The VoS VSTs are awesome - you can make some fucked-up self-oscillations and time-pitch-shifts with their NastyDLA effect
― DDD, Friday, 18 April 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
It's also a pretty good delay effect.
Anything good going in the various Black Friday sales - soft synths, Ableton packs, etc?
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Friday, 25 November 2016 10:13 (seven years ago) link
soundtoys 5.1 for half price!!
― Executive Ball Clicker (euphemism) (haitch), Monday, 28 November 2016 02:08 (seven years ago) link
bump for any Black Friday sales that are worth looking at?
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 29 November 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
Not sure if I've already stanned for it in this thread but Trackspacer (a sidechained EQ) is incredibly useful for getting some space in mixdowns and a steal at £25.https://www.wavesfactory.com/trackspacer/amp/
― help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Friday, 29 November 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
Ooh that looks really interesting, ty
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 29 November 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Debating about copping their Spectre plugin too, which also looks cool (and is on sale)
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 29 November 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
This thing is free, and I use it ALL THE TIME:http://www.alexhilton.net/A1AUDIO/index.php/a1triggergate
― DJI, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
Thanks! I can recommend the free vst synths from u-he (some standalone, some stripped-down versions of paid products), they sound great.
Any more?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
Gotta get into those. The other amazing free plugin that I use all the time is this:
https://vladgsound.wordpress.com/plugins/limiter6/
I think it sounds better than a lot of paid master bus plugins.
― DJI, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
https://tytel.org/helm/https://tal-software.com/products/tal-noisemaker
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 16 January 2020 05:44 (four years ago) link
Channel robot are giving away The modernist glockenspiel and the odernist kalimba. I do love me some mallet sounds. These seem nice. Bit of a cpu hit though?https://audioplugin.deals/free-download-the-modernist-collection-kalimba-glockenspiel-by-channel-robot/
― Tib, Friday, 17 January 2020 02:15 (four years ago) link
Glitch1- an oldie but a classic. 32bit only :(http://illformed.org/
― Tib, Friday, 17 January 2020 02:24 (four years ago) link
xp - ooh, I've been getting into sound libraries for screwing with in samplers, downloading those now
UVI's (free) Workstation comes with a handful of pretty good instruments, though I haven't really found any free compatible sample libraries (vs all the free Kontakt libraries out there).
also in that realm Spitfire's free Labs https://www.spitfireaudio.com/labs/
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 17 January 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
O yeah those spitfire things look interesting! thanksalso: https://www.cinematique-instruments.com/pages_instr/page_klang.php
needs full kontakt though
― Tib, Friday, 17 January 2020 06:48 (four years ago) link
I copped those glockenspiel and kalimba instruments, even though I have made many of my own sample packs using many of my own kalimbas & glockenspiels
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 January 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
https://projectsam.com/library-category/the-free-orchestra/
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 18 January 2020 05:14 (four years ago) link
Dexed - DX7 emulation that loads DX7 patch files.https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 3 February 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
I was looking for a good flanger, wishing Valhalla had one, and then found out they have one that's free if you fill out a survey! I've never been happier to respond to a company survey.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
I've never really used a flanger. What's it good for?
― Tib, Saturday, 8 February 2020 10:09 (four years ago) link
Highly recommended skins for U-he's free synths making them more readable - Triple Cheese - https://github.com/dozius/triple-cheese-themesTyrell N6 - https://plugmon.jp/product/interstellar-for-tyrell-n6/
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link
It's a filter effect, the wiki defines it as "produced by mixing two identical signals together, one signal delayed by a small and gradually changing period, usually smaller than 20 milliseconds."
But I stayed away from it for years, maybe because I associate it with the snare breakdown in Lenny Kravitz "Are You Gonna Go My Way"? Then I heard this record, where a lot of programmed drums are run through some sort of shifting filter that I thought might be a flanger, and wanted to give it another go:https://towheadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/pure-energy
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 01:59 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the u-he skins!
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 02:00 (four years ago) link
has anyone played around with magenta/nsynth yet? i'm downloading now. it's free Max/MSP instrument from google, which uses machine learning to blend timbres from tonal samples, so you can combine the qualities of any two instruments, etc etc.
https://magenta.tensorflow.org/nsynth-instrument
― davey, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 03:00 (four years ago) link
see also: https://nsynthsuper.withgoogle.com/
― davey, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 03:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.discodsp.com/obxd/
Emulation of an OB-Xa - there's a buy link but it's really just a donation
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:51 (four years ago) link
It's pretty sweet, but has the same issue with discrete pitch jumping when you turn the Osc pitch knob, which makes playing with osc sync sound weaker than the real instrument. I'm using it for a pad sound in one of my tracks right now, though!
― DJI, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
the same issue that a lot of soft synths have, I mean.
