Ujam says that its free Drive synth plugin is as easy to use as an Instagram filter and there’s âNo hidden cost, no strings attachedâ
Drive is German-American plugin developer Ujamâs new free synth plugin for deep house and other electronic music production. Designed to âmake a complex machine intuitive and welcoming,â this presents you with a simplified interface that enables you to tweak your sounds with just a few simple controls.
Drive comes with 100 global presets, 25 Sequences, 100 Synth Modes and 90 Finisher Modes, plus a âSurpriseâ feature that will immediately generate randomised patches.
âUsynth doesnât require you to know how a synthesizer works in order to find and create inspiring new sounds,â says Ujam. âIntuitively tweak to your heartâs content. Think Instagram filters, or steering wheel and two pedals – thatâs how you operate Usynth.â
Each voice has two individual layers and is powered by virtual analogue, wavetable and FM synthesis or multisamples. Thereâs also a multimode filter, 5-stage envelopes, LFOs and a 12-way modulation matrix.
Donât worry, Drive is a âcomplete synthâ with âno hidden cost, no strings attachedâ. It runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats and you can download it now from the Ujam website.
Full Bucket Music flexes its PECS, a free plugin version of the Korg PE-2000 Poly-Ensemble string machine. Get this 1976 analogue orchestral instrument for your DAW.
Full Bucket Music has made a habit of releasing free plugin versions of vintage Korg keyboards – the FB-3300, a DAW-friendly version of the PS-3300. And now it is back with an emulation of the PE-2000 Poly-Ensemble S string machine.
PE-2000 released in 1976, this was a 3-oscillator, preset-based orchestral instrument that Full Bucket has recreated in a plugin itâs calling PECS. This recreates the machineâs eight factory presets, offers plenty of tweakable parameters and promises an authentic âvintage vibeâ.
This looks like another fabulous free Synthesizer plugin from FBM.
PECS runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX/CLAP formats and can be downloaded for free from the Full Bucket Music website.
Remember, at launched, Teenage Engineering OP-1 Field – a grand synth, didnât have a velocity-sensitive keyboard, but this has now been added via the latest firmware update.
The suggestion on various forums is that, while the OP-1 Fieldâs keyboard isnât velocity-sensitive out of the box, Teenage Engineering has come up with a workaround that uses the instrumentâs built-in accelerometer to detect how hard youâre playing. The company has yet to confirm this, though.
You can choose from three settings – off, soft and hard. You can pick the one that best suits your playing; setting velocity to âoffâ will result in an even volume no matter how hard you strike the keys.
Velocity sensitivity is also supported by the OP-1 Fieldâs built-in sequencers and over external MIDI.
Other features additions in this firmware update include the ability to match the tape speed to the incoming external clock, the option to toggle between mono and stereo on the line-in, pre-tape panning and the ability to sync the FM transmit frequency with the OP-4, Teenage Engineeringâs âmagicalâ radio.
You can find out more and download the update on the Teenage Engineering website.
News of the update was also broken in the video below:
