Initial Audio Dynamic Delay is a stereo delay with an integrated ducker. This means that you no longer need an external compressor to accomplish the popular delay ducking effect. Sounds like a winner!
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Dove Audio has found a bunch of old Korg NJM2069 VCF/VCA chips and fashioned them into a new 5U Moog module. The chip was used in synths like the Poly800, DW8000 and DSS1.
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Modelled after the classic Sennheiser VSM-201 vocoder as used by Kraftwerk, Herbie Hancock, Boney M and Battlestar Galactica the XILS X-201 brings that immediately recognisable sound back to life.
This week's roundup of the best free plug-ins brings us a filter with lots of rhythmic glitching and a FET-based saturator. Also, the wonderful Valhalla Space Modulator is now free for everyone!
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The Typhon is a quirky combination of analog synthesis, sequencing and digital effects in a very cool collaboration between Dreadbox and Sinevibes.
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Iridium features all the synthesis elements of the Quantum synthesizer in a solid metal desktop format with more polyphony but without the analog filters, keyboard and premium price tag.
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Love the sound of vintage samplers and lo-fi digital effects? Check out 8Bitm8 by Midierror. The hardware bit crusher turns any signal into a digital pile of rubble. It even has an arcade button!
Mutable Instruments has quietly given the Ripples filter and Shades mixer/attenuverter an upgrade and a spruced up look to bring them more in keeping with the current line-up.
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RetroVOLT is a virtual instrument that combines a rompler sound engine with a synthesizer architecture for some magnificently 80's synth-pop sounds.
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From SynthFest France 2020 we have The Töörö 6-voice, 4-part digital/analogue polyphonic synthesizer that's colourfully industrial, capable of complex sounds and houses a fabulous analogue filter.
Conjured Circuits has licensed the System80 Jove filter and brought it to the Moog Modular (MU) format so that big modular enthusiasts can enjoy that creamy Roland Jupiter-6 sound.
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Taking some pointers from the shape of their Poly D Behringer reveals their take on the classic Korg MonoPoly 4-note polyphonic and paraphonically articulated synthesizer and it looks great.
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First shown at Superbooth last year the Wing Pinger is a unique synthesizer that uses self-resonating filters as oscillators and offers an adventure in sound discovery. It's evolved and ready to go.
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SP950 by waveTracing is a unique effect plug-in that recreates the sound of the E-mu SP-1200, specifically the detuning technique associated with it. And they've added an AKAI S950 Butterworth filter!
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Acustica Audio has released Purple 3. The latest version of the Pultec-themed plug-in suite comes with the addition of Purple3-HLF, a new passive high and low pass filter.
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SuperCritical announces a digitally controlled stereo analogue filter that can select the characteristics of vintage filters with more to come.
