A free plugin is on the way. Waves is teasing a free plugin but, Waves isn’t giving us any clues.
While some developers will be giving away existing products as part of their Black Friday plugin deals, Waves has confirmed that it’ll be letting you download a brand-new one for free.
However, Waves isn’t telling us what its free Black Friday plugin is – all we have to go on so far is a tantalisingly blocky screenshot – but we are assured that it’s (VERY exciting), and that 10,000 licences for it are going to be given away.
If you want to make sure you don’t miss out this year’s free Black Friday plugin, your best bet is to head to the Waves website and pre-register to secure your free download – all you need to do is enter your email. You can then check back on Friday 24 November, safe in the knowledge that your plugin will be waiting for you.
Soundtoys has now announced that it is letting you download the company’s Little Plate reverb plugin for free until the end of November.
Inspired by the classic EMT 140 plate reverb, Little Plate is designed to be “fun and inspiring”, and also offers several features that weren’t available in the original. For example, while EMT’s hardware offered just five seconds of reverb time, Little Plate enables you to go way beyond that; in fact, you can have an infinite decay time if you wish.
Other features include a Low Cut filter to tame boomy bass frequencies, and the option to modulate the reverb tail.
Little Plate is actually based on five EMT 140s that Soundtoys got hold of and tuned up. By listening to all of them, the company thinks that it’s managed to create a plugin that really captures the original’s vibe.
The Little Plate runs on Windows and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats.
If you missed out on previous giveaways, you can go and download it now from the Soundtoys website, Ends December 1.
Mixed In Key’s Human plugins promises to make your sterile digital tracks sound like they were recorded by a live band. “Imagine a future where humanising music is as standard as using an EQ plugin”
One of the great things about your DAW is that it enables you to build up your productions track by track, but in doing this, you might lose some of the spontaneity and cosmic interplay you’d get if you were recording a live band. So, Mixed In Key has introduced Human, a supposedly “revolutionary tool” that is designed to give your music the feel that it’s been missing.
Human has a certain amount of academic heft in that it draws on research conducted at the Max Planck Institute and Harvard University. Mixed In Key says that it doesn’t add swing, but instead recreates the “ebb and flow” you get when musicians are listening to and following each other.
Human works on both audio and MIDI tracks (two plugins come supplied), and you can apply its processing to multiple channels simultaneously. You need to tell it which instruments you’re working with so it can work appropriately – the bass will follow your drums, for example – and you can adjust the amount of processing using a single central knob. Because all instances of Human are interconnected, tweaking this knob on one track will affect others.
“Human Plugins revolutionises the humanization of electronic rhythms,” says Yakov Vorobyev, President and Founder of Mixed In Key LLC. “It’s user-friendly, compatible with all major DAWs, and can be applied across multiple channels. The potential is vast; imagine a future where humanising music is as standard as using an EQ plugin. While the technology behind it is intricate, the results speak for themselves, making music sound more authentic and alive.”
Human runs on Windows and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats, price at $49 and can be purchased with the reassurance of a 30-day money back guarantee.
It’s certainly an interesting concept, and one that you can explore further on the Mixed In Key website.
