CHOW Tape Model – The Best FREE Tape Saturation Plugin?

Jatin Chowdhury has released CHOW Tape Model, a freeware reel-to-reel tape emulation effect in VST, VST3, and AU plugin formats for compatible digital audio workstation software on PC and Mac. CHOW Tape Model isn’t exactly a new plugin (it was released on GitHub back in 2019), but I had only discovered it a few days…

NI Launches “Community Drive” Charity Sound Pack to Raise Money for COVID-19 Relief   

Richard Devine, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Laurel Halo have joined a team of contributors who collaborated on Native Instruments free sample pack ‘Community Drive’ with the German company simultaneously committing €100,000 to seven charity partners benefitting musicians worldwide. Created as a collaboration with the artist community, “Community Drive” is both a means of raising funds…

We Sound Effects Bundle 2020 Contains 25+ GB Of Free SFX

We Sound Effects has released We Sound Effects Bundle 2020, a free sound collection that includes over 20 GB of royalty-free sound effects. We Sound Effects have joined in on the spirit of giving with quite the sizable offering of sounds to add to your collection. These include a wide variety of use cases and…

Synthesizing A Clap With White Noise

In this tutorial, we show you how to create your own bespoke clap using white noise and analogue synthesis. The struggle is real. Trawling through thousands of percussion samples looking for the perfect one for your track can be a real creativity killer. However, it’s fairly easy to craft your own percussion using analogue synthesis….