This week's collection of the best free plug-ins features four free effects, an emulation of the Synsonics drum synth and a kick drum enhancer. Here's SuperflyDSP, Synsonics-V and Essentials Kick.
Parallel Aggressor does the old parallel processing trick justice with heavy-handed compression and saturation algorithms on top of some sweet options!
HoRNet MasterTool is a mastering plug-in that "makes your tracks sound good with no effort". Has HoRNet Plugins finally found the magic formula for mastering?
Applying the method of Upward Maximizing in place of peak limiting, UrsaDSP Boost brings up the quiet parts rather than squashing the loud ones. An appealing new approach to maximizing audio?
A refreshing new approach to reverb? Due August 10, smart: reverb is a source-adaptive reverb plug-in that works by generating harmonics off the audio it processes.
Acustica Audio has updated its George Massenburg gear-modeling Green suite to version 4, totaling 3 parametric EQs and a versatile limiter/compressor.
Commemorating 20 successful years in the music tech industry, Arturia has released the Sound Explorers Collection - 250GB of instruments, effects and sounds!
The Guqin is often known as "the instrument of the sages" and here Sound Magic has based their modelling on a design dating from the Tang Dynasty 1200 years ago. It sounds magnificent.
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2020 has been a good year for reverb plug-ins so far with many interesting new releases. Here's our list of the best new reverb plug-ins that came out in the last few months.
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Tritik Irid is a new reverb plug-in with three pitch shifters for shimmering soundscapes and rich harmonic ambiences. Will it give Valhalla Shimmer a run for its money?
"Ghostly VHS tones, softly degraded keys, hypnagogic sound beds and wobbly synth leads" packaged into a convenient rompler with LFO, filters and envelopes! What's not to like?
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AKAI has introduced MPC Beats, a new beat making DAW that's completely free. The included samples and loops and the famed MPC workflow will have you making beats in no time.
This week, check out a free tape simulation plug-in that began as a class project! We've also got distortion and a colourful 4-channel oscilloscope. Here's CHOW Tape Model, 2B Clipped and Psyscope.
The emperor's new clothes: W.A. Production has released The King 2. The multiband compressor plug-in has been refreshed with a new GUI, new preset browser and other improvements.
IK Multimedia's latest plug-in, the Space Delay, attempts to faithfully recreate the Roland RE-201 Space Echo, that legendary tape-based delay unit from the mid-70's.
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2getheraudio Space Duck is a new delay and reverb plug-in with integrated ducking. It also offers many extras for creative sound design, including a bit crusher, format filter and more.
