The best 5 free compressor plug-ins! Grab yourself some excellent compression tools to sweeten up your mix - and these are all available for free, right now!
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Need to fatten up your drum tracks? Audified ToneSpot Drum Pro is a new plug-in that has you covered with saturation, compression, EQ, and other effects designed to deliver some serious punch.
Have you ever wanted a Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble, but smaller? Well, Mr Black's new Mini Vintage Chorus has what you need and at a fraction of the cost of an original vintage unit!
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Ever wanted those classic '90s studio pitch shifting algorithms favoured by players like Steve Vai? Check out the new Meris Hedra, a powerful pedal with a rack of tricks up its sleeve.
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The updated Drone Tone MK III from Mattoverse Electronics lets guitarists add a synth drone to their guitar sound from this compact, easy-to-use pedal, which now has a tap tempo control.
Doepfer expands its Slim Line Series of Eurorack modules with all the bits you need to build a working synthesizer in around 30hp. There's also a full synth voice in only 10hp. Great stuff!
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The X-PAN gives you 2 channels of voltage controlled crossfading and panning of 2 signals each plus a 3rd auxiliary mono or stereo input which is a lot of seriously pan happy audio in your Eurorack.
Your last mix sound sounds great. Kinda. Lots of signals sound good individually but don't coalesce into the mix you'd hoped for. "Glue" compression can make a huge difference - here's how.
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We found the demo sounds for the new Slö Multi Texture Reverb hugely inspiring, with dreamy, swirling ambiences that might be best suited for prog or experimental players. Worth checking out.
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MISO is one of those modules that you don't know you need but very quickly becomes useful in any situation. Perfect for deliberate or accidental sound sculpting.
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PROCESS.AUDIO's Sugar is supposed to add that certain something to your mixes, and its maker boldly claims that their first product is a “secret weapon to hit the sweet spot on every mix”.
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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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Part of Source Audio's new C4 Synth series the Spectrum Intelligent Filter is purple, well funky and can give you synth sounds, envelope filtering, octave and harmonizer effects.
What the heck is a Mini Horse? Well apparently it's a rather nifty touch activated voltage controller and combined with the Control Voltage Processor Verbos are bringing a lot of CV to your Eurorack.
The Rêver is back for 2019 and you will soon be able to pick one up again. This pedal is a collaboration between Old Blood Noise Endeavors and Datachoir. So expect strange glitchy and ambient washes.
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The new Lunastone Dynamic Delay pedal is the company's very first digital pedal and takes some of the ideas first used in classic '80s studio rack samplers like the TC-2290.
