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Hi! I've got a new plugin you can have! These plugins come in Mac AU, and Mac, Windows and Linux VST. They are state of the art sound, have no DRM, and have totally minimal generic interface so you focus on your sounds.

SynKick

SynKick is actually two plugins, SynKick and SkinKick. Here’s how they work.

They’re synthetic kickdrums, either tuned to a set of related intervals (SynKick) or tuned to the harmonics of a drum head (SkinKick). Put them on a kick track or anything that can trigger them, and they will fire the sine-based bassbombs when triggered. Not only that, each sine component is triggered based on its phase, so every trigger will be different tonally.

That’s the good news, now here’s why they’re freebies.

The sines are lovely and all, and the idea of distinctive sounds for each trigger is cool… but doing it that way rather than just triggering a sample is too inconsistent. The kicks aren’t quite steady enough, definitely not punchy enough. You can use them to reinforce what’s already on a kick track, and each plugin has a dry slider for that purpose. You can use them as an Airwindows programmable bassbomb. But please, don’t try to use them as the primary kick in a track, because unfortunately they are just not powerful enough. They are basically different variations on bassbombs.

Wah

Wah is the definitive Airwindows style plugin. It’s a wah pedal. Really—try it! It’s a one-slider freebie that works and acts like a wah pedal. I used this plugin to test out some ideas for smoothing control input, so working the frequency will give a more fluid effect than typical plugins.

SpacedOut

SpacedOut is the ‘aliased MySpace monitoring’ section of the plugin SpaceOdyssey. This was a 2008 plugin designed to help people monitor what the MySpace audio player was going to do to their sound. At the time, MySpace was a big deal for bands and musicians, but if you uploaded music to it, your music would be played back at half sample rate to save bandwidth.

This was done by taking every other sample, which meant really heinous aliasing for any frequencies above 11K. You could combat this somewhat by filtering highs, or you could check your mix through SpacedOut to see how bad the aliasing would be. SpaceOdyssey had filtering with which you could enhance the roughly 10K area in hopes of making the result more sparkly, and it let you monitor through what’s in SpacedOut, and then switch it off to export your best attempt at something which would get through MySpace sounding acceptable.

These days, it’s SpacedOut that is left, as a sort of special effect. Use it to make stuff low-fi and trash it with aliasing, for free.

SpacedOut declares one sample of latency.

DrumSlam

DrumSlam is an emulation, but not of hardware. It’s a riff on the sound of Massey’s TapeHead.

Because why not?

Well, the reason why not is mostly this: that’s not my favorite sound, so it’s not such a great idea. I heard a midrange drive, a sort of treble air that comes in, and low frequency stuff in my (free) TapeHead AU that I tried. I did my best to replicate these things, but since I wasn’t going for stuff that excites me, I don’t feel my heart was really in this one.

No biggie. Here it is, in case other people feel differently.

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