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Noizefield has introduced Audio Plugin Coder (APC), a free, open-source tool that’s designed to let you create custom audio plugins without coding.

APC falls into the new category of ‘vibe coding’ development tools, which essentially let you use natural language prompts to describe what you want, and the tool does the coding for you.

It’s available now, and tested on Windows 11 and Linux.

Here’s what developer Max Pfetscher has to say about it:

“I’ve developed an open-source tool called Audio Plugin Coder (APC) that uses AI to help music producers create their own audio plugins without needing to know C++ or any programming. The idea came from seeing so many talented producers with brilliant ideas for custom effects and instruments, but no way to bring them to life without learning complex coding.

The project is completely free and open source, and I’m actively looking for feedback from the community to make it as useful as possible.”

Features:

• LLM-Driven Development – Designed to work with Antigravity, Kilo, Claude Code, Cursor, or any coding agent.
• Structured Workflows – Five-phase system: Dream > Plan > Design > Implement > Ship.
• Dual UI Frameworks – Choose Visage (pure C++) or WebView (HTML5 Canvas).
• State Management – Automatic progress tracking, validation, and rollback capabilities.
• Self-Improving – Auto-capture troubleshooting knowledge; the system gets smarter over time.
• Production Ready – JUCE 8 integration with CMake build system.
• Comprehensive Skills – Pre-built domain knowledge for DSP, UI design, testing, and packaging.

Audio Plugin Coder is a free, open-source tool that’s available now via Github.

Deepsounds has introduced Junit, a Juno-style patch editor for the Novation Circuit & Circuit Tracks.

Junit provides a straightforward interface to the Circuit’s synth engine, emulating the look of the Roland Juno 60.

Here’s what they say about it:

“Junit brings back the fun, ease, and sound of the legendary synthesizer!

Create fat basses, cutting leads, classic keys and plucks or warm pads with the signature PWM modulation and the legendary chorus. Perfectly suited for synthwave, ambient, retro pop, melodic techno and house.”

The editor is built on TouchOSC, and is available for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and Windows.

Visit the Deepsounds site for details.

Slate + Ash, Bristol-based sound design studio – has announced the release of a new Kontakt instrument. Primaries / Woods is the next edition in the company’s Primaries series, inaugurated in 2024 with the release of Primaries / Strings.

Primaries / Woods uses woodwind instruments as the raw materials for expressive sound design.

Where that instrument focused on solo string performances across bass, cello, viola and violin, Primaries / Woods is based on the sounds of the woodwind family, packing more than a hundred recordings of bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe and saxophone into an instrument that the company says is designed to “capture the physical exchange between player and instrument”, exploring solo woodwinds as “a fundamental colour in the orchestral spectrum. From guttural vibrations to fragile overtones, every texture is distilled into tactile breathing matter”.

Primaries / Woods’ library of multisampled articulations is accessible via the same sophisticated sound engine found in Primaries / Strings, which is capable of layering two sound sources together with independent controls for tuning, envelopes, filtering, and key-zone.

Each layer can be processed with a selection of fifteen macro effects, with delay, reverb, compression, tremolo, bitcrusher, pitch-shifter and more on offer, along with a master effects section on the output that features EQ, compression and a lo-fi processor. Effects can be modulated via the onboard LFOs or MIDI CC.

Primaries / Woods’ spatial mixer allows you to blend multiple reamped versions of its sample library together across an XY pad; recordings have been reamped in the Funkhaus echo chamber in Berlin and Real World Studios’ Wood Room, and processed via an EMT 140 plate reverb and Bricasti M7.

Primaries / Woods is equipped with four input modules, spanning a multi-mode arpeggiator, scale-aware harmony generator, and a randomizer that introduces octave shifts, tuning variations and panning into the mix. There’s also a tape simulator onboard that can be used to time-stretch and pitch-shift sound sources.

Though Primaries / Woods uses woodwind instruments as a sound source, Slate + Ash has creatively processed its source material to create a broad range of synthetic textures that sound worlds away from the original recordings, and the instruments’ 200 sound-designed presets offer everything from “warm pads and subtle underscore layers” to “arpeggiated sequences, synthetic pulses and granular textures”.

As was the case with Primaries / Strings, you’re able to drop your own samples into the instrument’s sound engine, effectively giving you a versatile and powerful sampler with which to manipulate and rework your own sounds.

Here’s the Preset Demo:

Primaries / Woods is currently priced at £149 and can be purchased with Primaries / Strings for a discounted price of £349. The instrument runs in Native Instruments Kontakt 7.10.7 or higher, or in the free Kontakt Player.

Find out more on Slate + Ash website.