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New plugins, updates, records, and how to support Box Of Rules, written down as it happens.

04 Sep 2026

Picking Fingers in Your Language: Twenty Languages, One Experiment in Supporting People Properly

The privacy notice, the support messages and the survey now come in twenty languages. The dials stay as they are, because BITE is BITE everywhere. Here is why, and what I'm measuring.

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04 Sep 2026

1,804 Installs, One Supporter: How to Support Box Of Rules and What It Would Mean

The real numbers, what the gap means for one person making all of this, and the ways to back it: four tiers on Patreon and Ko-fi, commissions, or a one-off donation.

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04 Sep 2026

BR108: Analogue Voices from a 1980s British Console, as a Supporter Plugin

Twenty measured channels of a 1980s British 24-channel console, each one a voice with its own colour, drive and place on the desk. Seven-day trial, no account, then yours on the Plugged In tier.

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22 Aug 2026

A&R Factory on Tax Wealth, Not Work: "A Budget-Day Panic Attack Weaponised into Sonic Protest"

A&R Factory reviewed the single and called it "a budget-day panic attack weaponised into sonic protest". The highlights, and where to read the rest.

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17 Aug 2026

Both Plugins Are On the Darkglass Anagram Now

Box of Bass and Picking Fingers now run on the Darkglass Anagram itself, no laptop involved. Here is what it took to get them onto the pedal, and what stayed exactly the same.

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11 Aug 2026

Picking Fingers: Play It One Way, Print It the Other

A free plugin that voices a bass signal played one way to sound like it was played the other — built by measuring real players, real basses and more pick types than we are prepared to admit.

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09 Aug 2026

Box of Bass 1.2: You Said Too Dark. We Measured. You Were Right.

A Reddit comment said the default tone was too dark. We measured it, they were right, and 1.2 is the fix: TONE and FEEL dials on the instrument itself, plus a live phase window.

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02 Aug 2026

The Beta Grew Up: Box of Bass 1.0 Is Out, Free

Bass Better-er was the beta. Box of Bass is what it became: the full layered rig, now with Pro Tools support — still free. And Pro is coming.

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20 Jun 2026

Bass Better-er Is Out, Free in Beta

The bass chain from the records is now a free, cross-platform plugin. What is in it, how to use it, and what Premium will add.

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More notes landing soon.