This week’s collection of the best free plug-ins has a little bit of everything: A stereo compressor, a useful stereo goniometer and an open-source fuzz. Here’s jParaComp, GON and Fuzz Ball.
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Lightning Boy Audio drops its TI Box Direct Input box aiming to give you a "thicker" sounding DI box with rich harmonics and high output. Is the TI Box worth getting excited about?
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The new MG-300 Modelling Guitar Processor from NUX is packed with an insane amount of features, and could give other budget multi-FX units a run for their money.
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Foxgear just introduced two new pedals, the multi-effects modulation XYZ Waves pedal and the Jeenie guitar interface. Both units maintain a 100% analogue signal path.
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The brand new LIBRA IR mixer is the world's first to allow guitarists to blend up to eight simultaneous Impulse Responses at once using its Cartesian Mixer front end!
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The new Dark Arts analogue phaser pedal is made in the UK and features sixteen different waveforms, tap-tempo and other useful functions, making it a bit of a modulation beast!
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The world's first Random Fluctuating Phase Modulation Function? Maybe, but either way the new Free The Tone FF-1Y Delay sounds luscious and ethereal, as it undulates and modulates the delay.
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Trident is a Multi-Synchronic Oscillator Ensemble which invites three oscillators to play with each other in synchronous, symmetrical and zing modulated ways. Updated with video!
fourMatice CONTOURS is a versatile four envelope phase generator that can create interesting curves and low-frequency oscillations that go on for hours.
Future Sound Systems bring their particular blend of dirt and phase modulation to a remarkably good value synthesizer kit. Brunswick will bring the beef if you bring the soldering iron.
Without the dramatic discontinuation of the original module, Mutable Instruments have quietly upgraded and replaced their Tides: Tidal Modulator with the Tides: Tidal Modulator.
Dealing with phase or time alignment issues? Check out Forward Audio's slick and comprehensive new tool called faTimeAlign which has a lot to offer but is also reasonably priced.
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We first saw the Quad LFO at NAMM but didn't realise that you could record 16 steps of parameter automation. You can also distort the waveforms, change the phase and attenuate the output. It's full of ...
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Filter 8 offers 8 outputs at 45-degree phase shifts, push the resonance up to 4 octaves of self-oscillation with 1volt/oct tracking or LFO modulating. Plus the Select 2 CV Processor and Add 2 and Link 2 CV ...
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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Whatever you put into the ADE-33 Event Boss will come out in patterns, rhythms and unexpected variations. It deals in variables, multiples, probables, logic, phase, gates and triggers and wants to be in charge.
