GullDSP releases Circulate, a FREE phase smearing plugin for Windows
GullDSP has released Circulate, a free and open-source phase smearing plugin for Windows that delivers a unique take on all-pass filtering. Circulate works by using banks of all-pass filters to delay and scatter the phase of your audio around a center frequency. The result is a phase smearing effect that sounds hollow and slightly reverberant. [...]
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Get Stagecraft Software Parity EQ for FREE on BPB (3,000 Keys Available)
Stagecraft Software is giving away 3,000 free copies of Parity EQ, a powerful equalizer plugin typically priced at $75, exclusively to Bedroom Producers Blog readers. Parity EQ isn’t your average EQ. It’s designed for movement, modulation, and creative filtering. Rather than simply cutting or boosting frequencies, it can react dynamically to your music. This allows [...]
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Saint Mike DSP releases Ceiling Fan clipper/limiter plugin and it’s FREE for a limited time
Saint Mike DSP has released Ceiling Fan, a FREE (limited-time offer) clipper/limiter plugin for macOS and Windows. I believe the Ceiling Fan from Saint Mike DSP was released a couple of weeks ago, but I missed it on release, and I thought I’d share the news for anyone else who hasn’t checked it out yet. [...]
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ZAK Sound AsteroidAsteroid is a virtual instrument built for futuristic sounds that push your music into new dimensions. From deep cosmic drones to shimmering pads and crystalline synth keys, each preset brings a unique, otherworldly character. Read More

MPG & UK Music back studio rates petition The MPG and UK Music are calling on the UK government to recognise recording studios as eligible for reduced business rates Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) scheme, a move which they say could safeguard hundreds of vital cultural spaces across the country. 

Ocean Swift Sample Tester is a new FREE sampling tool for Kontakt Player
Ocean Swift releases Sample Tester, a FREE sampling tool for Native Instruments Kontakt Player. Ocean Swift’s Sample Tester might be the most aptly-named release we’ve ever come across for Kontakt Player. Although it’s an incredibly easy-to-use tool, there’s more to Sample Tester than sample playback, of course. It provides a fast and straightforward way to [...]
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Bus Transient plug-in from Arturia Bus Transient aims to become the go-to choice for transient shaping, offering intuitive control over attack and sustain while providing users with detailed, real-time visual feedback. 

GullDSP CirculateDetails Circulate is an audio effect which uses banks of allpass filters to create phase smearing effects. The allpass filters, while leaving the frequency spectrum untouched, cause selective phase shifts around the chosen center frequency. These offsets present themselves as hollow and metallic short reverberation-like effects, useful for adding a dynamic metallic character to sounds. The effect is most pronounced on transient material, such as bass stabs, drum hits and plucks. Demonstration Video YouTube Audio Demo Features: Sample accurate parameters and automation. Suitable for fast and complex automation and control via DAW modulators (for example, Ableton LFOs). Up to 64 stages of allpass filtering with variable Q (Resonance). Center frequency can be controlled in Hz, or by selecting a MIDI note as the center. Optional positive or negative feedback through the filter bank to create spectral effects. Similar to a steep phaser. Parameters: Center - Center frequency of the allpass filter(s) in Hz. Pitch - Sets the center frequency as semitone. Det - Allows smooth offset (+/- 1 Octave) of the center frequency from the selected MIDI note. Focus - The Q factor, or 'Resonance' of the allpass filters. Lower Q values spread the phase smearing over a wider range, higher values focus the smearing tighter around the center. Depth - Sets the number of allpass filters in the filter bank, up to a maximum of 64. Stacking filters leads to more phase shift 'centers' at regular spacings. Feed - Feedback is introduced into the filter bank, this *will* lead to frequency spectrum changes, through cancelling or boosting affected frequencies. Acknowledgements: This project is built using the Steinberg VST 3 SDK(Steinberg.net). VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. Read More

