AOFN Audio has released Grizzly, a free stereo modulation plugin for macOS and Windows. Grizzly is modeled on the 1979 Gristleizer circuit, the strange little LFO-driven pedal that Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle famously used on drum machines, tapes, synths, and plenty of other sources. Developer Marcel describes Grizzly as his software interpretation of that…
Ambient music is easy to make badly and brutally hard to make well, which is why most instruments aimed at the genre end up as reverb vomitoriums. The Sonicware Ambient Ø is a $279 plastic box that actually understands the assignment: four independently sequenced layers, an engine built specifically to keep tones from ever settling,…
The public beta of the free KVR Studio Manager application for macOS and Windows has been updated to v0.4.0.3. You can download directly from www.kvraudio.com/kvr-studio-manager or if you launch KSM it’ll offer the download automatically. Changes in KSM v0.4.0.3 (Public Beta): AAX scan log now more verbose. Fixed version number detection for Roland AAX plugins….
SonicModeler has announced the release of Syntropy 2.0, a major update to its formula-driven synthesizer and sound-design instrument for Windows and macOS. Syntropy 2.0 introduces a faster and more intuitive workflow, improved performance, expanded sound-design capabilities, and a completely redesigned user interface. New in Syntropy 2.0: Up to 16 directly controllable synthesis parameters per preset….
Aide Audio has released GE-1 Gravity Engine, an effect plugin built for bass and low-frequency instruments that pairs a one-knob tilt EQ with automatic kick-triggered spectral ducking. How It Works Press LEARN and play a short bass phrase the way you actually play it. GE-1 analyses the signal in real time, finds the pivot frequency…
AOFN Audio has released Grizzly, a free stereo modulation effect for macOS and Windows modelled on the infamous Gristleizer circuit. Grizzly includes an internal LFO that drives a modelled JFET stage in two modes: VCA: controls the amplitude of the signal (tremolo, gating, rhythmic chopping, ringmod-adjacent tones above 20 Hz). VCF: sweeps a lowpass filter…
MathAudio has announced the release of Latency Meter, a free VST/AU/CLAP plug-in for Windows and macOS. Features: Measures Round-Trip Latency (RTL) of sound cards and audio interfaces. Uses a correlation-based measurement method that is unaffected by DAC and ADC transients. Provides measurement accuracy of 0.01 ms. Measures RTL in the range from 0 to 1300…
Sonic Republic has released Pluginize!, a native macOS plugin manager for producers with large and messy plugin folders. I’m pretty sure that most of us who have been collecting plugins for years know the problem. The DAW takes longer to scan, some plugins break, and eventually, you spend more time looking for the right tool…