Celebrate your Blue Monday with the choir sound from New Order – and Kraftwerk’s Orchestron

Expect there are quite a few blue Blue Mondays in the house, so this is topical – our friend Alex Theakston dives down a rabbit hole straight to Kraftwerk’s very own Vako Orchestron.

Polyend Tracker 1.5 lets you save custom instruments – and opens up sharing with others

Polyend quietly updated their cult hit Tracker with a smartly-designed feature for keeping settings organized as instruments. What might really matter about that is the chance to exchange your instruments with other Tracker users – a big deal in this passionate community.

Peter Kirn - January 14, 2022

Free plug-ins: iZotope Trash 2 is free for a limited time for your distortion and mangling needs

It’s not an exaggeration to say iZotope defined the modern distortion plug-in with Trash. Grabbing the deep, expansive Trash 2 plug-in for free is a no-brainer.

Peter Kirn - December 28, 2021

Arturia Pigments 3.5 – M1 support, new and expanded sound tools, free update

Peter Kirn - December 15, 2021

Forester 2022 from Leafcutter John is a donationware modular sound naturewalk

Peter Kirn - December 14, 2021

Roaches, mealworms, shrieking bubbles, and more in free Richard Devine sound samples

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2021

This sound library lets you use 56 amps, 4 subs, and Lyndhurst Hall as your speaker system

Peter Kirn - November 23, 2021

The entire BlueLab plug-in line is now free, full of unique visualization and processing tools

Peter Kirn - November 18, 2021

Ever used a delay plug-in at random? Now use the excellent Spaced Out like that – for free

Peter Kirn - November 17, 2021

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