The free VI's/plugs list.

[Rick Cornish]

Hi gang.......
I received an email from Waves today offering a new, free CLA plug-in. It'll cost you an email address at the link below and will be available after Thanksgiving.

https://www.waves.com/lpn/black-friday- ... ov-16-2020

[monkey man]

Thank you, Rick!

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[monkey man]

Valhalla DSP has updated all its plugins for Big Sur compatibility.

This means that the freebies, Super Massive, Space Modulator and Freq Echo are Big-Sur-ready too. Compatible with MacOS 10.8->11.x Big Sur:

https://valhalladsp.com/plugins/

[stubbsonic]

The demos look and sound really good. I like seeing the implementation of tuning tables, and audio-rate modulation. Today (Nov 24) is the supposed release date, but so far not quite yet. Also, I didn't see any system requirements. But check out the demo vids (there's a few but they are short).

I'm putting it in the freebies because they do offer a free version.

https://vital.audio

BTW, not freebies, but Cherry Audio's 2600 and 106 emulations are both really nice for $25 each.
https://cherryaudio.com/instruments/ca2600
https://cherryaudio.com/instruments/dco-106

[stubbsonic]

Vital is available now. I did go with the pro version. The only issues so far is that I'm not seeing any presets, and the ability to scale the GUI seems to be wonky. I do hope that they will be able to iron any any oddities.

I did notice that they are providing windows, mac and two different kind of linux installers.

[stubbsonic]

They very quickly fixed the issue with presets & wavetables not installing. This is a pretty fascinating synth.

[bayswater]

Black Friday sale at $39 until Nov 30. Anyone have this? Is it good? I don't have anything that sounds much like a Fender twin reverb. Does this?

https://shop.audified.com/products/amplion-pro-1

[stubbsonic]

Demo sounds pretty good. I didn't see a twin in the list.

I have a Joyo American which is a simple little analog pedal, but it does a nice fender-ish thing. About that price. It's a pretty nice amp/cab sim. Good dynamics & response. Three band EQ, Level, Voice (mids scoop/boost), and Level. I usually move the voicing pretty far right (more of a tweed sound).

This gives a pretty detailed demo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzOS0--eLEc

Do you have other multi-fx?

[bayswater]

Demo sounds pretty good. I didn't see a twin in the list.

I have a Joyo American which is a simple little analog pedal, but it does a nice fender-ish thing. About that price. It's a pretty nice amp/cab sim. Good dynamics & response. Three band EQ, Level, Voice (mids scoop/boost), and Level. I usually move the voicing pretty far right (more of a tweed sound).

This gives a pretty detailed demo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzOS0--eLEc

Do you have other multi-fx?

Thanks. I have a POD version 2. It does OK, not great, for Vox and Roland, but I have a Vox and a Roland amp. So the POD is convenient for a quick take, but that's all. It's not convincing to me, for Marshall or Fender, so I've keep an eye out for something. Most of the Fenders I've tried are OK, but seem to lack the clean end of that sound. As for Marshall, I can see why the emulations are labelled Marshall, but to my ear, they're missing something. I have one of those little toy Marshall batter powered amps, and it's as convincing as the POD after a little DP tweaking.

Thanks for the Joyo tip. I'll investigate further.

[stubbsonic]

Yea, your description of the Pod v2 kind of applies to Line6 generally... "Not great".

The Joyo American is a clone of the Tech21 Blonde. As an aside, I have a GP-10 and I run that into the Joyo. I can run the out of the Joyo into a powered speaker or straight into my audio interface.

My gripe with many digital amp sims (as compared to a real Fender) is that they kill the dynamic range. On a real fender amp, you can go from whisper quiet, to moderate, to loud, and then when you bang on the strings the level still really jumps out- so you can play a groove and have these accents that poke out. Amp sims for digitech, boss/roland, line6 all seem to have hard limiters that kill that extra bump.

Surprisingly, I've had two different Zoom multi-effects where the dynamics were spot on (G3n and MS-100BT)-- I've found a few other Zoom users who have also noticed this. This is why I won't get rid of my Zoom G3n. I think the Eleven Rack was also pretty good with this.

I've gotten a few software amp sims on iOS, but I NEVER use any of them because I have no tolerance for latency.

[cuttime]

They very quickly fixed the issue with presets & wavetables not installing. This is a pretty fascinating synth.

I spent a couple of hours looking at this for the free version. Lots of promise. The UI is really funky at different zoom levels other than default. A CPU blowtorch at hand on my machine. Is there a way to import wavetables? No manual AFAIS.

[stubbsonic]

The UI is really funky at different zoom levels other than default. A CPU blowtorch at hand on my machine. Is there a way to import wavetables? No manual AFAIS.

There is a manual on the way, but it might be a few weeks. In the meantime, I found a couple videos that did thorough enough walk-throughs.

This is a very pleasant overview:
https://youtu.be/7qQX6YGBQEA

Here is a playlist of a more thorough batch of tutorials. It is sprawling, and not as tidy as the above one.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... PHKsTqhn7I

For zoom, click on the V in the upper left, and choose one of those zoom levels (yes, it still is a bit wonky). On the advanced tab you can choose a lower oversampling rate that will maybe be easier on your CPU. You might also be able to reduce polyphony, which might help.

It can import wavetables, but I've not done it. It also supposedly has a very good wavetable editor built in.

When I launched DP today, and it scanned it, I got a repeated "corrupt preset" warning. I clicked ok about 20 times, then it passed.

[mikehalloran]

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I've had these problems for awhile in Chrome but not Safari. I need to troubleshoot that sometimes in my apare time, of course.

[cuttime]

This hasn't been hyped much in the noise, but I think it's very useful. It's a good exiter plug. Needs the iLok soft account:

https://slatedigital.com/fresh-air/

[monkey man]

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I've had these problems for awhile in Chrome but not Safari. I need to troubleshoot that sometimes in my apare time, of course.

Safari here, Mike, and it definitely was an issue.

Same applies to Plugin Boutique log-in. Captcha will not work unless you disable adblockers. I have 2 and both need to be disabled in order for me to be able to log in. Thankfully that's the only plugin-sale site that does this, but it's still a bit of a PITA.