Review: Arturia FX Collection 5, with new Bus PEAK, EXCITER-104

Arturia’s FX Collection has now hit version 5, bundling all the latest releases, refreshing existing plug-ins, and revealing two all-new effects: a clipper/limiter and an exciter.

Collage 2.01 effects playground plug-in adds user-requested features

Kalide Systems’ unique effects playground and custom effects toolkit Collage got a nice update recently, full of user-requested features—some from comments here on CDM. Here’s a look, plus a couple of quick effects to download and play with.

Peter Kirn - March 29, 2024

Squeeze is a free upward compressor for Ableton Live – subtle to intense

We are awash with various dynamics tools these days, but don’t sleep on this. GMaudio is a deceptively simple upward compressor that you’ll want in your Ableton Live arsenal, as it can scale effortlessly from nuance to extreme. And it’s remarkable that it’s free; it almost feels like it fell out of an Ableton Live upgrade from a parallel universe.

Peter Kirn - September 15, 2023

Endorphin.es Ghost review: a landmark reverb, distortion, dynamic, multi-FX module

Peter Kirn - February 17, 2023

Arturia Dist COLDFIRE review: a red-hot coloration, overdrive, distortion multi-effect

Peter Kirn - August 30, 2022

Linux gets native analog modeled plug-ins, Pultec emulations, with VST, VST3, and now – CLAP

Peter Kirn - August 24, 2022

New Noise Engineering modules, new platform: multiband dynamics, drum kit

Peter Kirn - August 11, 2022

Endorphin.es go live-friendly with new sequencer, multiband processor

Peter Kirn - March 30, 2021

Getting creative with a different kind of compressor: Zip [Plugin premiere]

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2017

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