This week's collection of the best free plug-ins includes a versatile modulation tool, a 2-band gate for drum shaping and a modulated filter. Here's Flux Mini, Cymbal Killer and Basic Filters.
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Free The Tone's Motion Loop ML-1L is a fascinating tool with real-time waveform manipulation for short loops that creates some weird, wonderful sounds.
Shakmat has announced two new Eurorack modules: Bard Quartet and Dual Dagger. Bard Quartet is a 4-channel quantizer with a harmony feature. Dual Dagger ist a dual stereo filter.
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The new KMA Audio Machines Cirrus is billed as a Spatial-Temporal Modifier effect - to you and me that's a delay/reverb combo pedal, each with hidden modes and plenty of realtime control options.
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Periphery's Mark Holcomb gets a new signature delay/reverb called the Dark Sun and it has some great features and routing available for modern styles.
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Make Noise release an intense stereo filtering experience in the impossibly named QPAS with 4 filter cores with high, low and band-pass outputs and a new one called Smile pass. Fascinating.
The new Pigtronix Resotron pedal uses the SSM2040 chip found in the classic Prophet 5 and Octave CAT synthesizers and lets you get funky with them.
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Malekko is releasing two interesting new effects pedals, the Downer and Thicken, that offer guitarists something a bit different - maybe that's down to the collaboration with Colin Newman from Wire.
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AI Synthesis have created a tribute to the Korg MS-20 filter in the AI004 OTA Voltage Controlled Filter. It's deliciously cheap as a kit with a full build guide and those nice red knobs.
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A 3 oscillator analogue monosynth with 3 filters, a digitally controlled modulation section, arpeggiator, pattern generator and sequencer. Motas-6 is a powerful analogue synthesizer hand-built in the UK.
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First seen at Superbooth the Black Dual VCF with fabulous 16 band spectral analyser LED strip is now available from Erica Synths. Dark, growly filtering x 2.
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The new Vagabond all-analogue tremolo pedal emulates two popular vintage Fender tremolo circuits in one compact boutique pedal.
JOVE, from System 80, brings the distinct sound of the Roland Jupiter-6 multimode filter to your Eurorack in a superb looking 14hp module.
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sE have announced the X1 S, another 'revision' of their X1 studio condenser microphone; they're even calling it "the new gold standard". Do the initial specs bear this out?
Arriving in the next couple of weeks are these two Pultec-inspired plug-ins from Black Rooster Audio, suitably named the VHL-3C and VEQ-5.
Building on their budget 'Series Black' range, Lauten Audio release two new condenser model microphones for 'budding recordists'.
