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By far the most popular is 32 Lives ( ~£67) or a significantly cheaper option at about £6 is jBridge (however I think this only wraps VSTs, so do some reading around it before paying the price).
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At higher values I found the Drive unusable, though.įor those of you mourning the loss of your 32-bit buddies there are wrappers available. I did really like the built in EQ (or response as it calls it) which is great for either adding or removing a little slice of top-end.
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More of an afterthought really, this handy device is a nice free alternative to PSP’s Vintage Warmer, albeit with slightly less functionality. Billed as the little brother of Camel Phat, it was a great tube and digital distortion with a built in low-pass filter and compressor. This distortion plugin is sadly no longer supported by Camel Audio (who have rumoured to have been bought out by Apple ). Once it’s back it’s definitely worth getting. It would have made it into the top six but the downloads have been temporarily switched off while they try and find somewhere new to host it. Not many controls, but that just adds to it’s brilliance. For me, it perfectly encapsulates that ‘primary school piano’ sound: brash but cuts through the mix really nicely. Probably my favourite upright piano sound out there. However their commercial products look very appealing so certainly worth checking out. Sadly TAL’s free content is unsupported and 32-bit only. In addition their tube distortion and bit/sample reduction tools are a must for everyone, too. Some of their instruments model classic synths like Roland’s SH-101 and Juno 106, both of which I am a huge fan of. TAL’s line of free synthesisers and effects is pretty extensive: they have most of the things you need to get going with a modest home studio, from synths to effects units. Not helped by the bemusing interface, it falls somewhere between a warm, hazy distortion and a filter of sorts. Have a read about the looking glass that is Max4Live here.Ī really quirky hybrid effect that’s hard to pin down what it does exactly.
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To obtain M4L functionality you have to have purchased Ableton Suite (not Standard or Intro) however, once you’ve installed it, there’s a plethora of user-designed and library plugins you can download and customise to your own ends. Okay, this might seem like a bit of a cheat because it is, in fact, not entirely free. Their plugins come in at around £30, however they offer free version of their EQ, Compressor and dynamics processor. Relative new-comers to the plugin scene, future-funk stalwarts Tokyo Dawn Records have set up a development arm of the label. Though these patches aren’t as flexible as their full-release counterparts, they’re more than enough to get going. However, the nice people at NI give away lots of free, ready-to-use stuff including stripped down versions of Reaktor, Komplete, Guitar Rig and Kontakt. I’ve been using Reaktor for years and the Komplete library is probably one of the most widely used bundles about.
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Native Instruments produce some of the most forward-thinking synthesisers around right now. Have a look at this guide to parallel compression in Live that exploits the heavier side of this plugin. This isn’t really for the faint-hearted as it only really deals in brutal and bypassed. Their Rough Rider is a hugely dirty compressor, great for one particular type of sound. Perhaps more known for their Eurorack modules now, Audio Damage started life as plugin developers. Available as an Audio Unit and VST, it’s a non-mover from my master channel strip. Spectral Analysis is an incredibly useful tool in both sound design, mixing and mastering. Voxengo make numerous free plugins but their resident spectral analyser, SPAN, is by far their most useful. Voxengo SPANĪbsolute staple for me, can’t live without it. I’ve put together a list of the free plugins that I rely on daily, and are useable with a 64-bit DAWs such as Logic X or Ableton Live 9. Lots of the paid-for plugins have switched to 64-bit but it’s free ones that I want to focus on. Many plugins I have relied on, such as ’s s(M)exoscope, iZotope Vinyl and Tone2’s BiFilter2, have sadly not made the switch from 32-bit. Since the switch to 64-bit, I’ve had my plugin library halved and had to re-evaluate what I can and can’t use on a daily basis when producing.