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PolyGAS is a very capable granular synth. It's easy to use, it has a good range of preset sounds and wave files, looks fabulous and works a treat. And it's free. That's very useful indeed.
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Soundless is a cool little VST synthesizer with a fierce amount of resonance and loudness. It's the first VSTi from TopSounds and they believe it's going to be the best thing ever!
Audio Damage brings us a new and updated version of the classic additive software synthesizer you've never heard of. Dust off your Apple II and let's get digital with Phosphor 2.
At Summer NAMM 2017, Eventide announced the UltraTap delay plug-in. It comes from the company's H9 Harmonizer multi-effect, complete with the original presets and newly added ones for use in DAWs...
Audified has created a new hardware reverb/saturator and software controller combination – the Synergy R1. It features seven types of reverb algorithms, paired with three analog saturation modes...
Freakshow Industries introduces the Backmask reverse delay plug-in, a scary-sounding thing with an interface as rich in graphics as a tattoo parlor's showroom, and a full license you can legally 'steal'...
Fans of Sonnox's Oxford series of virtual studio gear plug-ins are in for a treat! The plug-in maker introduced a new dynamic equalizer that's soon to arrive in your DAW. The Oxford Dynamic EQ looks slick ...
Everyone looking to add some gruffness to their tracks can benefit from having a multi-band distortion plug-in in their arsenal. Something like Kombinat Tri, with no less than 13 distortion algorithms...
Line 6's Echo Farm 3.0 is finally available on Windows, in 64-bit AAX format. These simulations of delay and echo effects won over many producers back in the day, and are now making a long-awaited return.
With all the excitement of the SE-02 we missed the sneaky release of a vintage digital classic - the Roland D-50 Linear Arithmetic Synthesizer recreated as a plug-in.
Waves released a brand-new creative panning plug-in called Brauer Motion. It was designed and developed together with mixing engineer Michael Brauer, whose repertoire includes artists like Coldplay and John ...
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Don't have enough cash for a Deckard's Dream? We've got you covered with Arminator, a free Yamaha CS-80 virtual instrument with a Vangelis inspired soundbank by Armin Kujashi.
Dopamine simulates the process of magnetic tape noise reduction, which involves dynamically "brightening" the signal - can this new plug-in live up to the marketing hype?
The 4MS Spectral Multiband Resonator is a striking, versatile, deep and enormously playable Eurorack module that Softube have modelled for their Modular plug-in. Let's play!
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Cosmosf FX4 pulls micro events out of delay buffers, spins them in multi-dimensional granular space and builds meso and macro sonic delights - it's a delay plug-in like you've never seen.
The DeEdger is a rather intriguing transient shaper with the purpose of controlling a signal – or an entire mix's – "hardness", of sorts. But what features does this new tool bring to the transient-shaping ...
