Bjango has released Robot Vowels, a formant filter plugin with built-in distortion for macOS and Windows. We are taking a closer look at the plugin and giving away five FREE copies to BPB readers. Formant filters, sometimes called vowel filters, shape the frequency response of a sound to resemble vocal sounds like “ah,” “ee,” or…
Samplicity has released ScoreStage, an algorithmic positioning reverb for placing instruments inside a shared acoustic space. ScoreStage is designed for composers, producers and mixers working with orchestral, cinematic and acoustic productions. Instead of only adding a reverb tail, it combines source positioning, early reflection modelling and multiple microphone perspectives to help create a sense of…
Piruz Labs has released Talk Moonshine!, a cinematic harmony, space and motion effect plugin. Talk Moonshine! is built around seven interactive Moonspace spheres you drag through a lunar field, so you shape harmony, doubling, shimmer and motion by hand instead of guessing at sliders. It pairs an intelligent, key-quantised harmony engine with dual-voice doubling, shimmer…
KERN Audio has released a free update that adds an opt-in Live Mode to three of its spectral plugins and ships maintenance fixes to two others. The update is available now, with builds on Lemon Squeezy and deployed to kernaudio.io. Live Mode is a low-latency option for Smooth (v1.4.0), Warm (v1.5.0) and Push (v1.1.0). It…
I use Kontakt, so I’m not going to pretend it suddenly became useless. The full version of Native Instruments Kontakt is still the sampler format that many commercial library developers build for. Kontakt Player, the free version, is also worth having if you want to use officially licensed libraries from developers like Heavyocity, ProjectSAM, Sonokinetic,…
Artists in DSP have officially launched the world’s first plugin remix contest with Amorph. We’ve covered Amorph a few times now, from the initial open-beta release to the latest update; this time, we have something a little bit different to share. Artists in DSP have launched the world’s first plugin remix contest. At the heart…
Excite Audio has released Evolve Nest Acoustics, a new sample-based instrument created in collaboration with sound designer and music maker Nest Acoustics. BPB readers can get Evolve Nest Acoustics Lite for $1 at Plugin Boutique using the coupon code “tj1nm34q“. We are also running a giveaway for the full Excite Audio Bundle, worth £718 and…
Stereoid Light is the little brother of Stereoid, ANWIDA Soft’s premium stereo enhancer plugin – and it is free for a limited time. Although Stereoid Light is a streamlined plugin, it’s built on the same core principles as the premium version. It uses a subtle decorrelation algorithm, a microtonal detuner, and a calibrated delay to…
