Sonic Anomaly releases Unlimited free loudness maximizer and limiter for Windows

Sonic Anomaly has released Unlimited, a free loudness maximizer and limiter for stereo and 5.1 surround material. The plugin includes an ITU-R BS.1770 compliant loudness meter in addition to RMS output meters.

Unlimited is a loudness maximizer and limiter for stereo and 5.1 surround material. It also offers an ITU-R BS.1770 compliant loudness meter in addition to RMS output meters.

Unlimited aims to have balanced characteristics: avoiding audible distortion typical to hard limiting and clipping to the extent it is feasible, yet still not sounding compressed or vigorless.

Even though it supports 5.1 configuration, normal stereo operation is fully supported and the additional channels won't consume any CPU when they are not in use.

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Stone Voices releases Marazmator v2.2 free VST synth for Windows

Stone Voices has released Marazmator v2.2, a free multi-modulation Synth VST instrument plug-in for Windows.

VSTi-plugin «Marazmator», is the virtual synthesizer creating unusual sound forms. The subject of sounds strikes with the variety, it both sound space plots, and the natural phenomena, sounds of technical character (engines, mechanisms, the tool and тп), different voices, and sound objects which are simply not giving in to any description. The synthesizer can be used in different genres and the directions to the modern electronic and experimental music such as: Ambient, Chillout, Industrial, Noise, Dub, Jungle, Drum'n'Bass, Trance and so forth. It can be used as the generator of special effects in audio tracks for different applications, games, theatrical performances, movies (documentary, a fantasy, mysticism and etc.). With its help it is possible how to create the very long on time morfiruyemy sound forms, and rhythmic repeating - loops (Loop). We hope that by means of this plug-in you will be able to bring new sound forms which will surprise listeners to this world, will make your music more various and more interesting.

Marazmator - a monothematic synthesizer as polyphony in this case doesn't make a sense, synthesizer sounds in most cases have no musicality determination. But for the organization of the polyphonic mode if that is required, it is necessary to create several enkzemplyar of a plug-in.

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Free Plugins & Samples released by SampleScience

SampleScience manage an Archive.org account and once in a while free samples, plugins and Kontakt 5 instruments are uploaded there. One of our most popular freebie is Nostromos Light, if you haven't tried it, download it here! direct 274 MB download link). There's also a free collection of royalty-free loops made with Nostromos that you can download here.

Also, for those who missed it. There's 5 free Nintendo Drum Kits to download here. The kits are available in various formats including wav, aiff, Reason Refill, Ableton Live Drum Racks and more.

If you're a NI Kontakt owner (full version 5), the Total Composure Orchestra has been uploaded for your listening pleasure. Get it here. Finally, our first plugin Thales Model I is also available in a free 5 sounds version. Get it here. Although it says demo, you can use it in your commercial and free tracks free of charge.

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Thomas Mundt updates free LoudMax to v1.18

Thomas Mundt has updated LoudMax to version 1.18 for Mac OS and Windows. The Winamp version has also been updated.

Changes:

- Improved limiter attack phase calculation. 

- Minor optimizations.

LoudMax is a Look-Ahead Brickwall Loudness Maximizer with a clean transparent sound. It is designed to retain the original character of the music as much as possible even at high compression levels.

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LVC-Audio updates Limited-Z to version 1.1.0

LVC-Audio has updated Limited-Z mastering limiter (free version) to version 1.1.0.

The free and paid versions of Limited-Z gets a new limiter mode, "Vintage Bus".

Limited-Z is a specialized and easy-to-use limiter, based on the foundation of being a capable look-ahead brickwall limiter suitable for final mixing or mastering. Limited-Z dynamically combines several unique limiting algorithms to provide transparent limiting on all audio sources.

Limited-Z is a free plugin, with a paid version that adds the following features:

- Selectable secondary metering that includes Input Level, estimated Distortion Level, and ISP meter.

- K-Metering of input and output levels.

- Linear-phase oversampling (2x, 4x, or 8x).

- Continually adjustable output margin control between 0 dB and -1.5 dB, and 0 dB and -10 dB for post-production.

- Adjustable X/Y controls for the Dynamic Algorithm settings for easily fine-tuning the limiter's overall sound and aggressiveness.

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