LIMITED FREE DOWNLOAD: Shortnoise 1 Electronic Music Sample Library for Kontakt
INSPIRING ELECTRONIC SAMPLE LIBRARY WITH A HUGE 6GB OF CONTENT!
Shortnoise 1 is a unique and inspiring electronic sample library with a huge 6GB of content and over 300 Kontakt instruments to choose from.
Jam packed full of Electronic Grooves, Arpeggiated Sequences, Manipulated Synths, Cinematic FX, Unique and Expressive Performance Patches, this beauty has a whole world of surprises waiting to be unleashed!
Perfect for electronic music, film scores and experimental sound design.
Don’t miss out on this exclusive offer!
NOTE: Full version of Kontakt 4 / 5 required. Not compatible with free Kontakt Player
Semedo EQ — Professional 24-Band Equalizer for Windows VST3
Semedo EQ is a modern 24-band parametric equalizer built for producers, mixing engineers, and mastering-focused workflows. It combines surgical EQ control, dynamic processing, advanced visual feedback, and musical tone-shaping tools inside one fast, visual interface.
Designed for precision and speed, Semedo EQ lets you shape tone, control resonances, tighten the low end, analyse the stereo image, add compression, and apply harmonic saturation without leaving the plugin.
Main EQ Layer.
The main EQ view gives you full control over 24 parametric bands with a clear spectrum display and fast band editing.
You can use Semedo EQ for broad tonal shaping, precise surgical cuts, resonance control, stereo correction, and mastering adjustments. Each band can be adjusted with detailed frequency, gain, Q, slope, filter type, and stereo placement controls.
Key features:
24-band parametric EQ.
Bell, shelf, cut, notch, band-pass, tilt, and all-pass style filtering.
Per-band Stereo, Mid, Side, Left, and Right placement.
Dynamic EQ per band.
Threshold, attack, release, ratio, and dynamic range control.
Linear Phase and Zero Latency workflow options.
Spectrum analyser with pre/post viewing.
EQ Match tools.
Spectrum Grab for quickly turning peaks into EQ bands.
Harmonic ruler tools for musical frequency decisions.
Mono-Below control for tighter low-end translation.
Peak labels, freeze, and analyser response options.
Ear Mode
Ear Mode is a listening-first EQ layer designed to help you make faster musical decisions.
Instead of only looking at a graph, Ear Mode presents the EQ bands in a clean strip-style layout. This makes it easier to focus on what each band is doing: adding weight, removing mud, controlling harshness, opening air, or shaping presence.
Useful for:
Quick mix decisions.
Gain-focused EQ moves.
Working by ear instead of only by sight.
Managing all 24 bands in a console-style layout.
Fast access to band type, frequency, Q, stereo placement, and dynamics.
Perceptual / Mastering View.
The Perceptual View is built for deeper listening and mastering decisions. It helps you understand not only what the spectrum shows, but how the sound may be perceived.
This layer includes equal-loudness-style visual feedback, pinned frequency readouts, low-end translation information, and stereo safety context.
Key features:
Perceptual spectrum view.
Linear vs perceptual frequency readouts.
Delta-style frequency comparison.
Pin important frequency points for reference.
Low-end translation guidance.
Mid/Side and stereo-width context.
Correlation and vectorscope-style monitoring.
Crest / punch information.
Mastering-focused visual feedback for bass, presence, and air.
Semedo Compress Layer
Semedo EQ also includes an integrated compressor layer called Semedo Compress.
This gives you broadband compression directly inside the EQ workflow, so you can control dynamics without loading a separate compressor. It includes different compression characters and live visual feedback, making it easier to see and hear how much compression is being applied.
Key features:
Classic, Opto, and VCA compression styles.
Stereo, Mid, Side, Left, and Right compression modes.
Threshold, ratio, knee, attack, release, makeup, range, and wet controls.
RMS detection mode.
Live gain-reduction display.
Transfer curve display.
Pre/post audio movement display.
Useful for glue, control, punch, and mastering-style compression.
