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The sound quality of free plug-ins has come a very long way in the past decade. Freeware used to be somewhat synonymous with effects that sounded inferior, forcing you to shell out precious budget on paid plug-ins and preventing you from investing in other areas of your recording setup – but this is no longer […]
The little man on the front panel and the name seem to reference the classic 1983 Commodore 64 platformer Lode Runner. But then you’d sort of assume that this would be 8-bit and have something to do with SID synthesis, but it’s not. Load Runner is a Granular Synthesizer that takes 16bit wav files and […]
Accsone has announced that their Crusher-X version 7.1 granular synthesizer virtual instrument now supports MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE). Crusher-X MPE Developed with ROLI, makers of the Seaboard MPE controllers, Crusher-X is embracing all 5 dimensions of this expressive technology. Get your fingers in there wobbling and sliding to push grain density, pull in distortion or take […]
Qu-Bit revealed the new Nebulae module at NAMM. It’s a stereo granular sampler and is now available for preorder at their website and should ship in the second week of May. Nebulae 2 The black front plates on Qu-Bits next generation of modules are rather fabulous, although you can opt for silver if you prefer […]
UK plug-in developer Physical Audio has released a very interesting reverb — the PA1 Dynamic Plate Reverb. The effect uses a pure numerical model to recreate the sounds of classic plate reverbs. Taking advantage of physical modelling, the PA1 lets you choose among 6 simulated materials like Gold and Titanium. Decay times vary from 0.3 […]