Free VST with arcade game qualities
VOPM is an emulation of the Yamaha YM2151 (OPM) 4 operator FM sound chip.
OPM chip was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s. Videogame fans will most likely be familiar with the Sega Genesis (Megadrive), whose sound chip is a slight variation on the OPM – the OPN. The chip has also been used in countless arcade games including Paperboy, Outrun, Metal Slugs 1-5, and Street Fighter II.
Features:
- Yamaha YM2151 (OPM) 4 operator FM sound chip emulation.
- Supports MIDI CCs.
Toontrack Music announces EZmix
Toontrack Music announces EZmix
Toontrack Music announces the next product in the Toontrack Software Tools line, EZmix.
For all the track and songwriters with tight deadlines and a mobile work situation out there, Toontrack, in collaboration with DSP developers par excellence Overloud, has developed EZmix.
EZmix is a simple (EZ), yet powerful, mixing tool that gives you access to a huge array of mix presets for the whole gamut of mixing needs. Whether you need to mix drums, vocals, guitars, bass or keyboards this is your tool.
Simply connect EZmix to a channel strip in your sequencer like you would any plug-in, pick a preset for the instrument or sound on that strip. Done. For demo purposes or in full on production EZmix will cut your studio time, speed up and enhance your creative process from the initial hook to the final track.
EZmix is a Mac and PC compatible, AU, RTAS and VST plug-in delivered with a wide variety of mix presets, with a heavy accent on your drum mixing needs, designed by Toontrack Music Head Of Sound Design Mattias Eklund.
MrRay SeventyThree – free VST piano synth
Although it may sound like a sampled instrument, MrRay SeventyThree is still synthesized, as the sound it produces is 100% calculated in real time. What characterizes this version of MrRay is a series of “imperfections” introduced in order to capture, with the highest possible fidelity, the sound of a Mark I. There are mallet noises, wooden noises, metallic artifacts and changes of volume for each single note.
Also, the lower notes have a particular “growl” when you hit them hard, and when you hit more keys really hard, you’ll hear them “vibrating”, originally due to the instability of the harp assembly inside the real instrument. You won’t hear twice the exact same sound when you play it. When keys are released you’ll hear the noises produced by the “dampers” which stop the vibration of the tines.
Free frequency shifter and analog echo emulation
Here’s what Valhalla DSP has to say about the ValhallaFreqEcho…
Bode-style frequency shifter + analog echo emulation = skull melting chaos. Perfect for dub, Dr. Who and all of your psychedelic needs. Sonic results range from subtle chorusing and double tracking to barberpole phasing and flanging to endless glissandos and runaway echos. I get lost in this one.
Features
- New GUI
- New Tempo Sync Delay
- New Mouse-over Tooltips
- Low cut and high cut controls for the feedback path, allowing for finer control over the echo decay.
- Mono/stereo in, stereo out.
Pricing and Availability:
Free download
More information:
Shuriken has released BitTest
Shuriken has released BitTest, a free bitcrusher VST effect plug-in for Mac OS X. It converts your data to 8 bits, then you can turn the bits off (the top row) or invert them (the bottom row) individually. That is you can individually flip and invert the bits.
And that is all this little baby does, but she does it well.
Download OS X: BitTest.vst.zip
Download Windows: Shuriken will make a windows version when he get an incentive!
EVM releases Ultrasonique v1.1 for free
UltraSonique is high quality synthersizer.
EVM UltraSonique Features:
- High quality Synthersizer,
- Wavesample Player
- Multi-Function Sequence Controller.
- Multi-F/X
and a whole lot more..
More video demos here.
New MOOG emulation
Xhun Audio has introduced LittleOne – a virtual emulation of the Moog Little Phatty analog synthesizer.
Description:
LittleOne emulates every component of the Little Phatty (oscillators, filter, envelopes, LFO …), preserving the original frequency responses and frequency ranges.
The result is an analog-sounding instrument – all in the digital domain. In addition to the Little Phatty synthesizer emulation, LittleOne encloses a full rack with a 16-step MIDI sequencer, a 16-step trancegate effect and two master effects slots.
