Articles

  • AI tools

Best AI plugins in 2026 (free and paid)

The best AI plugins for music — smart mixing and mastering assistants, stem separation, vocal cloning, noise removal and beat generation, with free-tier picks you can try in one click on MuseHub.

10 min read
  • Audacity
  • AI tools

How to edit audio with AI in Audacity

Audacity gets five AI tools — noise suppression, stem separation, transcription, music generation and audio upscaling — through the free OpenVINO AI Tools plugin. Here is what each one does, where to find it, and how to install it from MuseHub.

13 min read
  • Podcasting
  • Loops & samples

Podcast sound effects: the five types and how to use them

Stingers, transitions, ambience, foley and emphasis hits — what each type of podcast sound effect signals, how long it should be, where to place it, and what royalty-free actually means when you license one.

8 min read
  • DAWs & editors
  • Free tools

GarageBand for Windows: 10 alternatives that actually work

Apple has never released GarageBand for Windows, and the download sites claiming otherwise are not safe. Here are ten real alternatives for PC — free and paid — matched to what you actually wanted GarageBand for.

8 min read
  • Audacity
  • Podcasting

Audacity noise reduction: how to remove background noise

Remove hum, hiss and room noise in Audacity 4 — the three-step Noise reduction effect, what each slider does, denoiser plugins that run live on the track with no noise profile, the AI route that still needs Audacity 3, and the noises none of them can fix.

10 min read