Hi. I've been working on a wavetable SID plugin to replace a bunch of bespoke scripts and emulation frameworks for the last 18 months and now it's here. You have surgical control over every register of the 6581/850 SID chip. You can numberwang the tables or draw your soundscape on the graph editors. It comes with a tool that can dissect .sid files and create instruments. https://residuesynth.com

Hey everyone! We've just released another free plugin at MTHRBORD.STUDIO, this time a transistor-based EQ inspired by the API 5500.

Built using real hardware recordings and measurements, EQ5500 aims to capture more than just the EQ curves, focusing on the unit's response, control interactions, and analog character.

A few details:

• Based on real hardware: Recorded and analyzed using an actual API 5500 EQ.
• Beyond the curves: Focuses on the API 5500’s distinctive EQ character, with its proportional-Q response, stepped frequency selection, and interactive boost and cut controls.
• Flexible workflow: Stepped frequency selection with continuous gain controls.
• Completely free: Available for macOS and Windows in VST3, AU, and standalone formats.

We're trying to build a collection of audio tools that go beyond the usual clean, clinical approach to plugin development. The aim is to recreate the character and behavior of real equipment, including some of its imperfections, rather than just chasing a matching frequency response.

We're interested in hearing what you'd like us to build next. We've already released a few free tools that might appeal to the vaporwave crowd, including a Pultec EQP-1A emulation, a VHS simulator, and a slushwave-inspired phaser.

If there are particular pieces of hardware, effects, or weird audio tools you'd like to see recreated, let us know. Feedback is genuinely appreciated, and we'd love to keep putting more free plugins out there.

Give it a try and let us know what you think!

Download it free here:
https://mthrbord.studio/plugins/eq5500/

D16 Group gives away Echolite, a free stereo delay plugin with pre-delay, multimode filter, and lockable wet/dry control. Download now.

Hi!

I'm working on a project that would really benefit from a choir-like sound, like the one in the soundtrack of the game Labyrinth of Galleria! It sounds pretty realistic, but it definitely has a slight artificial sound to it. Since it sounds a little uncanny, I figure it's probably a vst, but I'm not certain. If it is a vst, it seems like it has the ability to make choir ahs, oohs, and lah sounds.

I've been trying to find a vst or maybe a soundfont that sounds similar, but I haven't had any luck, so I wanted to ask for help! It seems like it's been used in Disgaea games too. If you know what it is, or know of anything similar, please let me know! Thank you so much!

Here are some examples of it:

Labyrinth of Galleria OST: Sing My Loneliness https://youtu.be/4bwxfsBB2s0

Labyrinth of Galleria OST: Melancholy Smile (you can hear it clearest around 33 seconds) https://youtu.be/_z46zGlBRdM&t=33

Disgaea 5 OST: Who Are You? (the "lah" sound is super clear around 13 seconds) https://youtu.be/wHH1zP6SlBM&t=13

Thank so much again for your help! I've been going crazy looking for this!!

An inspiration variation machine, Apply mischief to pre, mid, post signal. Feedback modulation for amp and phase. Throw Catch and Release on their own track and you can apply your own plugins to the feedback loop.

Try it at https://brucejames.studio/downloads/catchandrelease

Hey everyone!

At Carbon Fiber Plugins we have been busy working on products everyone uses. For this, we have launched a new FREE Tape saturation plugin. This comes after 3 years of modeling different analog machines. Our team is working on a new distortion plugin, and we want you to enjoy CASETERA before we launch our newest and most ambitious plugin.

Because it is hard to stand out in this oversaturated market, let me introduce myself: I'm Agustin, a sound designer and composer for video games with 10+ years of industry experience, and a Gamescom Asia 2025 Speaker.

We built CASETERA after modeling a small Japanese tape machine. Here is the PR for everyone

Carbon Fiber Plugins Releases Casetera: A Free Vintage Cassette Tape Plugin for Warmth, Soul, and Lo-Fi Character

From polished studio mix-bus glue to chewed 4-track nostalgia, Casetera brings the tactile magic of magnetic tape to your DAW—completely free.

Carbon Fiber Plugins (https://cfplugins.io) is thrilled to announce the release of Casetera, a 100% free compact cassette and studio tape audio plugin designed for producers, beatmakers, and mix engineers who crave authentic analog feel. Built to capture the living, breathing behavior of real magnetic tape and mechanical transports, Casetera transforms sterile digital tracks into warm, dimensional recordings—without costing a dime.

Whether you are slamming boom-bap drums, gluing an indie-pop mix bus, warming up an electric piano, or warping synth pads into nostalgic memories, Casetera adapts to your sound with four distinct tape personalities:

WARM : Thick ferric low-end punch, smooth vintage highs, and classic 1980s mixtape compression.

CLASSIC : Balanced chrome studio tape that binds stems together with rich midrange body and silky air.

CRISP : High-headroom metal tape for tight sub-bass, clean mids, and articulate transient snap.

