Flame Sound has released VATRA, a mix finisher and loudness enhancer plugin for Windows and macOS. The intro price of $39 is available until August 16. As many of you already know, Flame Sound is my cinematic sound label. VATRA comes after almost two years of development, with countless iterations in the meantime. I’ll write…
Greer Studios Presents has released Signature Delay, a free delay plugin and standalone app for Windows. We have covered a couple of interesting free delay plugins on BPB lately, including FRCTL Audio DLAY Lite and Trebless Tesseract Echo, so there’s definitely no shortage of freeware delays. Signature Delay is a relatively simpler one (although it…
Flame Sound released Vatra, a mixing and mastering effect plugin for macOS and Windows in VST3 and Audio Unit formats. Vatra increases perceived loudness and shapes tone through harmonic generation, saturation, and transient shaping instead of compression or limiting. The internal processing does not clamp peaks, so the dynamics of the source material stay largely…
Native Instruments has updated Kontakt to v8.12.0. Overall Changes Added: Phase 1 of the Default View Instrument Header overhaul. Specific controls (such as MIDI Input, Audio Output, and Purge) are slated for Phase 2 in versions 8.13/8.14; these functions continue to be accessible via the Classic View Instrument Header. Improved visual clarity between Instrument Header…
Remo De Vico has released LOOM, a free browser instrument for extreme time stretching, textures, pads, and drones. Time stretching is a lot of fun. I use it for cinematic sound design all the time, mainly for turning everyday sounds into otherworldly textures and ambient drones. LOOM makes that process even more fun by adding…
Acon Digital has released Multiply 2, a major update to its free chorus effect plugin for macOS and Windows. Acon Digital shipped the update earlier today, and I checked it out right away. Multiply has long been one of my favorite free chorus plugins, and this new version is even better than before. If you…
With so many kick drum samples available, it’s easy to overlook the benefits of programming your own. It only takes seconds. Kick drums, eh? You can’t live with ‘em, but you can’t live without programming ‘em. Except, of course, you can – there are bloody millions of kick samples to choose from! So why bother…
Big Man Labs has released version 1.1.0 of Big Listen, its reference monitoring and A/B comparison plugin, adding a built in reference browser and a number of metering and playback refinements. The headline addition is the browser. Users can point Big Listen at any number of folders containing their music, and the plugin maintains a…
