Fender's Riffstation Pro is now free

Riffstation, a standalone software application designed for guitar players to practice, learn and create jam tracks easily with the music you already have in your collection, is now free.

Here's what the developers say:

"While we work with labels and publishers on a paid Riffstation service, Riffstation will no longer be available on the web or mobile devices.

We hope to bring a similar service back in the future, but in the meantime, we'd like to offer you a free copy of Riffstation Pro desktop app (normally $34.99), on us.

Riffstation Pro is an amazing tool for beginners and advanced guitar players and will help unlock your potential as a guitarist.

Thank you in advance for your patience as we work on what's next."

​NOTE: This is a desktop app for Mac and PC computers and will not run on iOS and Android devices. It works with audio files stored on your computer as opposed to YouTube videos.

Visit: riffstation.com

Polyverse Music Infected Mushroom and Polyverse release Wider free stereo effect plug-in

Electronic duo Infected Mushroom and Polyverse have announced the release, for free, of Wider, which they describe as a unique stereo effect.

World Famous electronic duo Infected Mushroom and Polyverse are proud to announce Wider, a unique stereo effect for free.

Wider takes the massively popular stereo section from its sibling, Manipulator, and gives any user the ability to expand their stereo image of any signal to an awe-inspiring amount of width. However, Wider is a unique stereo plugin in the sense that it is completely "mono-compatible", meaning that any signal that has been extended will always remain in phase with itself, even if summed to mono.

Many stereo effects currently in use have the nasty habit of knocking signals out of phase, which can quickly make mixes sound muddy and unbalanced, or make sounds seem flat and lacking dynamics if one isn't mindful of the effect. Thanks to Wider's one-of-a-kind all pass and comb filtering algorithm, no phase in any mix or affected audio will be compromised, even at its broadest setting! Instead, Wider cancels itself out when summed to mono, so the original signal is left intact: a feature you won't find in any other stereo plugin.

Wider can be used to increase the stereo image of any signal up to 200% of full stereo for an extra wide, exaggerated effect.

Wider is available in VST, AU, and AAX formats, making it compatible with a variety of host applications, including Ableton Live, Logic, Pro Tools, Cubase, and Studio One. It can be used in 32 or 64-bit instances with Windows XP and later and with Mac OS X 10.6 and later.

Visit: polyversemusic.com/products/wider

Brain Control updates Tunefish to v4.2.0 free VST/AU synth

Brain Control has updated the free Tunefish4 synth to v4.2.0.

Changes:

- Upgrade to JUCE 5.3.0.

- VST3 Plugin now included.

- Factory patches now stored inside Plugin. No separate programs folder is needed anymore.

- changes in programs are now saved in user directory.

- fixed a pitch bending issue.

- added meters.

- added keyboard.

- added patch loader and factory writer.

- several small fixes.

- new patches made by Anders Lund Olsen.

Tunefish 4 was developed as a smaller replacement of Tunefish 3 with roughly the same power, it is however not compatible and uses different synthesis algorithms. It was developed for the 64k intro "Turtles all the way down" by demoscene group Brain Control and is available as VST/AU.

The synth is free but comes without any warranties.

Visit: tunefish-synth.com

1208 Audio updates free SCS Channel plugin to v0.9.8.0 beta (Windows)

1208 Audio has released a new beta version of SCS Channel, a free channel strip audio effect plugin for Windows.

Since the previous alpha release, the plugin has been updated with additional plugs for HP and LP filters and various GUI improvements have been implemented.

The new 0.9.8.0 beta version now comes with 4x oversampling, and plugs now snap to sockets.

A versatile channel strip that sounds great on any mono or stereo tracks even a bus. Freely routable, for easy re-ordering of effects using the Plug Matrix.

SCS Channel is available for download as a 32/64-bit VST plugin for Windows.

Visit: https://1208audio.com/1208-scs/

L-Day releases Poly-LD8 free VST plugin synth

L-Day has released free Poly-LD8, Korg Poly-800 inspired VST Instrument for Windows 32bit.

A very Poly-800 inspired VST Instrument, will bring the Poly 800 Sound on your 32bit Daw

Note: A 64Bit version can't be ported, due the Demo limitations of SynthEdit. That VSTi is Free, without any limitations in its Functionality. If you want 64Bit versions, you can support me for making it sooner possible.

- 8 Voice Polyphonic Synthesizer

- 2 Poly-800 OSC's with Scaleable Overtones and Pan

- 2 ADBSSR Envelope Generators

- 1 LowPass Resonance Filter with ADBSSR Envelope Generator

- 1 Noise Generator

- 1 Lfo with Sinewave for OSC, Filter and Velocity and Delay

- The Mastervolume is wired to the Velocity

- 1 Chorus + 1 Host Synced Pingpong delay

Visit: Poly-LD8 / kvraudio.com/forum