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Free SoundHack tools: now plug-ins and Max and Pd, Apple Silicon native
You’ve got choices for how to delay, distort, mangle, spectrally transform, and meddle with audio. But Tom Erbe’s legendary SoundHack stands out – and it’s free. And now it’s Apple Silicon ready.
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Lofi Oddity is a beautiful free “degradation toy box” plug-in
Lofi Oddity for macOS and Windows features a unique set of sonic degradation filters – and makes an excellent tour of the work plugin maker aberrant dsp is doing on modeling nonlinearities and destruction.
Peter Kirn - January 2, 2024
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Minimal’s Current is a granular-wavetable synth with tons of FX and extras
Minimal Audio, the maker of some of the more unique effects in recent years, is now stepping into the synth space with Current. And they’ve got a real mothership of a synth, merging tons of synthesis and effects ideas into one instrument. It is subscription-based – and they have a particular take on that, too. Here’s a breakdown:
Peter Kirn - October 11, 2023
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Bastl – Casper Aikido module is a mixer and a quad VCA and a compressor envelope follower
Peter Kirn - February 8, 2023
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Niche no more – Dials by AudioThing, Hainbach proves test equipment models can be essential
Peter Kirn - September 29, 2022
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macOS Catalina is here; Final Cut update, Logic compatibility, don’t update your Mac yet
Peter Kirn - October 7, 2019
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