Semedo Saturation Layer
The Saturation Layer adds harmonic colour and controlled drive after the EQ and compressor workflow.
It is designed to add warmth, punch, edge, or heavier tone while still giving you safety controls such as mix, tone, output trim, low/high focus filters, oversampling, and auto makeup.
Key features:
Harmonic saturation and drive.
Clean, Warm, Punch, Crunch, and Smash macro programs.
Drive, bias, mix, tone, output, dynamic amount, and focus controls.
Low-cut and high-cut focus for safer saturation.
Auto Makeup option.
Oversampling options.
Stereo, Mid, Side, Left, and Right saturation modes.
Pre/Post EQ placement options.
Live harmonic and heat-style feedback.
Advanced Workflow Tools
Semedo EQ is made for fast professional workflow, not just basic EQ moves. It includes advanced tools that help you analyse, compare, and make better decisions faster.
Plugoff scans, organises, and offloads your audio plugins so your DAW loads faster and your sessions stay clean.
Free for Mac and Windows. AU, VST, VST3, and AAX.
Your plugin library, tidied up.
Unused plugins can be offloaded to a folder or external drive, leaving just the plugins and formats you need. Your DAW will load faster and won’t be littered with outdated or demo plugins.
Features:
Everything you need.
Plugin Organiser
Automatically filters and sorts by manufacturer, plugin type, and format (AU/VST/VST3/AAX).
Plugin Offloading
Move unused plugins to a safe vault folder and restore them instantly when needed, or permanently delete them later on.
UAD License Detection
Separate Universal Audio authorised, demo, and expired plugins and offload the ones you don’t own.
Most vocal tuners make you choose. You can sound perfectly in tune, or you can sound human. PitchCure gives you both.
It is a high-end vocal tuner. Some plugins turn real singing into robot sounds. PitchCure does not do this. It tracks the voice and keeps the real feeling safe. Words stay crisp. Breaths stay natural. The tuning feels subtle and natural.
It is built for fast work. You do not have to draw lines on a screen. Find your key with one click. Pick your voice range. Then, turn the main knobs.
Use Speed to fix bad notes. Turn up Humanize to keep the song's emotion. Use Transition for smooth slides between notes. Use the Color knob to add rich tone.
You might want hidden tuning for a quiet song. You might want fast tracking in the vocal booth. Or, you might want vocals locked to your MIDI chords. PitchCure gives you great pitch that still sounds human.
Features:
Transparent Tuning: Artifact-free, time-domain pitch shifting without metallic phase-smearing.
Vibrato Protection: The Humanize engine actively maps and preserves natural vibrato and emotional expression.
Fluid Transitions: Control the glide between notes—from instant hard-snaps to smooth, natural portamento.
Auto Key & Custom Scales: One-click key detection, or build your own scales using the interactive Edit Notes matrix.
MIDI Target: Override the scale and force the vocal to follow the exact chords or melodies you play on your keyboard.
One-Knob Color EQ: A built-in tilt EQ to instantly add chest warmth (Dark) or brilliant air (Bright).
Live Tracking Ready: Near-zero latency in Real Time mode, or switch to HQ for maximum processing quality during mixdown.
Ultra-Light CPU: Highly optimized to run at low CPU, easily handling massive multi-vocal sessions.
U-he Zebra 3, the long-awaited successor of the Zebra 2 modular Synthesizer plugin is now ready for test in public beta
Since mid-December 2025, u-he Zebra 3 has been in public beta. That was a wonderful Christmas present from Santa Urs. Now, four months later, it’s April, and the fine-tuning of Zebra 3 has progressed significantly.
So much so that the u-he developers have now released the final beta with the build 21625.
Final Beta
The final beta is now available for download on the KVR forum. It includes all the features planned for the 3.0 release. However, one thing has changed significantly: Zebra 3 now has its final UI.
U-he says the new vector-based UI offers a vastly decluttered interface, a more consistent parameter layout, new color-coded modulation and modules, a modmatrix, and more.
