https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Wed, 04 Nov 2026 03:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/11/softube-flow-studio-third-party-plugins https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/11/softube-flow-studio-third-party-plugins A free Flow Mixing Suite update lets Softube's Flow Studio controller drive a tested list of third-party VST3 plugins from FabFilter, Soundtoys, Universal Audio, Valhalla and others. You still need your own licences for those plugins. Wed, 04 Nov 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers pluginscontrollersmixingsoftubevst3 https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/daw-plugins-explained https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/daw-plugins-explained Plug-ins are add-on programs that run inside a DAW: instruments that make sound from MIDI notes, effects that process audio, and MIDI effects that change notes. Formats such as VST3, Audio Units and CLAP decide which DAWs can load them. AI arrived as plug-ins first, and in an AI DAW the AI now picks and sets up your plug-ins for you. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:30:00 GMT We are the music makers daw-101dawpluginsvst3audio-unitsai-toolsveena