Hey, kids, you know what time it is? It's Free, um . . .
Wednesday. In which we try, mostly unsuccessfully, to keep up with the
ongoing flood of free audio stuff for Windows.
- BetaBugs has added BugPass (bandpass filter which can double as a notch filter), and
- Moneo (deconstructs a stereo signal and remaps each
channel's panning and spectral content — which I'm sure has SOME use
to SOMEONE), and - W1 Limiter to their collection. (via kvraudio) Why, that's in addition to existing stuff like
- CRAYONfilter (simplified multipass filter with various modes) and
- MONSTAchorus stereo chorus and
- FLOFIdeluxe which is an effect that does something (filter + octave shift = mayhem?) and
- SIMPLEsqueeze gain + brick wall limiter with ONE KNOB. All free, all VST, all Windows.
But wait, if you act now, you can get (also via kvraudio) Tubester 1
integrated preamp / EQ / guitar speaker simulator. Also free, also VST.
Not likely to give Guitar Rig or AmpliTube a run for their money, but
not likely to make your money run, either. Ditto the
expander/gate/limiters and sidechain compressor, EQ, etc., etc. on slim slow slider's rather unfriendly-looking Japanese site.
"But I don't have a host," says you.
"But you do," says Dave of Dave's Imaginary Sound Space.
"But I have a Mac," says you.
"So do I," says I, before I say something absurd like have you considered buying Logic Pro 7?
Tune in next time when the Free Lunch series of CDM finally gets its
act together to stop being cute and put together a usable master guide
of free stuff for Windows . . . and Mac. Got some suggestions? Hit
comment.