I actually really liked the Zebra 3 beta UI. The leap from that to the new one is quite big. It takes some getting used to.
According to the developers, the new version can be further customized to better fit your workflow. And they ask the users to spend a week with the new one before asking for the old one back.
In case you don’t like it, I’m sure Plugmon, a UI designer, will offer alternative skins for it in the future. Alongside the new UI, it comes with feature improvements and numerous bug fixes. The final beta includes over 1,200 polished factory presets.
The testing will be finished soon. This is the last beta to accept the beta license card, which expires in July 2026. At the same time, they announced a deal for everyone who doesn’t yet have a Zebra 3 license.
Besides the 30€ for existing Zebra 2 users and a free update for Zebra HZ users, they offer Zebra 3 at a special introductory price of 179€ instead of 249€. This offer is for new users and Zebra Legacy users.
Zebra 3 is on the home stretch. There’s light at the end of the tunnel. Many had long doubted that this moment would ever come. A great moment after so long waiting and testing.
Chord Dock Lite: Free chord progression editor plugin
Chord Dock
k2get has recently released version 1.5 of its a chord track-style plug-in for building, visualizing, and sharing chord progressions on a timeline.
Chord Dock Lite is designed for songwriters and producers who want to create and edit chord progressions on a timeline directly inside their DAW, organize sections such as Verse and Chorus, keep the harmonic structure of the whole song in view, and export progressions instantly as MIDI.
Chord Dock Lite features:
Timeline-based chord progression editing.
Section-based workflow.
Section Clips / Focus Edit.
Save and load progression files.
Instant MIDI drag export.
The plugin is available in VST3 and AU plugin formats for Windows and macOS. An Extended Edition is on sale for the intro price of $19 USD through April 30th, 2026 (regularly $25 USD). It unlocks tensions, slash chords, interactive Circle of Fifths, Arpeggio / Bassline, Reharmo, user preset save, and custom themes.
Build, visualize, and share chord progressions.
A chord-track-style workflow with reharmonization
Chord Dock v1.5 lets you see the whole progression on a timeline, edit it visually, then reharmonize it and generate section-based Arpeggio / Bassline from the same progression.
Lite and Extended share the same installer. Start with Lite for free, then unlock Extended whenever you need more.
The Black Widow Drums project is the first published drum sampler showcase for FxmeSampler's advanced spatial and processing features. Recorded on a Gretsch Black Widow kit, it utilizes an original microphone array and signal processing chain to deliver a studio-ready drum sound.
The free chord progression builder and MIDI generator plug-in for all music producers.
✔ Free download.
✔ Works in all major DAWs.
✔ All content royalty free.
Have you ever struggled with writer's block when you wrote a track? Did the chords sound bland? Were the keys "somewhat OK", and the basslines only so-so?
You can leave all this behind. SongEngine generates MIDI files that follow your chords perfectly. Just drag, drop, and stay in your creative flow.
Comes with several built-in preset packages
How SongEngine works
SongEngine is very easy to use:
1. Build your chords
Import a MIDI file, drag chords from the Chord Pad Area, or let SongEngine generate a progression for you.
2. Pick a preset
Browse dozens of presets – basslines, arpeggios, phrases. Press play in your DAW to preview instantly.
3. Drag to your DAW
Like what you hear? Drag & drop the MIDI directly into your session. Done.
W.A. Production celebrates its 12th anniversary with a limited time promotion, offering deep discounts on plugins and sound packs.
As a thank you to its community, W.A. Production has also launched the Free Anniversary Collection Vol. 12, a versatile collection of creative tools and royalty-free sounds designed to inspire producers across a wide range of genres and workflows.
Inside, you’ll find 5 plugins — Pumper 3, Imprint, Mutant Reverb, Combustor, and ChromaBox — plus 7 sample packs — Spicy Vocal Trap, Progressive Deep Love, Visionary Trance, Electronic FX and Impulses, Sound Of Cyberpunk 2, Future Bounce Flair, and Techno Hurricane.
