The Helium Quad Evolving Synthesizer Rack Extension fuses synthesized waveforms with real instrument waveforms to crossbreed hybrid alien/human sounds controlled by a very dark interface.
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The Sweeper by denise.io is a very cool envelope filter plug-in with a sidechain input. The filter reacts dynamically to the source signal or a sidechain signal for many creative filtering effects.
It's time for this week's selection of the finest free plug-ins! Check out Time Tracker, GT Analyser, and some great free Ambient Electronic Drum Machine Sounds.
SketchCassette is a charming lo-fi plug-in with a sloppily sketched user interface. It emulates a 4-track cassette recorder with considerable depth, despite its casual-looking GUI.
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Audified has released ToneSpot Drum Express, a simplified version of the ToneSpot Drum Pro plug-in. If you're looking for smashing drums but don't feel like twiddling knobs, here you go.
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This weeks selection of free plug-ins is all about synths: A semi-modular vintage synth and pattern sequencer, a drum synth and an awesome Roland Jupiter emulation for NI Reaktor.
Designed primarily for the purposes of mastering, Coral2 includes aptly colored recreations of an equalizer, compressor, eliptical filter, preamp and an M/S Baxandall-type EQ.
DSM's developers (including Paul Frindle of SSL E/G console fame) claim its dynamic spectrum mapping technology produces more authentic-sounding results than convential EQ matching.
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Waves has released Abbey Road Studio 3. It's an immersive audio plug-in that makes you feel like you're sitting in the control room of one of the world's most famous studios, Waves says.
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Brainworx / Plugin Alliance has released the Purple Audio MC77 plug-in. It's an evolution of the legendary 1176 limiting amplifier with extended functionality, now available in the DAW of your choice.
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Plugin Alliance is releasing the Brainworx Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor as a native plug-in. Now you can enjoy the fabled 8000 dollar compressor natively in your DAW, without UAD hardware.
Valves is a vintage valve emulation plug-in that also employs a multimode resonant filter and a cabinet/EQ section. Its intuitive interface is arranged in a configuration of four independent modules.
NeuralDSP released a processor dedicated to crafting a sick bass guitar tone. It's called Parallax and incorporates bass augmentation and mixing techniques into a flexible multi-band processor.
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Nembrini Audio has released the Delay3000 Vintage Modern Repeater plug-in. It draws inspiration from the classic Roland SDE-3000 digital delay of the 80's and adds many modern features.
Got enough FET compressor plug-ins yet? Here's another promising contender: Black Rooster Audio has released the VLA-FET, giving you another option for 1176-style FET compression.
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Momo does it again with another superb software editor, this time for the Korg Prologue polyphonic synthesizer available as a VST plug-in or standalone.
