Music Production Forum

Welcome to the BPB Community Weekly Freebie Thread for April 7-13, 2025! 😊 Read the Thread Guidelines 💬 This section of our community is where BPB readers can share links to the latest freeware news and deals with fellow music producers in the comments. Thank you for contributing! To keep the discussion helpful and relevant, please [...] View post: 💬 🔥 Weekly Deals & Freebies Thread View the full article

Welcome to the BPB Community Weekly Production Thread for April 7-13, 2025! 😊 This week’s topic is: Your Top 10 favorite FREE plugins. Let’s share our favorite free plugins and hopefully help some BPB readers find freebies that flew under their radar. Thank you! Last week’s topic was EQ. Read the Thread Guidelines 💬 This section [...] View post: 💬 🎹 Weekly Production Thread: Your Top 10 FREE Plugins View the full article

ShockWave is a versatile synthesizer that combines Phase Distortion Synthesis with a powerful modular workflow.… Read More Numerical Audio ShockWave Combines Phase Distortion Synthesis With Modular Power View the full article

Developer Vadim Minkin has introduced Kaleidoscope, a compact 4-track digital multitimbral synthesizer for creating generative music.… Read More New Kaleidoscope Synthesizer A Compact Generative Sound LabView the full article

Wavetable synthesis has recently made an impressive comeback. After spending decades in the shadow of analog and virtual-analog synthesis, the versatile digital synthesis technique is suddenly incredibly popular again, as proven by many of the best wavetable synthesizers available today. For a long time, it looked like no other form of synthesis could match the popularity of analog synthesizers. Analog was the magic formula that promised warm and punchy sounds straight from the golden age of synthesis... The post Digital Designs: The Best Wavetable Synthesizers appeared first on gearnews.com. View the full article

With less than 100 ever produced, the three-tiered Yamaha GX-1 is something of synth legend. First released in 1973, the extremely rare model marks Yamaha’s historical entry into the synth market. And one is currently up for auction for £99,950. But this isn’t an ordinary GX-1. The synth was once owned by none other than electronic visionary Aphex Twin. While in his possession, he also asked Colin Fraser of Sequentix to restore the synth to its former glory, as well as requesting the addition of MIDI functionality... The post Aphex Twin’s MIDI-modified Yamaha GX-1 is up for sale – for just £100,000 appeared first on MusicTech. View the full article

The Ivors Academy – one of Europe’s largest professional associations for music writers and composers – has issued a strong warning to Suno, the company behind AI-powered music generator Suno AI… The post “The latest example of unethical AI firms stealing the livelihood of lyricists, songwriters and composers”: The Ivors Academy wants Suno to remove its ReMi lyrics generator appeared first on MusicTech. View the full article

What if you could turn your selfies, meme collections, or holiday photos into a playable wavetable instrument? Turkgyl Ayuz has just released his TubImgSynth, which does just that! The plugin boasts a powerful synth engine and four LFOS, as well as four envelopes for deep modulation and automation. TubImgSynth features a dedicated amp and filter [...] View post: Tuğrul Akyüz releases TubImgSynth, a FREE dynamic image wavetable synthesizer View the full article

Thereminist Carolina Eyck shared her arrangement of In A Sentimental Mood, for theremin and voice.… Read More ‘In a Sentimental Mood’ For Theremin & VoiceView the full article

The 3B is a synth, sequencer and MIDI controller that you can play like a theremin, but with more precise and repeatable control.… Read More Baloran 3B Synthesizer ‘The BumBleBee’ First LookView the full article

The TouchDog is a custom design that features 6 touch control plates, a knobby interface and multiple patch points.… Read More Synth Improvisation For TouchDog & Soma Cosmos SynthesizersView the full article

Synthesist Josh Madoff shared this comprehensive tour of the Haken Continuum, a powerful synthesizer that features continuous polyphonic expressive control of pitch, volume, timbre and more.… Read More A Comprehensive Tour Of The Haken Continuum SynthesizerView the full article

GPU Audio let us know that they've released their long-awaited software development kit (SDK), and it’s available now as a free download. … Read More GPU Developer Kit Now Available As A Free DownloadView the full article

Once you've created a beat that you like, you can export it as a wav file to use in your DAW or hardware sampler.… Read More Free Lloyd’s Online TR-808 Lets You Create & Export Beats From Your Web Browser View the full article

Firmware Update 1.2 brings Clock, LFO clock sync, NRPN support for parameter control, Mod Lock, and also 65 new presets.… Read More Supercritical Synthesizers Announces Redshift 6 Firmware Update View the full article

