The unlikely duo who might just save the world
Ben must be the hungriest cat ever…
One moment, he was enjoying a breakfast of salmon trimmings in his home in South Wales. The next, he was teleported across time and space onto the cold stone floor of an evil warlock.
Locked in the warlock’s tower through day and night, Ben may have to serve him for a while. He’ll hate this, especially having to hunt those infernal demon rats when the warlock doesn’t feed him well at all.
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AirGlow
Airglow by S1gns of Life is a high-end atmosphere instrument by S1gns Of L1fe, designed for creating luminous melodic particles, glassy overtones, cinematic shimmer, moving air, textured dust, and evolving ambient motion.
Play or hold MIDI notes, choose a key and scale, Airglow will generate musical sprays, resonant textures, drifting noise layers, and deep spatial glow. It is built for ambient music, cinematic sound design, meditation beds, generative textures, dreamlike accents, and slow-burning harmonic movement that feels alive without becoming crowded.
The ambient space sounds this makes are very cool. There are four parts; Spray, Glass, Air & Dust. Air & Dust just add noise, so are not useful and I turn these off.
Video Demo: (Coming soon!)
Parallel Well
Parallax Well by S1gns of Life, from Gumroad.com turns incoming audio into a playable spatial memory: capture a short moment, freeze it into an ambient bed, scatter it into octave-aware grains, and bloom it through a wide reverb chamber.
Use it for soft ambient tails, frozen pads, shimmer-like pitch bloom, smeared transitions, evolving sends, and deep sound-design textures that stay connected to the original source.
Built around a five-second capture memory, Parallax Well lets you decide whether the effect keeps listening to live input or holds onto a captured moment. Grain, Grain Mix, Spray, Pitch, Semi, and Oct Field shape the movement and tuning of the granular layer, while Depth, Diffuse, Length, Pre Color, and Post Color shape the chamber around it.
Orbit Seq

Orbital Sequencer is a scale-locked MIDI VST sequencer.
It turns an eight-step pattern into a circular, performance-friendly interface.
Each orb can shape duration, velocity, pitch, and octave movement, creating evolving MIDI patterns.
What all that means, I don’t know. But it is another MIDI generation tool to help with composition.
Loom Texture
Texture Loom is a free dual-sample atmosphere engine by S1gns Of L1fe, designed for creating evolving pads, drones, cinematic beds, textural layers, and ambient movement from your own audio.
Load two samples, blend between them, shape them with filtering and motion, then send the result into an onboard space/reverb section. Texture Loom is simple enough to start making sound immediately, but flexible enough for slow-burning sound design, generative ambience, and deep sample-based texture work.
Another cool vst from Chris @ S1gns of Life. Just a few random samples creates interesting textures. Trouble is, they just keep on playing. It looks like you have to use the DAW to records the output.
TugPhonon

TugPhonon is a “Vintage Rotating Tape Delay Plugin”
It simulates a rotating magnetic disk with 8 playback heads — a concept pioneered by Pierre Schaeffer and Jacques Poullin in the early 1950s. It’s also similar to Robert Fripp’s Frippertronics from the late 1970s.
Audio is continuously written onto a virtual tape loop. The 8 heads read back from different positions on that loop simultaneously, each with its own filter, effects chain, and spatial placement. The result is somewhere between a tape delay, a granular texture machine, and a spectral decomposition tool.
Damned complicated – that’s what it is.
But it does provide some very weird effects !.
Sagrada Família

The Sagrada Família’s Tower of Jesus Christ, in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece, will be blessed by Pope Leo XIV during his visit to Barcelona on June 10, 2026. This event coincides with the centenary of Gaudí’s death and is expected to attract around 8,000 people, including dignitaries and the public. The Pope’s visit will also include a mass and a blessing ceremony, making it one of the most significant moments in the Basilica’s recent history.
Peabo Bryson

Robert Peapo “Peabo” Bryson
(April 13, 1951 – June 2, 2026)
After collaborating with singers Luther Vandross and Cissy Houston on his debut album Peabo (1976), he signed to Capitol Records and released the 1978 albums Reaching for the Sk
He later released the collaborative projects We’re the Best of Friends (1979) with Natalie Cole and Born to Love (1983) with Roberta Flack, the latter of which included the hit single “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love”.
Z Planet

Planet Z by Kristen Middleton (2017)
The story follows Alexandra Logan and her little brother, Jimmy as they embark on a mission to find a habitable planet after the Earth’s resources have been depleted.
Sonny Rollins
Walter Theodore “Sonny” Rollins
(September 7, 1930 – May 25, 2026)
Jazz Tenor Saxophonist