Here is some new freebies for all o yall that bother checkin.

http://destroyfx.smartelectronix.com/

Nice lil fx plugs. Skidder deservers a mention. This turns the sound on & off like it says on the can. Run a hoover through this, add reverb after and tweak. its the goodie.

How do I add pics guys?

http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php

A free 16track sequencer that looks like it was modeled on SX (but on a budget) no midi though.



And finally (for today)
http://www.rgcaudio.com/products.htm

Heaps of free goodies along with the already mentioned triangle
I've tried the sample player and it works quite nicley, it no Kontact though.[/img]

Actually,
I love RGC Audio's Products so much, I though I'd show you all what they have install for all you free & easy peeps.

Now that I've figured out the pic function.....





Chur, giv em a whirl.

Hey blacbeard do of any "good" free reverb plugs??

PSP Pianoveb is good on keys, its a little different, it supposed to emulate the reverb inside a piano.

Smartelectronix Ambience is superb, very nice, very flexible.

Kjaerhus Classic Reverb does the Job pretty good.

SIR reverb is magic, pity about not having Plugin Delay compensation. Otherwise this would be the best reverb in the world.

There is another freeware convolution plugin which I have downloaded but haven't had a chance to explore proper yet. Its called CONVOLUTION funnily enough and you can load IR wav files directly into it and let it rip. This can be used for many thing other than reverb though, think about using an IR for a Fairchild compressor and you have the most sought after compression in a freeware plugin. It has a mono restriction or a set bitrate or something on IRs but I can't quite recall.

Freeverb too is okay but I'd start with Ambience Dan.

my bad, its called convolver from teragon audio
http://www.teragon.org/products/Convolver/


its restriction is that it won't use long impulse responses, no larger than 32,678 frames (samples I guess) which means that the IR needs to be under a second,......nah thats not right because I have used short drum loops as IRs with convolver.

Anyway, give it a go and download some nice IRs from the links off of the site.

Convolution is for the People, look it up on Wikipedia if you don't know what its about.

Badass Freeware synth, You'll have to register with KVR to get it though.
It was made as part of the KVR developer Challenge and there are some other sweet entries as well, including some cool EQ plugins, Compressors a FREEWARE AUTOTUNE, drum synths, drum samplers. Its pretty cool.

but this synth is pretty PHAT, reminds me a bit of the Sytrus synth in fruity. It has four oscillators, Mod Matrix, FM, two delay lines, a bit crusher, some pretty sweet filters and some very usable patches.

Its called Anna.


http://www.kvraudio.com/developer_challenge.php

Cool, I past the one thousand views mark. I hope people are still enjoying this thread and are trying some of these badass plugs out. If anyone has found use for some of them in a tune I'd like to hear it even if its still in the works. Thanks.

Thanks heaps bro, Ill give them a wirl tonight!

I'd like to print a retraction, Anna sounds nice but has some bugs including CPU peaking and some problems with the AMP envelope making it annoying and disapointing to use. Other than these problems (and I expect others which I haven't found yet) the actual sound is pretty good.

KarmaFX synth has been updated to a new version and has all sorts of new features which look the business.

Hey!
Long time no post. I haven't been all that excited about all that much recently especially after the mixed results I got from that anna synth. It does sound good it just CPU peaks hard out and has a couple of other shitty little issues that shelve it.

Anyway, I have been trying a few apps that were entered in the KVR developer challenge (of which the Anna Synth was one) and one of them which is a real blast and is sort of stupid and fun is this little app called Lunchbox Battles. Its a standalone program for tapping beats out on, it comes with several drumkits and a few effects. You program it MPC style like an old analog drum machine to make beats to compete with your workmates with or throw down a mean freestyle rhyme.

Should the boss walk in you press the boss key and it mutes and converts to a shot of an excel spreadsheet HAhaahahahHAhahhah.

The other cool thing you can do with it is export loops in wav format. So if you program something that actually isn't complete balls then render it off and put it into your main sequencer.

To get it you will need to register with KVR but thats something you should all have done by now anyway.



http://www.kvraudio.com/developer_challenge.php

triple cheese, this won the KVR developer challenge. Sounds are good.

http://www.kvraudio.com/developer_challenge.php

Voxengo also offer some nice free plugs:

I often use the tubeamp to gain up things if a process makes the output too quiet. Their plugs are considered to be some of the finest available.

http://www.voxengo.com/downloads/

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I was reading an old thread on DOA about reese's and Nocturnal recommended synth1. I've downloaded it and will try post a review at some stage.

