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Get Ready for Black Friday

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Get Ready for Black Friday!

Black Friday is coming up and some Audio / Libraries companies are already releasing their offers with some really good discounts, and honestly its a great opportunity to update your virtual sound libraries or discover some new ones, like It happened to me. I have chosen some that I consider a great investment for a home studio on a budget. Have a look a this options:

Free Waves plugin

If you register your email at Waves Website before Friday, you will get a link from Waves to download a Free Plugin that Waves is going to give away only during Black Friday. How cool is that?

Cinematic Grand by Antisample.com

Honestly this one is been a great discovery, for only 25 Dollars you get a great Cinematic Piano Sound, with endless possibilities. Here is what they say:
“We chromatically sampled each of the 88 notes of an expertly tuned Yamaha C2 concert grand piano at 5 velocity layers per note each with key release samples and additional sustain pedal noises for a smoothly cinematic and realistic sound while keeping the instrument CPU and RAM streamlined for real-time playability and use in large projects.”

Important  System Requirements:
Native Instrument’s Kontakt 4 / 5 (full version)
Full retail version of Kontakt 4.2.3 / 5.2 or later required
320 MB harddrive space
Ability to download
PC 1.8Ghz+, 256+ MB ram
MAC 2.0Ghz+, 256+ MB ram
More Detail Information about Cinematic Grand by antisample.com

35 % Discount in all Soundiron Products

 

If the product is over 500 Dollars you can add 20% more discount using the special code: BIGTIME

 

Sale runs from Nov 24th to Dec 1st

Soundiron is one of the great companies that produces some of the best FX and audio libraries for games and cinema soundtracks. About a year ago a bought the Olympus Elements Library recommended by a friend and its just incredible. So go and check their website:

Analogue Drums 2 for 1 deal!

Starts November 27 ends December 2

 

This is been another great discovery, amazing drums sound at a great price. With a great variety of Styles and drums sets. There many options of Drums Sound library, but what I have experience is that often is hard to find  good soft drums with “Jazzy” sound, and for the price probably this is something to consider.

“Analogue Drums kits are distinctive sounding drum libraries that are regarded as some of the most natural, organic, toneful and ‘real’ sampled drums available. We seek out great sounding kits, track them in a variety of cool acoustic spaces through fine mics and selected analogue gear to produce characterful drum sounds.”*

*Requieres Kontakt Full Version

Make sure you read the description of the Products and that you have the full version of Kontakt, not the “player” version.

Go to Analogue Drums Website

TDR VOS SlickEQ Free Plugin

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TDR VOS SlickEQ Free Plugin  win/mac

Tokyo Dawn Records has just release a new free EQ plugin that just looks awesome! not just for the posibilities of use or quality but also for the great looking interface. Among all the free plugins available on the internet Tokyo Dawn offers probably if not the best some of the best available free plugins available today.

About TDR VOS SlickEQ

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 structure 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.

Available Colours

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
Stereo and sum/difference processing options
Tool-bar with undo/redo, A/B, advanced preset management and more
SlickEQ is a collaborative project by Variety of Sound (Herbert Goldberg) and Tokyo Dawn Labs (Vladislav Goncharov and Fabien Schivre).
System requirements:
Win XP SP2 or above, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or above.
Compatibility:
OS

Mac OS X Windows

32 Bits

VST, AU, AAX VST

64 Bits

VST, AU, AAXVST, AAX

Download:

http://www.tokyodawn.net/tdr-vos-slickeq/

 

Free Plugin UltraChannel by Eventide until July 8

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Free Plugin UltraChannel by Eventide until July 8

This is an Exceptional opportunity limited to the 8 of July, an amazing versatile plugin that you can use in a channel strip or side chain.

UltraChannel™ is Eventide’s new 64-bit native channel strip plug-in for AU, VST, and AAX64 for Mac and PC featuring micro pitch functionality from our flagship H8000, stereo delays with variable feedback paths, plus two stages of compression, gating, and five bands of parametric EQ. UltraChannel is available as a free download through midnight July 8, 2014, after which it will cost $249.
UltraChannel features a pair of dynamics processors: the O-Pressor™, capable of extreme compression (this is the compressor section of the Omnipressor®) and a conventional compressor with de-essing and side-chain capability.

UltraChannel™ also offers Soft-Saturation, and Transformer emulation which recreates transformer core saturation. This feature adds harmonics to low frequency material while remaining relatively transparent to the rest of signal. While relatively subtle, in aggregate, Transformer can bring life to otherwise dull mixes and help glue disparate sound sources together.

 

 

FlexiPath™ routing allows drag and drop for reordering the signal path of the top level components (O-Pressor, compressor/de-esser, EQ, Gate).

