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Black Friday is upon us, as developers scramble to get you on their mailing lists with the tempting offer of free music-making software. Not a bad deal – as long as you’re okay with an increasingly inflated inbox.

The latest developer to offer up a free plugin in exchange for your email address is Wave Alchemy, who has lovingly recreated the lauded (and eye-wateringly expensive) Bricasti M7 reverb in plugin form, delivering an impressive emulation that you can access entirely free of charge.

Magic7 takes its inspiration from the Bricasti Design Model 7, a $4,000 rackmount reverb that sounds fantastic, but likely sits well outside of the price range of most bedroom producers. Fortunately for us, Wave Alchemy has recreated each of the M7’s 234 presets, from spacious cathedrals to snappy room tones and everything in between.

Magic7 features 11 reverb types, covering Ambience, Chambers, Halls, Plates, Rooms, Spaces and Nonlinear, and the plugin is kitted out with a tempo-synced pre-delay control, along with two adjustable EQ bands. There’s also two types of modulation on offer: Flux introduces stereo spatialization for a subtle sense of movement, while Ensemble applies a richer and more dramatic chorus effect.

In addition, Magic7’s Smooth control will help to tame wayward transients to keep your reverb tails sounding lush, while the Duck slider will stop those tails from interfering with dry elements of your mix.

Magic7 is available now for free to download at the Wave Alchemy website.

Budget-conscious musicians and producers, prepare yourselves: Black Friday is almost upon us. It’s the most wonderful time of year to bag a freebie. And if you’re in the market for a shiny new addition to your studio, Cyber Weekend is the time to buy it. Synths, samplers, guitars, audio interfaces, you name it – if you can use it to make music, it’s probably discounted somewhere.

It’s not only hardware that’s on offer this Cyber Weekend, there are some fantastic Black Friday plugin deals already popping up across the internet.

You know what’s better than a discounted plugin, though? A free plugin. Nobody knows this better than plugin developer Waves, who are celebrating Cyber Weekend with the release of a mysterious freebie, to be revealed on November 29th, AKA Black Friday.

While Waves are remaining tight-lipped on any details, one thing’s for sure: it’s bound to be worth a download, as previous Cyber Weekends have seen Waves drop a variety of freebies that has included lo-fi reverbs, vocal processors and delay plugins endorsed by none other than renowned mix engineer Chris Lord-Alge – seek out those plugins now and you’ll pay through the nose for them, so our advice is to strike while the iron’s hot free.

If you want to secure your copy of Waves’ free plugin this Black Friday, all you need to do is visit their website and sign up to their mailing list. You’ll then be first in line to download the plugin once it’s available.

If you’re a fan of Waves products, then you might also want to take advantage of the brand’s early-bird Black Friday sale, which features a variety of unmissable discounts across many of the best Waves plugins, starting from only $19.99.

Soundtoys let us know that PhaseMistress, a full-featured and powerful plug-in effect designed for rich phase sweeps, analog vibes, and programmable rhythmic modulation, is available through Nov 15th, 2024 as a free download for Mac + Windows.

“When we designed PhaseMistress, we were inspired by the sound of classic analog phase-shifters of the 1970s and 80s, but I think we ended up re-inventing the effect,” said Ken Bogdanowicz, CEO and lead designer at Soundtoys. “By combining a super flexible phase-shifting engine with a powerful modulation system we transformed a stock effect into something totally new and wonderful. We’re still discovering new sounds and new ways to use PhaseMistress.”

PhaseMistress Video Demo:

PhaseMistress puts you in control of all aspects of the phaser sound. You can set the number of stages from 2 up to 24, then fine-tune and offset the resonance, color, and intensity to craft unique phase-shifting styles.

PhaseMistress contains a customizable LFO with preset shapes, or you can draw your own and store it. Plus, you can draw your custom curves in the Tweak panel. Rhythm mode lets you program and store simple or complex patterns, while in Envelope mode, PhaseMistress responds to the dynamics of the incoming audio for funky triggered effects.

Open PhaseMistress’s Style menu to browse an extensive set of styles that give you the sonic flavor of legendary hardware like the Bi-Phase, Super Phaser, Phase 90, Instant Phaser, Small Stone, and more. These retro analog sounds combined with modern controls and customizable LFO make PhaseMistress one of the most powerful phase effects available.

Users who download the free PhaseMistress plug-in will also get a discounted upgrade offer in their Soundtoys account to trade up their PhaseMistress license to the Soundtoys 5 bundle. They say that, with the Soundtoys Black Friday sale starting soon, that deal will get even sweeter.

The Hidden Depths of PhaseMistress:

PhaseMistress is available thru Nov 15, 2024 as a free download.