May 14, 2009 · Posted in
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Comments Off on Ohm Force unveils Cohmpost , a new free plug-in
Very few details, I hope it sounds as it looks, haven’t had the chance to try it out myself yet
You just NEED some Cohmpost in your music.
Get it in AU for Mac, VST for Mac or VST for Windows.
April 29, 2009 · Posted in
Electronic Music ·
Comments Off on MOTU gives us VOLTA
Volta is the ground-breaking virtual instrument plug-in that lets you control modular synths and other CV-equipped gear from Digital Performer and other popular audio workstation software packages, such as Apple Logic Pro and Ableton Live.
The very first product of its kind, Volta has created quite a stir among analog synth enthusiasts since it was first announced a few months ago. Even if you’ve never used analog gear before, but coveted that analog sound, Volta could be just what you’ve been looking for.
Here are just a few examples of what you can do with Volta:
- Perform MIDI sequencing with external modular synths with sample-accurate precision (if your host sequencer supports sample-accurate MIDI).
- Automatically calibrate and tune oscillators with the click of a button.
- Use ramp automation in your host audio software to control filters, envelope generators, effects processors and other voltage-controlled external gear.
- Apply LFOs, step sequencers and pattern sequencers to CV inputs and tempo-sync them to your host software timeline.
March 30, 2009 · Posted in
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Comments Off on Plastic Piano is a killer
Knobster.org has released Plastic Piano, a simple electric piano emulator synthesizer VST instrument for Windows PC. download (zip, 1.4 Mb)
Make sure to check this little beauty out 
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It has the characteristic of a plastic sound. Especially good for the lo-fi and cheap-tone music. For the production of the synthesizer was spent more than 150 grams of plasticine.
Plastic Piano features
- 2x oscillators with three wavetypes.
- LP-filter for each oscillator.
- Velocity sensitivity.
- ADSR-envelope.
- Magic button.
Ronald Passion has created freeware effect plug-ins for Windows PC. The plug-ins are done in SynthMaker and include some custom code. Make sure to check them all out
Silver & White Magnum
Silver & White Magnum are two analog valve custom parametric equalizer effects.
- Silver: G/F/V/B selects Guitar, Full, Vox and Bass parametric frequency scheme.
- White: HP -> 20, 30, 40, 60 & 80 Hz. LP -> 20, 12, 10 & 8 KHz.
- Q: 0 db/-3 db.
- Lowpass and Highpass filtering.
- Re Energize button (boost).
- Tube style Compressor.
- Noise floor is -100 db.
Silver Magnum
White Magnum
Bad Vox
Bad Vox is a simple tube equalizer effect for vocals.
- Frequency bands based on Manley Hardware Vox Box (only the EQ): 150Hz, 1.5kHz, 6.4kHz.
- Q: -3 db.
- Lowpass, Highpass and Notch filtering.
Bad Vox
Master EQ
Master EQ is a tube equalizer for mastering (update to Massive Passive EQ).
- Frequency bands based on Manley Hardware Equalizer (Massive Passive Stereo EQ): 150Hz, 560Hz, 1.5kHz, 3.9kHz.
- Q: -3 db/-6 db.
- Noise floor: -85 db.
- Red LED meter for monitoring peaks.
- Lowpass & Highpass filtering.
Master EQ
Massive Passive EQ
Massive Passive EQ is a freeware mastering equalizer effect for Windows.
Massive Passive EQ features
- Signal flow: IN + LP & HP + R1 (peaking & shelving) + R2 + R3 + R4 + OUT.
- Q is -3 db point and -6 db point.
- All frequencies based on Manley Hardware Equalizer (Massive Passive Stereo EQ).
- Red Led Meter (in & out).
Massive Passive EQ v1.0
Blue Channel
Blue Channel is a digital tube channel VST effect plug-in for Windows PC.
