MeterPlugs has released Perception AB 1.5, adding level-matched A/B comparisons for immersive audio up to 7.1.4, with Dolby Atmos support and new session-wide workflow controls.

Dark Fairytale Instruments’ FAUN is a deeply sampled Höfner violin bass plugin featuring bowed, picked, and other articulations for expressive, orchestral, and haunting bass performances.

Ample Sound released Ample China Xun, a virtual instrument and standalone recreating the ancient Chinese xun with detailed articulations, intelligent legato, Riffer 4, and built-in effects.

GBCAudio released V-Drive, an analog-modeled saturation plugin with level-dependent tone changes, stereo channel variation, crosstalk, transformer modeling, oversampling, and support for macOS and Windows.

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StudioZIO’s MixRack 1.0.0 is a macOS modular mixing environment with eight reorderable processors in one visible signal chain, supporting AU, VST3, AAX, and standalone formats.

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AvBo Plugins released LP-33 Sim, an Audio Unit plugin recreating eight SP-303 phrase sampler effects, including its iconic Vinyl Simulator, with modern stereo enhancements and a retro-inspired interface.

BLEASS Spectral Reverb is a creative reverb plugin with spectral shaping, customizable processing slots, sidechain support, and automation features for crafting versatile, dramatic ambience effects.

Morningdew Media has released AUREN, a mixing and mastering toolbox plugin featuring six modules including tape, EQ, compression, dynamic EQ, stereo imaging, limiting, plus visualizers and analyzers.

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The Very Loud Indeed Co. released Songbird: Dark Flute Explorations, a Kontakt solo flute library featuring eerie, cinematic articulations and textures for thriller, dark drama, and horror scoring.

ZAK Sound released Atmospheres 2, a free offline reverb plugin that generates text-prompted spaces, includes Random discovery, and works on Windows, macOS, Linux, and AUv3 iPhone/iPad.

Snorkel Audio’s Snorkel synth plugin has been updated to v1.1 for Windows and Mac, adding a new Melody Generation Engine to its generative music workflow.

Orchestral Tools’ Splinter is an experimental chamber ensemble library for the free SINE Player, blending strings, Ondes Martenot, percussion, guitars, piano, and sound design with unconventional techniques.

Acon Digital has launched Acoustica 8 for Windows and Mac, an audio editing, restoration, and mastering suite available in three editions, with a 30-day free trial.

Rocksolid Audio launched the TEQ-6P EQ plugin for Windows and Mac in Standard and Unique editions, featuring full component-level analog circuit simulation, multiple valve/transformer styles, and VST3, AU, AAX support.

Morningdew Media released JORNA, a flagship hybrid synth workstation with wavetable, granular, multisample, and physically modeled pluck synthesis, plus MPE, sequencing, deep modulation, and new AAX support.

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ProjectSAM updated Lineage Strings for Kontakt Player to v1.1, improving legato and articulation detection. The premium 35-player ensemble library also supports NKS1 and NKS2.

Scaler EQ Pro is a key-aware EQ plugin with upgraded harmonic filters, MIDI-controlled Live Band, new compressors, dynamic EQ, Magic Shelves, and audio key detection for musical tone shaping.

Voidscan Audio’s Parasite is a three-operator FM synth plugin with auto-generated patches, drawable LFOs, per-voice effects, mutation tools, and 153 presets focused on experimental, digital-rot sound design.

MG Music’s MG Ukuleles is a Kontakt sample library featuring expressive soprano and baritone ukuleles, with realistic articulations, intuitive strumming, sequencing tools, and built-in effects.

Audiofier’s Overflow for Kontakt is a cinematic sound-design instrument blending organic sources, processed layers, and randomization to create evolving textures, drones, and unpredictable playable soundscapes.

CRQL’s Crumpets is an audio plugin that uses cepstral processing to separate formant and harmonic content, letting users shift and control each independently.

13x Audio released AURORA, a free 24-band dynamic EQ plugin with Smart Ops, spectrum editing, multiple processing modes, and updated macOS/Linux compatibility in version 1.4.

All The Machines’ The Remnant is a Mac and Windows drone synthesizer plugin featuring eight interconnected FM voices, evolving feedback-based sound design, snapshots, acoustic filters, and musical scale options.

prod. Shane released Shane Tune, a vocal editor with separate pitch, timing, formant and level controls, plus six other macOS/Windows plugins for tuning, mixing, and synthesis.

Carbon Fiber Plugins’ La Taconuda is a physical-modeling plate reverb plugin with 12 metallic structures, offering dynamic, organic reverb tones from vintage warmth to massive cinematic drones.

AvBo Plugins released Echo Pitch, a Mac and iOS app/plugin combining multi-tap delay and real-time pitch shifting for cascading echoes, harmonies, and ambient delay textures.

PLUGINS THAT KNOCK has released Retro Emulator, a Windows VST3 lo-fi effects plugin offering pitch, sample-rate, distortion, filtering, noise, and impulse response processing for vintage to heavily degraded sounds.

Segment CPH debuted Palora, a polyphonic virtual-analog synth plugin for macOS and Windows, featuring morphing oscillators, modulation matrix, arpeggiator, effects chain, and 310 presets.

Mock Band refreshed its browser-based practice accompaniment app with acoustic drums, genre-specific editable setups, shareable links, and controls for tempo, key, meter, swing, and fills.

Vitric Audio’s Harmonic Multiband Compressor is a six-band Windows/macOS plugin featuring per-band dynamics controls, detector-only harmonic drive, and a separate output exciter.

Vitric Audio’s Bevel EQ is a 24-band parametric EQ for Windows and macOS, featuring dynamic bands, stereo placement options, detailed analysis tools, and a free perpetual license through 30 September 2026.

Vitric Audio released Stoke Saturator, a simple four-knob saturation plugin for Windows and macOS, featuring auto level-matching, low-latency processing, and a free full perpetual license through 30 September 2026.

RC MIX released RC RING and RC SNARE, adaptive plugins for shaping recorded snare tones, with RC RING offering free overtone control and RC SNARE providing broader tone-shaping tools.

ZERO9 launched eight character-focused audio effects plugins for Windows and macOS, plus Signal Switch, a free utility for gain, mono and phase control.

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fedDSP has released quadCHO, a modern chorus plug-in with layered modulation, QUAD mode, zero latency, and low CPU use for adding movement, width, and creative texture.

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Pfundstein Audio Plugins released Tiefkraft, a VST3/AU virtual bass collection combining eight meticulously sampled bass guitars into one easy-to-use plugin with realistic articulations, MIDI playability, and standalone support.