Drift Ritual, RVRSE, gFractor: Free Plugins of the Week
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Drift Ritual, RVRSE, gFractor: Free Plugins of the Week · Source: Manu Riga, Samuel Ferraz-Leite, Growl Audio
This week’s collection of free plugins brings you a great-sounding software synth, instant reverse reverb risers, and a powerful spectrum analyzer. Check out Drift Ritual, RVRSE, and gFractor!
Free Plugins of the Week
Manu Riga Drift Ritual: This Free Software Synth Sounds Expensive
Drift Ritual by Manu Riga is a great-sounding software synth released on a name-your-own-price basis. You can download it for free, but we suggest making a donation to support the developer, because this thing is awesome. With a solid synthesis foundation, powerful modulation, and great internal effects, Drift Ritual excels at atmospheric sounds, evolving textures, expressive pads, and cinematic soundscapes.
Drift Ritual offers dual high-quality oscillators based on the PolyBLEP architecture, as well as a sub-oscillator. There’s also audio-rate cross-modulation with a dedicated envelope, which can produce some pretty wild timbres. The sound is then shaped through a multi-mode filter with Body control and analog-style filter lag. The main panel offers quick access to the VCA and VCF envelopes, and there’s a dedicated modulation panel for assigning additional loopable mod envelopes, LFOs, aftertouch, and the mod wheel. You can also quickly set up four macros using a MIDI learn function.
In addition, Drift Ritual offers two built-in effects. Bloom is a harmonic delay based on musical pitch intervals. The Space reverb offers two modes (Sanctum and Halo). Together, these effects help produce a wide spectrum of organic and expressive sounds. The software synth comes with a good selection of factory presets, including pads, leads, basses, plucks, drones, ambient sounds, and more.
Drift Ritual is available for macOS and Windows in VST3 and AU formats.
RVRSE: Turn any Sample into a Reverse Riser
RVRSE by developer Samuel Ferraz-Leite is a free tool that lets you turn any sample (preferably a hit of some sort) into a tempo-synced reverse reverb riser. Great for quickly building interesting transitions in your tracks!
Simply load a drum hit, cymbal, chord, or another one-shot sample, and RVRSE automatically generates a reversed, reverbed sweep that leads into the original hit. What’s more, the riser is also automatically time-stretched to lock into your project tempo. You can adjust the length in beats, reverb amount (Lush), and fade-in. This way, the plugin makes short work of a five- or six-step editing process that can normally take quite a bit of time and experimentation.
But that’s not all. RVRSE also includes a built-in stutter effect for even more exciting transitions and effects. You can control the rate and depth in real time via MIDI to create unique rhythmic patterns on the fly. Very nice!
RVRSE is available for macOS and Windows in VST3 and AU formats.
gFractor: Powerful and Flexible Spectrum Analyzer
There are many free spectrum analyzers, but gFractor by Growl Audio takes it up a notch. If you’re looking for an analyzer that provides helpful visual feedback at any stage of the production workflow and helps pinpoint problems in your mix, this one is worth checking out.
You can switch between mid/side, left/right, and transient/tone analysis and monitor individual components separately, such as the mide or side channels or just the transients. gFractor also lets you visually compare your signal against a sidechain reference, revealing the spectral relationships between the tracks. And you can save peak hold curves for later use as a reference.
What’s more, gFractor also offers a full suite of stereo metering tools, including a goniometer, correlation meter, and even a tool that breaks down the stereo width per octave. An extremely useful free metering tool!
gFractor is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux in VST3, AU, and standalone formats.
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