This week, our list of the best free plug-ins starts off with a cool 3-oscillator synth. There's also been a new Spitfire LABS release (yay!). Check out Brutal 2, London Atmos and Rough Rider 2.
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Madrona Labs has released Aaltoverb. The reverb plug-in has a very simple GUI that may not look like much at first glance, but it has a very cool trick up its sleeve.
This week’s lineup of free plug-ins: A graphic EQ, a tasty lo-fi piano, and an awesome electromagnetic interference instrument. Check out Efektor, Room Piano V2, and Cyclotronic Signals - Aurora.
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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.
Need an experimental sound-shaping tool for your next project? Take a look at Instinct, a creative processor that bridges the gap between saturation and dynamics processing in interesting ways.
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Cosmosf Saturn 7 suggests that you rethink how you interact with sound and embrace the potential of shrinking and expanding sonic spaces on multiple time scales.
Upgraded to version 2, Noize adds new parameters designed to let you more flavours of dirt to instruments and sounds, and even includes a pack of atmospheric samples recorded in Berlin.
K-Devices has two new plug-ins out that share the same development DNA: WOV is an amplitude modulator, TTAP is a creative delay. Plenty of creative potential here, we think...
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Craft your own plane, train, rocket, bike, alien, chopper and automobile engine sounds with Igniter, a fascinating granular sampling and synthesizer sound design machine.
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Part modular synth, part sound design playground, Alpha Forever is among the strangest and most intriguing (if poorly accessible) bits of kit we've come across recently.
Some of the creative possibilities offered by Texture incude “glueing” your hi-hats transients by adding dynamic filtered noise and beefing up a kick drum with a low sine wave.
With convolution processing, Transformer is able to load samples, microphone and virtual instrument inputs; and morph them into sounds unexpected and unknown. It adds new sound layers to existing audio this ...
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Gothic Instruments have bundled together 8 of their most atmospheric DRONAR instruments into a singular, improved and yet familiar interface so you can go to town on creating the most awesome of sonic ...
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Norns is a minimalist metal box harbouring the power of processes to evolve and morph into anything you can write a script for. Monome's slow reveal is an enticing look into the mind of a synthesis developer.
Envy is designed for thorough envelope modulation, enabling interesting possibilities like transplanting the volume and pitch characteristics of a sound onto a completely different one.
Krotos' upcoming tool looks interesting and capable. It's focused on weapon sounds, with a library of SFX organized by gun type and firing mode. The sounds can be edited in great detail!
