Developer Fred Anton Corvest has introduced AUBE (Audio Unit Box Explorer), an AUv3 Organizer for iOS.
AUBE is designed to provide an overview of your audio units, effects and instruments, automatically listed and classified. Information such as group, categories and features, are already available for most of the known audio units. You can explore, filter, set your favorites (available on iCloud), share badges on social media and more.
Features:
Your AUv3 effects and instruments are organized
Information, such as group, categories and features, are already available
Explore, filter, set your favorites
Share description and badges on social media
Use the keyboard extension to locate your AUv3s in your host (search text field required!)
Released in 2021, Waldorf M synth combined digital wavetable oscillators with an analogue amp and filters, giving it hybrid status. If its eight voices of polyphony weren’t enough for you, though, we have good news: a new 16-voice version has just landed.
If you are an existing user, we can confirm that you add these extra voices to your current rig via an expansion board. You can fit this yourself and, as the video below demonstrates, it looks particularly easy.
The new M Voice Expansion VO.6 cost €699, so if you have been craving those additional Waldorf M voices, though, it is certainly an elegant solution.
Otherwise, the M remains the same as before, offering – “the ultimate modern, yet authentically realised, take on a classic approach to synthesis”. It offers two wavetable playback modes (Classic and Modern), the filters sounds great, and you can even import patches from the classic Microwave synth.
Do you remember the free Green Oak Crystal VST synth? Its developer has just released free delay and chorus plugins.
Green Oak Software’s Crystal, apparently released a long time ago was regarded as one of the best free VST synth plugins around, and became a go-to for many budding producers.
After releasing it – more than 20 years ago now – its developer, Glenn Olander, went on to work with Spectrasonics on its acclaimed Stylus RMX, Omnisphere , Trilian, and Keyscape instruments, but now the Green Oak brand has been revived and we have two new free effect plugins to play with.
The plugins go by the names of Tungsten and Cesium, and promise textured delay and lush chorus processing respectively. Each one has a slightly steampunky GUI and runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU formats.
Green Oak describes Tungsten as “a sound design tool to add ambience with texture and colour”. You can use it to create “heavenly echoes, dense reflections, or mysterious drones.”
Cesium promises characterful chorus, and covers everything from “luscious stereoizing to exotic flanging to bizarre spatial effects.” If you want to add motion and depth to your sound, it could help you out.
Given Crystal and Green Oak’s reputation, we have got high expectations for Tungsten and Cesium. You can download them for free now from the Green Oak Software website.