Blue Channel v1.0 features
- Compressor: Highpass + Lowpass filter, In/Out, Drive, Threshold, Attack & Release, Ratio, On/Off switch.
- Equalizer: Low shelf, Mid Bass, Mid High, High shelf, Master output, On/Off switch.
- Valve Tube Style control.
- 10 presets.
Blue Channel
Digital Parametric Equalizer
Digital Parametric Equalizer is a digital equalizer effect plug-in for Windows PC.
Digital Parametric Equalizer v1.0 features
- Highpass & Lowpass filter + 6 bands (-/+ 24 range for each).
- 4 settings for the bands:
- Standard: 100Hz, 360Hz, 720Hz, 1.5KHz, 5KHz, 10KHz.
- Bass: 60Hz, 100Hz, 200Hz, 500Hz, 800Hz, 1.5KHz.
- Vox: 240Hz, 380Hz, 800Hz, 1.2KHz, 2.5KHz, 5KHz.
- Guitar: 125Hz, 250Hz, 500Hz, 1KHz, 2KHz, 4KHz.
- Main output and on/off controls.
Update 05-mar-2009: New version has additional frequency settings (same download link below).
Digital Parametric Equalizer v1.0
Equalizer Passion
Equalizer Passion is a virtual analog equalizer effect.
Equalizer Passion v1.0 features
- Freq, Gain and Q for Bass, Mid Bass, Mid High and High frequency ranges.
- In- and output volume controls.
- Press Knob (“0” for natural “1” for pressing signal).
- On/Off switch.
Equalizer Passion
Crunch Passion
Crunch Passion is a dual guitar preamp (Clean & Crunch).
Crunch Passion v1.1 features
- Clean section: clean tube style model.
- Drive section: crunch drive (not modeled after a specific model but it sound like a Laney). Drive section input depends on clean section.
- Shape: controls the tone, from dull to sharp.
- Bass–Mid–Hi: 10dB range per band (i.e. Bass -5dB to 0 to 5dB).
- Volume: control volume of signal.
Crunch Passion
Slap Passion
Slap Passion is a tube bass preamp.
Slap Passion v1.1 features
- Input section: clean tube style bass model.
- Bass–Mid–Hi: 12dB range per band. (i.e. Bass -6dB to 0 to 6dB).
- Freq: Mid Freq selection — 175Hz – 350Hz – 525Hz – 700Hz – 875Hz – 1050Hz.
- Volume: control volume of signal.
Slap Passion
Without doing any associations on the name I am happy to announce that my friends in Rusty Trombones has released a new and intriguing plug-in adn better yet it’s free.
Since I have not had the chance to try it out myself yet it would be nice to get some feedback on it so post away >> awesome or sucks
Listen to it here: mp3 sample
So what does it do really…??
So this works as a doubler, or demented phaser, it is designed to widen and phatten. Of course you can misuse that as well. you have an LFO that controls how long back an echo is. You can set the length and speed of this LFO. Then there is a filter that can be LowPass, HighPass or Allpass, and a cut Hz so that you can control where the cut is. oh-yeah!. The distortion is to gritt up the sound a little, or a lot, it’s not the worlds bestest distortion. Then you can amplify the signal, if you want to. The filter can cut away a lot of the volume, that’s why we have it. Then finally there is a on/off. There are two to the left side and two on the right side. and finally one dry through parameter. So if you’d like to test one of your settings, turn the other three off (via on/off parameter) and then tweak away, baby. There are a few presets (yeah, we didn’t feel like making a lot of them, so we forced that shuriken.se guy to make a random-function and make a lot of presets there).
For more info >>
March 10, 2009 · Posted in
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Comments Off on New EQ from Blue Cat – but yikes its expensive!!
Blue Cat Audio has announced a massive update of all its commercial EQ plugins. The new versions are now available for Mac in VST and Audio Unit formats, and also bring multiple improvements to the existing Windows plug-ins. The Liny EQ series have been completely redesigned for this new release.