― DJI, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
I can confirm that the Valhalla Space Modulator is sick, highly recommended.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 13 February 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
"ValhallaSpaceModulator is FREE for anyone who has purchased a plugin directly from Valhalla DSP! "
Had you already bought something from Valhalla Jordan, or was the survey enough?
― Tib, Friday, 14 February 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link
Ah, I've bought a couple things from them, yeah. $50 a pop and some of the best reverbs and delays I've ever used though.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 February 2020 03:01 (four years ago) link
^^ I use their shimmer and delay plugins on everything.
― DJI, Friday, 14 February 2020 04:53 (four years ago) link
It's essential to the category of youtube videos that I would categorize as "ambient music made with cheap synthesizer and Valhalla Shimmer".
(related to but distinct from "ambient music made with cheap synthesizer and BigSky pedal")
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 February 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
don't forget "ambient music made with mutable instruments clouds either in module or vcvrack form."
― adam, Friday, 14 February 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
that's an instagram-based genre, right?
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 February 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.audiority.com/shop/l12x-solid-state-amplifier/
forgot to post this a few weeks ago - it's a model of a little Marshall Lead 12 practice amp, but it also makes for a great overdrive/distortion effect, sounds A+ on a Rhodes or Mellotron type of thing.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 15 February 2020 07:53 (four years ago) link
That DOES sound good. Thanks!
― DJI, Saturday, 15 February 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/tricent-mk-iii-by-full-bucket-music
Free '70s string-machine style synth
BUT, I found out that XILS Labs offers demos of their not-free VSTs (including a new Roland string machine emulation) where the only limitation is not saving presets or using DAW automation, which is very generous and at least w/ the string machine I can't see where I'd really be aching without automation anyway.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
Re:XILS. For me to use the demos I guess I'd have to manually tweak any parameters in real time while bouncing to audio in the one session, giving up the chance of ever reloading the patch or adjusting it after that session... those seem like big limitations? How do you use it milo?
― Tib, Thursday, 27 February 2020 06:37 (four years ago) link
I just got it a couple of days ago and don't know what I'd use a string machine for at all really, so I'm just trying out playing it. I'd imagine just setting it up and playing it - you could use different instances on different tracks for major changes (switching different voices or something) but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing where you're going to be doing filter sweeps normally?
For their Polykobol or Synthi emulations, probably a much bigger deal but I haven't looked at those.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 27 February 2020 07:14 (four years ago) link
Installed XILS4 demo- happy to report it comes with a lot of presets. I almost never build patches from scratch anyway so I'm glad I got this. Closed and reopened a project and the synth and preset I'd chosen were still on the track but any tweaks I'd made to it were gone though. No registration required.
― Tib, Thursday, 27 February 2020 10:12 (four years ago) link
You can also download the Streichfett wavetable and drop it into the Live wavetable synth and get a decent string machine out of it (need to add some chorus/reverb to get it to sound good, as with the real device).
― DJI, Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
Reopened project with the XILS4 demo and it had forgotten the presets I'd chosen. O well.
― Tib, Friday, 28 February 2020 06:43 (four years ago) link
More kontakthttps://sonuscore.com/shop/origins-bundle-vol-1-5/
― Tib, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 09:45 (four years ago) link
free fxxhttps://sonicstate.com/news/2020/04/03/use-soundtoys-effect-rack-for-free/
― davey, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 11:09 (four years ago) link
thumbs up emoji for this guy's software. gleetchlab in particular. standalone max application rather than VST but you can route the audio to your daw pretty easily. spent a little time tonight mapping my faderbank to a bunch of controls and am just letting the madness rip.
― adam, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 03:42 (four years ago) link
http://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/softwares/
― adam, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link
Stretching the boundaries of cheap but the G-Force M-Tron mellotron emulation is on sale for 60% off and it rules
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 16 April 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
New, free Valhalla reverb:
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2020/05/19/valhalla-dsp-has-a-free-reverb-for-you-its-supermassive/
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
Gonna have to get this I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79EZpULr6J0
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 30 March 2024 08:01 (three weeks ago) link
Heh I've always done this by individually pitch shifting or time stretching each hit (as audio, not midi). Looks fun though.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 30 March 2024 13:54 (three weeks ago) link
I bought it but haven't used it yet.
― beard papa, Saturday, 30 March 2024 20:48 (three weeks ago) link
that looks cool. Logic added "Beat Breaker" to a recent update, which can chop things up really quickly, but isn't as retro as this one. I haven't messed with BB too much but it is quick! I remember learning about chopping breaks in a 1995 (?) issue of Future Music. It was written before most samplers had graphic displays! so it was all, take the total number of samples for a loop, divide by 8/16, those are your chops. ha. Not sure today's producers (definitely including me!) would have that kind of patience!
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:50 (two weeks ago) link