Voxengo has announced an update to its SPAN real-time “fast Fourier transform” audio spectrum analyzer plugin. Version 3.5 comes with some improvements and additions to the free effect plugin. [...]

Plugin Boutique is offering the iZotope Iris 2 sample-based synthesizer instrument for free with any purchase through August. Iris 2 is an immediately playable, sample-based synthesizer that combines the power of a sampler, the flexibility of a modular synth, and the fun of spectral filtering. Featuring up to 4 sample layers, a complete collection of hand-crafted presets and an 11GB library of [...]

1208 Audio Plugins has released its latest audio plugin 1208 Reviver, a free sound sculpting effect for Windows. With its Shine and Thick, this plugin seems to borrow its design from Slate Digital’s Revival sonic enhancer plugin, which features similarly named Shimmer and Thickness controls. [...]

Waves Audio has announced the release of Waves Abbey Road Studio 3, a plugin that brings the acoustic environment of the legendary Abbey Road Studio 3 control room to your headphones, so you can make better production and mixing decisions on any set of headphones. [...]

Plugin Alliance has announced the upcoming Purple Audio MC77, an emulation of the hardware limiting amplifier, which recreates the audio circuitry of the revision E 1176. [...]

Plugin Alliance has announced a native version of Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor. For the first time, the supreme tycoon of compression and all its power is available in all major native formats. [...]

Plugin Boutique has launched the exclusive W.A. Production Summer Bundle, a limited time collection comprising 5 production-ready plugins at 95% OFF regular. [...]

Waves Audio has announced Waves Submarine, a two-octave subharmonic generator plugin powered by Organic ReSynthesis technology. The Submarine plugin aims to deliver deeper well-balanced results on any large sound system, so you can add bigger sub bass with unprecedented clarity and low-end accuracy. [...]

Togu Audio Line has recently released a public beta of version 2.0.0 of its TAL-Reverb-4, a free reverb effect plugin for Windows and Mac. [...]

LennarDigital has released version 3.053 of the Sylenth1 synthesizer. For this update LennarDigital has revisited the audio engine and managed to improve overall sound quality of the oscillators and filters, without losing their cutting edge. The code has also been optimized further, so that it's still as lean on the CPU as it was before. Optional oversampling for real-time playback and offline [...]

Klevgränd has announced a new free audio effect plugin for Windows and Mac. FreeAMP is a stripped-down version of Klevgrand’s popular analog audio gear modeler REAMP, a complex spectral saturation processor, simulating a set of different analog gear in a unique way. [...]

Francesco Silvestri has released a collection of free presets for the Repro-5 virtual synthesizer instrument by u-he. The pack includes 212 ambient-themed presets, fully tagged for easy browsing. [...]