The Blue Cat Audio EQ plug-ins include the Liny EQ series (linear phase graphic equalizers), Parametr’EQ series (digital and analog parametric EQs) and the Triple EQ plug-ins (semi-parametric visual EQs). They all come in three flavors, offering a wide variety of capabilities. In particular, the Widening versions propose mid/side processing for frequency selective stereo narrowing or widening.
New for all plugins :
– Mac Audio Unit support.
– Mac VST Support.
– New Windows installer (you should uninstall any previous version before installing this new one).
– New documentation.
New for the Liny EQ series :
– New user interface design.
– The plug-in now offers two types of EQ curves.
– EQ range is now customizable.
– Undo/Redo support.
– Preset import/export in a host independent format.
– Window opacity control for plugin transparency.
More info here >>
March 4, 2009 · Posted in
Electronic Music ·
Comments Off on Spectrasonics has released Stylus RMX version 1.7
Spectrasonics has released Stylus RMX version 1.7 featuring an innovative and completely new capability called ‘Time Designer’ which intelligently transforms RMX audio loops into different time signatures and features the ability to “Groove Lock” the feel of any groove to another – all in real time.
Stylus RMX is a completely new groove-based virtual instrument plug-in for Macintosh and Windows. Stylus RMX is the first product to offer the combined power of Groove Control™ with Spectrasonics Advanced Groove Engine (S.A.G.E.™) technology giving users dramatic new control over groove production and performance.
Spectrasonics’ in-house development team created the new instrument from the ground up, with dozens of new features including the ground-breaking Chaos Designer™, a completely redesigned multi-page user interface, a new core library of sounds, all with a focus on realtime groove creation and performance.
New Core library
The massive new 7.4 gigabyte core-library in Stylus RMX has thousands of cutting-edge grooves and sounds that were created by Spectrasonics’ international sound design team, and produced by Eric Persing. The new core library contains nearly triple the amount of sounds originally offered in the original Stylus, and contains all the original material as well. The new sounds and grooves in Stylus RMX offer a much wider range of modern musical genres than the original Stylus. Mixes of grooves are broken down into individual tracks called Elements for flexibility and infinite combinations.
Also new in Stylus RMX are thousands of new Kit modules, 250 Kit patches, as well as user Kit construction….Users can create their own customized multitrack remix grooves and kits, save them into the plug-in, and even share them with other Stylus RMX users on different platforms and hosts. RMX 1.5 even comes with 500 new Multi grooves!
“Xpandable”
Stylus RMX marks Spectrasonics’ first expandable virtual instrument, with a series of five new “S.A.G.E. Xpanders” for Stylus RMX at $99US retail each. Stylus RMX also can be expanded with existing Groove Control CD-ROM libraries and even REX files – which opens the door for musicians to utilize their own audio loops within the powerful S.A.G.E. Environment.
Chaos Designer™
Of the many new capabilities in Stylus RMX, possibly the most innovative feature is the Chaos Designer™. With simple controls, the user can introduce musical Chaos into the groove, which allows it to have constantly evolving variations— giving the impression that the audio grooves are improvising. The results can be subtle or extreme by setting the simple to use controls. A Capture feature allows the spontaneous audio chaos patterns to be made into a MIDI file, dragged and dropped into the host sequencer, and played back again for further editing by the user.
Stylus RMX Features Overview:
- First product using new S.A.G.E. technology (Spectrasonics Advanced Groove Engine)
- Realtime auto-sync to the beat so grooves are always in time, even when performed live! Groove Control is always active for optimum sound quality at virtually any tempo.
- Massive cutting-edge 7.4gb Core Library, with nearly triple the sounds of the original Stylus.
(the original Stylus core library also included)
- Expandable!
Add more grooves with new series of “S.A.G.E. Xpanders”
Expandable with Groove Control® activated sample libraries
Expandable with Propellerheads REX files, which allow a user to import their own audio loops via ReCycle™.