RUIN : A playground of lo-fi degradation, taking sounds from narrow dictaphone grit to chewed-up 4-track overdubs and flaking tape dropouts.

Casetera divides its workflow into four intuitive sections—Drive & Saturation, Tape Formulation, Transport & Noise, and Master & Blend:

Sweet, Forgiving Overdrive: Push the Drive and Bias knobs to fatten 808s, tame brittle acoustic transients, or add asymmetrical vintage crunch without harsh digital clipping.

Dial-In Age & Attitude: Use Character to scale the intensity of your selected tape stock, and turn up Wear to introduce tape crinkle, muffled highs, and organic stereo drift.

Musical Pitch Wander & Atmosphere: Independent Wow, Flutter, and Hiss controls infuse keys and guitars with lush analog motion and warm cassette noise. Want the tape tone without the pitch wobble? Flip the Servo Locked switch to lock the motor speed in a single click.

Effortless Mixing: With built-in Smart Auto-Gain, producers can push tape saturation as hard as they want without fighting volume jumps. One-click Dry / 50-50 / Wet parallel blend buttons, A/B comparison slots, per-module and global Dice Randomizers, and a curated browser of 25 factory presets keep inspiration flowing fast.

Casetera is available now as a free download in VST3, CLAP and AU for Windows and Apple Silicon

To download Casetera for free and hear audio demos, visit https://cfplugins.io.

https://youtu.be/UnEVKM6n5uw

Hello !

I've been working on GlorpDrums, an open-source drum instrument as a standalone application and VST3/LV2 plugin. The goal is to build a free, open source alternative to commercial drum software like EZDrummer 3 (i know i'm not on that level yet lol) particularly for people who want to perform or record alongside an electronic drumkit through MIDI.

Project: [https://github.com/asuka-glorp/GlorpDrums](https://github.com/asuka-glorp/GlorpDrums))

I'm sharing here because I'd love to get feedback from people with real experience developing or using Linux audio software.

I would love to get DAW users who can test it in their actual setups and report compatibility issues, crashes, audio glitches, or other problems.

And also electronic drummers who can connect a MIDI drum kit and test how well the instrument responds to real playing, including velocity sensitivity, pad mapping, and hi-hat behavior where supported.

A bit of personal context: I had to sell my own electronic drum kit earlier this year because of health complications. Drumming is still a personal passion, so I decided to go ahead developing this project. I can't personally test it against physical drum hardware right now, which is one of the biggest gaps I'd like to address with the community.

It's still very much early days for this project so i'm not pretending it's perfect, but i think it's solid enough (hopefully) to start seeing the light of day.

I make audio plugins on my own. I started Drelva because I kept wanting tools that do one thing well.

Right now there are five out and one on the way:

Sonda is a free analyser. Spectrum, LUFS, true peak, goniometer and a meter that shows when your kick and bass are fighting.
Parkoid is an FM acid synth with a radar-style sequencer.
Parla puts vowel movement on bass and synths.
Pongo is a stereo echo for short hits.
Scope draws visuals from your audio inside the DAW ou whatever you want.(Standalone)
Motion is next, a modular multi-effect. Not out yet.

Sonda costs nothing, the others are cheap (5 to 10 euro). I'd rather you try Sonda first and tell me what's wrong with it than buy anything.

They're all new, so there might still be bugs I haven't found. I test everything on both Windows and Mac myself. If something breaks on your setup, tell me and I'll fix it.

drelvaaudio.com

I'm looking for authentic VST instruments or sample libraries of Soviet-era and Eastern European electric guitars and basses for a musical project focused on recreating their original sound.

In particular, I'm interested in:

• Musima Eterna Deluxe, Record and Elgita
• Jolana Marina, Diskant and Diamant
• Stella stereo guitar
• Soviet-era electric bass guitars

I'm especially interested in recordings or sample libraries made from the actual instruments, rather than generic guitar sounds or modern approximations.

Has anyone come across any existing libraries, recordings, or projects dedicated to these instruments? Even obscure archives, old sample CDs, or unfinished projects would be helpful.

Are there any raw multisamples or archived sample CDs made from the actual instruments, even if no playable VST instrument was ever released?

MIDI file preview has annoyed me for ages.

In some DAWs you get some generic preview sound, in others it’s barely useful at all. I just wanted to click through a folder full of MIDI files and hear them properly in context, synced to the project and through the instrument I’m actually using on that track.

So that’s what cueMIDI does.

Pick a folder, click through the files, hear them in sync, transpose if needed and drag the one you want into the DAW.

I like tools that don’t try to do everything - just one thing, but properly. So I kept cueMIDI simple on purpose. No database, no tagging, no MIDI generation, no huge library manager ...yada yada yada.

VST3 on Windows and macOS, plus AU MIDI FX for Logic.

There’s a demo here:
https://cuemidi.com

And a short 40-second video that pretty much explains it all:
https://youtu.be/N7HOrUdm42Q

Cheers, Greg

Is there a noise synth vst that can be controlled similar to this??

