abacab Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 12 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said: The best part of Kilohearts Essentials is not some of the modules it has, but Snap Heap. Not only you can do really interesting things by combining the essentials modules inside it, you can also use Snap Heap itself as a module. Yes, Snapheap is a very useful tool, but it is $29 payware. Not included in Essentials, as it is currently* one of their "premium" products. *Kilohearts did include Snapheap in a limited time special offer last year, but that's no longer available. https://kilohearts.com/products/snap_heap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted April 6, 2023 Author Share Posted April 6, 2023 I'm not usually one for this kind of suggestion, but as a blue sky fantasy, Kilohearts Essentials would be a really sweet collection to bundle with Cakewalk. It ticks most of the "bread and butter" boxes, but where it pulls ahead of say, the Dead Duck collection, is in the more exotic sound design-y special effect-y ones like Ensemble, Tape Stop and Reverser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user 905133 Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 (edited) I just updated Kilohearts and it automatically reinstalled the *.aaxplugin files which I had deleted. Of course, they are only 260 KB each, so that's not too bad. Just mentioning this for those of you who like to delete them. Edited April 6, 2023 by User 905133 added a missing word ("Kilohearts") 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted April 6, 2023 Author Share Posted April 6, 2023 24 minutes ago, User 905133 said: I just updated Kilohearts and it automatically reinstalled the *.aaxplugin files which I had deleted. Of course, they are only 260 KB each, so that's not too bad. Just mentioning this for those of you who like to delete them. Yeah, a couple of Megs of .aax is nothing compared to what an A|A|S Player installation used to spew around, which was into the GB. Still, I do like to keep a tidy system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 49 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said: It ticks most of the "bread and butter" boxes, but where it pulls ahead of say, the Dead Duck collection, is in the more exotic sound design-y special effect-y ones like Ensemble, Tape Stop and Reverser. The Dual Delay and Trance Gate are pretty cool effects as well... https://kilohearts.com/products/dual_delay https://kilohearts.com/products/trance_gate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibby Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 39 minutes ago, abacab said: The Dual Delay and Trance Gate are pretty cool effects as well... https://kilohearts.com/products/dual_delay https://kilohearts.com/products/trance_gate And Dynamics is awesome! BTW, it's also a better-than replacement for Wave's M2... https://kilohearts.com/products/dynamics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einparkprofi Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Hi there! First time posting on here, I'll just list a couple of my favourite free FX that I've not seen in this thread. I've seen TAL Software here already but I still want to mention TAL Reverb 2 as I use it quite often and it seems to have been a little hidden from the other free plugins on TAL's site. You can find it either here on its own page with TAL Reverb 3 or under "Old Downloads" on the TAL Reverb 4 page. Up next we have Photosounder's SplineEQ. It's a linear phase EQ that uses Bézier curves to connect your 1 to 4 bands. You can have quite interesting curves this way and it's a less traditional way of EQing that still sounds good. There's also a paid "full" version with up to 60 bands. One of my favourite effects is Vapor by Audio Damage (alternative link). It's a kind of diffusion chorus thing and I mainly use it for widening up sounds and putting a sound "in a room". I find it's really versatile and it gives a nicer (maybe more natural?) stereo effect than e.g. a chorus or a common stereo widener. What I also have not seen here yet is Shattered Glass Audio's SGA1566, which is a tube distortion/saturation/warmth plugin. The sound it produces does please me a good bit but it is to be said that it's very CPU intensive, especially when you put it on "High CPU" mode and turn on oversampling (the former you basically have to do if you want an amount of fidelity in your audio). I'm exaggerating a little but you get the gist. Last is Minimal Audio's Rift Feedback Lite which while I'm writing this seems to actually only be free for a limited time. It's a delay like basically every other but it can also go into tonal delay range and act like a comb filter or resonate at a specific note's pitch. I would also mention Rift Filter Lite as I got it for free but apparently it's not free anymore. Maybe they'll put it out for free again at some point but I can't say for sure. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 I had to dig to find this so giving it a bump. I'm pointing people to it in the video I'm working on that is mostly about why new users need to join in on this forum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter C Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 Is anyone still using this? Accusonus - ERA Bundle Pro v4 VST Free Download. I'm interested to know if it just proves too s-l-o-w and it's not just my setup. It does work but the reverb remover for example has incredibly high latency and takes up to a minute to close down. It's a discontinued product but is still available to download from getintopc.com. Incredibly the download works although you have to enter the code shown on the webpage to be able to unzip it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 (edited) Abandonware. Use at your own risk. I was going to try it but I personally avoid software that is abandoned and hard to find. I hope you scanned the heck out of the files. Especially if it used an installer that can be super risky. Edited May 25, 2023 by John Vere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter C Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 3 minutes ago, John Vere said: Abandonware. Use at your own risk. I was going to try it but I personally avoid software that is abandoned and hard to find. I hope you scanned the heck out of the files. Especially if it used an installer that can be super risky. Yes, thanks for mentioning that. The installer is fine - it's just the zip file that needs the code and that was handled by 7-zip.Of course some discontinued stuff e.g. Roland Concerto (should be in the free inst thread) does seem worthwhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 But the difference is the Roland Concerto even though discontinued is available from a trusted source. And for anyone interested I found info on it here. Wasn't anything on the Roland site about free download. https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2022/07/01/roland-concerto-free/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted May 25, 2023 Author Share Posted May 25, 2023 4 hours ago, Peter C said: Roland Concerto (should be in the free inst thread) does seem worthwhile. Seems like a great excuse to bump that topic too. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter C Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said: Seems like a great excuse to bump that topic too. ? Only problem is it seems to have disappeared from Roland Cloud. Correct me if I'm wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno de Souza Lino Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 On 5/25/2023 at 5:02 PM, Starship Krupa said: Seems like a great excuse to bump that topic too. ? Roland removed Concerto from Roland Cloud a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satya Posted June 3, 2023 Share Posted June 3, 2023 https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/58200-did-we-make-a-exhaustive-free-plugin-list-in-forum/ Brought from deals forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted April 3 Author Share Posted April 3 Woo, it's been a while, been plenty of good freeware released since last June. I'll start with iZotope's newest offerings. iZotope have released Trash Lite, a free cut down version of the latest iteration of their classic digital distortion plug-in. They also offer the rather excellent EQ from Ozone as a standalone free plug-in. Their site has no separate page for it, so here's a link to their entire collection of free goodies, most of which have already been mentioned in this topic. (There's Vocal Doubler, Ozone Imager, and Vinyl): https://www.izotope.com/en/products/free-audio-plug-ins.html Polyverse, makers of the excellent free stereo expansion tool Wider, have issued Filtron, a slick filter with saturation. In the category of "I can't believe someone finally made a freeware one of these" is TIME1, which is a delay modulator similar to those features in Gross Beat or MRhythmizer. I already like TIME1 better than MRhythmizer because while it's not as versatile, it is a hell of a lot easier to figure out. Draw curves and lines on a grid and warpy stuff happens when you send it a MIDI note. GATE1 is TIME1's sister plug-in. Same idea but in the realm of volume modulation rather than time. I can't help but wonder when we'll see FILTER1, something to do the same job but with filtering. (the links for TIME1 and GATE1 are to the Github repositories, but don't despair, just scroll down a little and the developer has nice "Download VST3" links, how I wish that all developers who put their creations up on Github would make it that easy) Lofi Oddity is described as a "degradation toy box." It has 4 different modules that affect the signal in different ways. Cassette tape simulator, washy reverb, bitcrushing, and compression. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted May 16 Author Share Posted May 16 XTMax is a free compressor from Kiive Audio. In their words: "Make your drums explode with this renowned, gritty compressor, and make use of its 3 release modes to add edge and punch to any mix." "XTMax may be XTComp's (Plugin Alliance Exclusive) little brother, but it's more than capable to stand on its own for any mix!" It looks from the copy that it came out of research into what's so great about Distressor, so if that piques your interest, get it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted June 11 Author Share Posted June 11 (edited) Today's freeware pick, and highly recommended by me, Soundly Shape it EQ. Recommendation: do not write this off as "oh boy, another paragraphic to add to my collection of over a dozen of them." Try it first. Even though it doesn't do anything that the sonitus EQ doesn't. Even though MEqualizer and TDR Nova have more features. In this case it's not about having one single EQ plug-in that can do everything. It's how it does it, with everything right where it needs to be. What they say about it being lightning fast to set up the usual EQ tasks is true. Just fire it up, try doing your standard highpass, lowpass, notch, and boost. See how many clicks it takes you. Then decide whether to keep or trash. Single click to add a node, and if you do it at the ends, it's smart enough to start with a highpass or lowpass, depending. Then, once you have a node in place, when it's focused, it will have a small (but not too small) pop-up box attached with various parameters like Q, shape, etc. Changing the Q is as easy as clicking on the parameter and dragging up and down. The important thing for me is that you don't have to travel to another window or another part of the UI to do anything. It's all right there at the active node. I like it so much I'm wondering if it's going to replace MEqualizer as the first EQ I reach for for basic tasks. It has 10 bands to MEQ's 6, but I never use that many bands anyway. If you know what a drooler I am about MEqualizer, that should tell you how stoked I am. Also, I'm not just about freeware, I have some heavy hitters as far as this type of EQ. sonible entropy and proximity, Kilohearts Slice and Carve, T-Racks Equal, the entire Melda line, and all of iZotope's. I'm a hard sell. It doesn't do all of the fancy things others do, but that's what those EQ's are for. This is bread and butter. I fired it up in PluginDoctor and it was in the ballpark with MEqualizer for performance, which is my benchmark for that. Try their other freebie, PlaceIt, which despite the name is more of a sound designer's tool than a spatial placement tool. You can emulate the sound of laptop speakers in an office, the traditional telephone, "Wish You Were Here" transistor radio, party next door, and so forth. If I were doing soundtrack work, I'd consider it essential. I'll use it on dialog samples for my ambient stuff. Edited June 17 by Starship Krupa 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevro2000 Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 On 6/11/2024 at 2:49 PM, Starship Krupa said: Recommendation: do not write this off as "oh boy, another paragraphic to add to my collection of over a dozen of them." My 2 cents is in full agreement. This is an awesome EQ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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