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Get Electric Keys free with any paid purchase from Karanyi Sounds.
Expiry: January 20th
Karanyi Sounds offers a free copy of Electric Keys,
Puremagnetik has released Aperuit, a mystical drone synthesizer plugin for Mac & Win. You can get it for $1 (or name-your-price) on Bandcamp.
Expiry: January 20th
Explore the captivating world of classicaltronic duo Larum with Aperuit, Mystical Drone Synthesizer and immerse yourself in their unique blend of expansive soundscapes and haunting woodwind melodies. Aperuit is only $1 (name-your-price) through January 20th and comes with Larum’s new release Live at Public Records | The Music of Hildegard von Bingen available now on Bandcamp.
OSC Audio is offering Kalimba Keys free for a limited time.
Expiry: February 1st
Kalimba Keys is a high-quality Kalimba instrument plug-in designed to deliver authentic and expressive sounds. With features like round robin and per-key sampling, it ensures genuine and nuanced playback for a realistic musical experience. The plug-in also offers essential effects such as tape-style delay, stereo reverb, and versatile multi-modulation FX like Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Tremolo, and Auto Pan, allowing users to elevate their compositions with professional and immersive soundscapes
VST Alarm Exclusive Freebies. The Evanescent, a baby grand piano plugin by New Nation Audio (reg. $19) is available for free.
Expiry: February 1st
Evanescent is a sampled baby grand piano instrument featuring recordings from four different microphones, allowing users to manipulate the sound based on mic placement. Each microphone provides a unique sound and tone, and blending these tones enables the creation of distinctive piano combinations. The instrument offers a light and user-friendly interface, making it easy to find presets or design custom sounds. The minimal FX design encourages the use of familiar effects, providing full control over each piano microphone and facilitating preset browsing for streamlined music production.
NUGEN Audio Annual Survey – get a free plugin and a $100 voucher as rewards for completing a short survey.
Expiry: February 6th
NUGEN Audio offers a free plugin and a $100 voucher to anyone who completes their annual survey. The survey is 14 mandatory questions, completed with checkboxes, and takes about 5 minutes to complete. The survey ends on February 6, 2024.
Free Astral Soundscapes sound pack by Ghosthack.
Forever Free
Free Astral Soundscapes is a cinematic sound pack released by Ghosthack, offering 20 royalty-free soundscapes designed to transport your listeners to otherworldly dimensions. It’s a perfect tool for music producers, filmmakers, sound designers, and anyone seeking to add a touch of cosmic ambiance to their creations.
Variety of Sound has released epicCLOUDS, a free reverb plugin for Windows only.
Forever Free
The epicCLOUDS reverb operates internally with very high-density settings from the outset, delivering very soft and even ambient textures. Despite this, it ensures a high degree of clarity at all settings and prevents unwanted side-effects such as source signal masking.
Arturia has released Vintage Lab, a free nostalgic synth sound bank for Analog Lab.
Forever Free
Arturia is taking you on a trip down memory lane with Vintage Lab, a brand new free sound bank for their popular Analog Lab software synthesizer. Packed with warm, classic synth sounds that evoke the golden age of electronic music, Vintage Lab is a treasure trove for producers and musicians seeking to inject their tracks with a touch of retro magic.
Autodafe has released Pianowa, a free piano library for Decent Sampler, featuring a Steinway and Sons Model B piano.
Forever Free
Autodafe, a software developer, has launched Pianowa, a complimentary piano library for Decent Sampler. This new offering features a Steinway and Sons Model B piano. The samples for this free piano, which requires Decent Sampler, are sourced from the University of Iowa Musical Instrument Samples collection, hence the name “Pianowa”.
Midilab has released JC-303, a free bass synthesizer plugin for Win, Mac & Linux.
Forever Free
The JC303 is a Bass Synthesizer Audio Plugin, designed as a JUCE port of Robin Schmidt’s Open303 DSP engine. The project aims to make the Open303 engine accessible across various platforms and plugin formats, providing musicians and producers with a user-friendly experience. The primary goal is to deliver a faithful clone emulation of the Roland TB-303, including its distinctive sound and iconic step sequencer, to capture the unique character of the original gear.
Autodafe has released Acoustic Bass, a free virtual instrument for the free Decent Sampler.
Forever Free
Autodafe, a software company, released Acoustic Bass, a free virtual instrument for the free Decent Sampler. The instrument is a collection of samples from an old Ibanez Acoustic Bass. It comes with three presets: fingered bass, muted bass, and picked bass.
Kiive Audio has released XTMax, a free drum compressor plugin for Mac & Win.
Forever Free
Kiive Audio’s XTMax is a free drum compressor plugin for Mac and Windows. It’s based on the Distressor hardware compressor, but it’s not a direct emulation of any particular hardware.
Fanan Team has released Rebellion, a free multiband exciter plugin for Windows.
Forever Free
Rebellion is a multibend exciter processor offering 10 types of exciters emulation, from bright to dark color with emphasis on presence and sibilance (bright algos) as well as muffling and bluring (dark algos). It can easily extract high frequency juice from moody vocals or guitar or dim screamy drums and bass. The sound gets soaked per 8 fixed frequency bands separately while the “tone” feature determines the shape of the sound and the “tube” section adds saturation and warmth.
ViatorDSP has released Duplex Comp Lite, a free serial compressor plugin for Win & Mac.
Forever Free
Duplex Comp Lite is a free serial compressor plugin for Windows and macOS developed by ViatorDSP. It’s a freeware plugin that combines two compressors and a limiter into one interface. Duplex Comp Lite is available in VST3 and AU formats and is compatible with Windows 10 and later, and macOS 10.15 and later. However, the free version doesn’t include factory presets, oversampling, or a user manual.
Ronan Fed has released Pneuma Pro, a free polyphonic synth plugin for Windows.
Forever Free
Ronan Fed, a software developer, has introduced Pneuma Pro, a polyphonic synth plugin designed exclusively for Windows users. The plugin aims to offer a new approach to digital music production by providing a versatile tool for generating multiple tones simultaneously. Pneuma Pro caters to music producers and sound designers, allowing them to craft diverse sounds, ranging from basic tones to intricate soundscapes. The release is anticipated to make a significant impact in the digital music production industry.
Florian Mrugalla has released ALLHaas, a free stereo widening plugin for Windows.
Forever Free
Florian Mrugalla has recently launched ALLHaas, a new stereo widening plugin for Windows. ALLHaas utilizes numerous allpass filters to help position elements within a mix. The plugin includes a unique feature that allows users to set a distance parameter for each channel, determining the number of allpass filters and providing flexibility in controlling the depth of the sound within the mix.
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