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Developer Alex Radzishevsky let us know that they’ve released a new freeware tool that’s designed for “acoustic audio de-duplication”.

AFT SonicDeCloner is built to recognize acoustically similar audio files, or “clones”, across various formats by using advanced acoustic fingerprinting technology. The tool “listens “to audio files, and can identify duplicates originating from the same performance or recording, regardless of file compression, format or sound quality.

Alex Radzishevsky says that the tool is designed for audiophiles, DJs, sound engineers, and music enthusiasts, helping you manage audio collections, removing unnecessary duplicates for a more organized, streamlined library.

Features:

• Acoustic-level detection: utilizes sophisticated acoustic fingerprinting algorithm (AFT) to analyze actual sound content, not just file metadata or binary data
• Format and compression agnostic: works with all major audio formats and codecs
• Robust: works with distorted, pitch-shifted and speed-altered audio
• Freeware – free for non-commercial use
• Cross-platform software: Windows, Mac OS, Linux
• Portable, does not require installation
• Works offline and is fully stand-alone
• Supports for batch processing via the command line
• Old-school text interface

AFT SonicDeCloner is available as a free download for Windows. Mac OS and Linux builds are also available.

The SSL X-Orcism II- Voices from the Crypt plug-in is a FREE Halloween. This spooky vocal processor and multi-effects plugin incorporates a delay, reverb, pitch-shifter and noise generator.

Solid State Logic is getting in the Halloween spirit this year with the release of a new free plugin. The sequel to a plugin released 11 years ago, SSL X-Orcism II: Voices from the Crypt is a vocal processor and multi-effects plugin aimed at conjuring spooky timbres and haunting soundscapes.

Packing a delay, pitch-shifter, reverb and noise generator into a single processor, X-Orcism II can not only be used to transform your voice into “eerie and supernatural tones”, but also to lend an unearthly touch to synths, drums, guitars, or frankly any audio source that needs spooking out.

X-Orcism’s simple, easy-to-use interface is equipped with eight encoders; at the top-left we have Echoes and Crypt Size, for dialling in diabolical delays, and beneath that the aptly-named Ghoul and Wail controls can be used to control the pitch-shifter.

Cranking up the Howl control will “evoke the haunting beauty of desolate landscapes” by activating the plugin’s noise generator, which SSL suggests that you automate to create tension-building risers, while the Tombverb dial floods the signal in an atmospheric reverb fit for Tutankhamun. You can adjust the wet/dry balance to taste with the adjacent mix control, or reign in the levels using the output control.

X-Orcism II is equipped with a variety of presets to help you get started right away, and custom-built presets can be transferred across DAWs with SSL’s cross-platform preset management system.

All in all, X-Orcism II is a neat little free plugin, and what it lacks in fine-grained control, it makes up for in character. Though it’ll certainly come in useful for making your voice sound like Frankenstein or summoning dark, eerie soundscapes from your synths, the plugin has the potential to become a useful sound design tool all year round.

X-Orcism II is compatible with macOS and Windows and available in VST/VST3/AU/AAX formats. The plugin is available for free from SSL website, but you’ll be asked to sign up to the company’s newsletter before you can download it.

Developer Aaron Anderson has introduced Terrain, a free and open source software synth that’s available for Linux, Mac and Windows.

What Anderson has to say about it:

“Terrain is a Wave Terrain Synthesis plugin and the natural evolution of my prototype from 2016. This new product was created using JUCE, and features several drastic improvements over the prototype.

Both Terrains and Trajectories can be modified and automated at the audio rate. Trajectories feature a two-dimensional recursive feedback loop to create musically useful time-modulated shapes.

This version is also an Instrument Plugin, making control of plugin parameters and its usefulness as instrument greatly improved.

Terrain is a free and open source project.”

Video Demo of Terrain in action:

Terrain is available now as a free download for Linux, Mac + Windows.