Need a break from Christmas shopping? How about some free plug-ins? Here's a mysterious EQ, a cassette tape emulation and an additive synth: Blindfold EQ, Tape Cassette and IterativeSinCluster!
Harrison Consoles has released the AVA Spectral Compressor. The plug-in allows you to apply compression selectively across 18 frequency bands, giving you precise control.
Freeware Sunday has arrived, featuring a new sampled gem by SampleScience, a quirky sawtooth and noise synth and a simple, but useful tap delay. Check out Oberom, SyncSawSynth and RhythmDelayFree.
This week's free plug-ins let you delve into the vintage glory of the Ensoniq SQ80, create smooth delays with SevenDelay and get experimental with the KLANG series from Cinematique Instruments.
Need an inexpensive MIDI interface for your mobile device or computer? MeeBlip has just released the cubit go, a combined USB MIDI interface and 4-port splitter / thru box.
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In this week's roundup of the best free plug-ins for your DAW, we have a virtual analog synth, an enhancer, and an "intensenator". Check out ANA-1000, Reviber, and Dyno!
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Bitwig Studio 3 is officially out! The newest version of the DAW is now here, featuring "The Grid", a fully modular sound design environment. The update also comes with several workflow improvements.
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The Raspberry Pi miniature computer is more powerful than ever in its fourth generation. Could it become an option as a DAW computer for music applications in the near future?
It's here! Bitwig has made Studio 3 available as a public beta. We'll have to wait a bit longer for the final release, but the beta already lets you play with the massive modular The Grid environment.
Leading additions in version10 include the Actions Panel meant for faster work, flexible track grouping, and track editor window. Furthermore, Waveform 10 ships with no less than 62 plug-ins.
u-he's spring reverb is an upgraded standalone version of the reverb unit from Bazille, one of the developer's best-known synthesizers. It uses physical modelling instead of convolution.
The latest update for the Percussa SSP Quad-Core ARM DSP processing module for Eurorack introduces the running of Linux compiled VST instruments and effects - golly!
Featuring an extremely minimalistic, distraction-free user interface, this EQ offers true analogue phase behaviour up to 20kHz and very broad Q factors (<0.1) for final wideband tone sculpting.
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A major update, version 9 includes enough additions to justify the upgrade for many users. Tracktion's goal with Waveform 9 isn't being the next Pro Tools, but rather to "empower" musicians.
Captured within the tower of the cold war Field Station Berlin at Teufelsberg, these reverb impulses sound nothing like a giant penis
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It looks like Tracktion T7 is evolving into a new DAW called Waveform - it has a mixer and everything and will run on a Raspberry Pi 3 as well as Windows and MacOS.