UltraChannel includes a variety of factory presets tailored to signal sources such as guitar, bass, kick drum, snare, piano, strings, synths and vocals. A number of the presets were created by Eventide artists.

How to get it

UltraChannel does not require you to own or use an iLok dongle, but the iLok License Manager and an ilok.com account are required to use the plugin. An ilok.com account can be created either at ilok.com or within the iLok License Manager application. Please download and install this software if it is not already installed on your computer. This application allows users to authorize up to two computers or an iLok dongle to use UltraChannel.

It will be available as a free download until July 8; then cost 249 USD. To be able to get it free, download the right file (if you are on mac or pc) fill in the form and Follow the instructions you will find at the bottom of this page, using the promo code 07D96411.

Sources:

Eventide plugin website

Hispasonic.com article (spanish site)

Novation Heritage Free Sample Pack Download and Contest

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Novation is celebrating its over 20 years since the company started in 1992 producing some of the most iconic and used synthesizers in music production with a free sample pack download and a contest.

Information and Dowload

The Free Sample Pack includes over 800 MB Containing loops, one shots, and multi-sampled patches from SuperNova II, K-Station, Drum Station, Bass Station, UltraNova, and Bass Station II, the heritage sample pack contains everything you’ll need to make a track (if not a whole album..!).”classic and existing libraries”.
You can download it from Novation’s website

Contest

Three lucky winners will be able to choose either a Bass Station II, UltraNova, or Mininova to add to their studio and experience the power of the real thing!

Entries will be judged by Novation and a panel of very special independent judges including Paul Hartnoll (Orbital), Liam Howe (Sneaker Pimps), Eats Everything, and Timo Maas. The three best tracks, making the best use of the available sounds, will win! Use of effects and sounds that aren’t included is allowed, but you must ensure none of your sounds violate copyright – and remember, your track will be judged on its use of our heritage synth soundpack!

To enter in the competition you must submit your details on the heritage site contact form  and a YouTube or SoundCloud link to your track for your chance to win.

The closing date for the competition is Tuesday the 4th of March 2014 at 4PM GMT.

REVIEW TDR FEEDBACK COMPRESSOR II by TOKIO DAWN RECORDS

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Hi everyone, I just wanted to write a short post of an amazing free plugin I discovered yesterday,I was watching a Logic Pro X video tutorial in youtube about mixing, and I saw that the guy was using this amazing vst pluging compressor, so I went to try to find information on the web. My surprise was when I found out that is FREE, powerful and available for MAC and Windows.

About TDR FEEDBACK COMPRESSOR II:

The TDR Feedback Compressor II is a major design update of its critically acclaimed predecessor. The compressor is dedicated to compressing the highest fidelity stereo program (2-buss), but equally shines in classic mixing tasks.

Most modern compressors analyze the input signal to control gain reduction, using a “feed-forward” topology. TDR Feedback Compressor II, however, analyzes the output. This approach delivers an unobtrusive and highly musical compression characteristic.

TDR Feedback Compressor II takes this traditional compression topology to new heights with a highly flexible, yet intuitive control scheme. The compressor has been carefully tuned for intuitive and musical operation for almost every situation.

We want to emphasize the fact that the processor neither tries to emulate any previously available device, nor does it follow popular trends like “virtual analogue”, “circuit modeling” or similar buzz words. This is a proud digital processor, made with an immense amount of love and care.

Notable features:
-Beautiful “Feed-Back Compression” sound and behavior
-64bit floating point precision for all relevant calculations
-Multi-rate processing structure for highest accuracy, critical operations run up to 8 times the audio rate
-Delta oversampled signal path (bit transparent at 0dB gain reduction)
-Three side-chain filter slopes: 3dB/Oct, 6dB/Oct and 12dB/Oct
-Super fast and natural sounding compression
-Unique control scheme with independent release controls for peak and RMS events, as well as a compression Crest Factor control
-Advanced stereo linking options optimized for the stereo bus
-Delta preview mode to preview the difference between compressed and original signal
-Latency compensated parallel bypass (i.e. processing not interrupted)

What they say:

Features detailed control of compression behaviour, extremely low distortion and almost ‘invisible’ compression

Bootsie

Offers a wide array of controls to dial the sound in just right and leaves you with the original sound, only louder.

Lean Audio (A+ rating)

A highly competent compressor plugin that can stand proudly head to head with its paid alternatives

freemusicsoftwareguide.com

This thing might be the best compressor I have, even better than my Slate Virtual Buss Compressors, Vintage Warmer and Kush UBK-1. It’s absurdly good on the mixbuss, and has the kind of weight only hardware typically has

Dave Edwards

TDR Feedback Compressor II is among the best software compressors for bus use out there.

BedroomProducersBlog.com

Download Link:
Download Free VST UA TDR FEEDBACK COMPRESSOR II by TOKIO DAWN RECORDS