Wavelet Audio has announced the release of Louisa Arc, a new instrument for Kontakt Player. Louisa Arc Wavelet Audio says Louisa Arc is a cinematic vocal instrument built around expressive vocals, phrases, melismas and sound design. They added the library makes it easy to create everything from natural vocal performances to textures, pulses and atmospheres….
Xilentch releases FREE Xhannel S channel strip plugin
Xilentch has released Xhannel S, a free channel strip plugin and the first dedicated mixing tool in the XM family. Until now, the XM Series has mostly focused on mastering tools. The first Xilentch plugin I tried was XMLimiter last year, and it quickly became one of my go-to limiters for use across mixes and…
Get Ink Vocal, a $50 Kontakt vocal library, FREE on Audio Plugin Deals
Audio Plugin Deals is offering Ink Vocal by Ink Audio as a free download for a limited time. The Kontakt library normally costs $50. I noticed Ink Audio’s website around Black Friday last year, and I was very tempted to buy the complete bundle. The developer has some really unique instruments on the site, including…
Hell Yes Loop Lab releases FREE HYLL Pressure soft clipper plugin
Hell Yes Loop Lab has released HYLL Pressure, a free/pay-what-you-want soft clipper plugin for macOS and Windows. Does the world really need another soft clipper? Probably not. Definitely not, even. Do I need this soft clipper? I don’t. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth a look because, the way I see it, with plugins,…
OTODESK Releases Ambience – Free Open-Source 16-Channel FDN Reverb for Windows
Ambience is an algorithmic reverb VST3 built around a 16-channel Feedback Delay Network, released free and open-source under GPLv3 by OTODESK, the one-person project of developer Makoto Iida. There is no convolution and there are no impulse responses anywhere in the signal path. The hall and studio presets are algorithmic approximations shaped by RT60 curves,…
S1gns Of L1fe Releases Texture Loom – Free Dual-Sample Atmosphere Engine
Texture Loom is a dual-sample atmosphere engine from S1gns Of L1fe, built for turning your own recordings into evolving pads, drones, cinematic beds, and slow-moving ambient material. The concept is straightforward: load two samples, blend between them, shape the result with filtering and modulation, then push everything through a stereo space section. It started life…
UB DSP Releases Vowel Blender – Phonetic Formant Filter With a 2D Vowel Pad and Tempo-Synced Motion Recorder
UB DSP has released Vowel Blender, a formant filter built around a 2D phonetic pad rather than the usual menu of preset vowel shapes. It is the developer’s second plugin, following Grit Blender, and it treats vowel selection as something you play rather than something you dial in. The central control is an XY pad…
Tone2 updates Gladiator to v4.2
Tone2 Audio has released an update for their harmonic-content-morphing synthesizer Gladiator. The update to v4.2 is free for anyone who bought Gladiator 4. Owners of Gladiator 1,2 or 3 can upgrade with a discount. New in Gladiator 4.2 New additive synthesis modes for the ‘UNISON MODE’: ‘Additive partials’ stacks 4 disharmonic ‘organ’ oscillators. You can…