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Reason’s classic ReCycle is updated, free, and more useful than you might think
ReCycle, the sample/loop manipulator by Reason Studios, has a refreshed new look – and now it’s free. The REX format works everywhere from Ableton Live to Pro Tools to KORG Gadget. Also – wait, did its name start as a reference to a 1993 Disney instructional video?
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Freebies: Mallets get Arturia’s Augmented treatment
Augmented Mallets Play, showing graphics of mallet instruments (one real, one synthetic), and parameter knobs arrayed around a central morph knob.
Peter Kirn - December 19, 2024
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BOSS DR-55 drum machine from 1979, now a free plug-in
The first Dr. Rhythm device, the DR-55, was used by post-punk artists and the likes of Depeche Mode, New Order, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, and Thomas Dolby. And now its sounds are in a free plug-in.
Peter Kirn - November 27, 2024
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Free Alesis MIDIVERB impulse responses: pristine 80s trash
Peter Kirn - November 30, 2023
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Instant samples in your DAW: Loopcloud Sounds hands-on and CDM deal
Peter Kirn - August 30, 2023
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808 Day round-up: music, deals, downloads and … a Roland BMX bike?!
Peter Kirn - August 8, 2023
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Arturia Augmented BRASS makes it uncommonly easy to build up hybrid brass sounds
Peter Kirn - May 5, 2023
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Get Rudolph’s red nose as a free Ableton Live Pack, courtesy Brian Funk
Peter Kirn - December 25, 2022
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