Chordz is a VST plugin that allows you to trigger full chords by playing single notes. Each trigger note is associated with a separate chord. Each chord may consist of any number of notes. Play complicated chord progressions with one finger, with a MIDI keyboard or a drum-pad, or trigger chords from single notes added in your DAW's piano roll.
A chord can be set up to include individual notes spread out over several octaves (two octaves both below and above the octave of the trigger note). This means you can easily create chord inversions and other custom chord voicings, for example double certain notes, both above and below the root note. The chord suggestion feature suggests diatonic chords based on the selected scale and root note.
When "easy mode" is enabled, you can play the chords in any scale using only the white keys, with "C" always being the I chord. The black keys can then be used for chord variations (for example "C#" to trigger a major seventh or ninth chord, while "C" triggers a regular major chord).
The keyboard can be divided into three zones, one for playing chords, the other two (one below, and one above, the chord trigger zone) for playing single notes. Each zone can be independently transposed up or down by any number of octaves. This allows you to play chords with your left hand, while your right hand plays the melody.
Optionally, single notes outside the chord trigger zone can be forced to stay within the selected scale. When easy mode is enabled, it will follow the chord trigger setup (for example, if scale is set to F minor and a C note will produce a F minor chord, a C note outside the chord trigger zone will play a F note). This will ensure that you will always stay in key, and never hit a wrong note.
The plugin supports optional velocity scaling and randomization for each note of the chord. Another feature is the start and end delay (this can also be randomized), which can be used to, for example, emulate strumming or to create more unpredictable results (works great with sounds with a long attack and/or decay, such as pads or strings).
Chordz comes with more than 40 scale/chord templates, and a chord library with more than 50 chord types. You can add your own custom templates, and new chord types by editing the relevant text file. And you can, of course, customize the chords directly in the GUI.
Chordz can also work as an educational tool. You can use Chordz to better understand the various musical scales and corresponding chords, as well as to learn those scales and chords by following the visual guides on the plugin's virtual keyboards display.
System Requirements:
Windows 7 or higher. VST2 compatible 64-bit host.
License
This plugin is free to use for commercial or non-commercial use, but is copyrighted and cannot be distributed without permission.
Download & Installation
Click "Download", open the downloaded zip file and run the setup program.
Tech House Drums is a free virtual instrument plugin for DAWs and other plugin hosts running on Windows and macOS.
Simple and easy to use, this plugin lets you build your custom drum patterns in no time. It is a quick and handy solution to create solid drum sections for your tracks.
FREE: iZotope Neutron 4 Elements channel strip plugin (limited time)
Plugin Boutique has announced that iZotope’s AI-powered channel strip plugin is available as a free download for the next few weeks.
Featuring the updated Assistant in the new Assistant View from Neutron 4, Neutron 4 Elements aims to help you make quick sonic improvements to your tracks with ease.
The updated Assistant lives in the new Assistant View and intelligently suggests processing for your audio that can be fine-tuned to your liking and lets you mix even faster.
Now you can also dynamically match the tone of your track to a sample or stem using improved tone-matching technology from your own library of references or a collection of presets. Add some serious power to your plug-in collection at an affordable price and bring your mixing workflow into the 21st century with Neutron Elements.
Regularly priced $49 USD, Neutron 4 Elements is free until July 8th, 2024. It comes in VST3, AU and AAX plugin formats for Windows and Mac.
Rigid Audio releases Rigid Grand free piano for Kontakt
Rigid Audio has announced the release of a free grand piano instrument library for Kontakt.
It features 16 velocity layers and a beautiful production-ready reverb as well as an octave knob, that can be used to blend in a 12-semitones downpitched variant of itself.
This results in a great vintage sound. Furthermore, you also have control over the volume of release sounds.
Rigid Grand is available as a free download for the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 6.8.0 or higher.
Decent Samples has introduced a new sample library with the sounds of the Casio VL-1, the VL-Tone series instrument which combines a calculator, monophonic digital synthesizer, and sequencer.
The Casio VL-1 was released in 1979, and quickly became worldwide sensation. It is often hailed as the first mass-produced digital synthesizer. For this sample library, we’ve sampled all of the classic tones the instrument as well as 6 of the raw tones.
The Casio VL-1 library is free to download for the Decent Sampler player plugin for Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS (also free).
High and Low shelves, 3 bell filters. All switchable between Active or Passive inspired filter shapes. Adjustable Q, frequency and gain. High pass and low pass filters with 3, 6, 12, and resonant 12 selections. Output stage, drive and blend control. Auto Gain with additional adjustment. Stereo or mono operation.
Same technology as the plus version, without per band stereo separation, per band fb send, fb filter, single output stage, only 6/12 hpf/lpf options.