Safari Pedals Retro Rhino Reverb Plugin is FREE for a Limited Time
Safari Pedals is offering its Rhino Reverb plugin (list price $49) for free with the code SanjaySafariMadnessRhino for a limited time.  Rhino Reverb is a retro-inspired verb for macOS (macOSX 10.15 or later) and Windows (Windows 8 or later, 64-bit only). The formats are macOS (VST3, AU, AAX) and Windows (VST3, AAX).  To get your [...]
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Xilentch releases FREE XMTape&Clip mastering tape and clipper plugin
XMTape&Clip is the latest addition to Xilentch’s XM plugin series, which includes the promising XMLimiter that we checked out back in August. I missed XMLimiter the first time around, and as Tomislav pointed out in his article, the plugin was rough around the edges, which isn’t uncommon for a new developer (especially with freeware/donationware). However, [...]
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Lauten Audio launch the Kick Mic Joining the Tom Mic and Snare Mic, and sharing their refreshingly logical naming convention, the Kick Mic promises to deliver instant attack, clarity and defined low-end power while avoiding common pitfalls such as bleed and low-frequency build-up. 

The Crow Hill Company release Rhythm Machine Vaults Rhythm Machine is said to capture the character of the hardware that inspired it, while expanding on the original design with the addition of some built-in effects.

Playfair Audio update Dynamic Grading plug-in Playfair Audio have just released a free maintenance update that kits their Dynamic Grading plug-in a range of user-requested improvements and fixes 

Metric Halo MELDMELD provides a comprehensive signal chain for your ATMOS and stereo mix processing: 12-band fully parametric EQ with Analyzer. Compressor. Limiter. Loudness/Clipping processor. MixHead tape saturation processor. All of the process blocks are dynamically reorderable and groupable across any number of instances. MELD is the answer to the problem of building a cohesive music mix in ATMOS. It was created to solve the key issue that John Hanes was encountering while building immersive ATMOS mixes to match stereo mix masters. In ATMOS immersive mixes, channels are mixed to beds and objects. A bed is a multichannel bus or stem, and may be processed similarly to how a stereo bus is processed (as long as you have multichannel capable tools - which MELD provides). Objects, which are required for immersive overhead panning, are panned by the renderer - which means they must be delivered discretely. Simply put, with ATMOS objects, when you are processing audio that conceptually forms a bus, the bus you are creating is virtual (as there is never a sum available in the mix environment). With a virtual bus there is no place to apply bus processing, which is a key technique in building proper music mixes for pop and rock. MELD elegantly and quickly solves this problem. It turns out that solving these problems in ATMOS mixes yields great benefits for stereo mixes as well. When you insert MELD into a session, every instance is aware of all the other instances. You can access any channel directly from within the MELD UI - no need to navigate your mix from the host DAW - everything (including Solo, Mute, Metering and grouping) is at your fingertips within the MELD UI. MELD has 26 virtual busses (groups); any instance can be added to a group. All instances in a group share the same processor settings. This allows you to apply the same processing to many channels - same as you would if you bussed them together and applied the processing on the bus. But each channel is still available discretely to be sent to objects or processed further. MELD also allows you to manage the detector sidechain for the dynamics processing blocks (Compressor and Limiter) in a group. This lets you key channels within a group or from any other channel or bus that has a MELD instance - all without having to manage complex routing within the host. The default shared-sidechain routing for groups allows you to achieve bus-compression for channels routed to objects. MELD also provides exciting new tricks that are unavailable in traditional bus-processing workflows; since the channels that are part of the bus are still available discretely after processing, you can adjust levels and EQ post-bus compression - whether or not you plan to send the channels to objects or simply submix them back to a stereo bus or a multichannel bed. And of course, it sounds great. Key Features World-class Signal Processing and Workflow 12-band Fully Parametric EQ w/ Analyzer. Compressor. Limiter. MixHead tape processing. Loudness clip processing. Instantaneous Process block reordering. User-Selectable Over-sampling (up to 16x). Process-overview UI. 26 Virtual Busses/Groups. Integrated Solo+Mute. Instance Table with project overview and metering. LUFs and True Peak Metering per channel. Reference LUFs and True Peak Metering readouts for selected channels. Support for Mono to 9.1.6 channel instances. Shared-sidechains between instances to support keying and virtual bus compression/limiting. Many presets included. Adjustable UI size. MH Preset Manager - Provides cross-platform presets. YouTube.com/watch?v=1H0Y-axDiy4 YouTube.com/watch?v=lwXYwjA4J68 Read More

API 312 joins Karno’s SEPIA platform The latest third-party module for Karno's SEPIA brings an official version of API's much-loved 312 mic pre to the modular platform.