Together, they give you a strong mix of mixing tools, sound-shaping effects, melodic inspiration, drums, vocals, FX, presets, loops, and construction-ready content for everything from modern club music to more atmospheric and experimental production.
Additionally, best-selling bundles are on sale from only $12 USD during the promotion, which expires April 26th, 2026.
Plugin Alliance currently offers Animate by Mastering The Mix for free (regularly $66). The offer lasts until March 24th and is limited to one license per user.
If you missed our own Animate freebie offer a couple of years ago, here’s another chance to get it for free.
Animate works on Windows and macOS in AU, AAX, and VST3 formats.
So what does it do?
Animate is a mixing tool that can be used on individual tracks, groups, or on the master chain itself. The plugin can do frequency-specific expansion, saturation, transient shaping, and widening in either mid/side or L/R mode.
Inject tracks with more energy, use the frequency-specific action in combination with the threshold to do surgical fixes on full mixes. Alternatively, use it as a finalizer to add more punch and movement to mixes that sound dull.
Animate has four modes that can be used separately or processed in series.
Expand
Expand is an upwards expander controllable with attack, release, ratio, and amount, with optional frequency-targeting. The concept of expansion can be confusing to some, as it is easily conflated with upwards compression, but this is not the same.
An upward expander increases the dynamic range of the material.
Everything above the threshold is boosted further. If you want more punch out of a kick or more tick from a high-hat, or perhaps even to lift a certain frequency region of your track under intense moments in the mix, an expander might be a good choice.
Sometimes a transient shaper does the job even better, which leads us to…
Punch
A transient shaper that can be configured to react to most of the transient material of your mix or just the most prominent elements. These can then be dialed in with frequency-specific targeting in m/s mode for even more control when used on a full track.
Maybe you want transient action in the side channel for more width or wide-band transient action targeting the kick and snare in the mid channel for a more grounded and punchy mix.
Ignite
Bring out clarity and body with musically relevant harmonics that dynamically react to your signal, with the aforementioned possibility of limiting the processing both frequency-wise and stereo-wise for detailed control.
A nice module for blowing up some boring pads or brightening a dull mix.
Grow
Add dynamic and frequency-dependent stereo-widening to make static tracks more interesting or to a full mix for subtle widening on snare hits, for instance.
Just beware not going overboard when using Grow on full mixes to ensure that there’s still mono compatibility.
The modules have side-chain inputs as well, which makes them even more flexible.
The focus on dynamic and frequency-dependent processing in combination with an intuitive UI ensures an effective workflow where you can solve problems or polish things quickly.
Just a heads-up, you’ll need an account with Plugin Alliance to download the plugin.
Download: Animate (FREE until March 24th – Plugin Alliance account required)
Mayerism is an open-source plugin inspired by John Mayer's signature tones. Built on top of the NeuralAmpModelerPlugin, it focuses on faithfully recreating the feel and response of Mayer's most iconic amplifiers, paired with a carefully curated pedalboard for expressive, touch-sensitive playing.
Mayerism is designed as a single, cohesive guitar plugin. The goal is not endless options, but a ready-to-go platform that allows players to quickly achieve the inspiring tones of the last true guitar hero, without sacrificing feel, touch, or musical dynamics.
Features
Amp Section:
John Mayer–inspired amp simulation Neural amp modeling based on the tonal characteristics of Mayer's most famous amplifiers, focusing on:
Clean to edge-of-breakup response.
Touch sensitivity and pick dynamics.
Smooth midrange and glassy high end.
Integrated Pedal Suite:
Tube Screamer–style Overdrive Classic mid-forward drive with Drive, Tone, and Level controls.
Compressor Transparent compression for sustain and control, ideal for clean and blues tones.
Clean Boost Transparent gain stage for pushing the amp or lifting solos.
Chorus Subtle modulation for width and movement, suited for clean and lightly driven tones.
Delay Musical delay for rhythmic repeats and ambient textures.
Reverb Smooth reverb for space and depth, from subtle room ambience to lush tails.
