Lyre is the latest addition to the Crow Hill Company’s increasingly impressive Vaults series. If you’re new around here, Vaults is a collection of outstanding (sometimes weird and wonderful) instruments, free to download for six months upon their release. Six months after release, instruments move into the paid category and are available for £3, with all…
Jesus Oyola releases Medallo Doubler, a FREE four-voice vocal stacker
Jesus Oyola has released Medallo Doubler, a free vocal doubler and stacker available through Patreon. I’ve used various vocal doubling plugins in the past, and I’ve never been 100% happy with the outcome. Most of them either create only two stacked voices or leave little room for adjustment. My first impressions of Medallo Doubler are…
Dark Fairytale Instruments releases PIXIE, a FREE toy piano plugin
Dark Fairytale Instruments has released PIXIE, a free sample-based toy piano plugin for macOS and Windows. With a simple instrument like this, I always wonder whether it needs to be a plugin. PIXIE could have been a regular sample library, but then you would need to load it into a separate sampler, and if it’s…
VATRA 1.1 update adds Ignite modes, Peak Match, AAX support ($49 intro price)
VATRA, the mix finisher plugin I released three weeks ago, just received its first major update. VATRA 1.1 is free for all existing users and available now. The biggest addition is three Ignite modes: CLEAN, COLOR, and MAX. CLEAN is the transparent default and the mode I recommend for finished mixes and mastering. COLOR adds…
Cloudy Samples Samplea sampler plugin is FREE for a limited time
Audio Plugin Deals is offering Samplea, a lightweight sampler instrument from Cloudy Samples, as a free download during a limited two-week promotion. First, a quick warning: the Audio Plugin Deals page incorrectly describes Samplea as a WAV collection. It is actually a 64-bit VST3/AU sampler, not a sound library. I completed the checkout at Audio…
Telepathic Instruments Orchid ORC-1 Review
Judged as hardware engineering, the Telepathic Instruments Orchid is merely good. Judged as a songwriting tool, it’s excellent, and it would be genuinely outstanding if the next revision spent its effort on removing walls rather than adding rooms… The post Telepathic Instruments Orchid ORC-1 Review appeared first on FutureMusic the latest news on future music…
Patchpool releases Sousaphone & Friends for UVI Falcon
Patchpool has released Sousaphone & Friends for UVI Falcon. Sousaphone & Friends from the patchpool Falcon Singles-series contains 180+ sousaphone and dozens of trombone samples, originally recorded for the HALion library Sonic Cinema, electronic derivatives thereof created exclusively for this library plus other brass samples from the vast pool of samples from various patchpool libraries….
Remi Blaze releases Bouncit – Free BPM-Synced Stereo Delay for macOS
Remi Blaze has released Bouncit, a free BPM-synced stereo delay for macOS (AU / VST3, Apple Silicon native). Bouncit is part of a growing collection of free tools built by a house and tech-house producer and DJ with a catalogue of 170+ original tracks across 35+ labels. Delay is the effect that most often fights…