Specs
- The Moog Little Phatty Physical Modeling emulation
- Two aliasing-free analog modeled oscillators with continuous selection mode ( like the original ) between Triangle, Saw, Square, Pulse
- A 4-Pole Low Pass filter modeled on the classic Moog Ladder, featuring the original frequency responses and overload control
- Two 4-Stage ( ADSR ) envelope generators
- Modulation LFO with the original waveforms and frequency ranges ( 0.2~500 Hz )
- Monophonic/polyphonic mode, pitch bend ranges and more – all accessible from LittleOne LED display
- 128 ready-to-use presets from classic analog to contemporary cutting-edge dance to psychoacoustic sounds and SFX
- XSQ16M, a build-in 16-step MIDI sequencer
- GATED!, a build-in 16-step trancegate effect
- Two master effects slots with the possibility to choose between delay, reverb, tube distortion, flanger, chorus
- Full MIDI CC#s mapping (according to the original Little Phatty CC#s specs)
String theory – new free VST from Ugo
String Theory is a flexible, delay based physical modeling synth which is capable of a wide range of plucked strings, atmospheric pads and ambiences, and unique hybrid synth sounds.
String Theory also offers dual phrase arpeggiators. Each arp has its own speed, gate, and octave controls; which allows for complex patterns.
Features:
- Physical Modeling Plucked Strings.
- Delay based Oscillators.
- Detune.
- Pitch LFO.
- Amp Envelope with 2 attacks.
- Tremolo.
- BP+BR Filter.
- LP Filter with envelope and LFO.
- HP Filter with envelope and LFO.
- Dual Metal Module.
- Dual Delay with MIDI sync and Pan.
- Dual Phrase Arpeggiator.
- MIDI CC support.
- 173 patches by: Ugo, Tim Conrardy, Matthew DeMeritt (Geeseaplenty), Mark Stolk (Mystahr).
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.
de la mancha releases the BASSBOMB synth
de la mancha have introduced bassbomb which they describe as a monophonic bass monster covering all your low frequency needs. Here’s what they have to say about it…
bassbomb is a monophonic, bass synthesizer focused on creating a wide range of bass sounds from punchy to chunky via squelchy and fat with a sprinkling of dirt on top. It does everything from dubstep wobble, electro house dirt, funky bounce, breakbeat dirt, hiphop boom, acid squelch and more besides. As well as bass lines it’s also happy banging out kick drums and bass drops, with a pure sine sub osc to really nail that low end.
It features custom waveforms, a composite filter and non-linear envelopes to give that old school synth sound, with 2 LFOs and 3 envelopes to really make stuff move around. Unison, oscillator sync, ring modulation and dirt all add to the flavour and a tempo-sync arpeggiator is the cherry on top.
Features
- Monophonic bass synthesizer for bass lines and drum sounds
- 2 oscillators with 7 custom waveforms each (sine, square, pulse, ramp, saw, triangle, noise)
- Adjustable Pulse width and detune, modulated by envelope and LFO (per osc)
- Adjustable Unison with spread control per oscillator
- Oscillator sync and ring modulation between oscillators
- Octave selector and level per osc
- Sub-osc with math-generated pure sine wave for sub bass layering
- Independent sub-osc detune modulation from envelope and LFO
- Octave selector and level control
- Resonant Low Pass filter, 24 dB / octave slope
- Composite design, non-linear behaviour across frequency range
- Adjustable Cut off and Resonance, both modulated by envelope and LFO
- Cut off can also track velocity and note, positive or negative modulation
- 3 non-linear ADSR envelopes, for amp, filter and multi-parameter modulation
- All envelopes have pickup mode as alternative to starting attack from zero
- Multi-parameter envelope covers cut off, res, pwm, detune and dirt
- Pulse width modulation and detune are selectable per oscillator
- Detune modulation allows pitch envelopes for kick drum and bass drops
- 2 tempo-sync LFOs with 20 waveforms, note-sync and adjustable phase
- LFOs can be tempo-sync to host (32 beats to 1/32 beats) or free (0-100 Hz)
- LFOs both modulate cut off, res, pwm, detune and dirt
- Pulse width modulation and detune are selectable per oscillator
- LFO 2 also modulates the depth and frequency of LFO 1
- Tempo-sync arpeggiator with 6 patterns
- Arp can cover 1 to 4 octaves, synced to host (1/32 beats to 4 beats)
- Adjustable note length (0-100%)
- Dirt control adds harmonics and saturation for extra oomph
- 2 monophonic modes, classic and drop (only plays last note)
- Portamento with adjustable time control
- Master volume and pitch control
- 200 presets covering many styles and functions
Download demo VST (2.8 MB) – This zip contains a demo version of bassbomb with 1s silence every 20s. It also has some missing controls, which do not detract from the sound of bassbomb,
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