You can now get eight of UA’s best plug-ins free, plus the free LUNA DAW

UAD Explore is a surprise. This is no “intro” or limited pack; eight stand-out Universal Audio plug-ins are available for free. That’s on top of the company’s free Luna DAW — though the plug-ins will also work in your DAW of choice, no special hardware required. For skill sharing or anyone lacking a budget now, that means access to some great tools.

Little Labs Voice Of God Bass Resonance is now a native UA plug-in

There are tricks for getting low-end, and then there’s the Voice of God. UA’s (official) version is good as ever, and now at last, you can run it as a plug-in without any UAD hardware. We’re getting all the classics this week.

Peter Kirn - April 2, 2026

Get Universal Audio’s 610 tube channel strips for free — DSP or native

For a limited time, you can grab UA’s 610-A and 610-B models for free, emulating tube amps, transformers, and EQ circuitry in software form. That includes both the UAD Native version you can run anywhere, plus the DSP version that integrates with their Apollo hardware. Here are some details.

Peter Kirn - January 13, 2026

Universal Audio is giving away their 1176 compressor for Valentine’s Day

Peter Kirn - February 14, 2025

Freebies: Universal Audio Pure Plate Reverb

Peter Kirn - December 19, 2024

Capitol Studios hand-built just four of these tube compressors – now UA has a plug-in

Peter Kirn - May 16, 2023

Universal Audio just made their interfaces into a live vocoder, more

Peter Kirn - November 14, 2018

UA unveils a maxed-out Thunderbolt 3 Apollo – and it’ll monitor surround sound

Peter Kirn - September 7, 2018

A simple, classic channel strip, Mr. Putnam’s mic collection, and more

Peter Kirn - August 15, 2018