Tone Shaping & Utilities:
Tone Stack EQ Bass, Middle, and Treble controls tuned for Mayer-style voicing.
Noise Gate Controls noise and feedback without affecting playing dynamics.
Doubler Adds stereo width and depth.
Input / Output Gain Independent level control for gain staging and plugin integration.
Presets & Interface:
Preset Management Save and load presets that store your settings.
Real-time Metering Input and output level visualization.
If you’ve ever wondered how to make a soundboard on your keyboard, this software gives you an easy and intuitive solution. It displays a virtual keyboard where each key can be bound to a different sound file, allowing you to instantly play effects, music notes, or samples with a simple key press.
Whether you want a midi keyboard soundboard–style experience or a custom setup for sound effects, this application works with all keyboard layouts and includes an optional matrix view visualization. No extra hardware is required—just your laptop or desktop computer keyboard.
You can use the built-in sounds or fully customize your setup by loading your own WAV, MP3, MP2, MP1, AIFF, OGG, or M4A files with the Redefine Keys feature. This makes it easy to learn how to bind sounds to keys and create a personalized soundboard tailored to your needs.
The Hotkey Mode allows sounds to be triggered even when the application is running in the background. This makes it ideal for streamers, DJs, gamers, and anyone looking for how to get a soundboard for Valorant, Fortnite, Call of Duty, Apex Legends, CS:GO, Overwatch, Minecraft or other games—play sound effects live without interrupting gameplay or other applications.
With this program, your keyboard becomes a creative tool for music, gaming, streaming, and sound design.
Transpanner 2 is a "pay what you want" 3D audio plugin optimized for stereo loudspeakers. This release redefines what a spatial audio tool can be, setting a new benchmark in its category!
How to download:
Name a fair price (or enter $0 to download for free)!
download the Win or Mac installer and follow the instructions (no license needed)
open up your DAW and add Transpanner on a Stereo track. Have fun!
Compatibility:
Mac (Intel/M1/M2): macOS 10.11 and newer (Formats: AU & VST3)
Windows (x64): Windows 10 and newer (Format: VST3)
Any DAW that supports VST3 or AU formats.
Choose the angle and distance: Introducing the Polar Pad
Transpanner 2 introduces a polar pad interface with a design of concentric circles that animate as you drag the virtual thumb.
Moving the thumb around the pad's center enables precise control over sound direction, allowing you to select any angle from 0 to 360 degrees.
Moving the thumb inward sends sounds into the distance, while dragging it outward brings them closer.
This intuitive and tactile method of 3D audio manipulation enhances user interaction in stereo mixing.
Psychoacoustic Wizardry: Behind the 3D Sound Illusion
When you adjust the controls in Transpanner 2, it tailors these sound wave properties in such a way that your brain is tricked into perceiving the sound as coming from different directions, including from behind you. This creates a 3D audio effect, enveloping you in a more lifelike and immersive sound environment, all from a stereo setup.
True to our commitment to the audio community, Transpanner 2 will remain donationware. Users are encouraged to support further development with contributions that reflect the value they find in the tool.
The Crow Hill Company releases Icky Bass free Vaults series library
The Crow Hill Company Icky Bass
The Crow Hill Company has introduced a new Vaults series instrument named after the iconic White Stripes album, “Icky Thump”.
Icky Bass features the sounds of a rare Fender Rhodes Piano Bass fed through Jack Whites signatures Knife Drop fuzz pedal.
We decided to feed the Rhodes Bass through the Knife Drop fuzz pedal. Eventide and Jack White collaborated to make a hybrid fuzz and analog style synth voice, capable of generating sub-octave textures and aggressive filtered tones. It was recorded right here at Crow Hill HQ, into a beautiful Neve 1073 DI.
Our as-ever intuitive GUI allows you to dial in the grimy pedal sound, control the expressive potential of the bass and play around with more concentrated FX, including AUTOWAH, CHORUS, PHASER and REVERB.
Icky Bass is free to download, running in a dedicated plugin for Windows and macOS (VST/VST3, AU and AAX).
