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satYatunes · Post by **satYatunes** » Sat Feb 28, 2026 5:20 pm

^^ Thank you. I made a video for Dusk Verb as well.

bjt2 · Post by **bjt2** » Mon Mar 02, 2026 9:10 am

I have updated my free programmable plugin, with new features and a greatly expanded user manual, with tutorials and examples.

KVRAudio page: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/crescendo-by-bjt2
Technical thread: viewtopic.php?t=581986
Musicians thread: viewtopic.php?t=620964

Explainer AI video (NotebookLM):

bjt2 · Post by **bjt2** » Tue Mar 10, 2026 1:12 pm

I have updated my free programmable plugin adding FULL skinning to the UI: transparency, custom background image and custom Knob skinning.

You can find the plugin here:

KVRAudio page: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/crescendo-by-bjt2
Technical thread: viewtopic.php?t=581986
Musicians thread: viewtopic.php?t=620964

sprnva · Post by **sprnva** » Tue Mar 10, 2026 3:02 pm

Black Diamond Distortion (and Probe)

Black Diamond Distortion is the first plugin from Aspen Instruments. It is a flexible distortion engine designed to cover everything from subtle preamp-style warmth to aggressive modern waveshaping. You can start from a curated library of presets—including classic hardware-inspired designs—or build your own distortion from first principles using four distinct editing modes.

kernaudioio · Post by **kernaudioio** » Thu Mar 12, 2026 12:16 pm

KERN CHECK - free spectral mono compatibility analyzer

VST3/AU. No iLok, no account.

Shows a per-frequency correlation curve across 40 ERB bands instead of a single correlation number. Bass-weighted mono score. MONO button to collapse and hear the damage, SIDE button to solo what disappears. Zero latency, four knobs.

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/check-by-kern-audio

kernaudio.io/check

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Tue Mar 17, 2026 8:15 pm

Just tried Quantum Delay Lite. It's a keeper.
https://gs-dsp.com/

Drivers Lincense · Post by **Drivers Lincense** » Fri Mar 20, 2026 9:00 pm

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TL;DR: I made a dynamic, real-time Just Intonation tuning plugin that uses MPE. It goes before your synth and requires MPE turned on with its bend range at +/- 48 semitones.

Download (Windows/macOS/Linux): https://github.com/Licensed-Driver/OpenBend/releases (https://github.com/Licensed-Driver/OpenBend/releases)

I wanted to try out AloBoi's plugin AloBend that does real-time 5-limit Just Intonation tuning, but was unfortunately met with a paywall, and also the fact that I suck at music. But I am great at coding! So I just made it myself, with some extra things I thought would be nice.

What it does: OpenBend is a MIDI plugin made with C++ and JUCE, which sits after your MIDI input but before your synthesizer. It takes in 12-TET MIDI input and dynamically retunes the notes to pure 5-limit Just Intonation ratios in real-time.

How it works: It does this by outputting MPE to individually pitch-bend each note. You just put it before your synth! Some DAWs require you set the output of OpenBend and input of the synth the same, and your synth must have MPE enabled with +/- 48 semitones bend range.

All Features:

Real-time dynamic chord change searching to get the absolute JI ratios

Regular and True legato support

Regular and True Glide: If true glide is selected, note lift up is delayed by an adjustable amount to allow for smooth note sliding just like True Legato

Chord Change Searching: If the search mode for which keys to legato or glide from is set to chord change, key down events are delayed by an adjustable amount to wait for the user to press all keys in a chord before mapping the previous chord to the new chord. (This is meant to avoid slight variance in attack timing, causing gliding to criss-cross)

Portamento: This is just an adjustable glide from the 12-TET pitch to the JI pitch

The plugin is technically officially released, but absolutely let me know how good or shit it is so I can know exactly what to fix! And if you happen to be a developer and wanna contribute then feel free!

CYKLVM · Post by **CYKLVM** » Thu Mar 26, 2026 3:08 am

https://kazrog.com/products/kclip-zero

Kclip zero is great for making sure your bus doesn't cross a certain db, and it has 16x oversampling, and it's free

. It replaced Standard Clip for me since I like how much more simple it is

digitalboytn · Post by **digitalboytn** » Sat Mar 28, 2026 10:47 am

https://www.audiodamage.com/pages/evil-otto

This is a good one

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Sat Mar 28, 2026 4:59 pm

digitalboytn wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2026 10:47 am https://www.audiodamage.com/pages/evil-otto

This is a good one

It is.

One quirk; did anyone else install on Linux and find their presets etc installed to the default 'Music' folder rather than 'Documents' or somewhere?

digitalboytn · Post by **digitalboytn** » Sat Mar 28, 2026 7:54 pm

The only quirk I found is that the GUI is too wide...

But it works great...

NWSM · Post by **NWSM** » Sat Mar 28, 2026 11:12 pm

GaryG wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2026 4:59 pm
digitalboytn wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2026 10:47 am https://www.audiodamage.com/pages/evil-otto

This is a good one
It is.

One quirk; did anyone else install on Linux and find their presets etc installed to the default 'Music' folder rather than 'Documents' or somewhere?

Here on Debian 12 bookworm
Presets in /home/username*/Music/Audio Damage/

What is an uncommon path, normally i would store presets in /.config or inside the .vst/ .clap Folder.
Read also the PluginManagerSetting.txt there.

It seems Evil Otto is made with Juce 8.0.12 so Audio Damage can freely choose where the Presets should be stored.

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Sun Mar 29, 2026 11:42 am

NWSM wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2026 11:12 pm What is an uncommon path, normally i would store presets in /.config or inside the .vst/ .clap Folder.
Read also the PluginManagerSetting.txt there.

.config makes the most sense to me though see a few devs placing things in Documents (reminiscent of Windows devs dumping everything in Documents instead of Program Data, a folder literally intended for stuff like that but I digress...

)

I tried moving the AD folder away from Music just to see how it would behave and Otto (and Dubstation for that matter) both recreated the folders with default patches in Music interestingly.

Sorry, didn't get the PluginManagerSetting.txt reference, is that an AD thing or..?

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Sun Mar 29, 2026 2:14 pm

AD also dropped them into:

/home/user/Music

While quite a few using:

.config

So AD seems to like /Music more for whatever reason.

NWSM · Post by **NWSM** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 3:44 am

GaryG wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2026 11:42 am Sorry, didn't get the PluginManagerSetting.txt reference, is that an AD thing or..?

i do have it in my "music" folder under Audio Damge
Wow* AD created the music folder, for german guys - its not in the musik-folder*
thats a bummer.

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