Music Software Deals | 8th August 2025

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📰 In This Weeks Newsletter

What an absolute treat it is to release our weekly newsletter on 808 day! With that in mind, it’ll be worth taking a look at this exclusive Plugin Boutique deal where you can get 67% off TR-808 by Roland, the official 808 plugin from the originators!

And if that’s not good enough, you can get 30% off the rest of the Roland plugins to celebrate their arrival at Plugin Boutique. Just click here to see all of the Roland deals!

🔥 This Week’s Best Audio Plugin Deals

🤑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

  • UJAM has released Symphonic Elements PERRCS, delivering top-end orchestral percussion straight from Hans Zimmer’s vault. From shakers to sticks to rimshots, every performance is built to add energy and motion - high percussion that drives the story - 60% off [$99 at Plugin Boutique]

  • Musical Sampling has released Midnight: Tenor Sax, a characterful legato saxophone library for expressive playing. Based on the Austin Saxes Engine, it delivers additional depth through multiple microphone positions and a wide range of articulations such as glissando legato, scooped attacks, bend downs, and more - 34% off [$59 at Best Service]

  • HY-MBMFX3 is the latest release from HY-Plugins, a multiband multi-effects plugin built for deep sound design and creative flexibility. Its modular structure lets you freely combine and route FX and Modulator modules, with the ability to modulate nearly any parameter - 30% off [$42 at Plugin Boutique]

  • Sonora Cinematic has released SoftStruck, an unconventional, cinematic guitar library inspired by the delicate warmth of the felt piano, Softstruck is the third addition to Sonora Cinematic’s Select series and one of their most unusual instruments yet - 29% off [$34.21 at Loot Audio]

  • Spitfire Audio has released Château Piano, the iconic 1901 Steinway B grand – once owned by film composer Michel Magne – heard across era-defining albums from Elton John, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, and many more - 20% off [$148.27 at Spitfire Audio]

  • Schallenberg Engineering has released Artefakt, a collection of beautifully broken synth textures, full of dirt, noise, imperfections and artifacts - 41% off [$29 at Pulse Audio]

  • Lunacy Audio has released Aura, a luminous preset expansion for BEAM crafted with layered reverbs, spacious delays, and gentle modulation - 34% off [$19 at Plugin Boutique]

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

  1. VHorns Brass Section by Acousticsamples [Details]

  2. EZdrummer 3 by Toontrack [Details]

  3. Infiltrator 2 by Devious Machines [Details]

  4. Producer Collection by Softube [Details]

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

  6. Soothe 2 by Oeksound [Details]

  7. Diva by u-He [Details]

  8. VHorns Saxophones by Acousticsamples [Details]

  9. Metric AB by ADPTR AUDIO [Details]

  10. Kontakt 8 by Native Instruments [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