Helix is the new Black
Helix is a Wave-Table-Shaping, Phase modulation, Virtual Analog, Physical Modelling Hybrid Synthesizer. Unusually high sound quality, massive modulation, creative audio-routing and many built-in effects all make Helix a synth easy to like.
Specification:
19 voices, 1.6% CPU hit (@3GHz), This is not a joke.
Proud Presets
Helix comes with over 800 presets, from BigTone, Reason Lahalla, MaliceX, Alonso Sound and more. The presets range most styles where electronic instrument might fit.
800+ presets ordered in bank/category/preset.
Super Sound
Inspired by the “super-saw” of the late nineties, Helix takes the unison-sound to the next level and allow you to make any waveform “super”. This makes Helix capable of huge and wide unison pads and leads. Where many Virtual analogs stops at seven or nine detuned waves for a supersaw, Helix takes the extra step and allow for 16 detuned and panned waves per oscillator. At four oscillators per voice we realize that we can max out our sound at 64 (sixty four) waves per voice. That’s super!
The wave oscillator can do super-wave, and provides start phase control.
Wave-Table-Shaping
Combining the wave-shaping of synths like z3ta+ with the wave-table synthesis of the Prophet VS and the ESQ-1, Helix lets you shape the first and the last waves in a table, the in-between are automatically filled in. The morph control picks the wave to play
Shaping the first wave and looking at the morphed results.
Clean Cut
Great care has been taken to ensure no aliasing in the oscillators, so the sound is free from many artifacts traditionally associated with software (and Virtual Analog) synthesizers. This becomes very clear when playing high notes.
A sawtooth sweeping down into the audible range, showing individual partials.
Filter Frenzy
Three Filter per voice, including traditional low/band/high pass, EQ, and comb, less usual dynamics, to the exotic String Model and PM Delay, a delayline where the delaytime is modulated in audiorate.
Distortion Delight
Three stages of distortion/waveshaping per voice and one global can add a touch of old school harmonics or turn any sound into a nightmare of screaming machinery. Select from ten different shapes to find your favourite style of dirt.
Distorting a sine wave with the 10 shapes.
Surely Stereo
All parts of Helix are stereo in – stereo out. Oscillators, filters, shapers and effects. This helps keeping the signal huge.
Modulation Mayhem
More modulation slots than you can handle. Each with one source, two destinations and a scale-source. The amount of modulation possible would be impossible to find in the analog realm (it would require a great amount of cables, splitters, multipliers/ringmods and mixers) and hard to find anywhere.
More modulation than you can handle! (8 times the above)
Exhilarating Effects and Radical Routing
Helix comes with some built-in effect: Distortion, Flanger/Chorus, Phaser, Delay, Limiter, Reverb, 3 band Eq. The effects can be applied in any order.
Both the Voice architecture and the Effects of Helix follow an approach where a signal can be mixed in or sent to the effect at any point. The result is great freedom on how to apply filters and effects.
Check out Helix now on the offical Audjoo product page at http://www.audjoo.com/Helix/…
SSL Duende Native Plug-in Collection Released
The Duende Native Plug-in suite is a collection of audio processing tools which bring professional audio quality, sophistication and benchmark performance within reach of all DAW users.
Duende plug-ins provide the superior precision, advanced feature set and legendary tonal characteristics of SSL console products in affordable VST/AU/RTAS* plug-in form. They are quite simply the easiest way to get your hands on professional tools that will help you achieve professional mixes that sound like a record.
More info and 30 day demo download here
Via AUB
New freeware VST plug-in “8kut”
Tek’it Studio are pleased to annouce a new freeware VST plug-in “8kut”. 8kut is a stripped down version of our popular plug-in “Kutter” designed with Dj’s and live performance in mind, allowing you to cut frequencies on the 8 bands easily. Cut frequencies with the 8 pads, from bass to mids range, high mids and treble.
Feature highlights
* 8 bands frequencies cutter
* Phase inverter, Effect bypass, Gain boost
* Full MIDI automation
* Easy MIDI learn on all parameters
* Use 7-bit MIDI Continuous Controller or High resolution 14-bit MIDI NRPN and RPN
* Works in mono or strereo
* Undo your changes to initial patch value
* 32 Factory presets
* Up to 128 user presets per bank
* Easy installer
System requirements
* 1.2GHz CPU or higher with SSE
* 512MB RAM or higher
* Microsoft® Windows® 7, XP (SP2 or later), or Vista™
* VST™ 2 compatible host
Download heret http://audio.tekit-studio.eu…
MultiFreek 2.4 by UFO Scientific
MultiFreek 2.4 is a VST multichannel spectrum analyzer.
MultiFreek is a multitrack frequency analyzer for VST platform (Cubase, Sonar, or any other VST host can work with it), focused on the task of simultaneous monitoring of frequency distributions of several tracks. Its visual feedback lets you (in addition to hearing) clearly see and analyze your frequency problems and how your processing affects the mix, doing this track by track in your VST host, in a single-windowed graphical interface equipped with specialized features to save your effort and boost your inspiration. Multifreek is equipped with two frequency analysis engines: precise and efficient.
Features
MultiFreek is a VST plug-in providing you with handy way to monitor spectral picture of up to 7 different audio tracks simultaneously in a single window. Being a multichannel spectral analyzer, it not only shows smooth graphs for each track separately, but also allows you to:
- assign different colors to them;
- put arbitrary text captions;
- rearrange graphs as you want;
- Freeze graphs at any moment to get an instant snaphot of your frequency picture;
- Enable graph smoothing for easier visual analysis when necessary;
- See the spectrum on controllable level of detalization (overall picture or specific frequency range);
- Enlarge or reduce spectrums in order to fit them into size comfortable for monitoring. Doing this either “globally” – for all sources at one mouse move, or “locally” – for each source individually.
