Free Bounce / Hub
One free app for every Free Bounce plug-in and sound kit. Sign in once, and the Hub installs what you own into the right folders, keeps it up to date, and looks after your licences. No installers to hunt down, no zip files to unpack.
First install on Windows: it may say “Windows protected your PC”, because the installer is not code-signed yet. Choose More info, then Run anyway. On a Mac it is not notarized yet: the first time, right-click the app and choose Open. Every update after that is checked against its published fingerprint.
The Hub is how Free Bounce software gets onto your computer and stays current — the same job Native Access or Waves Central does for those companies. You browse and get things on this website; the Hub delivers them.
Plug-ins go straight into your VST3 folder and show up in your DAW. Sound kits and presets land in folders you choose. No administrator prompts after the first install.
When a plug-in gets an update, your Library says so and installs it for you. The Hub updates itself the same way.
Everything your Free Bounce account owns is listed, with what is installed on this computer, what has an update waiting, and what needs repairing.
The Hub activates your plug-ins on this machine and shows which computers use each licence. Moving to a new PC? Deactivate the old one in the Hub and the seat is free again.
One download at a time, with pause, resume, cancel and retry. A big sound kit carries on even if you close the app.
Files come only through the app, on a private link made for your account that lasts minutes — so what you own is never a link someone else can pass around.
Yes. The Hub itself is free and always will be. Each plug-in or kit is free or paid on its own, as shown on the Software page.
Yes, a free Free Bounce account: it is how the Hub knows what you own. Make it on this website; the same account signs in to the app.
Free Bounce plug-ins are VST3, so any DAW that loads VST3 plug-ins: Ableton Live, FL Studio, Bitwig, Reaper, Studio One, Cubase and more.
In your own VST3 folder, %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Common\VST3, which the VST3 standard defines and which needs no administrator. Sound kits go to Documents\Free Bounce\Sound Kits. You can change these folders in the Hub's Settings. If your DAW does not show a new plug-in, add that VST3 folder to its plug-in folders and rescan.
The installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen does not recognise the publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway. Updates are checked against a published SHA-512 fingerprint, so a changed file is never installed.
Yes: macOS 11 and later, Apple silicon and Intel. On a Mac the Hub puts plug-ins in ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3, and the Audio Units Logic Pro uses in ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components.
See everything the Hub can install, with what is free and what is new.
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