Audio & music gear freeware news

Meatscience has released Bitsmacker, a digital distortion described as a "swiss army knife for adding that certain digital crustiness to your pristine audio signal."

Blue Cat Audio has released new versions of all its free audio plug-ins for both Mac and PC in Audio Unit, VST, and DirectX formats.

AcmeBarGig has released C-15, the latest addition to its "Preampus Metal" series.

QuikQuak has released BarChimes v0.10, a physics simulation of a set of Bar Chimes, which includes collisions, slides and multi-chain hits of 36 semi-tone tuned bars.

TrySound, the online test station for virtual instruments and plug-ins, has added 2 new virtual instruments to its portfolio.

Michael Gruhn Audio has released ABX Compressor Test, a research VST effect plug-in for Windows designed to implement 18 different compressor modes - that is 18 more or less significantly different a…

Mainstream Audio has released Church Organ 2nd, a free organ plug-in with five "Organ Oscillators" offering "bigger and better sounds" since the first generation of this plug-in.

Variety Of Sound has released Density mkII, a new version of the Bus Compressor designed to offer smooth and versatile dynamic processing on the stereo bus.

Togu Audio Line has announced the release of version 0.98 of TAL-Reverb, a free Open Source stereo plate reverb plug-in based on the JUCE cross-platform development framework.

b.serrano has released Anubis, a free virtual analog synthesizer VST instrument plug-in for Windows.

MARVIN VST has announced the release of versions 1.0 of drum synths Tromine and Tromine Z and version 0.1 of percussion synth Trokow.

MakeMusic has updated the 2009 version of Finale to 2009c.

rs-met has released EasyQ, a new free EQ plug-in for Windows.

Kriminal has released Mozi, a new free VST instrument plug-in for Windows.

After releasing the Mac version a couple of weeks ago, RNDigital Labs has updated the Windows version of its Dynamics Processing Tool, D4, to v3.0, which adds VST 3 support.

KX77FREE has released version 2.0 of KX-Synth-X16, the virtual analog modular synthesizer plug-in based on the VCS3 structure (but with additional features).

With this new synthesizer from knobster you can perform music "on an ordinary household fan", according to the company.

Agares Media has released Agares RackA3, a new collection of six free VST effect plug-ins for Windows.

Morfiki has announced the release of grANALiser - a hybrid of granulator and delay capable of complex FSU sounds and effects as well as chorus, pitch-shifter or ring modulation.

Wavosaur has been updated to v1.0.5.0, featuring unlimited undo and revamped 3D spectrum.

TrySound has announced that it has added 6 new virtual instruments to its online Test Station for virtual instruments and plug-ins.

Benoit Rostykus and Pierre-Andre Savalle have released a beta version of Spicy Guitar, a real-time sound synthesis software simulating acoustic guitar tones.

jBridge, the x86 to x64 VST bridge for Windows, has been updated to v0.99j.