Analogue Samples

Build a sound inpired by the pumping harmonic drone from LCD Soundsystem’s Someone Great with u-he’s Diva, then put it to work across several genres. If you’ve followed some of the recent Synth Secrets you’ll know that we love versatile patches. In other words, sounds that – with just minimal tweaks to the envelope or…

Leit Audio has released UnClip, a free automatic restoration plugin designed to repair short peaks damaged by hard digital clipping. Hard clipping flattens the top or bottom of a waveform. Turning the file down afterward only reduces its level — the flattened waveform and the distortion it created remain. UnClip detects those clipped areas and…

SillyDevices has announced that Digitron Synthesizer is now available on iOS, bringing the mobile virtual analog and modular synthesizer to iPhone and iPad for the first time. The app has already reached more than 80,000 downloads on Android. Digitron combines a virtual analog synthesizer, modular-style patching and an 8-track sequencer inspired by the hands-on workflow…

AudioPrism 2.0 for Windows is now on the KVR Marketplace: a stem separation and MIDI export app with a built-in piano teacher. AudioPrism splits any song you own into vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano and other stems using Demucs, running entirely offline on your own NVIDIA GPU. Drop in a local file or paste a…

Apollo View has updated DeltaScope, an audio analyser and signal-comparison plugin, to v1.2. Waveform inspection, spectrum analysis, metering and phase correlation share one window, with tools for comparing two signals in time, frequency and phase. Its Delta mode shows and lets you hear the difference between signals, so the effect of a processor can be…

fBox Audio has released fBox, a complete virtual analogue studio for Windows. The suite comprises fBox Console, fBox Rack, nine multi-mode processing plug-ins and fMeter, a free metering suite, and is also available in six bundles. fBox Audio is the one-person company of flakebelly, a musician and producer based in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland….

OVNI Audio has released two free and open-source plug-ins: Orbit, a binaural movement plug-in for macOS and Windows, and Supernova 0.4.0, an audio-reactive visual synth for macOS. Orbit Orbit places a sound anywhere around the listener’s head and moves it: an orbit, a fixed position, or a fly-by with real Doppler. It is a variable-position…

Pinzu has released SORYNO Clip, a free clipper VST3 plug-in for Windows. SORYNO CLIP is built around showing what it takes away: The waveform view draws the output over the input, so the colour sticking out is the part that was removed. The ceiling line moves down as DRIVE is raised, so the amount being…