- choose between two different analysis modes:
- efficient mode which allows to maintain high bass precision while being very CPU friendly.
- precise mode which uses traditional Fourier transform and gives exact frequency picture of signal in expense of higher CPU load.
So retro analog synth
Cool retroish synth. Samsara Cycle Audio has released DEISK-O, a virtual classic analogue mono synthesizer instrument for Windows. The synth is a free to use. See the specs below.
Features:
* Mono
* Single 2 Wave Oscillator Plus External Signal In:
* Ramp
* Pulse
* Ext In
* Pitch bend sensitivity
* Tune control 1 note + / – tolerance
* Range – Sub / 64′ / 32′ / 16′ / 8′ / 4′
* EG Modulation Level Slider
* Modulation Delay Level Slider – LFO / EG
* PW/PWM Level Slider – Selectable EG / LFO / Manual
* LFO Section
* Frequency Level Slider
* Waveform Select – S/H / Triangle / Pulse
* Waveform Mix Control (Between Selected Wave and Sine Wave)
* White Noise
* Mixer section
* Oscillator level slider
* Noise level slider
* Voltage Controlled Filter Section
* Cutoff level slider
* Resonance level slider
* KBE – Keyboard enhance slider
* LFO level slider (pitch)
* EG slider (filter)
* VCA
* Switch – Hold / EG
* HPF
* Level Slider
* EG – Envelope Generator Section
* Attack Level Slider
* Decay Level Slider
* Sustain Level Slider
* Release Level Slider
* Volume Level Slider
* External Input Level Control
* Pitch Bend Wheel
* Power On /Off Switch
More information and how to make a donation for the synth at http://samcycle.blogspot.com…
Kick drum synthesizer plugin
KICKWOrK is a kick drum synthesizer plugin. From deep hiphop basses to hard rave kicks – everything available with the turn of some knobs. A clear and easy GUI helps you to find your bass drum sound quick. No samples inside – pure analogue emulation. A minimum of knobs for a maximum of variations. Kick sound can be triggered by any incoming MIDI note or by an audio input (bass drum of a drumloop). Available for Windows PC as VST-plugin.
Special intro offer: PAY WHAT YOU LIKE !
(later normal price will be 19 €) Listen to demos and learn more at http://music.service-1.de/ht…
eaReckon EAReverb (Reverb VST Plugin)
EAReverb (Earthy Algorithmic Reverb) – “Open the doors to YOUR world”
Available now! – http://www.eareckon.com
I have used the EAReverb with vocals, drums, guitars and wind instruments (WIVI band), yet I could remarkably reproduce realistic and natural sounding Rooms, set just the way the early reflections in great detail to make the EAReverb to a very special space simulator, we can also dispense entirely with the reverberation room shape and only consist of space, place an X in the possible mix of individual instruments in the virtual space to position accurately.
The EAReverb does a good job and produces a dense, warm reverb, the service is ideal for an experiment, but also has some very useful Presets included for direct use
The new VSTRON FX unit
VSTron is a free VST-Plugin that is well suited to create special FX sounds. VSTron is an effective and fun VST unit that is capable of producing different kinds of effects such as laser sounds, fast LFO’s, ascending/descending Sweeps, filtered madness, bubbling bleeps, or attacking ramps. Initially inspired by the Korg Monotron, the VSTron includes 1 Osc (Saw,Sine,Triangle,Ramp,Pulse,White Noise, Pink Noise) and 1 VCF Osc with 4 modes ( Low Pass,High Pass,Band Pass,Band Reject ) as well as 1 main envelope. To further modulate things you have 2 envelopes and 2 LFO’s that can be individually assigned to different parameters and some built-in effects such as drive , delay and chorus. Get VStron for free at http://www.vetrixmusic.com/d…
Teaser for the new VST/AU/RTAS Effect from Plogue
Plogue is proud to present a little teaser on our secret project, an “Early Sampling Circuit Simulator”, which runs as a VST/AU/RTAS Effect.
It contains resamplers, filters, speaker impulses and other fined tuned algorithms to emulate the full signal path of well known early sampling devices, like for instance an SK-1 or the Amiga Paula, from the required analog to digital conversion (far from mere ‘bit crushing’), up until the end speaker.
The same mindset that brought chipsounds to life, the acquisition, care and research is all in there. Everything that could NOT fit in chipsounds since it dealt with streamed samples is in here.
As with the NAMM2009 announcement of chipsounds, there is more to it than this, and we will keep some details, including the name and UI secret, until its ready to ship!
Cool looking Soviet freeware compressor
Vladislav Goncharov’s Molot is a freeware compressor VST for Windows (both 32-bit and 64-bit) that features an GUI modeled on vintage Soviet audio equipment.
Main features of Molot:
- Aggressive hammering sound.
- Suits for rock drums and bass.
- Can be used on tracks and busses.
- Very clean sound.
- Switchable sigmoid attack curve.
- Smooth saturation.
- Mid-scoop EQ for simple tonal balance fix.
- Built-in limiter for peaks suppressing.
- Almost zero latency (2 samples).
- Up to 8x oversampling.
- USSR military style GUI.
- Switchable language EN/RU.
Download page.
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