New free effect-plug from B.Serrano
B. Serrano has released Nibiru 2 – an extended 4 band resonator effect plug-in for Windows.
Features:
- 4 parallel multimode filters (LP, HP, BP, Notch, Peak) with resonance and spread.
- 4 LFOs (host syncable)
- Stereo balance on each filter output.
Nibiru 2 is available now as a VST effect plug-in for Windows.
PrimeLoops are giving away 500Mb of loops
Over 500Mb of free Loops & Samples!
This week we are giving away over 500mb of free Loops & Samples, including tasters from both up-coming and new releases such as NYC Piano Sessions, Dubstep Nation, Ghetto House Grooves, Orchestral Scores and many more…
Feeling excited already? Great! Wait until you hear this: In addition to this we also offer an exclusive 15% Discount Code for all our products, for one week only!
Enjoy!
Antress updates Modern Plugins to v4.95 – all free!!
Antress has released version 4.95 of Modern Plugins, adding Apophis and Modern Monoizer to the bundle of freeware effect plug-ins for Windows.
Download the whole suite for free here >>
Modern Apophis:
- Classic SSL(R) G384 compressor clone.
- Power On/Off switch.
- Gain Reduction meter include.
- Thresh control (Threshold, +15 to -30 dB).
- Mackup control (Gain, -5 to +15 dB).
- Ratio selector (1:1, 2:1, 4:1, 6:1, 10:1, 20:1).
- Attack time selector (0.1, 0.3, 1, 3, 10, 30 ms).
- Recovery time selector (0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 0.9, 1.2 secs and Auto).
- Side-Chain highpass filter selector(Off, 20, 40, 80, 160 Hz).
- Mid/Side stereo image control.
- Mix control (Full wet to dry).
Modern Monoizer: 
- Power On/Off button.
- Mid gain control (0 to +12 dB).
- Side filter control (highpass, 20 Hz to 20 KHz).
- Filter shape control.
- Side gain control (0 to +12 dB).
v4.95 Changes:
- Modern Amplifier (Fixed routing bugs).
- Modern Amplifier (Reduce CPU usage).
- Modern Compressor (Fixed routing bugs).
- Modern Deathcore (Fixed samplerate bugs).
- Modern FireChainer (Fixed routing bugs).
- Modern Vacuumer (Fixed samplerate bugs).
Modern Plugins v4.95 now includes:
- Modern Amplifier
- Modern Analoguer
- Modern Apophis
- Modern BlackDragon
- Modern Compressor
- Modern Deathcore
- Modern DeepPurple
- Modern DeEsser
- Modern Equalizer
- Modern Exciter
- Modern Expander
- Modern FireChainer
- Modern FlashVerb
- Modern Limiter
- Modern LostAngel
- Modern Monoizer
- Modern Premier
- Modern SeventhSign
- Modern Spacer
- Modern Splitter
- Modern Vacuumer
The Antress Modern Plugins consists of several free VST effect plug-ins for Windows.
Enjoy, and please feel free to post a review when you´ve tried them out
Soundscaper II – free VST effect
Homegrown Sounds has released SoundScaper II, a free effect plug-in for Windows and Mac.
SoundScaper is versatile and great for comb effects, reverbs and endless delays. It is has been included in most of my synths over the last couple of years.
There are only a few presets at the moment, please feel free to send me some if you come up with any good ones.
There are lots of randomizers as usual to make using SoundScaper a fun and creative experience! It is not advisable to use the plug in any active projects yet as it may change before official release, but I’d love to hear some feedback especially from Mac users.
SoundScaper II beta is available as a freeware VST effect plug-in for PC and Mac (Intel).
H.G. Fortune releases Plutonia – best of all its free
H.G. Fortune has released Plutonia, a free VST instrument for Windows PC.
As I made wavesets as sf2 files available I did a small free VSTi synth so one might get an impression of the contents of the wavesets.
Plutonia features
- 2 oscillators with 256 sf2 based PCM waveforms each.
- Selection of built-in waveform from H.G. Fortune wavesets: AlioModularity, HGF Best of # 1 & # 2, Athmonia-a (complex waveforms generated from images), Seamless Textures (complex waveforms generated from images), HGF Retro Set.
- 24dB Lowpass filter with resonance per synth voice.
- Condensed Spook B fx.
- BassEnhancer to enhance low frequencies (works indenpendently from Color signal).
- BPM-synced delay.
- 2 ADSR envelope generators (one for Filter, one for VCA) for modulation.
- 4 LFO’s (including SLFO) and one Sample & Hold.
Plutonia is available as a freeware VST instrument plug-in for Windows PC.
Who needs a HW MIDI?
Simple but neat when you are on the road and works well with most software synths I have tried it on. Of course as with all virtual MIDIs you will miss out on the fact that it is not pressure sensitive, but often you can come quite far anyhow.
So, sometime it’s nice to not have to plug in a keyboard to play around with a softsynth, especially when you’re writing one. So here’s a little app you can use instead. It shows a little keyboard on screen, and you can use the computer keyboard to play MIDI notes. ‘z’ through ‘,’ is the octave starting a middle C (note 60). The keys on the row above are flats, and the octave below is on the row starting with ‘q’ (and the digit row is that octave’s flats).
* MidiKeys is now a universal binary.
* Minimum system is now 10.5.
* Changed ownership to Immo Software.
* New configurable hot key to toggle global hot keys.
* Support for automatic software updates using the Sparkle framework.
