Tuned Plugins launches Vocal Essentials Bundle V2 at $9.99 with a 'F*CK AI SLOP' campaign against AI-made plugins

Tuned Plugins put its whole Vocal Essentials Bundle V2 on sale for $9.99 on November 9, 2026, and that price runs for 72 hours only.

The sale is part of a campaign Tuned calls “F*CK AI SLOP”. The developer pitches it as its answer to rushed plugins made with AI, as Bedroom Producers Blog reported the same day.

The bundle holds 4 updated vocal plugins for macOS and Windows: Vocal Tune V2, Vocal Chain V2, Tuned Reverb V2 and Smooth Sibilance V2.

What Tuned Plugins’ F*CK AI SLOP campaign says about AI-generated plugins

Tuned’s Vocal Essentials Bundle V2 product page opens with one line: “Made by humans. For humans who make music.” The campaign runs under a Black Friday 2026 banner at the top of the page.

Then Tuned explains why the price is so low. “As our industry gets flooded with rushed, AI-generated plugins, we want to stand for something different. Real development. Real sound. Real people behind every product,” the page says.

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We're a small team of musicians and developers who believe great audio tools should be built with passion, care, and actual human creativity.

Tuned adds that the $9.99 price is “not because our work is worth less, but because we believe more musicians deserve access to tools made with love, not shortcuts.”

Bedroom Producers Blog describes Tuned as a Safari Audio brand. It also reports that the team isn’t against AI itself, and that it’s pushing back against AI replacing craftsmanship.

So what do you actually get for the $9.99?

What’s new in Tuned’s Vocal Essentials Bundle V2 plugins

All 4 plugins got updated DSP, a new searchable preset system and A/B comparison. They also get Smart Gain, which matches the processed signal’s loudness to the input, so you compare the sound and not the volume.

Here’s what each plugin does, according to Tuned and BPB:

• Vocal Tune V2: pitch correction. You set your song’s key and scale, then use Tune Speed for gradual correction or an obvious robotic effect. V2 adds an on-screen keyboard for custom target notes and formant control.
• Vocal Chain V2: EQ, compression and saturation in one channel strip. V2 adds a Mid band next to Body and Air, a Width control and a filter section, and Blend mixes the processed sound with the original.
• Tuned Reverb V2: Plate, Hall and Freeze modes. Freeze holds the reverb tail as a pad under the vocal, and Saturate plus low- and high-cut filters shape that tail.
• Smooth Sibilance V2: a de-esser for harsh “sss” sounds. You turn on Monitor and sweep Frequency to hear what you’re targeting, then switch Monitor off and set the reduction. V2 adds a real-time frequency display.

Tuned posted a demo of the bundle on its YouTube channel:

If you’d rather compare vocal tools first, my vocal enhancer comparison covers 7 options for home studios.

How much Tuned’s Vocal Essentials Bundle V2 costs, and what V1 owners pay

The $9.99 price covers all 4 plugins. Tuned’s product page shows it next to a struck-through $59, and the countdown on that page runs out on November 12.

If you already own the first version, you don’t pay anything. “If you own V1, the V2 update is completely free,” Tuned says.

You can also test the plugins first. Tuned offers a free 14-day trial on its Download Free Trials page.

Some BPB readers already know one of the 4. Bedroom Producers Blog gave away 10,000 free Tuned Reverb licenses in May 2025.

AI plugin builders that turn a text prompt into a VST plugin in 2026

Tuned doesn’t name any company in its campaign. But several tools that build plugins with AI launched in 2026, and I’ve covered 3 of them:

• Suno Studio 2.0 shipped on August 13, 2026, with audio plugins you build from a text description.
• Sonorie turns a plain-language description into a compiled VST3, AU or CLAP plugin you can sell, for $19.99 a month. Here’s my Sonorie launch write-up.
• Google Flow Music has exported AI-built instruments and effects as VST3 and AU plugins since October 6, 2026, on Mac only for now.

Tuned isn’t the first audio developer to speak up. In June 2026, David Ronan of RoEx called out a wave of vibe-coded AI mixing tools, meaning apps built by prompting an AI to write the code.

Bedroom Producers Blog also asked its own readers about AI in music software the same day, and 2,096 of them answered. I broke down the results in my BPB reader poll write-up.

If you want the bundle at $9.99, the clock on Tuned’s page stops on November 12.