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I had synth1 and I could never make my mind up about it, I eventually decided I didn't like it (my opinion was based mostly on the presets) and deleted it from my vst folder. I reckon it sounds weasly and fake, and there is a huge split on KVR about it. Some people swear by it, others think its overrated and overhyped. Anyway, but if you have found a preset bank or have made some presets that are good, please post them. I think with careful programming it might yield something, I think Voyager is still the cream of freeware synths though.

Anyway this post isn't about synths, its about an Amplifier simulator called Free Amp 2, by fretted synth audio. Its got stompboxes and a ruling amp sim. Chunky distortion, cabinet simulation for floor shaking thud. And it also has a knob labelled CHUB!!!!! I'm guessing CHUB is important, probably gives it a meatier sound (shazam)

Compressors (pre and post), Wah and auto wah, delay, phaser, overdrive, flange, reverb, Chorus. It also has this weird synthesiser module which you have to change modes to access which modulates the sound and can make some weird pads from the source sound, very interesting. Well worth a look, it gives Amplitube a good run because its free, I reckon it sounds pretty awesome for the cash. I've put a sine through it and gotten dillinja style bass sounds, it was a great night. Wobble. 128 presets to get you started. Roughage.



http://frettedsynth.com/

On the d/l,

I really feel like i should donate something...

All these freeware guys must spend a shit load of time these writing programs for nothing.

Time to dust off this thread. :bananallama:

This is a useful VST no matter where you stand on the freeware vs. cracked debate. And as far as I can tell there is no payware equivelant out there.

It's a sampler......but not like any other sampler you've got in your arsenal I can assure you.

Question: Do you have a bunch of wicked sounding synths/instuments VSTs that have a tendency to kill your CPU? Yes? What if you could load that CPU intensive VST into a sampler and instantly multisample it out as a sampler patch? I'm sure you'd be interested. That's exactly what Highlife by DiscoDSP can do.

You can then unload the VST to free up CPU. It roughly sets loop points for you which you can tweak until it loops properly.

You can either use this sampler patch as is OR you can then make a soundfont patch out of it to play in the nifty little soundfont player, SFZ by RGC audio. The sampler will bounce all the info down to a .sfz file which will load up in the SFZ player. Its a very basic interface but this player/sampler is famous for its purity of sound.

Highlife is no slacker in the audio quality game either. 32 bit floating point wavetable synthesis (Just like most of your favourite wave editors), Selectable interpolation engines up to 512 Sinc Hermite for offline rendering to audio.....whatever that means, but sounds HQ. As far I gather that is among the highest quality wav rendering algorithms available. The result is supposed to be virtually no detectable aliasing which is that funny squeeling noise you hear when you play your samples way higher or lower than they are normally supposed to.

The patches aren't small though, a bass synth patch when frozen to a multi-sampled wave patch weighed in at 10.5MB. But if you have a whopper hard drive this shouldn't be an issue.


As you can see SFZ is pretty basic looking but its whats under the hood that makes it pretty special.

This combo is well worth checking out if you want to free up your CPU once you have created a killer patch There is an effects section within Highlife if you want to do any extra processing after freezing your VST.

http://www.rgcaudio.com/sfz.htm

http://www.discodsp.com/highlife/

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woops, seems like someone already posted about sfz but thats alright.

Other things to know. sfz doesn't hve portamento/legato. And Highlife also has automapping of a group of samples (a folders worth of sample can instantly be dumped across the keyboard, handy for drumpacks) and it also has a drum slicer. I haven't found it a terribly easy to use drum slicer but it does have one.

I guess I should read the manual a bit more.

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you mean you can load the VSTi itself into DiscoDSP and click a button or two to have it automatically resample the VSTi?

that sounds rad if I have understood correctly...

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word, load a VSTi within Highlife and render off the patch as a multisample set of .wav. That's what you do and thats what happens. You can layer samples up aswell, I think you can velocity layer aswell. Sampling quality is selectable, you don't have to resample at such a high bitrate if you don't want to. And you don't have to sample the full key board range either. So your sampler patches don't have to be 10+Meg if you don't have the space. A sample is automatically mapped across about 4 semitones so it doesn't create a sample of individual semitones across 8 or more octaves, that would be an enourmous sample set.

Does anyone have a set of harp samples? I would like to make a harp instrument with my sampler, I'm serious.

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Actually, I had never really explored this sampler that much. But F**k me that is a cool feature. It almost warrants a patch sharing thread in itself just for Highlife patches. I put together a supersaw patch from Voyager with some Notch filter LFO with chorus and a little delay and it rocks. The filter is mint on this thing, really nice clarity while still being aggressive.

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