Music Software Deals | 30th May 2025

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May 30, 2025

📰 In This Weeks Newsletter

Welcome to this weeks newsletter! First things first, Excite Audio has released Motion: Fractal - a brand new Granular FX plugin. Create “endless motion, texture, and modern sonic transformation through dual granular engines, a reactive trance gate, and stutter-repeat effects”. Click here for 51% off - $39 or lite version for - 49% off - $25. There is also a crossgrade from any Motion product option, $29 for Standard & $20 for lite version.

Now for a freebie!! Universal Audio - PolyMAX Synth is free until the 30th June 2025. Take a look here! Does require a UA account.

Lastly before some deals, a little competition from Orchestral tools! Compose a score to a video they provide. Prizes from 1st to 10th, with the winning prize being Berlin Orchestra max. All the details here!  

🔥 This Week’s Best Audio Plugin Deals

These are our favourite hand selected deals of the week

🤑Best Deals Under $10

Cash strapped? These are the best deals for under 10 bucks!

💸Best Freebies

Our current favourite free plugins, sample libraries and sample packs:

🎹 New Releases

This is our selection of the best new audio plugin releases this week

  • Spitfire Audio has released Shakespeare’s Church Organ. A deeply moving instrument heard in church services over centuries, now the timeless and transformative voice of this historic organ can be used to evoke the poetic spirit of William Shakespeare, into your own scores - 20% off [$115.71 at Spitfire Audio]

  • 510k has released POLYLLOP. Building on the foundation and logic of 510k's flagship sequencer SEQUND, POLYLLOP pushes things further into polyphonic and polymetric territory. Designed for those who want to go beyond simple step sequencing, POLYLLOP lets you sequence up to four independent voice, each with their own rhythm, melody, duration, and velocity lanes - 34% off [$39 at Plugin Boutique]

  • Nomad Factory has released an updated version of one of their retro compressors, previously known as the Motown Retro Bundle. Motown EQs v2 combines the legendary Music Tone and Film Tone EQs used exclusively by Motown engineers, now in a single streamlined interface - 73% off [$39.99 at Bestservice]

  • Fracture Sounds has released Solo String Formations. The follow-up to String Formations, this solo counterpart expands on the original’s innovations with a more intimate and focused sound. Featuring the first chairs of the larger ensemble, it offers detailed, characterful textures that can stand alone or blend naturally with other string libraries to add motion and nuance to your music. - 31% off [$89 at Fracture Sounds]

  • BEATSURFING has released CHeat Code. A multi-effects processor reimagined. Sixteen meticulously crafted modules designed for radical sound transformation and an accelerated workflow. Stack them. Re-route them - 50% off [$69 at Loot Audio]

  • Karoryfer Samples has released Merciful Cello. Featuring true sampled legato, naturally played vibrato, expressive note-start ornaments, and two distinct release types, this instrument is all about nuance and emotional depth - 51% off [$19 at Pulse Audio]

This week, the most popularly searched products on MSD were as follows

  1. Soothe 2 by Oeksound [Details]

  2. Metric AB by ADPTR AUDIO [Details]

  3. Xpand! 2 by Air Music Tech [Details]

  4. Phase Plant by Kilohearts [Details]

  5. RC-20 Retro Color by XLN Audio [Details]

  6. f.’em by Tracktion [Details]

  7. TRIAD by Unfiltered Audio [Details]

  8. EastWest’s Forbidden Planet, ICONIC & LO-FI Bundle by Eastwest [Details]

  9. Serum 2 by Xfer Records [Details]

  10. Spire by Reveal Sound [Details]

That’s this week’s best music software deals around the web. Here’s a silly meme to brighten up your day. Until next week!

Josh