You'd be hard pressed to think of many manufacturers making costlier gear than SSL. But SSL's vintage compressor, the LMC-1, is freeware. It's an emulation of the compressor used to create the legendary gated drum sound found on Peter Gabriel's intruder and Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight. When (if) you need that sound, the SSL LMC-1 can't be bettered. While delay may seem a fairly straightforward effect, many dub producers (and those of other genres) have embraced delay as an intrinsic compositional and creative element. TAL-Dub is a simple but comprehensive delay ideal for dub and more besides. It features two independent channels, retro sounding filters and even MIDI learn.Ĭrayon Filter is a powerful, super-squelchy multiband filter. It offers low-pass, high-pass, peaking and notch filtering, all with a screaming, squelching resonance, should you want it, and an additional kick in the backside courtesy of the Drive function. You can even enable more than one filter mode at a time.īerrtill is an attempt to recreate a specific circuit-bent signal path consisting of a car speaker, a 'remade' tape recorder with a jack input in place of the tape head, a toy microphone and a toy amplifier. A kazoo (we kid you not) is thrown in for good measure. The result is gloriously noisy and not for the fainthearted.Ībove (click to enlarge): Multiband compression can be tricky to use, but C3's clean interface helpsīlockfish is a compressor that operates in either VCA or opto mode and, with only four knobs, it's encouragingly easy-to-use. As an added bonus, you can 'pop the hood' to adjust the trim pots on the circuit board. Transients are one of the primary identifiers of any sounds. They're the attack portion, the initial burst of frequencies such as a pick scraping across guitar strings or the reed kicking into life on a saxophone. These first few milliseconds trigger our recognition of a sound, so messing with them can create some really interesting effects. Flux's Bitter Sweet II let's you do just that - it's essentially a transient volume control. It might be a cutdown version of Yellow Tools' incredible Independence sound module, but this still has a massive 2GB of content - making it bigger than any other free module. Native Instruments Kore Player (opens in new tab) There are no time or save restrictions, but you can't import your own samples. Kore Player is based on NI's powerful Kore 2 system, and features a great library of high-quality sounds. Each sound has eight editable parameters, making it easy to get stuck-in and get on with making music.Ībove (click to enlarge): Kore Player is based on NI's famous Kore 2 Compared to Yellow Tools' Independence Free, its lacking in editing features, but makes up for this through ease of use. Ticky Clav is a high-quality Hohner Clavinet emulator - the keyboard instrument that was made famous by Stevie Wonder's Superstition. Rather than employing samples, Ticky Clav instead uses physical modelling to generate its top-notch tones. Throw into the equation a very usable wah-wah effect and you have a great plug-in Ticky Clav is simple but very effective. Renoise is a powerful, VST-hosting tracker - arguably the most accomplished tracker to date, and is both versatile and easy-to-use. If you've never used a tracker before, don't be put off by the machine-code-like appearance of the main editing screen.
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