Uganda's military finally copped to snatching a Catholic priest after his diocese spent a week hunting through police stations trying to find him. Father Deusdedit Ssekabira got grabbed by armed guys from his NGO office in Masaka City, and the army stayed quiet until Bishop Severus Jjumba cranked up public pressure and filed court papers demanding they produce the missing cleric.
The military claims Ssekabira was doing violent anti-government stuff, and they plan to charge him eventually. His lawyer ripped into security forces for ignoring proper arrest procedures, while relatives questioned why authorities skipped talking to church officials first before rolling up with guns.
The whole thing sparked fresh arguments about...
A Ugandan court told the civil aviation authority to cough up twenty-six million shillings after they fired a security guy who busted someone smuggling rhino horns through the airport. Arnold Olweny spotted a sketchy bag back in 2017, called wildlife officials, and helped them catch a passenger hauling twelve rhino horns. Instead of getting praised, UCAA suspended him on half pay and accused him of helping the smugglers, even though prosecutors later cleared him after checking security footage.
The court said UCAA wrongfully terminated Olweny without giving him a proper hearing and awarded him damages equal to one year's salary. He wanted three hundred million shillings, but judges shut that down as excessive since it would have been...
Electro-Harmonix just brought a lost Big Muff design to life after JHS Pedals guy Josh Scott and artist Daniel Danger dug up an old schematic that creator Bob Myer never actually produced back in the late seventies. The Big Muff Pi 2 runs on dual op-amps instead of the usual transistor setup, and Scott helped EHX turn the dusty blueprints into an actual pedal people can buy.
The circuit supposedly pushes less gain than other Muff versions but pumps out fat lows and thick mids with ridiculous sustain. Standard three-knob layout handles distortion amount, tone shaping, and output volume on a tiny nano chassis with relay-based true bypass that works in both latching and momentary modes.
Runs on nine volts through battery or adapter...
2Rule dropped TugMoveEffect as a free plugin that lets people scatter effects across a 2D workspace and blend them based on how close an orange control point sits to each instance. The software handles thirteen effect types like distortion and reverb with three slots per type, and users can either drag the listener point manually or set it to bounce around automatically.
The plugin works like spatial mixing, where distance controls how much each effect bleeds into the final output. A sixteen-step sequencer mode lets the control point hop between preset effect positions during playback with forward, backward, mirror, or random patterns. Standout options include a Repeater that generates musical tones with MIDI control, a pitch shifter...
Blue Cat Audio dropped version 3.2 for Remote Control, which lets people wrangle multiple plugins or MIDI gear from one screen. The company totally rebuilt the interface with customizable grid layouts and over forty control types like pads and knobs, plus multi-touch support on Windows that handles up to 128 parameters instead of the old 64-control limit. MIDI handling got beefed up with note events, pitch bend, aftertouch, and sync options through Beat Clock or MTC.
The update ships free to anyone who already bought Remote Control, and newcomers get twenty percent off through year-end sales that stack deeper discounts for existing Blue Cat customers. Performance got better across the board with faster skin loading and graphics...
discoDSP pushed version 8.11 for Discovery Pro with a bunch of synthesis upgrades and workflow tweaks. The update throws in a JP-8080 supersaw oscillator that stacks seven sawtooth waves for fat trance leads, adds real-time scope visualization with stereo display and glow effects, upgrades the gate sequencer with proper note retriggering across four states, and fixes arpeggiator timing bugs that caused weird delays.
The new Voice Note panning mode spreads MIDI notes across the stereo field based on pitch, while modulation indicators light up on knobs to show what's moving in real time. The company also optimized performance through a VPAK asset system that packs skin files into smaller chunks and caches images for faster loading...
Ocean Swift dropped Tyrian Tine for the free Kontakt Player, and the thing mashes up wavetable synthesis with sampled metallic sounds pulled from bells and kalimbas. The dual-layer setup lets people generate bell tones and chime textures with built-in randomization that keeps everything feeling alive instead of static.
The wavetable side handles morphing and controlled instability, while samples cover everything from clean overtones to gnarly metallic hits. Velocity response and mod wheel assignments create movement during performance, and onboard effects like filtering, tremolo, delay, and reverb shape how close or distant everything sounds in the mix.
The package comes with seventy-three presets and works with Komplete Kontrol...
MeldaProduction dropped MMicSim, which lets people fake expensive microphone sounds through whatever cheap gear they already own. The plugin ships with over a hundred mic models spanning dynamics to tube condensers, and the company keeps adding vintage and modern options to the database.
The interface stays simple with a Smoothness slider that tames harsh frequencies and a Dry/Wet knob for blending how much fake character gets applied. Users can throw condenser vibes onto dynamic mic recordings or simulate ribbon tones on guitar cabs without swapping physical hardware. The software handles vocals, drums, and instrument tracking across different scenarios where you want alternative tonal options.
Both Windows and Mac versions support...
Kushview pushed out reTuner as a free pitch conversion tool that runs as either a plugin or a standalone app with file export capability. The software uses Rubber Band Library tech to shift tuning standards without wrecking audio quality, and it works across Windows, macOS, and Linux through VST3, LV2, CLAP, and AU formats.
Users can adjust the A4 reference frequency anywhere between 380 and 460 hertz while the algorithm keeps formants intact during real-time processing. Pitch shifting maxes out at plus or minus three semitones, and volume controls span negative sixty to positive twelve decibels. The whole package drops under GPL-3.0 licensing with lifetime updates thrown in.
Minimum specs call for at least four gigs of RAM on Windows...
