This week’s roundup highlights new releases, free offers, and workflow enhancements for music producers and sound designers, showcasing innovations across Kontakt libraries, VST plugins, and production techniques.
Bring the legendary sound of Harrison's analog heritage into your DAW with the 32Classic Channel Strip. This comprehensive plugin emulates the iconic Harrison 32Classic console, featuring a musical four-band parametric EQ, famous ultra-wide filters, and a versatile dynamics section with three compression modes. With the addition of a Jensen transformer-modeled "Drive" control for warm harmonic saturation, it provides the same professional workflow and sonic character used on some of the world's most influential records.
8Dio released ‘Admiration’ within Hybrid Emotions, a Kontakt instrument that stretches a single filmic ambience sound across the entire keyboard for versatile sound design. Source: 8Dio.
Universal Audio is offering the UA 610 Tube Preamp and EQ for free as a native plugin, featuring insights from John Mark Nelson on adding punch and grit. Source: Universal Audio.
Audio Damage explained why RoughRider 3 compressor is now behind a paywall, citing overwhelming support requests from gamers misusing the free VST2 plugin, though it remains available to customers. Source: Audio Damage.
Diginoiz introduced LAYER IT, a VST sampler for drum layering that combines visual waveform feedback with MIDI control to streamline creating and exporting one-shots. Source: Diginoiz.
Celemony showcased Tonalic, a tool that adapts real studio performances by top musicians to match your song’s chords, tempo, and groove. Source: Celemony.
BLEASS explored creating acid bass sounds using synths like BLEASS Monolit, emulating the classic TB-303 for modern dance music. Source: BLEASS.
Baby Audio updated Tekno to v1.1 with a built-in sequencer for quick beat creation within the plugin. Source: Baby Audio.
Arturia featured a tutorial by Virtual Riot on designing chiptune leads in Pigments 7, focusing on pitch quantization and modulation. Source: Arturia.
MNTRA Instruments is campaigning for votes for El Jaguar in the Best Virtual Instrument category at the Plugin Boutique Awards. Source: MNTRA Instruments.
These updates reflect a trend toward more integrated and user-friendly tools, with a focus on accessibility, creative workflow enhancements, and community engagement in the music production landscape.