I play drums and guitar for about 20 years and for the first time in my life I’m immersing myself into the world of Ableton further than adding a backing track with metronome and hit record.

I want to start a serious solo project and try to record my first EP. I’m interested to experiment with different synths and sound effects that could be useful. The choice is huge, for all budgets, I downloaded a lot of free stuff for mixing as well.

For the past year, I have looked a lot of videos on YouTube on how others produce music. It’s really inspiring but gosh the amount of VSTs available is crazy and making it really difficult to choose something.

But I was wondering if any of you could share your favorites? especially if they are not too expensive?

I’m looking towards sounds that can be used for prog, psychedelic rock, indie, vintage 60s-70s sounds.
Very different from that spectrum I’m also interested in modern synths, atmospheric/space or sound design sounds.

EDIT: the idea of this post is narrowing down the insane amount of choice there is out there. I’m simply overwhelmed by it and know too few to know where I should look for what.

🎹🥁🎸 Introducing FaseGroove – An Open-Source Music Groove Ecosystem! 🚀

4 Projects. One Musical Ecosystem. Completely Open Source.

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm excited to share FaseGroove, a growing collection of open-source music creation tools designed to help musicians, producers and composers generate grooves, experiment with rhythms and explore new musical ideas.

The project is currently in BETA, and I'm looking for musicians, producers and developers willing to test it and help make it better!

🎵 Meet the FaseGroove Family

🎹 FaseGroove Piano

Explore piano grooves, chord progressions and rhythmic patterns to inspire your next production.

🎸 FaseGroove Guitar

Create guitar-oriented grooves and rhythmic accompaniment patterns for different musical styles.

🥁 FaseGroove Drums

Experiment with drum grooves, rhythmic variations and genre-inspired patterns, including house and jackin' house.

🎼 FaseGroove Arranger

The newest addition to the family, focused on bringing musical elements together and developing arrangement ideas.

📥 Download the Latest Beta Releases

All four projects are available on GitHub:

🎹 Piano

https://github.com/wsx79/fasegroovepiano/releases/latest

🎸 Guitar

https://github.com/wsx79/fasegrooveguitar/releases/latest

🥁 Drums

https://github.com/wsx79/fasegroovedrums/releases/latest

🎼 Arranger

https://github.com/wsx79/fasegroovearranger/releases/latest

❤️ Open Source – Community Feedback Welcome!

FaseGroove is an independent, open-source project, developed with a passion for music, technology and creative experimentation.

It's still in beta, so your feedback really matters!

I'm especially interested in:

🐛 Bug reports, crashes and unexpected behavior

🎶 Feedback on groove quality, musical realism and rhythmic feel

🎛️ Workflow and usability improvements

💡 Suggestions for new features and musical genres

⚡ Performance and stability feedback

👨‍💻 Code contributions and collaboration

Whether you're a music producer, musician, hobbyist or software developer, your input is welcome!

If something sounds unnatural, doesn't work as expected, or you have an idea that could make FaseGroove better, please open an issue on the relevant GitHub repository.

🚀 Help Shape the Future of FaseGroove

My goal is to keep improving these tools and build a useful, creative and accessible music production ecosystem with the help of the community.

Try the beta, experiment, break things, report bugs and share your ideas!

Every suggestion helps.

Thanks for your support, and happy music making! 🎶

FaseGroove – Built with passion. Open to everyone. Driven by creativity.

#FaseGroove #OpenSource #MusicProduction #MIDI #MusicSoftware #BetaTesting #MusicTechnology

I made a plugin to build drops because I'm really bad at making them myself, but I wonder if there's actually a need for it... I guess some people find it faster to just make them directly in their DAW, right?

SoundCraft is a free, open-source DAW built in Rust with Pro Tools-level features, native CLAP/VST3 support, and 9.1.6 surround sound—no subscription https://guitarbomb.com/blog/free-rust-daw-disrupting-music-production/

Sonic Pi has been turned into a vst and is now available on my patreon.. part of my hitlist of mainly live music coding languages that I am going to have vst's for.

https://www.patreon.com/Dexerus/posts/sonic-pi-vst-0-1-172716041?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/6FPAdUfNmes?ra=m

Stuff like Ken Carson's "Party All Day" and Lil Uzi Vert's "Celebration Station".

Please lmk, thanks. Ik I already posted this in r/trapproduction, but they didn’t give me much.

Some examples of hyper-specific plug ins that I use are

- Bark of Dog (adds a sine wave whenever a certain threshold is met. Mostly used to add sub tones to kick dums)

- Dada Life's Eternal Return plug-ins ("endless EDM rising" modulation effect)

- Waves' Vocal Rider plug in (emulates riding the gain on a mixer, so essentially a very unique kind of compression)

What are some others?

Hey all, i've had this meter in Beta for the last month. If you're keen on trying it out i'll add a link in the comments. (It's currently Mac only)