Minimal Audio is a developer known for its unique and creative effects plugins (Rift distortion) and also the Current soft synth and content platform, released late last year.
Minimal Audio’s latest plugin release is Swarm Reverb, a “fun and flexible” reverb plugin capable of producing everything from “expansive ambience” to “pumping spaces and lush creative effects”.
Swarm Reverb is a dual-stage reverb with separate algorithms and controls for both early and late reflections, meaning it can confidently handle the whole spectrum of reverbs from realistic spaces to stratospheric ambient decays.
Both the early and late reflections tabs are equipped with controls for attack, decay, reverb size and damping, in addition to width and diffusion. You’re able to blend between both types of reverb with a balance control.
Swarm is equipped with input filters (high and low-pass) and a diffusion filter for sculpting the frequencies of your reverb tail, alongside controls for tempo-synced predelay and a handy wet/dry mix slider at the bottom of the window to dial in the desired amount of reverb to your signal.
There is also a built-in ducker for that’ll carve out space in the reverb tail using the dry signal, along with a modulation section that adjusts time values across both reverb algorithms, with controls for depth and modulation rate. Swarm also has a soft clipper at the output stage for introducing limiting and saturation to the final product.
Swarm Reverb is available now for Windows and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats and is priced at $49. Find out more on Minimal Audio website.
MandalaDrum let us know that orders are now open for a limited production run of the Mandala V3 drum pad control system.
They say that the Mandala’s multi-layer internal design provides an optimized playing feel and is topped with surface art depicting concentric strike zones and 128 high resolution detection rings.
Features:
4 surface triggers and 9 rim triggers (polyphonic), velocity sensitive
All triggers can be held and sustained
Continuous pressure output for surface (0-127 soft to hard)
Continuous pressure output for rims (0-127 soft to hard)
Continuous slide output for surface (0-127 center to edge)
Surface strike position output (0-127 center to edge)
No false triggers or crosstalk
Zero discernible latency (600 microseconds)
USB-B (plug-and-play) and 5-pin MIDI output for playability out-of-the-box with your favorite software and hardware.
Interchangeable hardware module system for future expandability
Mounts easily to existing drum hardware (L-Rods/L-Arms up to 10.5mm)
Floating rim section component for trigger isolation
Multi-layer sub-surface design for enhanced feel and low strike noise
Playable with sticks or hands/fingers
Fully configurable MIDI output with preset saving by way of the V3-Utility app (for advanced users)
The Mandala v3 is available to pre-order for $599, with shipping estimated for June 2024.
Oversynth.com let us know that it now has front panel overlay kits available for both the Behringer Edge and Crave synthesizers, two of the instruments in their Moog knockoff trilogy.
The overlays address one of the most common criticisms of the Edge and Crave – the color and design of their front panels. The available designs range from classic black and white labeling, above, to various color-coded options. All designs use high-contrast graphics and large fonts, where possible, for easier viewing in low light.
Each kit comes with a front panel overlay, custom-cut black vinyl strips for masking out the front and back edges of the synth, as well as a sticker showing dip-switch settings for the synth’s MIDI channel.
