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MeldaProduction’s MFreeFXBundle, is the biggest collection of free plugins available from a single developer, bringing together 38 audio effects, mixing tools and utilities in a bundle that’s become an essential download for any producers working on a tight budget.

Today, MeldaProduction introduces the latest addition to its MFreeFXBundle, that the company say is “the most powerful free delay ever”: MDelay.

MDelay is equipped with two delay taps, each of which offers individual control over all of its parameters. In these two panels you’ll find controls for feedback, delay time, pan and gain, along with a choice of delay algorithms that lets you choose between a modern-sounding digital delay and a vintage tape delay emulation. You’ll also find three delay types, including a ping-pong mode for echoes that bounce across the stereo field.

The plugin’s delays can be entered in milliseconds or synced to the tempo of your project, with the ability to introduce shuffle or dotted, triplet and tuplet rhythms to add some rhythmic flavour to your delay lines. There are resonant high and low-pass filters onboard, along with a saturation control for dialling in warmth and character.

That’s already a decent amount of functionality for a free delay, but there’s much more: MDelay is equipped with several routing options for serial and parallel processing, along with adjustable filter routing, and opening up the panel on the right-hand side will give you access to additional controls that’ll let you experiment with mid/side processing, design custom macros and generate impulse responses. There’s also a comprehensive metering system onboard for monitoring levels and stereo width.

MDelay arrives with a selection of presets to get you started, but if you want to save custom presets, you’ll have to upgrade to a paid version. MDelay is the little brother to Melda’s six-band multitap delay plugin MDelayMB, which is currently available at a discounted price of €15

Find out more and download MDelay, along with the entire MFreeFXBundle, over at MeldaProduction website.

Imaginando has introduced TV3, an acid bass synth and sequence generator that they say is designed to make creating basslines quick and easy.

It’s available now, through Dec 1st, 2024, as a free download for Mac + Windows.

Features:

• Two oscillators (Main and Sub)
• Two waveforms (Square and Sawtooth)
• 24 dB/oct Low-pass resonant, non-self oscillating filter, with cutoff and resonance
• Envelope modulation, accent and decay
• Distortion with high-pass filter and 4 distinct modes (Saturation, Saturated Wavefolding, Fuzz and Nock)
• Pattern Generator with adjustable complexity, length, scale and key
• 21 different scales to select from
• Easy export of generated MIDI via intuitive drag/drop function
• Simple patch manager for preset saving and recalling
• Built-in classic acid basslines

TV3 is available through Dec 1st, 2024 as a free download (normally $19.99).

Bristol-based plugin developer Ewan Bristow has been turning out some fantastic free plugins this year, including a melodic resonator (EB Resonator).

Bristow’s latest offering looks like his best yet. EB-Blasphemy is a generative, break-slicing sampler plugin with an array of sound-mangling effects built in, letting you transform drum breaks into glitchy, experimental patterns with a click of your mouse. Crank up the tempo, and it’s instant breakcore.

At the core of Blasphemy is its sample slicer, which, though Bristow describes it as an “Amen break chopper engine”, can be used to slice and dice anything from vocal lines to synth riffs to instrumental loops. Load up a sample, make sure the Gen box is checked and hit Trigger, then Blasphemy will begin replaying sample chops starting at random, tempo-synced points within the loop.

Your sample chops will first run through a resonator equipped with two probability-based parameters; the first controls the likelihood that the resonator will be applied, and the second controls the delay time. Two more dials introduce a slide between delay changes and an offset to the delay time’s randomized values.

Alongside the resonator, Bristow’s equipped the plugin with a selection of his favourite “distortive, spectral and experimental effects”, including a spectral gate, a bitcrusher and a reverser, along with an envelope follower that uses your sample’s signal to trigger a noise generator. Dial in a probability value using the sliders next to each to determine how likely it is that a given effect will be applied on each sample slice.

Any break-processing plugin wouldn’t be complete without a timestretcher, and Blasphemy doesn’t disappoint in this regard; crank up the HT dial at the bottom of the control panel and you’ll increase the possibility that each sample slice will be time-stretched. You’ll also find two buttons alongside that can be used to drop in “Woo!” and “Yeah!” samples lifted from the classic Think Break – a nice touch that the old-school jungle heads will surely appreciate.

EB-Blasphemy runs inside the free visual programming environment Plugdata, so you’ll have to install that to run it. Plugdata can be used as a standalone app or as a VST3/AU/CLAP/LV2 plugin.

Find out more and download EB-Blasphemy over at Bristow’s Gumroad page.