Supports Windows 10/11(x64) & MacOS BigSur+ (**Now Notarized!**)
T-Force Alpha Plus 2 has all the features oft its predecessor plus some enhanced and also some new features: a new graphical user interface with customizable colors, new designed oscillators with a new "analog drift" mode, new designed envelopes, a new filter with a lot more filter types, new and better designed lfos, new enhanced trance gate effect, new additional effects and it also has a completly new designed delay and reverb effect and a new customizable overall polyphony contol with several options.
Features:
Subtractive/FM synthesis
Polyphony control with up to 128x polyphony and up to 128 polyphony reserve voices (this gives you a maximum of 256x polyphony)
3 voice stealing modes: hard stealing, soft stealing and overlap
Voice refresh mode - if enabled it sends a pulse trigger signal to refresh the polyphony voices - but note, this can cause heavy CPU spikes if enabled. To prevent CPU spikes just disable the voice refresh mode.
Wave shaping option to shape your own style custom oscillator waveform
Oscillator Voice control with up to 8 voices per osc
Detune control to detune each of the single oscillator voices against each other
Custom voice for customizing your own style multi voice oscillator
Controls for ocave, semitones and cents (finetuning)
Adjustable stereo width, panning and volume for each single oscillator
Each oscillator can be frequency modulated (FM) by itself (Feedback FM) or each other.
Oscillator 2 can be synced to oscillator 1
Phase & pitch drift option to simulate the voltage inaccuracies of vintage analog oscillators
Separate noise oscillator with controls for stereo width, low cut, high cut, panning and volume
Filter:
Multimode filter with 14 different filter types
Controls for cutoff, resonance, filter envelope amount, velocity amount and keytracking (key follow)
Envelopes:
1 ADSR amp envelope with options for velocity senivity and inverted mode
1 ADSR filter envelope with option for inverted mode
3 ADSR mod envelopes
3 ADSR FM envelopes per oscillator to modulate the FM signals
LFOs:
3 LFOs with sine, saw, ramp (inverted saw), triangle and square waveforms
unipolar or bipolar mode
Phase retrigger mode
Phase offset control
Tempo control
Sync mode to sync the tempo to the host tempo
Delay control to add a pre delay if LFO phase retrigger is enabled
Attack control to let the LFO modulation "fade in" if LFO phase retrigger is enabled
Step sequencer:
Step sequencer with up to 32 steps and a lot of different features to create melodic/rhythmic sequences to play e.g. a rolling bass sequence by playing a single MIDI node.
Effects:
4 mode phaser effect
Distortion unit with 4 different distortion modes
Bitcrusher
Tone control with low frequency (bass) & high frequency (treble) gain controls
Trance gate effect known from the first Alpha Plus version, but with a freshly new styled gate sequencer for better workflow.
Dual mode delay effect
Reverb effect
Other features:
Portamento with auto glide option, glide amount control, retrigger or legato mode, 4 different legato modes
Pitch bend wheel with adjustable pitch bend range. Standard pitchbend function. It also react with the incoming standard pitchbend MIDI message fron your MIDI keyboard.
MIDI learn
All controls are fully automatable
Available as 64 bit VST2/VST3. 32 bit version maybe will come later, if i'll find some time to port it to 32 bit.
How to install: instructions how to install this plugin are included in the zip file.
Info: the VST2 version of the plugin also uses the VST3 preset system (.vst3preset), to make the presets cross-compatible. For more infos please read the "Read me first!" text file included in the zip file.
Please note: supports Windows 7 and higher only, because the plugin uses a new graphics API - all graphics now will be rendered with your graphic card's GPU instead of the CPU. Windows XP doesn't support the new graphics API. No Mac support, because some 3rd party code modules are used inside the plugin which are just available for Windows. If the developers of these code modules make them available for Mac, i will also add a Mac AU version in future.
You might need to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2015/2017 Redistributable
The pro grade rompler that changed the game by making professional tools accessible to anyone
Powering Music Production
Designed by producers for producers, OCTANE is the top choice for sound creation. With lots of ready to use presets and effects, OCTANE helps you make great music fast!
Reverb
Delay
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Distortion
Trance Gate
2 Arpeggiators
Stereo Image
A Built In Store
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Layers On Layers
With OCTANE Layers, you can make your sounds richer by stacking samples! Try reversing a sample or adding an arpeggiator to another – your choice!
