Seven plugins built for the dark side of the dancefloor. Drums that stumble in crooked time, synths that tangle themselves up, loops chopped into controlled chaos, and effects that make the whole floor sweat.

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?

Grab Nembrini Audio's Cali Reverb amp plugin, worth $137, free until Oct 31, 2026. Mesa Boogie-modeled high-gain tones, dual channels, 5 gain modes.

Hey everyone!

I'm a music producer and developer, and I've been working on something called LOCKDIN.

I've always liked the idea of using AI in music production, but I don't really want to become someone who just types prompts and gets finished tracks back. I genuinely enjoy the process of making music, experimenting, playing around with melodies and finding unexpected ideas.

That's basically why I started building LOCKDIN.

It's a context-aware AI MIDI plugin that generates around what you're already creating, instead of just throwing random melodies at you.

You can import MIDI, play something yourself, or generate an idea inside the plugin. LOCKDIN uses that musical context to create complementary chords, basslines, toplines and countermelodies.

Everything stays editable as MIDI, so you're still in control of the creative process.

I'm mainly building this for people making beats, loops, trap, hip-hop, R&B and other melody-driven music.

I'm currently looking for producers to test the free closed beta and give honest feedback.

If you're interested: https://www.lockdin.info

I'm also offering free 6-month licenses to 20 early testers who actively contribute feedback, as a thank-you for helping shape the plugin.

Also genuinely curious, how do you guys feel about AI as a creative assistant rather than something that makes the music for you?

Hi there!
I think i finally finished my VST i've been working on for the past 3 years (not that it was that difficult, mostly because of my poor work ethic).
It's inspired by Tombola sequencer in OP-1 and built around the Box2D physics engine.
You spawn marbles inside a spinning polygon and every collision triggers a note.
You control the physics, notes and other parameters.
The sync feature is what makes it actually useful (and took me the longest to figure out). When enabled it queues the notes and waits for the next DAW's step instead of playing them right away.

It's very fun to look at and can give pretty cool results.

I mean, these days everyone and their hairstylist are making VSTs, so why should I even bother releasing this thing I worked on for ages? Should I even bother going through the process of getting the proper licenses, setting up the business, incorporate, get certifications...etc. If nobody would give a shit... Does everyone just give the stuff away for free?
I think my synth is cool, basically can do all the cool Royksopp basslines and has an out of this world sequencer. Pretty much ready to go, compiled for win, mac, linux; standalone, vst3, au, clap, lv2, the works. Have a site, a licensing system, everything. Just working on more presets right now to have good demos.
What is the general consensus these days?
Also, anyone interested in beta testing this thing? Hit me up.

Was thinking a one time price of $29, 2 activations.

I built a wavetable synth and I'm giving it away free.

1,216 presets across 79 genres

Drag any LFO, envelope or macro straight onto any knob.

- 3 wavetable oscs, dual filters, 8 drawable tempo-synced LFOs

- Import any WAV/AIFF/FLAC as a wavetable

- Arp + chord memory locked to a key

- 12 effects, including two experimental ones: Fracture (tempo-locked glitch/stutter) and Resonator (rings in key with the chord you hold)

- "Generate" button: pick a genre and role and it builds a new preset

Download: wavekraft.app

Feedback and bug reports welcome. If you like it, there's a tip jar, but it's 100% free

Finally released today on the App Store and can also be used as an auv3 plugin too. Would appreciate any feedback or suggestions or lessons missing etc

https://pds-technology.ltd/apps/LearnSynths

i really like this song and wanna incorporate that sort of messy piano sound into my music!! <3

Hello, plugin friends.

I'm a full-time producer, composer and musician based in NYC. For the last nine months, I've been working on something I think is pretty neato, and it's finally done.

It's called blur. blur turns your loops and samples into instruments - not just files you edit, but sounds you play.

It stretches a sample across a row of pads, so you can trigger, chop and remix any sound in real time. Chop vocals, slice breakbeats, rearrange basslines, glitch out pads - or perform entire tracks. It also features an audio input recorder, live performance quantization, and a ton of other extremely fun features. I think it's pretty addictive to mess around with.

If anyone is familiar with the script 'MLR' for the monome - it's the same core idea, but rebuilt from the ground up with the modern electronic musician and performer in mind with tons of new features. I was obsessed with the monome when I was a kid, but could never afford one. This plugin is the result of 20 years of dreaming and almost a year of research, design and extensive testing. I'm quite proud of it, and plan on adding even more stuff moving forward.

It's built for grid controllers, with first-class native support for Launchpad (Pro/X/Mini/Pro mk1) and Push 2/3. You can map any other grid controller to it too - or use Keyboard Mode with any standard MIDI keyboard.

