Rather than employing samples, Ticky Clav instead uses physical modelling to generate its top-notch tones. Ticky Clav is a high-quality Hohner Clavinet emulator - the keyboard instrument that was made famous by Stevie Wonder's Superstition. Each sound has eight editable parameters, making it easy to get stuck-in and get on with making music.Ībove (click to enlarge): Kore Player is based on NI's famous Kore 2 Compared to Yellow Tools' Independence Free, its lacking in editing features, but makes up for this through ease of use. Kore Player is based on NI's powerful Kore 2 system, and features a great library of high-quality sounds. Native Instruments Kore Player (opens in new tab) There are no time or save restrictions, but you can't import your own samples. It might be a cutdown version of Yellow Tools' incredible Independence sound module, but this still has a massive 2GB of content - making it bigger than any other free module. Flux's Bitter Sweet II let's you do just that - it's essentially a transient volume control. These first few milliseconds trigger our recognition of a sound, so messing with them can create some really interesting effects. They're the attack portion, the initial burst of frequencies such as a pick scraping across guitar strings or the reed kicking into life on a saxophone. Transients are one of the primary identifiers of any sounds. As an added bonus, you can 'pop the hood' to adjust the trim pots on the circuit board. The result is gloriously noisy and not for the fainthearted.Ībove (click to enlarge): Multiband compression can be tricky to use, but C3's clean interface helpsīlockfish is a compressor that operates in either VCA or opto mode and, with only four knobs, it's encouragingly easy-to-use. A kazoo (we kid you not) is thrown in for good measure. You can even enable more than one filter mode at a time.īerrtill is an attempt to recreate a specific circuit-bent signal path consisting of a car speaker, a 'remade' tape recorder with a jack input in place of the tape head, a toy microphone and a toy amplifier. It offers low-pass, high-pass, peaking and notch filtering, all with a screaming, squelching resonance, should you want it, and an additional kick in the backside courtesy of the Drive function. It features two independent channels, retro sounding filters and even MIDI learn.Ĭrayon Filter is a powerful, super-squelchy multiband filter. TAL-Dub is a simple but comprehensive delay ideal for dub and more besides. While delay may seem a fairly straightforward effect, many dub producers (and those of other genres) have embraced delay as an intrinsic compositional and creative element. When (if) you need that sound, the SSL LMC-1 can't be bettered. It's an emulation of the compressor used to create the legendary gated drum sound found on Peter Gabriel's intruder and Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight. But SSL's vintage compressor, the LMC-1, is freeware. You'd be hard pressed to think of many manufacturers making costlier gear than SSL. It's also incredibly light on your CPU.Ībove (click to enlarge): The LFX-1310 recalls classic rack multi-effects units Effects include reverb, delay, chorus, tremolo, distortion, auto-wah, EQ, compression and more and they sound good across the board.
It offers a trio of slots into which you can insert any one of 24 effect algorithms. Luxonix's LFX-1310 multi-effects processor takes its cue from the multi-effects modules of old. The TAL-Bassline doesn't sound exactly like the real thing, but it pleases in precisely the same way. It's a nearly pixel perfect recreation of the SH-101's signal-path, although it omits the original's simplistic sequencer. Togu's TAL-Bassline is a clone of Roland's SH-101, one of the biggest-selling monosynths of all time. It's a spectral morphing four-oscillator synth - it sounds amazing and it's rammed with advanced features, too. Every so often we stumble across a freeware synth of such quality that it gives us reason to re-evaluate exactly how much we should be paying for commercial offerings.
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