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TDR Kotelnikov Freeware Plugin

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TDR Kotelnikov Freeware Plugin

Hi there! I hope you had a great black Friday – Cyber Monday time :). Just got an email the other day from Tokyo Dawn Labs (I’m subscribed to their mailing list, if you are not you should!).

Tokyo Dawn Records (TDR) is the name of a tough little music unit meanwhile based in Munich, Germany. Established 1997 by Marc Wallowy and friends, TDR has been spreading soul futurism on the internet since its beginning. Now, they also develope GREAT plugins, and the best part of it is that some of them are Free or very affordable. For that reason I believe is worth mentioning and promote their work.
This is their last release TDR Kotelnikov, a great addition to any Home Studio or  Pro Studio, specially because they offer a great freeware version and a more improved /completed version called “Gentleman 40 €“. If you ever wonder how to get that “big ” “punchy” sound, well this tool will help you to improve and finalise the overall sound of your mix.

About TDR Kotelnikov
TDR Kotelnikov is a wideband dynamics processor combining high fidelity dynamic range control with deep musical flexibility. As a descendant of the venerable TDR Feedback Compressor product family, Kotelnikov has directly inherited several unique features such as a proven control scheme, individual release control for peak and RMS content, an intuitive user interface, and powerful, state of the art, high-precision algorithms.

With a sonic signature best described as “stealthy”, Kotelnikov has the ability to manipulate the dynamic range by dramatic amounts, while carefully preserving the original tone, timbre and punch of a musical signal. As such, it is perfectly suited to stereo bus compression as well as other critical applications.

The concept is “proudly digital” in the sense that it doesn’t try to emulate any previously existing device. This is the original!

Freeware Key specs and features
-64bit floating point precision for all relevant calculations
-Multi-rate processing structure for highest accuracy
-“Delta” oversampled signal path (bit transparent at 0dB gain reduction)
-Super fast, yet natural sounding compression
-“Crest factor” based control scheme offering independent release controls for peak and RMS events
-Flexible sidechain highpass filter<br> 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).

Gentleman’s Key specs and features
-64bit floating point precision for all relevant calculations
-Multi-rate processing structure for highest accuracy
-“Delta” oversampled signal path (bit transparent at 0dB gain reduction)
-Super fast, yet natural sounding compression
-“Crest factor” based control scheme offering independent release controls for peak and RMS events
-Flexible sidechain highpass filter<br> 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).

Extensive documentation The Gentleman’s Edition adds following features:
-Continuously variable control over “low relax” slope
-L<>R sensitivity
-Powerful frequency dependent ratio function (FDR)
-Yin/Yang modes (manipulates the compressor’s own distortion behaviour)
-Equal loudness output gain trimming
-Equal loudness bypass
-“Insane” quality mode
-10 additional user preset slots [/accordion] [/accordions]

-Download Freeware TDR Kotelnikov from Tokyo Dawn Labs Site

-Or BUY The more  Complete Gentleman’s Version from Tokyo Dawn Labs Site

 

Revival by Slate Digital Freeware

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Revival by Slate Digital Freeware

(Ilok 2 Key required)

-Analog Modeled Sonic Enhancer
-Musically Tuned by Ear Emulates Characteristics of Tubes, Transformers, and Tape
-Unlike Any Other Two Knob Processor You’ve Heard

Overview
Revival by Slate Digital Freeware is the product of years of research into what makes things sound ‘better’. The Slate Digital Team analyzed what it was about classic analog gear that could turn tracks into audio masterpieces, and broke the process down into two knobs. That may sound a bit crazy, but wait till you hear Revival.

Revival borrows aspects of tubes, tape, transformers, and world class analog filters to create two processes. Shimmer adds depth, clarity, space, width, and air like you’ve never heard. Thickness adds warmth, punch, body, and fatness.

Revival can be used on individual tracks, such as to create air on a pop vocal or add fatness to drums, but is also amazing in mastering to bring out details in full mixes. And best of all, you can download the Virtual Mix Rack which includes Revival and the Mix Bundle (two analog modeled eqs and compressors), and Revival’s license will never expire. That’s right, Revival is FREE!

System Requirements
Dual Core Intel Processor, 8 GB RAM Recommended
Mac OS® X 10.7 or later
Intel Mac 32bit: RTAS, AAX
Intel Mac 32bit and 64bit: AAX, VST2, VST3, and AU
iLok2 Required
Dual Core Intel or AMD Processor, 8 GB RAM Recommended
Windows 7® (32/64 Bit) or later
Windows 32bit: RTAS, AAX
Windows 32bit and 64bit: AAX VST2, and VST3
iLok2 Required

Note: AAX 64-bit, Pro Tools 11 compatible

Download Revival by Slate Digital Freeware

*To Download it, you have to register with a verify email address,  your name and surname.

iLok2 Required 

*If you don’t have the Ilok License Manager,  You can sign up and register for free a new account in Ilok.com, download the Ilok License Manager and add the product with serial number provided by email.

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

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)

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