Spring cleaning: free up space by deleting duplicate plug-ins

It turns out you don’t need VST2 and AU and AAX and CLAP versions of the same plug-in. Here’s a free, fast command-line tool that gets rid of them in a hurry, with options for particular configurations, on macOS.

FFAB unlocks the batch audio powers of the free ffmpeg with a GUI

FFmpeg, the free multimedia toolkit, is so powerful that, honestly, it’s entirely possible not to know all that it can do. For audio, the new FFAB offers a graphical front-end on Mac and Linux, with real-time preview, drag-and-drop filters, parallel processing, and useful visualizations that even command line lovers won’t want to miss.

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2026

littlescale’s Simple Audio Editor: a free, no-install audio editor in your browser

Prolific as always, Sebastian Tomczak (aka littlescale) just dropped this gem. What do you need nine times out of ten from an audio editor? Visualize, check levels, trim, gain, fade, reverse, normalize, export — now you can do all of that with one handy index.html file and any browser, free.

Peter Kirn - January 18, 2026

Black Friday: pimp my Live with the best add-ons

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2025

Make doodles in Ableton Live, then animate them, with Klottra

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2025

Push:Cue Mode turns Warp Markers into launchable cue points

Peter Kirn - November 7, 2025

Organize that mess of projects into one place, free, with SessionDock

Peter Kirn - November 4, 2025

Mute on your Push like it’s an Elektron — Push:Mute Mode

Peter Kirn - September 10, 2025

Code turns MacBook hinge into a creaking door, Theremin

Peter Kirn - September 8, 2025