Full Bucket Music releases Bucket ONE, a FREE 80s-inspired synth plugin for macOS and Windows. Bucket ONE emulates the sound of the Crumar BIT 01/99 synths from the mid-80s. It is the latest candidate for our free retro synthesizers article. These Crumar synths are pretty desirable today, but for one reason or another, they didn’t…
Omnes Sonos releases Piano Forte, a free (open-source) virtual piano instrument in VST3 plugin format for Windows. You’ll inevitably gather an abundance of pianos, compressors, and equalizers when you get deep into music production. After all, these are the bread-and-butter tools for playing and producing music. Usually, virtual pianos are sample-based instruments, but a collective known…
In this Synth Secrets, we’re remaking Clock by Plaid using Hive 2. The key is in the LFO rates, using one LFO to control another. Enjoy! Plaid has been bending our minds since 1991 with their genre-hopping sound tapestries that so often leaving us asking “How did they make that?” Today we’re going to build…
Pioneer DJ has announced a major new firmware update (ver. 3.00) for the CDJ3000 multi-player, which introduces StreamingDirectPlay from Beatport. For subscribers to the Professional or Advanced plan (on Beatport), you can now enable features to allow browsing and playback from the full Beatport Streaming catalogue. You can therefore mix Beatport Streaming tracks with those…
DJs playing on Pioneer DJ CDJ-3000s can now access their Beatport accounts directly from the units, allowing them to browse and play tracks from the full Beatport Streaming catalogue, with “StreamingDirectPlay”, announced today. DJs simply have to log in to their existing Beatport account from any CDJ-3000 to enable playing from their Beatport playlists and…
Full Bucket Music has released Bucket ONE, a software synthesizer plug-in for Windows (VST2/VST3/CLAP) and macOS (VST2/VST3/AU/CLAP) simulating the classic Crumar BIT 01/99 synthesizers… Read More Read the full story
Gospel Musicians has announced the release of Neo-Soul Dyno Expansion for Neo-Soul Keys Studio 2, saying: The Dyno expansion is a thoroughly deconstructed virtual sample library… Read More Read the full story
Daniel Gergely releases Diffuse, a pay-what-you-want modulated reverb plugin with no minimum price (meaning that you can download it for free). Hope you folks have had a happy weekend, and as we approach the new week, let’s give thanks for another creative reverb/delay/space madness plugin. Daniel Gergely made waves with the release of his granular…
