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2023’s best new free plugins and virtual instruments

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Solid State Logic offering up to 90 percent off its X-Series plugins just in time for Christmas

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Best new mixing plugins, effects and VST instruments out this week

Baby Audio Beat Slammer. It is a small, square shape, with a glowing purple circle shape in the middle.

Baby Audio launches free Beat Slammer plugin for “smashing and squashing” beats

$Arturia Efx REFRACT plugin screen cap, which shows its refraction and comb filter tools in use$

Arturia releases Efx REFRACT plugin – free for a limited time only

Arturia V Collection X

Everything you need to know about Arturia’s V Collection X

Andrew Huang Flip OP-1 video

Andrew Huang names his top 10 plugins of 2023

Paradoks

Techno producer Paradoks on the EQ he uses “on every channel of every project”

A screen cap of PlateVerb interface which is a grey colour and looks similar to an effects pedal.

Solid State Logic launches PlateVerb as first in a range of boutique reverb plugins

Solid State Logic PlateVerb

Solid State Logic’s PlateVerb is a pro-sounding reverb in a pedal-style plugin package

SampleScience

SampleScience’s free plugin is its most abstract yet – a VHS noise generator to add “lo-fi character” to any audio source

Synplant 2 plugin

Is Sonic Charge’s Synplant 2 the future of sound design or just a new AI gimmick?

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