Richard James’ former Yamaha GX-1 is up for auction and includes speakers, programmers, bench and MIDI mod. Be still my beating heart! The Yamaha GX-1 is an absolute legend. Released in 1975, the three-manual polyphonic monster was the predecessor of the CS-80 (indeed, Cherry Audio made a super emulation of the two together called GX-80) and a real highlight in synthesizer history… The post Aphex Twin’s Yamaha GX-1 For Sale appeared first on gearnews.com. View the full article

On 404 Day, Roland is celebrating 20 years of 404 beat culture and the 20th anniversary of the SP-404 Sampling Workstation.… Read More Roland Celebrates 404 Day & The 20th Anniversary Of The SP-404 View the full article

Reason Studios has announced that ReCycle, 'The Sample Tool That Refuses to Die’, is back, and available as a free download.… Read More Reason ReCycle, ‘The Sample Tool That Refuses to Die’, Now Available As A Free DownloadView the full article

They say it's the first hardware modular synth system that lets you save your patches - including patch cable connections - and recall them.… Read More New Warthog Modular Synthesizer Features Total Recall, DAW Integration View the full article

The Casio DG-20 is fun.....but not a great instrument.… Read More Casio DG-20 Guitar Synth Vintage Gear ReviewView the full article

Sequentix has announced that the Cirklon2 sequencer is now available without a waiting list, after several years.… Read More Sequentix Cirklon2 Sequencer Now Available View the full article

Impact Soundworks released the freely downloadable Orchestral Hit System: High Intensity Transients sound library for Kontakt Player. Orchestral Hit System: High Intensity Transients can be downloaded for free, but the developer welcomes any donations to help with download bandwidth costs (suggested price $5). The library is compatible with the free Kontakt Player version 7.8 upwards. [...] View post: Impact Soundworks releases the FREE Orchestral Hit System for Kontakt Player View the full article

Are you in need of a new piano sound in your DAW? Take a gander at this offering from Imagiro, called the Shearwater Piano for macOS and Windows. It’s a virtual instrument in VST3, AU, and AAX format made from a piano meticulously sampled by professional engineers at the Shearwater studio in England. According to [...] View post: Get Shearwater Piano Lite virtual instrument by Imagiro for free View the full article

Why bother with physical keys when you can get the same synthesizer inside your DAW? Go native with the best hardware to software synth ports. With digital synthesizers becoming increasingly more complex and chip-reliant, and computer power always increasing, we’ve reached a point where we can comfortably run synthesizers inside our DAWs as plugins. I’m not talking about emulations (although those are getting better all the time). I mean one-to-one ports from the hardware to the software, so completely identical that you can swap presets between them. What a world. What’s more, manufacturers are starting to release these ports with the original synth still in the shops. Y…

The new album From A Place To Bury Strangers, Synthesizer, features a record cover that you can turn into a DIY synthesizer.… Read More Here’s A Hands-On Demo Of The Record Cover That’s A Working SynthesizerView the full article

Imagine being able to recall every potentiometer setting, switch position, even cable patch routes. Adamsynths Warthog claims to be able to do this plus integrate with your DAW. There’s no denying that modular is fun to play and experiment with. For many, the lack of presets is part and parcel of the experience. Like life, it’s transient and impermanent. For others, though, the lack of recall is a bug, not a feature. One such person is Adam Minski, the founder of Adamsynths. The post Adamsynths Warthog: The First Modular Synthesizer With Total Recall and DAW Integration? appeared first on gearnews.com. View the full article

Softube offers all new Subscriber Club members an exclusive 15% off sign-up code and two free plugins. There are no subscription fees; to become a member, you need only provide your email address. The free plugins featured are Wasted Space and Fix Phaser (combined cost of $108). The exclusive discount code and free plugin offer [...] View post: Join the Softube Subscriber Club and get two FREE plugins View the full article

The legendary sample editor ReCycle just got an overhaul and is now back for free! Younglings might not recognize how huge this is for a lot of the veteran producers out there, but this piece of classic software is now over thirty years old. Want to change up your workflow and tweak a piece of [...] View post: Reason relaunches classic sampler ReCycle for FREE View the full article

In this week’s edition of Synth Journal, we check out Tubbutec’s new hardware controllers for his synth mods, a massively powerful delay module for Eurorack, and a fascinating mini documentary about the life and work of Wendy Carlos… The post Wendy Carlos Documentary, Tubbutec Controllers and a Monster Delay Module: Synth Journal appeared first on gearnews.com. View the full article

A lot of music producers hold themselves to this lofty standard – thinking they need to design every sound from scratch. There’s this belief that the best artists, the ones they admire, are creating everything from an initialized preset, and if they’re not doing the same, then they’re somehow failing at self-expression. That mindset leads to the idea that relying on presets is “cheating.” But that couldn’t be further from the truth, and no one knows this better than Saad Ayub… The post Sound design in Massive: Saad Ayub’s essential techniques first appeared on Native Instruments Blog. View the full article