Howie's 179 is a compressor/limiter plugin from Metric Halo and Make Believe Studios, built as a direct capture of mastering engineer Howie Weinberg's own pair of NTP 179-120 hardware units…

Distortion plugins rarely commit to both ends of the spectrum at once. Tactical Nuke does, which is why it's the focus of this review: 512 stock wavetables, three-way bit manipulation,…

808 Machine is an AI 808 sample generator plugin from Unison that renders a finished WAV audio sample rather than a MIDI note, built around an AI Wavetable Generation engine…

Mangler is a hybrid distortion plugin from Unison built around four controls — Mangle, Destroy, Bite, and Expand — with no additional parameters exposed anywhere in the interface. Mangle combines…

Sound Doctor is an FX-chain generator plugin from Unison that builds a full processing chain — pulled from 25 of its own designed effects — in one click, matched to…

MIDI Wizard 2.0 is a MIDI chord-progression and melody generator plugin from Unison, built around three modes — Chord, Melody, and Hybrid — across 32 genres of music. Generation draws…

Drum Monkey is a generative drum loop plugin from Unison, producing a new pattern from a chosen genre and length across 30 genres plus a genre-fusing "???" option, drawing on…

Bass Dragon is a generative bassline and 808 plugin from Unison, producing a new pattern from a chosen genre and key across 30 genres plus a genre-fusing "???" option. Generated…

Few instruments carry the cultural weight of the Prophet~5. Released by Sequential Circuits in 1978, Dave Smith’s five-voice analogue synthesizer brought polyphony, patch memory and hands-on control together in a…

Lacuna is a four-band saturation and stereo animation plugin built around CURRENT — a dual-mono stochastic spectral drift engine that evolves the left and right channels independently on a continuous…