Airwindows VerbThic, VerbTiny let you go even more rabid for reverb, for free

Chris Johnson, aka Airwindows, continues to share his love for DSP with free tools, open source code, and elaborate discussions of the joy of crafting reverbs. So just in case you don’t feel blessed enough with free effects after SuperMassive’s new Sirius reverb/delay, here’s the tiny and the thick in all-new Airwindows editions. And they’ll even run in VCV Rack or on a Raspberry Pi.

Fauve, an effects instrument that weaves sounds from fragments: review

K-Devices’ Fauve is an idiosyncratic, exquisite audio effect that the developers describe as “fractured memory” — a glitchy, audio-slicing, granular-adjacent sonic fragmentation tool. There’s nothing quite like this “flawed audio reconstructor.” Let’s break down how it works, especially with the effect on sale now.

Peter Kirn - July 28, 2025

GRM Atelier, the reimagined future of the legendary sound plug-ins, revealed

GRM Tools was one of the first plug-in suites available, the product of Paris’ GRM research center. It’s always been a unique, composition-focused toolset. But I’ve seen its future, and it’s on a whole new level, allowing open-ended modulation and multichannel signal processing that’s unlike anything else.

Peter Kirn - May 12, 2025

Live 12.2: hands-on guide to Meld, Roar, Auto Filter, workflow updates, more

Peter Kirn - March 12, 2025

Burn it all down with Obliterate, new free plug-in from Newfangled Audio

Peter Kirn - November 29, 2024

Multiphonics CV-2 goes waveshaping: what’s in the AAS modular’s 2.1 update

Peter Kirn - August 4, 2023

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