21, 2019

KORG volca fm gets its own custom editor, plug-in

Peter Kirn - May 1, 2019

Gantz Graf, the Max for Live Plug-in: Reactive-Visualizing Your Tracks

Peter Kirn - March 18, 2013

sfFreeFrame: Free Live Visual Plugins for Your VJ Host Generate Sweet Abstract Visuals

Peter Kirn - January 26, 2011

Forward-Compatible Effects: Use FreeFrame Plugins in FreeFrameGL with fugWrapperGL

Jaymis Loveday - March 16, 2010

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