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.
Analog Lab Play is a free Arturia plugin with a simplified interface and V Collection and Pigments sounds. New instrument comes with 100 easily-browsable presets that can be tweaked with macro controls.
Arturia has introduced Analog Lab Play, a free virtual instrument & simplified version of the existing Analog Lab plugin that’s designed to give you a wide range of sounds in a streamlined interface.
In a nutshell, Analog Lab Play is a free plugin that gives you a streamlined way to work with a collection of 100 presets. Behind the scenes, sounds are generated by the sound engines of Arturia’s V Collection & Pigments virtual instruments. These can be browsed and tweaked in minimalist GUIs, with macro controls (Brightness, Timbre, Time and Movement) enabling you to make “playful and immediate” changes to your selected sound. There are also four effects: two modulation processors, a delay and a reverb.
Arturia is confident that Analog Lab Play’s design will enable you to find the kind of patch you’re looking for in a matter of seconds, and you can save your favourites for even quicker retrieval later on.
Analog Lab Play Overview:
Analog Lab Play runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats. If you like the interface, you can purchase additional sound libraries.
Arturia Analog Lab Play is available now as a free download. Find out more and download it for free on the Arturia website.
Tape It has introduced Denoiser, a fully automatic, studio quality noise reduction tool for audio.
Denoiser automatically removes background noise, such as hums and hisses, and can produce studio-quality results on voice, full songs, single instrument tracks, and field recordings.
Denoiser is the result of over two years of research on how to combine traditional signal processing with modern AI algorithms, to get the best of both worlds: the studio quality results from the former and the automation and ease of use of the latter.
Coinciding with the launch, the company has released an academic study with a comprehensive scientific listening test, which they say show that the software’s quality competes with industry-leading denoisers.
The developers say that they focused on three main areas:
Immediate results that would otherwise require expertise and complex software.
Accessibility by making it as simple as possible, with just one slider to set the strength of reduction.
Protecting the original sound by keeping instruments’ and vocals’ unique character, with no harsh processing.
Denoiser will be officially presented at the Audio Engineering Convention in New York from October 25th to 27th, and is available to use for free at the Tape It website.
