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Despelote’s soundscape transports you to Ecuador and childhood football magic
As part of CDM’s year-end coverage, I’m rounding up some of the best music and sound design in games. There’s nowhere better to start than Despelote, a beautifully designed and directed game that will move you by putting you in the shoes of a kid in 2001 Quito, Ecuador. It’s a master study in weaving sound and music in a way that both triggers sense memories and transports you inside a life experience.
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Sinevibes Skew, 3-playhead reverse delay, improved and now free
Santa Sinevibes has rolled into town this week, unexpectedly. Skew, a unique “non-linear” reverse delay effect from Sinevibes, is now available for free with v2, bringing the effect’s wide world of warping and multiple curves to everyone — Mac, Windows, and Linux. Skew may have flown under the radar when first released in 2022, despite […]
Peter Kirn - December 17, 2025
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Rage with the machine: Pigments 7 with new filters, new FX, sound features
Bonkers new filters? A Play mode everyone will actually want to use? Yeah, December isn’t done with you yet, synth fans. Meet the new Pigments 7 with Rage, Ripple, and Reverb filters, Corroder effect, improved amplitude envelopes, FM modulation on the filter, and more.
Peter Kirn - December 16, 2025
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Mudjaq TapeLeap, a freaky tape/lo-fi looper that can blink, be broken
Peter Kirn - December 11, 2025
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ADPTR Utopia: what makes this spectral reverb one of the best effects of 2025
Peter Kirn - December 3, 2025
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Airwindows VerbThic, VerbTiny let you go even more rabid for reverb, for free
Peter Kirn - December 3, 2025
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Super Massive 5 adds Sirius echo/reverb to the best free plugin in the galaxy
Peter Kirn - November 28, 2025
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Sinevibes Cache has turned into a buffer-mangling, playable breaks machine
Peter Kirn - November 25, 2025
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