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Top 5 best studio and creative effect plug-ins

As 2017 nears its end, it's time to round up Gearnews' top 5 favorite plug-ins for this year. Putting this list together was difficult, for the past 12 months saw so many awesome releases!

Klevgrand Grand Finale: A sleek and (very) dark new finalizer mastering plug-in

Grand Finale is a new audio finalizer processing plug-in. And it's dark. Yet also sleek and functional. But has Klevgrand got the balance right between complex processing and a simplified workflow?

Acustica Audio Crimson plug-in blends analog distortion and compression

Acustica Audio has released an ambitious new compression and distortion plug-in to its Aqua series, saying that Crimson can do both "precise" and "colourful". We take a first look.

Best free plug-ins this week: Organteq Alpha, 2 synths, and Phasis!

This week saw at least four high quality releases that you can have absolutely free! Just say the magic word at the... hey, there's not even a magic word. Just four excellent free plug-ins...

Phasis: a free holiday gift from Native Instruments!

To celebrate the holidays, Native Instruments released a brand new free effect called Phasis. As you may have guessed from the name, this is a phaser plug-in. It borrows its sounds from classic phaser units...

AudioThing Type A: Enhancer plug-in based on 70s-era tape noise reduction

Type A emphasises high frequencies during the recording stage, and at playback time, the signal is attenuated along with the characteristic tape hiss. Worth a throw? We reckon it might.

Best free plug-ins this week: Isol8, Retrox, Ambient Reverb 4

Want to check out some free plug-ins released this week? We have a brand new monitoring tool, a cool little synth rompler, and an interesting reverb to show you. Let's have a look!

Choose from 5 analogue circuits in Shattered Glass Audio’s Inferno plug-in

Inferno is a simulator of five distortion and saturation circuits meant for adding character, color, and warmth to audio. Each circuit is based on an actual hardware unit, its maker says.

Warm up your audio with Overloud’s Sculptube tube distortion and saturation plug-in

Sculptube can be used for "warming up" audio with subtle distortion and coloration, overdriving the input for typical valve distortion, and as an exciter which enhances top frequencies with natural harmonics...

FabFilter releases Pro-L2 True Peak limiter, watch overview video

FabFilter announced that Pro-L2, the next version of its highly regarded limiter plug-in, is coming December 5th, 2017. The company published an overview video, available below, to promote the release...

Trueno: an analogue synth in a USB dongle with a plug-in interface

Trueno takes what's cool about analogue synths and throws away everything except the sound. This USB dongle-sized analogue synth puts all the controls into a plug-in. Good idea?

Best free plug-ins this week: FB-3200 synth and Jamstix 4 free

This week has a humble selection of two great free tools for music producers - a simulation of a Korg synthesizer and a drum plug-in. You probably don't want to miss these, so be sure to give them a go!

sonible unleashes smart:EQ live, an AI partner for live sound pros

smart:EQ live is a new adaptive equalizer plug-in from sonible that's designed for live sound mixing. It employs intelligent algorithms to listen to live audio signals and optimize them in real-time...

CableGuys homes in on half-time slowdowns with the HalfTime plug-in

CableGuys has a new plug-in out - HalfTime. With it, those clever developers are taking on the half-speed effects popular across EDM genres and making a mean creative tool out of them...

W.A. Production hails The King, a multi-band compressor and EQ

W.A. Production released The King, an interesting take on a multi-band compressor. It's the kind of plug-in that simplifies complex processing with an intuitive, clearly laid-out interface...

Best free plug-ins this week by Waves, SampleScience, Flintpope, Audio TK

Up for some freebies? Black Friday got developers in a generous mood, releasing several free plug-ins in addition to all the deals and discounts going on...

SoundSpot Velo: get a modern brickwall limiter for 90% off

SoundSpot just released Velo, a modern brickwall limiter made for loudness maximization without the loss of transient information. And it's available at a hefty 90% off introductory discount...

Infected Mushroom presents Gatekeeper, a do-it-all gate plug-in with a trippy GUI

Developer Polyverse Music and producer duo Infected Mushroom have teamed up for another plug-in. It's called Gatekeeper, a volume modulator designed to pull off tricks like sequenced volume patterns.

Audiority Echoes T7E plug-in: a vintage Italian disc echo for your DAW

Audiority has a brand new analog simulation plug-in out. It's called Echoes T7E and it recreates a vintage disc echo unit from Italy. The gizmo is based on a magnetic spinning drum with record and playback ...

Best free plug-ins this week: Snapshot, U-He Repro 5, Stagecraft Infinity

This week, we are blessed with an useful tool - Snapshot - along with two superb synthesizers. One's the Repro 5 by U-He, the other is Stagecraft Infinity, a thoroughly modern sample-based synth...

Abletunes EQ WISE+ is a parametric EQ with built-in frequency cheat sheets

EQ WISE+ is an 8-band parametric equalizer with an educational purpose - it's got built-in interactive instrument frequency charts to help you with the delicate task of equalization...

Black Rooster Audio VPRE-73: a very affordable Neve 1073 preamp emulation

Black Rooster Audio released a very affordable emulation of the classic Neve 1073 pre-amp. Though it's not a one-on-one clone, the VPRE-73 Silk Edition aims to deliver the same enhancements to the sound...

AIR sets off its Boom drum machine as stand-alone plug-in

features 10 electronic drum kits that pay homage to classics like the 808, 909, 606 and CR78. Each kit has 10 different drum sounds with adjustable pan, volume, tuning, and decay. They can be mixed and ...

Flintpope Palette brings some thick synth pads for free on Windows and Mac

in case you are in the mood to try something new, here's a cool freebie that just popped up - Palette is inspired by paintboxes and has eight coloured rectangles that trigger samples.