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Arpeggiator
Reverse
Ring Modulation
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DAW Support
Octane works flawlessly with the biggest Digital Audio Workstations on the market
Compatibility
Whether your Windows or a Mac user, we’ve got you covered
Octane Free comes with all the features you love right out of the box and includes over 300+ high-quality sounds to elevate your tracks:
All-In-One Solution: Dive into over 300 pristine sounds, including dynamic keys, guitars, pads, basses, strings, and more. Everything you need for that full, rich mix.
User-Friendly Interface: Octane is designed for intuitive use, with a clean interface that puts the power of creativity directly into your hands.
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Available as VST & AU: Compatible with Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, and more, you can easily integrate OCTANE FREE into your creative workflow.
This version includes:
The Octane Plugin
350 Factory Instruments
Expansion Pack Library
You have to register on the dev's site (here) for free to use the plugin.
For many years, I’ve built up a library of DSP effects, executed in a stripped-down, retro-friendly format that is impossibly light and efficient compared to how plugins usually are. It’s also completely overwhelming at nearly 400 plugins all with their own names (or iterations like Channel6, Channel7, Console8, Console9 and so on) and stuck on older formats like VST2, because for years I insisted that Steinberg might try to take away the legal right to put out VST2 plugins and I wasn’t going to risk that, being committed to supporting all possible machines.
Airwindows Consolidated fixes all those things, at a stroke. It’s just become the one true way for a lot of people to use the Airwindows plugin ecosystem, and it will be fully supported going forward as a format for all new plugins (at least, all new plugins that aren’t themselves a giant leap forward, more on that later). What do you get?
Airwindows Consolidated is CLAP native, and gives you all the things special to that format (as seen in the Manual, running as a CLAP plugin in Bitwig!) A lot of us feel this is the format of the future. Now it’s got all of Airwindows, native, and will continue to have the new plugins added.
Airwindows Consolidated is also VST3 native, so this is for the Cubase users and other folks who can’t get on with VST2 for whatever reason. It’s also for folks who can’t handle the ‘slider only’ minimalist look: there’s knobs! (the Rack version has knobs, jacks, and attentuators, because it’s a Rack module!). It’s also AU. It’s also LV2. Lots of native formats!
There’s also theming: it reads dark mode or light mode off your system setting, AND you can override that if you want. No more bright gray rectangles if you don’t like them. At a stroke, a lot of known issues are just gone. You can type in values in a text box (heck, I can’t even do that with my own VST2s in Reaper, only with the AUs).
Doesn’t stop there: Airwindows Consolidated has screen reader support. Why, I ask you, shouldn’t visually impaired musicians make AUDIO music? Airwindows Consolidated works with screen readers to properly read out all the text. So what’s this ‘all the text’, how hard could that be?
Airwindows Consolidated contains the entire Airwindopedia. Every plugin shows the entire Chris explanation given on release, in a sidebar. That’s close to a hundred and fifty thousand words, built in! And because you’re not going to read a hundred and fifty thousand words just to get started…
Airwindows Consolidated contains a whole menu system, which defaults to ‘Recommended’. That shows basically Airwindows’ Greatest Hits, the ones you’ll want to look at first. It’s a much smaller list, and isn’t always the most recent plugin in a series. For instance, Galactic2 is more specialized than the Recommended original Galactic. There’s also ‘Basic’, which is a set of plugins that are easily understood and used when you’re just getting started with mixing and music making, and ‘Recent’, which is just the newest stuff. And when you’re ready, there’s ‘All Plugins’, which opens up the menus to everything. (If you save a mix and then change the menus, it won’t take away your plugin just because the new menu setting isn’t listing it: you’re safe there)
This is all you need. It might be the only Airwindows plugin you ever download, because there’ll be a new build of it every week every time a new Airwindows plugin drops. Just re-download it and re-install. It has installers to make it easy for you to do that, and it’s an open source project so it’s hosted by Microsoft at their expense, not me and Paul. Downloading it costs us nothing, so go give it a try.
And who do you have to thank for this? Well, yes, it’s all nearly-400 Airwindows plugins. If those didn’t exist, neither would Airwindows Consolidated. But I wouldn’t have been able to do this on my own, even as an open source developer. So this is thanks to the inspired work of Baconpaul, of the Surge XT synthesizer project, who also made my VCV Rack module be a thing (and it is essentially the same as this: it should have all the same features and all the new plugins, each week). The whole Surge XT project deserves your attention and support, and there’s more than just Paul involved: for instance, EvilDragon has had lots of influence on the menu system, actively helped develop the categories, and at his request the entire Airwindows website now uses those same categories to help find stuff.
Airwindows Consolidated is out, and it’s gonna be at the top of my list of ways to download my plugins. This is a big deal. I hope you like how much easier this has made the whole world of Airwindows :)
Vocal Limiter effect plugin by W.A. Production FREE for a limited time
VST Alarm has launched a limited time promotion on W.A. Production’s audio plugin Vocal Limiter, an audio effect plugin designed to deliver simple vocal limiting.