- Thousands and thousands of grooves, sounds, patches and interchangeable “Kit modules” for building grooves
- 500 Multi Grooves
- 250 Kits
- World-Class integrated FX Racks w/27 professional effects: Tube Limiter, Tape Slammer, Modern and Vintage Compressors, Wah-Wah, Power Filter, 6 different Vintage/Parametric/Graphic Equalizers, Flame Distortion, Valve Radio, PRO-Verb, EZ-Verb, Spring Verb, Gate Expander, Stereo Imager, Flanger, 2 different Phasers, 3 BPM Delays, Retroplex Tape Delay and Radio Delay
- Easy MIDI Control of all 20,000 parameters with MIDI Learn: simply grab the parameter and the hardware control
- Hardware Controller Templates provided for Popular models by Korg, Behringer and M-Audio
- Over 9 hours of professional Video Tutorials are included a visual way to quickly learn about Stylus RMX!
- Integrated Documentation – A 68,000 word Reference Guide is accessible directly from the plug-in Help menu
- Multipage user interface design with fully integrated Browser for easily auditioning & organizing grooves
- Innovative Chaos Designer™ adds musical variations and “improvising” within stereo audio grooves!
- 8-part Multitimbral, each part can have dozens of grooves and samples
- Multiple stereo outputs (with supported software)
- Edit Groups offer unique control of individual beats within an audio loop: add ambience to just the backbeat, control the pitch of the snare inside a stereo loop, reverse only specific slices in the loop…non-destructively
- Favorites Menu creation of user defined suites of grooves, perfect for project-by-project work
- Built-in Mixer w/ 8 channels, mute/solo, level, meters, 4 Aux sends, output assignments
- Drag and Drop MIDI files into host sequencer
- User Kit building from core library, User Remixes, cross-platform/cross-host patch compatibility
- Groove Menu mode allows any suite of multiple grooves to be played live from the keyboard on a single MIDI channel
- Grooves can be instantly auditioned at Half Time / Double Time
- Build Multitrack Grooves in realtime!
- Real-time Jamming in sync!
- Powerful sound design features include:
New multi-mode Power Filter, 3 syncable LFOs,
3 AHDR envelopes, Reverse and more
- Edit Templates to browse and audition grooves using custom sets of parameter edits
- Easy Edit page with Big Knobs for simple, yet powerful control of key parameters
February 25, 2009 · Posted in
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Comments Off on AudioMulch 2.0 Revealed
AudioMulch 2.0 is not just a new version, it is the next generation of AudioMulch. It will provide a foundation for a new cycle of feature development and improvements that will be rolled out in regular updates after the 2.0 release. AudioMulch has long been a cult favorite for people wanting to patch together unusual sonic tools and performance rigs. That puts it in a category with apps like Reaktor or Max/MSP, but unlike those tools, AudioMulch has a lot of stuff built for you already.
New in version 2.0:
- An all-new UI, built from the ground up, with drag-and-drop patching and faster MIDI control and parameter access
- Gray is out; black is in.
- Dockable windows stretch across multiple screens.
- Up to 2X performance efficiency increase
- Patchable MIDI routing, finally – so MIDI matches up with the power of audio in the first version
- Metasurface, tempo, and transport can now be controlled by MIDI and automated
- Complex time signature support, automated time signature changes, additive meters
- Improved support for consumer multichannel audio (see note below)
- Startup enabling of audio, MIDI, networking
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February 18, 2009 · Posted in
Electronic Music ·
Comments Off on More good stuff from NAMM – Automap 3
Automap 3 was announced at Winter NAMM 2009 and is now available. As of this release there are now 2 versions, free and pay.