* New option to show the key caps on the on-screen keyboard.
* The MIDI channel field has been changed to a pop-up menu.
* The disclosure button to show the destination and listen menus is now a normal button instead of being a repurposed toolbar toggle button.
* Pressed key highlights are drawn with a slight gradient.
* New Global Hot Keys menu item.
* New preferences to control the visibility of overlay notifications.
* It is now possible to have no modifier key for global hot keys, so you only have to press the key corresponding to the note.
* Key maps were extended to use more keys on the keyboard.
* Non-English localisations have been disabled for this release due to the number of UI changes.
* Added a preference to make the keyboard window transparent to mouse clicks when MidiKeys is in the background.
* Made the keyboard window minimizable.
* Reorganized the preferences window with several tabs.
* Added preferences to control software updates.
More free synths and effects at Stereoklang, including DroneMaker
Sonic Entropy has introduced Zombie Killah 2, a free synthesizer instrument plug-in for Windows that they describe as “THE ultimate badass synth”.
“Most recommended for use for lead parts, especially in Drum’n’Bass, Breakbeat, Dubstep, Jungle music.”
Zombie Killah 2 Features:
- 2 detuned oscillators.
- 1 sub bass oscillator
- Easy and quick modulators:
- One-Knob Adjustable Frequency Modulation.
- One-Knob Amplitude Modulation.
- Double-Knob Pulse Width Modulation.
- Vibrato and Tremolo.
- 3-way filtering.
- Host-synced BPM LFO Speeds.
- All parameters automatable, but an assignable MIDI CC for LFO Speed is available if needed.
- Chorus effect for stereo widening.
- 10 Factory Presets to get you started.
Zombie Killah 2 is a free VSTi plugin for Windows. Mac users will have to find their own “ultimate badass synth.”
SoundMagic Spectral is a free suite of 23 Audio Unit plug-ins that implement real-time spectral processing of sound.
Included in SoundMagic Spectral are the following effects:
Spectral Averaging, Spectral Bin Shift, Spectral Blurring, Spectral DroneMaker, Spectral Emergence, Spectral Filterbank, Spectral Freezing, Spectral Gate and Hold, Spectral Gliding Filters, Spectral Granulation, Spectral Harmonizer, Spectral Partial Glide, Spectral Pitch Shift, Spectral Pulsing, Spectral Shimmer, Spectral Shuffle, Spectral Stretch, Spectral Tracing, Chorus, Comb Filter Bank, Grain Streamer, Idee Fixer, Mr Filterbank
Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 and a G4, G5 processor or Intel Mac.
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New VST iMoog for free
Sound Blocker has introduced iMoog, a free software synthesizer for Kontakt 4 based on sounds of the Moog Minimoog Voyager.
Mike at Sound Blocker notes:
I sampled some Moog Voyager sounds and made a free Kontakt instrument. All samples are made with analog outboard gear like API A2D, 5500, 2500, SMC 2b or Hammer EQ.
For now you can download two demo packs: “Big Boy” and “I saw U”.
More sound packs will come soon – Hope you like it. Have fun …
Cheers Ola
Xmas gift from Ohm Force
That’s the Ohm Force 2009 Christmas gift for the music production scene: the Performer Edition of their Symptohm:Melohman powersynth is now freeware, you can download freely download it from here. What are you waiting? Don’t be the last to grab it…
This ‘Performer Edition’ is a simplified version of our Symptohm:Melohman powersynth, especially made for live use – but being also handy at the studio. The core of the synth, its oscillators and all the filters are there: it’s the same audio engine of the ‘normal’ version. The only difference is that they’re all already programmed/fixed for each one of the (up to 1200!) patches from Symptohm’s sound library, the result being a simple and straight forward interface.
C64 – Odo synth – free download
Odo Synths has released version 4.0 of 38911 Bytes, a free virtual synthesizer plug-in for Windows.
38911 Bytes is a one oscillator synth. It`s a synthesizer based on Commodore 64 software but it can do a lot more
38911 Bytes v4.0 features
- 1 oscillator with 4 waveforms (saw, triangle, pulse, pitched noise) ringmodulation waveforms (saw, triangle, pulse). PulseWidth Octaves from -3 to 4.
- 1 ringmodulation oscillator with 3 waveforms (saw, triangle, pulse) PulseWidth, octaves range -3 to 4 and notes C to B
- 2 LFOs with 19 waveforms, 16 different BPM rates and manual rate
- ADSR with curves for the depth of the LFO.
- Low/hi depth button
- LFOs can start when hitting a key (GATE), when you hit play in your sequencer (FIRST) and start at any point (FREE).
- LFO destinations: pitch, pw , cutoff and resonance.
- 4×16 step sequencers: 11 BPM rates, manual rate and c64 rate (The BPM rates only work when you set the sequence to BPM mode, in Manual and c64 rates all the sequencers have the same rate).
- 1 waveform sequencer with 7 waveforms (saw, triangle, pulse, pitched noise, rm triangle, rm saw, rm pulse).
- 1 octave sequencer range from -3 to 4.
- 1 Octave and notes sequencer, notes from C to B and octave range -3 to 4.
- 1 Filter with a sequencer and envelope.
- Envelopes for Pitch, PulseWidth, Cutoff and Volume.
- Lofi effects, bitcrusher.
- Mono/Poly mode, Retrigger on/off.
38911 Bytes is available as a freeware VST instrument plug-in for Windows PC.
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