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Waves’ team must be feeling particularly generous this week, as the software developer announces that it is releasing a bundle of seven free plugins that offers a convolution reverb, FM synth and several emulations of vintage studio gear. Plus, all future updates are free.

Inside you’ll find Lil Tube, a tube saturation emulator with a simple and intuitive interface designed to imbue signals with the warmth, fatness and texture characteristic of vacuum tube-based gear.

This is joined by V-EQ3, a “natural-sounding” emulation of the revered Neve 1073 preamp, and V-Comp, a software version of the Neve 2254 Limiter-Compressor that Waves says delivers a “fat and textured” sound thanks to component-level modelling of the original hardware.

The plugin pack also contains IR Live Reverb, a convolution reverb that includes an extensive library of impulse responses for halls, rooms, plates, cathedrals and more, along with AudioTrack, a channel strip plugin that squeezes EQ, compression and gating into a single processor.

Additionally, the bundle of free software tools features Flow Motion – an FM synth plugin and GTR Solo, a somewhat dated amp simulator and effects suite.

Waves’ Free Plugin Pack also offers StudioVerse Instruments and StudioVerse Audio Effects, two plugins that give you access to Waves’ StudioVerse online preset library. This enables you open multiple instruments and effects within the StudioVerse plugins, save presets to the cloud, share these with the online community and utilize chains from other Waves users and pro producers.

Here’s What You Get in the Pack:

• StudioVerse Audio Effects (New)
• StudioVerse Instruments (New)
• Lil Tube: Sweet Analog Saturation
• IR Live: Real-World Reverb
• V-EQ3: Smooth & Musical Vintage Analog EQ
• V-Comp: Classic Vintage Compressor
• GTR Solo: Pro Effect Pedal-Style FX
• AudioTrack: All-in-One Channel Strip
• Flow Motion: Hybrid FM Synth

All of the 9 plugins are compatible with macOS and Windows and available in AAX/VST3/AU formats. Find out more on Waves’ website.

Developer Iftah has introduced Pyra, a 12-voice expressive string modeling Max 4 Live synthesizer.

What they have to say about it:

“Pyra is my take on physical modelling. It’s a 12-voice string synthesizer that covers everything from acoustic to electric, plucked to bowed string sounds. It runs on Live and Push 3 in standalone mode.

Pyra features deep expression control and plays beautifully with MPE controllers. It can be played microtonally using a microtuner, or abletons built in tuning system. All of Pyra’s parameters are logically laid out and fully controllable via Tabbing, making it accessible to blind, visually impaired, and sighted users.”

Pyra is available now as a free or pay-what-you-want download.

Fors has introduced Sala, a free reverb effect that they say can turn even the smallest of sounds into a wash of shimmering textures.

All sounds in the video comes from a Roland MC-202, processed solely through Sala.

Here’s what they have to say about it:

“Great care has been taken to ensure that Sala can assist any sound in reaching the furthest points of our galaxy with ease. It’s an incredibly unrealistic reverb with a lot of character, distilled into merely five controls from which you can take all kinds of twists and turns.

Sala’s pre-diffusion stage can be navigated between a gentle softening effect to an up-close and personal sound, like zooming in on the details with a camera. Zoom all the way out and the edges start to fade out of focus into pure ambience.”

Sala is available now – for Linux, Mac and Windows – as a free download, with signup at the site.