Automap 3 is the latest incarnation of Novation’s intelligent software system. Automap is unique to Novation’s MIDI controllers, and has now been enhanced with a wealth of eagerly anticipated features. Until now Automap had focused on plug-in control, but exciting developments bring a new level of DAW control…
No matter what music software you use, Automap offers an instant controlling solution for all your plug-ins. It supports VST, AU and Pro Tools (TDM/RTAS) plug-in formats (TDM/RTAS support is currently Mac only. PC will follow soon). It allows hardware controllers to interact with plug-in instruments and effects. Opening up any Automappable plug-in instantly maps parameters to physical controls on Novation’s SL- and Nocturn controllers. These can be re-assigned using an ultra-quick ‘learn’ mode, which simply involves clicking the on-screen parameter and touching the desired hardware controller. In addition to DAW control templates on board the SL range (mixer, transport etc) Automap 3 comes with full HUI implementation for control of HUI compatible DAWs such Logic, Pro Tools and Digital Performer.
Automap 3? (FREE DOWNLOAD)
HUI – HUI control is now fully implemented within Automap, allowing control over all HUI compatible DAW’s including Logic, Pro Tools and Digital Performer. This includes control over volume, pan, aux sends, track arm, mute/solo and more…
Start-up Screen – A new start-up screen now makes managing your plug-ins and setting up your DAW even easier. It also gives you one-click access to online support, tutorials and the latest updates.
Automap 3 PRO is now available to purchase for £19.99 / $29.99 / 24.99 EU, direct from the estore, and has a number of benefits over STANDARD.
- Multiple device support – Automap 3 Pro supports multiple devices, so numerous Novation controllers can be used side by side.
- Keystroke Assignments – Automap 3 Pro can assign almost any computer keyboard shortcuts to hardware controls. For example arrow key functions can now be assigned to hardware controls, allowing you to flick between tracks using buttons on your SL/Nocturn. You could also zoom in and out, open windows or create and jump to markers in your DAW.
- XY Pad Control – Fully Auto-mappable XY Pad control, expression pedal, control pedal and drum pad control. The Automap server can now assign parameters to all these controllers using the ultra-quick learn facility. (Pedal/pad control not supported by SL Compact)
- Drag and Drop – You can now drag and drop control mappings and control map groups in the GUI, allowing you to re-assign knobs, faders and buttons by simply grabbing them with the mouse and dropping them on the new controller.
- Autoview Mode – Optional Autoview mode means that the GUI only becomes visible when a controller is touched, then it disappears again allowing you to get back to your DAW.
February 5, 2009 · Posted in
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Comments Off on FabFilter Twin 2 is here
FabFilter Twin 2 is a versatile and powerful synthesizer plug-in with the highest possible sound quality and an ultra-flexible modulation system.
- Three oscillators with sawtooth, square, triangle, sine, and pink/white noise wave forms, ring modulation, hard sync, pulse width, phase sync, stereo panning and polyphonic portamento
- Two independent multimode filters with 11 different filter characteristics
- On-board delay effects section with two delay units and two extra multimode filters in the feedback loop
- Clean and uncluttered interface that only displays the components that are actually in use
- Drag-and-drop modulation system that lets you modulate almost any setting with the following modulation sources:
- . Up to 4 XY controllers
- . Up to 6 XLFOs offering everything from classic LFO shapes to 16-step programmable step sequencers, per-step glide with adjustable glide curve, “snap” option that locks steps to musical notes to create arpeggio-like sequences, modulatable phase offset, and much more
- . Up to 6 envelope generators with graphic controllers and optional side chain input
- . Up to 4 envelope followers, triggering on side chain input
- . Up to 10 MIDI sources that let you use any type of MIDI data as a modulation source
- More than 1600 professionally designed and categorized factory presets
- The usual FabFilter goodies: perfectly fine-tuned knobs and controllers, section presets, interactive MIDI Learn, undo/redo and A/B switch, Smart Parameter Interpolation for smooth parameter transitions, an extensive help file with interactive help hints, sample accurate automation, AltiVec and SSE optimization and much more
Find out more here >>
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