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Panipulator 2 Free Plugin Check How Your Mixes Will Translate to Different Systems

Even though you spent considerable time and effort getting your mix to sound amazing on your monitors, there is still one very important question: What will it sound like playing at a theme park? or at the dentists office? or on your old radio? What if they wired one of the speakers backwards?

As much as we’d like to think that everyone is listening our music in stereo, the truth is that many many people are listening in less than ideal environments. Panipulator lets you hear what your mix will sound like in those environments so you can be sure that your mixes will translate across all systems.

What will your mix sound like summed to mono? Flip a switch to find out. What if someone wires their system so that they can only hear the left channel? Flip a switch to hear what that sounds like. What if they reverse the wiring on one of their speakers? Flip a switch to find out to see how that will affect your song. These are all common scenarios, and the last thing you want to do is find out is that your mom’s voice, that you thought was buried in the mix, pops out when played over the loudspeakers at Nordstrom.

Panipulator will barely make a dent in your CPU usage, so there is no reason that this plugin should not be a default on every single song you mix.

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Plugin Boutique Big Kick – Kick Drum Design Plugin Mac PC

PluginBoutique – Loopmasters’ sister site selling music software – has just released their first proprietary plugin, “Big Kick”. Created in collaboration with Credland Audio, Big Kick was Developed to help producers make kick drum design easy and enjoyable and includes a set of features to help them get results quickly. With ease of use in mind, the interface is simple to grasp and controls are limited only to those useful in achieving the plugin’s purpose of producing great drum sounds.

PluginBoutique (www.pluginboutique.com ) – Loopmasters’ sister site selling music software – has just released their first proprietary plugin, “Big Kick”. Created in collaboration with Credland Audio, Big Kick was Developed to help producers make kick drum design easy and enjoyable and includes a set of features to help them get results quickly. With ease of use in mind, the interface is simple to grasp and controls are limited only to those useful in achieving the plugin’s purpose of producing great drum sounds.

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Key Features of the plugin include the following:

·         Kick drum synthesis – can replicate the majority of today’s and yesterday’s kick sounds*
·         Factory library includes 300 attack types and 110 presets*
·         Tuned kick drums
·         Easily integrates with your existing sample libraries
·         Easier to use than any previous kick drum design tool
·         Drag-and-drop sample creation
·         Auto-play mode for instant start and jamming
·         No-phase-shift free-sound-shaping Overdrive
·         High pass filter (again, phase-shift-free): avoid nasty surprises in the bottom end.

*Preset designers include Audialize, Cutline, Daniel Daly, D-Product, Freemasons, Jamie Anderson, Jim Credland, John Lead, Kris O’Neil, Niche Audio, Rasmus Faber and Timo Garcia. With some extra input from Nick Sentience.

“Big Kick” is available for both Mac and PC and is available in both 32 and 64bit formats.

Full product details available HERE

EZdrummer 2 Product Preview [Videos]

Toontrack’s Ezdrummer 2 has been a big hit with musicians who want a simple way of creating high-quality rhythm tracks for their productions, so it comes as no surprise that the company has now announced version 2.

Said to be a completely new program, this brings new features for songwriting, a new user interface, a remodelled audio engine, a new mixer with effects chains, two new sound libraries and a selection of percussion sounds.

Check out these preview videos:

Toontrack has also updated its range of EZX expansion libraries for use with EZdrummer 2. Each one now has new effects chains and optimised graphics.

You can find out more about EZdrummer 2 on the Toontrack website. It’ll be available on 6 May at a list price of $179/€139. Upgrades will cost $99/€79

Auphonic Leveler – Batch Audio File Processor for Loudness

The Auphonic Leveler is an intelligent Desktop Batch Audio File Processorwhich analyzes your audio and corrects level differences between speakers, between music and speech and between multiple audio files to achieve a balanced overall loudness.
It includes a True Peak Limiter and targets for common Loudness Standards (EBU R128, ATSC A/85, Podcasts, Mobile, etc.).

The Auphonic Leveler is an intelligent Desktop Batch Audio File Processor which analyzes your audio and corrects level differences between speakers, between music and speech and between multiple audio files to achieve a balanced overall loudness.
It includes a True Peak Limiter and targets for common Loudness Standards (EBU R128, ATSC A/85, Podcasts, Mobile, etc.).

The Auphonic Leveler is available for Mac OS X 10.6+ (64bit) and Windows Vista/7/8 (32bit or 64bit).

Auphonic Leveler Feature Highlights – Algorithms

Adaptive Leveler

The Adaptive Leveler analyzes the content of audio files and balances loudness variations between different segments in one audio file. It is most suitable for speech or radio-like programs or podcasts.

The algorithm classifies music, background and speech segments in the audio file
Loudness differences are corrected by applying dynamic range compression
Music segments are handled differently than speech segments: natural dynamics are retained
Background noises (noise, wind, breathing, silence, etc.) won’t be amplified

Loudness Normalization

Global Loudness Normalization algorithms calculate the loudness of audio files and apply a constant gain to reach a defined target level in LUFS, so that all processed audio files have the same average loudness based on the latest broadcast standards including those for television (EBU R128, ATSC A/85), radio and mobile.

True Peak Limiter

Auphonic Leveler’s True Peak Limiter, with 4x oversampling to avoid intersample peaks, is used to limit the final output signal to the selected maximum true peak level to ensure compliance with the selected loudness target.