It's $29 normally. You can use ITSFINALLYDONE as a discount code to get 50% off.

Check it out at blurplugin.com - there's a live interactive demo you can play with in your browser without downloading anything.

I hope you guys enjoy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO_SgSL90Ic

Our first 80s Synths pack ended up being our most downloaded freebie, so we made a second one. These 15 Serum presets are inspired by songs like Jump, Cars, Sweet Dreams and Don't You Want Me, built from samples of classic synths like the Korg M1 and the Memorymoog. It's free, so hope you have fun with it!

https://synthctrl.com/products/80s-synths-pt2

Any recommendations for strings that might fall into the Rock Category? Strings that might be associated with some JRPG soundtracks like Persona, Tales Series, Trails Series etc
Example tracks:
Persona 5: River In the Deserts: https://youtu.be/lvuHvXsZPrk?is=biaqMVi5oPkzBKHF
Trails through Daybreak: Unmitigated Will: https://youtu.be/i4FQ55SH3xs?is=aEXmKZJmpa\\_bLSa5
Tales of Arise: Flame of Hope: https://youtu.be/tHu9CC0HTBw?is=Bvx7M3bIdRNsv1fy

I know that majority comes down to mixing and such but any recommendations of strings that can fit a similar sound would be appreciated

So I recently bought the Odin III and so far I’m pretty happy with it.

But one thing that kinda bugs me is the tremolo. I have tried hard to find a diffrence between tremolo and Alternate picking. Is this normal or is there something im missing?

I invited my brother Milán the singer of my band Omega Diatribe to put the plugin to the test featuring in-your-face harsh vocals and some melodic parts from our latest song
"Deadlock" thrown in for good measure. 🤘 Hope you guys enjoy it!
Btw, If you want to grab the plugin, be sure to use my discount code at check out: GERGOHAJER

Hi everyone,

I’ve been building PHY5, a polyphonic physical modeling audio engine.
It has a lot of sonic possibilities, from imitating real-world instruments (Strings, guitar, flutes, steelpan, mallets…) to very weird sound design results.

You can try it, with no install here : https://diophi.com/phy5/ (press play or you can play notes manually using keyboard)
You can also create your own preset on the website and everyone can access it in the community presets tab.

Concerning the plugin:

You can buy the plugin for 15€ for Windows (not signed yet) and MacOS : https://diophi.com/buy/

Here are the features for the VST/AU : 2 independent exciters, filters at every stage, 1-16 voices, oversampling x4, Granular processing by voice, Midi and audio modulation…

The plugin contains 2 versions :

• PHY5 Synth (instrument): the main instrument, with its own exciter (same as the web version). Youtube demo using the web version with 0 effects : https://youtu.be/xpoE2BwfBgU?si=6sm8vGJKEqhuucDK
• PHY5 Fx (audio effect): an audio effect that accepts audio input. You need to route MIDI in to choose the note (how depends on your DAW). Here are some tests with it : https://youtube.com/shorts/EsCstN956sQ

This version is working, stable in my tests (for physical modeling at least) but will evolve in the next month to widen the sound possibilities. I would be very happy to have feedbacks !

I will put some tests using PHY5 with more context here : https://on.soundcloud.com/wtZ8C8lT7la6cBPK7T

Some specificities of Phy5 comparing to other physical modeling synths :

• Parametric : the goal of this synth is less reproducing exactly real world behaviors, but more offering sound design possibilities inspired by physics. Instead of choosing different specific models, you can tweak parameters, which can give very weird results.
• Modular : It is also thought to be modular and will permit to change building blocks (swapping grain and body for example, or having two body, two grains etc…).
• The audio Fx being polyphonic. Being able to excite the body with audio sources opens up a lot of possibilities, while being controlled by polyphonic midi.
• Granular processing augments exciter possibilities.
• Different way to generate stereo (Grains, Poly-chords, Pickup position).

A few points about the synth :

• There is a first version of the manual here : https://diophi.com/manual/
• This kind of synthesis can go loud, so the web-version has a fixed limiter.
• There are also some limitations on the web version on oversampling, and max voices as it can be CPU heavy on web. It still is pretty usable on phone, but you can hear dropouts if you go too far.

PHY5 - CORE :

The audio core of this instrument is created to be used independently and can be easily used in realtime for video-games engine (tested on godot), web (as the demo version), or any app. There is no commercial model for now, but feel free to contact me if you are interested to include it in your specific project.
It has also been built to be scalable and will have a lot of new features, models etc. the price may go a little up, but licences bought now are valid for next versions. I will also work more specifically on new models