Hello cuties,
This feels like a big one for me. I’ve been building little tools in the background for a while -and now 14 free VST3 plugins are live on my site, together with my Serum presets and sample packs in one Google Drive folder. Soft, creative, a little magical -very me ✨
🛠️ What I did this week
This week was all about getting the plugins out of my DAW and into your hands.
I finished polishing the collection, wrote short descriptions for each one, added screenshots on the downloads page, and put everything in one place so you don’t have to hunt around. Reverb, delay, dynamics, tape, granular stuff, bitcrushing, vocal sweetening -a whole little toolbox 🎛️
Small win: the downloads page finally shows what each plugin actually looks like in a carousel -click a screenshot to zoom in 🐾
Something unexpected? Once I lined them all up, I realized how much of a “Firetail / red panda” family they are. Chimera, Pandattack, Tailback… it’s very on-brand in hindsight.
Heads-up: close your DAW before installing -Windows VST3 and open sessions don’t always play nice.
🌐 Interesting stuff
Free plugins still get shared like crazy when they’re actually good and easy to grab -one link, no maze
Producers love character tools (tape, bitcrush, transient shaping) as much as “big” reverbs and delays
A simple catalog page with real UI screenshots helps people trust a download before they install anything
✨ Featured
14 free Windows VST3 plugins -jackboyman / JackSoundWorks
All free. All in one folder with my Serum presets and samples.
Synths
Chimera -blend two sounds (spectral, granular, convolution)
Firetail Octet -eight sample-based instruments in one
Dynamics & utility
Pandattack -punchy compressor with character
KeySense -live key detection from your audio
Snaptail -transient shaper
Time & space
Tailback -stereo delay
Reverbolution -lush reverb
Firetail Drift -granular texture (hold to freeze)
Character & color
Firetail Tape, Flangbang, WAHstortion, PandaBit, Voxtail
Creative
Firetail Contour -draw your own volume envelope
👉 Browse & download: https://jackboyman.com/downloads
👉 Direct folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/109PPxOPRmXzbwgXFFCR98BfMrxK6n9fk
If a plugin clicks with you, reply or drop a line in the guest book -I read that stuff and it helps me decide what to build next 💕
🔗 Also in this issue
Red Panda Notes is still on Google Play if you want the cozy app side of the universe 📱
Showcase page for games & app updates: https://jackboyman.com/showcase
More sounds and presets land in the same Drive folder over time -staying subscribed is the easiest way to catch drops
Thank you for being here early. Means a lot that you’re along for this weird, cute, producer journey 🐾🔥