For a vocal to really cut through the mix and ride other instruments, it’s usually a good idea to make sure it’s loud and proud. However, the dynamics of a vocalist’s performance can vary wildly, from softly sung verses to strident choruses. Despite a comprehensive vocal effects chain, with careful volume-riding and compression, you’ll often need a final limiter to clamp down on fluctuating dynamics or to smooth slower phrases.
We designed Vocal Limiter to be the last step in your vocal processing chain and as simple to use as possible. It’s specifically developed to target the frequencies of vocal performances so is less affected by overly high or low frequency content. With multiple speed modes and real-time VU meters, you can use your eyes and ears to find the perfect settings… or just flick through the included presets. With Vocal Limiter you can be sure that your vocals will sit comfortably in the mix and be heard loud and clear.
Vocal Limiter features:
4 speed modes.
Input & Output gain sliders.
Real-time VU metering.
Pop & click free bypass.
Responsive & CPU friendly.
Factory presets.
Full PDF Manual & Tutorial video.
Regularly $19.90 USD, Vocal Limiter is available to download for free until May 17th, 2024. The plugin supports VST/VST3, AU and AAX formats for Windows and Mac.
T-Force Zenith is the current flagship synthesizer by Mastrcode Music. Its oscillators are inspired by the original Roland JP-8000/8080 Supersaw oscillator. But with way more available oscillator waveforms than just a saw wave and some additional features.
It's a powerful synthesizer that suits all kinds of electronic music. It can produce smooth and soft sounds, but its strengths lie in the creation of emotional, powerful, epic and bright sounds and effects.
Features:
Synthesis:
Subtractive
up to 32x polyphony
Oscillators:
2 free running 7-voice oscillators, inspired by the original Roland Supersaw
over 200 oscillator waveforms (50 factory waveforms and over 150 additional single cycle wavetable based waveforms)
can load "user samples" in form of 16/24/32 bit mono wav files to use them as single cycle oscillator waveforms. Just place them inside the "User Samples" folder in Zenith's VST3 root folder.
audio editor to record, edit, and cut and save the user samples for the use as oscillator waveforms. You can directly record user samples from any sound source within your DAW. Just set the recording routings with your DAW's settings.
controls for semitones over 6 octaves (up to -36 and +36 semitones) and finetuning (cents)
"Oscillator Feedback" module for special oscillator manipulations that can produce interestung and crazy sound effects.
Detune control to detune each of the 7 single oscillator voices against each other to create that typical supersaw detuning.
Mix control to mix between 1 single oscillator voice and 7 detuned voices like in the original Roland supersaw oscillator
Stereo control for spreading the detuned voices in the stereo panorama
option to invert the oscillator phase
Phase offset and retrigger controls
Oscillator panning and volume controls
Noise generator with stereo and volume controls
Filter:
15 different filter types
controls for Cutoff, Resonance, Filter envelope amount, Keytracking (key follow) and Velocity
Envelopes:
1 ADSR amp envelope
1 ADSR filter envelope
2 ADSR modulation envelopes
LFOs:
3 LFOs with sine, saw, ramp, triangle and pulse waveforms
Tempo can be free (Hz) or synced to the VST host's bpm tempo
Phase offset option
mono/poly note Phase retrigger modes
polarity modes (unipolar/bipolar)
MIDI effects:
Glide mode (portamento) with auto glide option, glide amount control (time), note hold, retrigger or legato mode
up to 32x polyphony or mono voice mode
Chorder module to play whole chords of a pre-set scale by playing only one note (1-finger chords)
mighty Arpeggiator/Step sequencer with up to 8 sequencer patterns to create complex and powerful arpeggios, or even complete melodies and/or 303 style acid sequences.
Effects:
Distortion effect with 3 different distortion models (clip/foldback/tanh)
stereo Delay effect with ping pong mode, lowpass and high pass filters and a flanger effect to modulate the feedback loop for flanged echos or to create tape delay effects
Reverb with predelay, decay, damp, stereo spread and a 4-band EQ
Other Features:
Pitch Bend wheel, Modulation wheel
Mod Matrix for additional modulation routings
Output section with Bass,Treble and Main Volume contols
virtual MIDI keyboard
Pitch Bend Range settings
Main Transpose control with the option shift the transpose over 6 octaves (-3 to +3 octaves)
Please note: supports Windows 7 and higher only, because the plugin uses a new graphics API - all graphics now will be rendered with your graphic card's GPU instead of the CPU. Windows XP doesn't support the new graphics API.
