Ever notice how your voice sound cool in the shower?
A free (pay what you like) plugin promises to bring that reflective, reverberate sound to your Mac or Windows DAW.
Hot Shower Audio’s bathROOMs is a reverb plugin designed around five distinct bathroom environments: Lavender, Porcelain, Cove, Greenhouse, and Baldosa.
The plugin uses a common reverb engine with controls that alter the perceived distance, surface characteristics, slap reflections, balance between discrete reflections and diffuse reverb, and tonal character.
An overview (in Spanish):
Features:
Five room variations: Lavender, Porcelain, Cove, Greenhouse, and Baldosa
Position control for changing the perceived distance and associated brightness and width
Surface control for adjusting the reflective character of the room
Slap control for parallel-wall reflections with an independent feedback loop
Wash control for balancing distinct reflections against a more diffuse reverb response
Temp control for changing the tonal character between brighter and warmer responses
Two full A/B settings for comparison
Copy function for transferring settings between A/B slots
Included presets
Dark mode interface
Integrated sidechain ducker
bathROOMs is available now as a pay-what-you-want download, with a minimum price of $0.
Rithmatic is a patch librarian and editor that imports Yamaha DX7 sound banks, converts them to Korg volca FM2 programs, and sends them directly to the hardware.
Rithmatic is a free application for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android that’s designed to make it ease to create and manage FM patches for the Korg volca FM2.
It can import individual DX7 voices, 32-voice bulk banks, .syx and .sys files, and ZIP archives, converting the sounds into native FM2 programs. Patches can be searched, tagged, favorited and organized into collections, while programs can be sent to the FM2’s edit buffer or stored in its 64 memory slots.
Rithmatic also includes a six-operator FM editor with a node-based routing canvas and a built-in FM engine for auditioning patches without the hardware. The application communicates directly with the FM2 using USB-MIDI SysEx and operates without network connectivity.
Features:
Imports individual Yamaha DX7 voices
Imports 32-voice DX7 bulk banks
Supports DX7 .syx and .sys files
Imports ZIP archives containing DX7 banks
Converts DX7 voices to native Korg volca FM2 programs
Searches, tags and favorites patches
Organizes patches into collections
Automatically detects duplicate patches
Sends patches to the FM2 edit buffer
Writes patches to the FM2’s 64 memory slots
Six-operator FM synthesis editing
Node-based operator routing canvas
Supports all 32 FM2 algorithms
Provides operator ratio and envelope controls
Includes live auditioning of edits on the FM2 hardware
Provides full undo and redo for patch editing
Includes a built-in FM engine for auditioning patches without the hardware
Backs up all 64 programs and 16 sequences in a named backup
Restores the FM2’s programs and sequences from a backup
Reads Yamaha DX7 packed 128-byte voice format
Reads Yamaha DX7 expanded 155-byte voice format
Communicates with the FM2 using USB-MIDI SysEx
Operates without outbound network connections
Supports Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android
Requires a Korg volca FM2
Requires a class-compliant USB-MIDI connection
Rithmatic is available now for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android as a free download.
Developer Robin van Soelen let us know about gesture.live, a free, browser-based application that turns your webcam into an instrument.
gesture.live lets you play with hand gestures through your webcam. Use you left hand to play chords and the right hand to play melody, bass, drums or FX.
Check it out and let us know what you think of it in the comments!