Adaptive High Pass Filter

The Adaptive High Pass Filter cuts unnecessary and disturbing low frequencies, depending on context.

Supported Input File Formats:

WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis
Mac OS X only: MP4/M4A/M4B, AAC, ALAC, CAF, AC3, MP2, 3GP

Supported Output File Formats:

WAV, AIFF, MP3 (via lame), FLAC, Ogg Vorbis
Mac OS X only: AAC (M4A)

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Free EQ Plugin – SlickEQ – VST / AU

TDR VOS SlickEQ is a mixing/mastering equalizer designed for ease of use, musical flexibility and impeccable sound.

Three (and a half) filter-bands arranged in a classic Low/Mid/High semi-parametric layout offer fast and intuitive access to four distinct EQ modes, each representing a set of distinct EQ curves and behaviors. An elaborate auto gain option automatically compensates for changes of perceived loudness during EQ operation. Optionally, SlickEQ allows to exclusively process either the stereo sum or stereo difference (i.e. “stereo width”) without additional sum/difference encoding.

In order to warm up the material with additional harmonic content, SlickEQ offers a switchable EQ non-linearity and an output stage with 3 different saturation models. These options are meant to offer subtle and interesting textures, rather than obvious distortion. The effect is made to add the typical “mojo” often associated with classy audio gear.

An advanced 64bit multirate processing scheme practically eliminates typical problems of digital EQ implementations such as frequency warping, quantization distortion and aliasing.

Beside the primary controls, the plug-in comes with an array of additional helpers: Advanced preset management, undo/redo, quick A/B comparison, copy & paste, an online help, editable labels, mouse-wheel support and much more.

SlickEQ is a collaborative project by Variety of Sound (Herbert Goldberg) and Tokyo Dawn Labs (Vladislav Goncharov and Fabien Schivre).

Key specs and features

Intuitive, yet flexible semi parametric EQ layout
Full featured, modern user interface with outstanding usability and ergonomics
Carefully designed 64bit “delta” multi-rate structure
Three EQ bands with additional 18dB/Oct high-pass filter
Four distinct EQ models: “American”, “British”, “German” and “Soviet” with optional non-linearity
Four output stages: “Linear”, “Silky”, “Mellow” and “Deep”
Advanced saturation algorithms by VoS (“stateful saturation”)
Highly effective and musically pleasing loudness compensated auto gain control
Oversampled signal path including stateful saturation algorithms
Stereo and sum/difference processing options
Tool-bar with undo/redo, A/B, advanced preset management and more

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Organize Audio Unit Plugins with Auganizer

You can now change the developer/manufacturer name and use a much more logical workflow orientated layout. You could, for instance, arrange by the type of effect, and we even allow you to go further by making multi layers with sub folders. This gives you the ability to create hierarchies such as; “Compressor > Multi-band” and “Compressor > Single-band”, so you have full control over how YOU want your plugins organized.

Organize Audio Unit Plugins – Auganizer Highlights

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Free Plugin – Soundtoys Little Primaltap – Dirty Little Delay

Inspired by the classic Prime Time*, Little PrimalTap™ captures the highly distinctive sonic imprint of this quirky, and well-loved (by those in the know) vintage digital delay. Don’t be fooled by it’s simple interface, Little PrimalTap lets you unleash your creative urges to echo, loop, warp, distort, mangle, or create cacophonous cascades of otherworldly sounds. And it’s totally free (for a limited time).

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Waves Abbey Road Reel ADT ( Artificial Double Tracking ): In-Depth Tutorial & Free Demo

Waves/Abbey Road Reel ADT is the first plugin to successfully emulate Abbey Road Studios’ pioneering process of Artificial Double Tracking. The effect that would become an integral part of Abbey Road’s signature sound was initially created at the famed studios in the 1960s to meet the needs of some very special clients: The Beatles.

Reel ADT puts the magic of that era in your hands within seconds. Using its intuitive controls, you can advance or push back the doubled signal to achieve genuine, lush-sounding delay and pitch variations. You can also drive each of the signals separately to add beautiful tape saturations.

With its authentic modeled valve tape machine sound and faithful emulation of wow and flutter, this extraordinary plugin can enhance any track with the impression of two separate takes, giving you results as close as possible to real double tracking. Other classic Abbey Road tape effects such as flanging and phasing can also be achieved with ease.

All the character, depth and panoramic sound of this inimitable classic effect can now be created digitally, simply and for real: Reel ADT.

Check out this In-Depth Tutorial. AUDIO DEMOS BEGIN AT 09:15

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Free Glitch Audio Unit / VST Plugin – GlitchMachines Fracture

FRACTURE is a FREE buffer effect plugin geared toward creating robotic artifacts and abstract musical malfunctions.

Fracture features a buffer effect, a multimode filter, three LFOs and a delay. This plugin is geared toward adding glitchy articulations and abstract textures to your projects. Use it on anything from drum and percussion loops to synth lines and sound effects. Fracture’s intuitive interface and diverse features make it simple to give your projects a unique technical edge.

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Howto: Render Output From MIDI Fx Plugins To MIDI Region Logic Pro X

AudioCR has released Midi FX Freeze, a free AU plug-in for Mac OS X that allows freezing of new Logic Pro X MIDI plug-ins such as chorder or arpeggiator for further editing on track.
It’s easy to use and offers drag and drop support.

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