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.
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.
