It’s time to look back at the best freeware plug-ins of the year! We’ve gone through all of our Sunday freeware posts and hand-picked ten effects and synths that stood out from the rest.
This week's roundup of the best free plug-ins features a tape delay, a spring reverb and a tilting equalizer. Here's Varispeed, sTiltv2 and Devil Spring Reverb.
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Mile End Effects’ new mthrfckr=rptr pedal emulates old tape delays, adding in a tape preamp to help mangle your ideas in wonderful new ways.
Echo Cat recreates the venerable Copicat tape delay unit from 1958, promising an authentic sound, a polished GUI, and many modern improvements galore.
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Grab your shades, light a cigarette and shmooze your way into an authentic Elka Panther organ and Kee Bass string simulator while tripping through the Scanner Vibrato and Lem Echo - nice.
Lem Echo Music recreates the sound of three playheads onto a single strip of tape, complete with the wow, flutter and audio degradation you'd expect from an old tape machine.
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Arturia has released 3 Delay's You'll Actually Use. After 3 Preamps, 3 Filters, and 3 Compressors, you can now add three Arturia delays to your DAW, including two emulations of analog classics.
Images of what seems to be Arturia's "3 Delays You'll Actually Use" were leaked online for a short time. Are they about to release emulations of the Roland Space Echo and EHX Deluxe Memory Man?
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Creative Intent has released Remnant, a grain and tape delay plug-in for intricate experimental soundscapes. With a tape delay and two grain delay lines, it manipulates audio in many creative ways.
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Audiority has released PlexiTape, an emulation of the Echoplex EP-3 tape delay. The plug-in models every aspect of the original, adding some modern features like a stereo delay line, and tempo sync.
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Blackstar has just announced a Def Leppard Hysteria edition of their 3-watt Fly 3 mini amp featuring has the album's artwork and sporting the band's logo, too. Let's get rocked!
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ValhallaDSP has released ValhallaDelay, its long-awaited delay plug-in with seven delay modes, five styles and many ways to shape the sound. Just don't expect a glossy photo-realistic GUI.
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Pulsar has released the Echorec plug-in. It's an emulation of the classic Binson Echorec analog delay from the 60s, that adds some modern features like stereo detuning, tempo sync and an off mode.
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The NUX Mighty BT20 has four channels, each with four sound presets available, potentially making this a versatile little practice amp. An app controls the onboard tones via Bluetooth.
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Bastl digitise the tape delay and let you play in the space between "Thyme" based effects (see what they did there?)
