We’re inundated with hardware releases all the time and yet how much of it is actually shaping new music? Attack writer Adam Douglas charts the decline of hardware as a driving force of change in music. Listen to a dance record from the late ‘80s or early ‘90s. If it’s Chicago house, you’ll likely hear…
Spectral Plugins has announced that the Pancz multiband transient shaper plugin, developed in collaboration with and previously sold by Oversampled, is now available from spectral-plugins.com…. Read More Read the full story
Cool WAV has announced the release of Simple Console, a free VST3 plugin for Windows. Simple Console has some of the features found in an analog console. This plugin can be… Read More Read the full story
Luftrum has announced the release of Xenon, which consists of 150 presets for u-he Diva inspired by modern electronic scores with an eastern influence from cinema and video games. … Read More Read the full story
IK Multimedia offers the AmpliTube Nu-Tron III guitar pedal plugin as a FREE download for a limited time only. What’s going on at IK Multimedia’s headquarters? First, they unleashed the epic T-RackS Comprexxor freebie deal (that’s a $129 compressor you can get for FREE). Now, they offer one of the coolest modulation pedals for free…
Sonixinema offers Superball FREEBIE, a percussion sample library for Kontakt. There is a paid version of Superball, but to save writing FREEBIE all over this article, I’ll stick to Superball for the free version unless I reference the paid version specifically. Superball isn’t a typical percussion sample library; it focuses on evolving and sometimes chilling…
Ronan Fed offers PNEUMA, a FREE subtractive polyphonic synth for Windows. As far as freebies go, this one looks pretty stacked with features, and I can appreciate the work that goes into putting something like PNEUMA together. The well-presented GUI doesn’t look too dissimilar from many paid poly synth plugins; it’s probably even better than…
Slowslicing releases Uzumaki, a freeware FM/phase distortion plugin for Windows. If you’ve ever been looking for an easy way to modulate any audio together, Uzumaki could be the answer. Uzumaki is a bit of a quirky plugin in both design and function. The developer, Slowslicing, suggests that Uzumaki could be the only plugin of its…