Musical instruments and pro audio freeware news

Arturia has announced that it has released version 2.0 of ARP 2600 V, its reproduction of the ARP 2600 analog synthesizers ever made.

Aradaz has announced the release of Aradaz Simple Look Ahead Limiter (SLAM), a simple look-ahead maximizer based on Aradaz Maximizer 5 with a simplified internal limiter algorithm and new look-ahead …

Autodafe has released B8 Organ, which is a reproduction of the old organs of the '60s and '70s.

La Blatte Cafe (Cockroach Cafe) has released Les Blattes Splatte, a free 12-slot drum sample player for Windows.

Subsun has released Wobbles, a freeware vibrato VST / AU plug-in for Mac OSX 10.4 and higher.

7AIR has released DepthCharge Compressor, a free VST effect plug-in for Windows with analogue VU meters and a dimpled metal background.

ToneBytes has announced the release of Bend Box, a software synthesizer that emulates a circuit-bending device.

Lucas Xie has announced the release of ganK the Synthesizer, a free additive/subtractive synthesizer.

Christian Budde has released Noise Reduction, a free VST plug-in containing a spectral noise gate optimized to remove unwanted noise.

b.serrano has announced the release of AMT-1, a quad multi-filter that can work like a sequencer.

Kuassa has announced the release of Kuassa Amplifikation Lite, a free "lite" version of its forthcoming Kuassa Amplifikation Custom Tube Amplification Software for real-time guitar processing.

LePou Plugins has released LE456, a preamp sim roughly based on a piece of famous German gear.

SPL has announced that to celebrate one year of "Analog Code" it is giving away one Analog Code MicroPlug Attacker per computer.

acid.milch&honig has announced the release of acidrack, a small freeware virtual analog style synthesizer plug-in.

Pettinhouse announced the release of WarmJazz FREE, a jazz guitar sample library for KONTAKT 2-3 and 4 free to download.

Alterex has announced the release of X*ONE, a virtual monophonic synthesizer with one oscillator, one modulator, and one 12dB lowpass filter.

AcmeBarGig has announced the first release from its new developer, Rob Loyst (Rob has previously released some plug-ins under the RobRokkenAudio moniker)

Opulent Audio has announced that its three Windows VST instrument plug-ins, bLO-FIsh, Tenacity and DirtyGirl, are now available for free (they were previously sold bundled for $8).

Wurr Audio Engineering has announced that GreenMachine Amp II is now freeware (it previously retailed for $89).

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…