Numa Player: Fantastic and Free Keyboard Sounds

 

Studiologic releases Numa Player, a FREE virtual instrument for macOS, Windows, and iOS.

Numa Player comes with four sound categories, each containing multiple variations. The categories include Acoustic Pianos, Electric Pianos, Keys, and Strings & Pads.

The Acoustic Pianos offer something vintage, something a little more modern, an upright, and an electric grand if you want to get your D’Angelo vibe going.

Electric Pianos features the usual suspects, Rhodes, Wurly, FM. If you fancy a slightly different approach to the electric piano, you could try the free Wavesynth EP Glow (full version of Kontakt required).

The Keys section provides a funky Clav, Harpsi, great Vibes, and accordions.

Strings & Pads offers some nice ensemble sounds and some pretty cool synth pads.

Each category or Part as Studiologic calls it has up to four dedicated sound controls. For example, Acoustic Pianos has Tone, String Resonance, Duplex, and Damper Noise. Each part also offers custom keyboard ranges and various settings.

The Numa Player can combine up to four sounds in a single program that you can save for the stage or studio. You also get up to nine integrated insert effects per part.

Insert Effects:

3-Band EQ

Stereo Chorus

Phaser

Flanger

Tremolo

Ping Pong Delay

Wha Wha

Compressor/Limiter

Distortion

Download

Minimum requirements:

macOS 10.9 Mavericks

Windows 10

iOS/iPad OS 12

250 MB of free disk space

4 GB RAM

Numa Player - Studiologic Support (studiologic-music.com)

BYOD

 

Build-Your-Own-Distortion (BYOD) is an audio plugin that allows the user to create custom guitar effects, with a focus on guitar distortion. The plugin contains emulations of guitar distortion and tone-shaping circuits from various, along with a handful of other useful effects.

https://chowdsp.com/products.html#byod

LibreArp free-form pattern arpeggiator plugin

LibreArp free pattern-based arpeggio generator plugin updated to v2.3

Oto Šťáva has released an update to the LibreArp free-form pattern arpeggiator plugin. Version 2.3 includes various new features.

LibreArp is a MIDI effect plugin that takes chords in the form of MIDI input and outputs so-called arpeggios based on the input chords. Arpeggios are generated using a user-created pattern. Each input note is given a number, based on its pitch (lowest to highest). The pattern then determines which note number should play when.

If a pattern contains an event for a note number higher than there is input notes, it wraps around and (by default) transposes the note by an octave. (e.g. the plugin gets a 3-note chord in its input but the pattern is set to play note no. 4 – it actually plays note no. 1 transposed one octave higher than the input note). The pattern has its loop length, i.e. its time loops around indefinitely in a song. The user can also set a loop-reset length, which resets the loop when a set amount of beats elapses.

Changes in LibreArp v2.3

Smart octaves: When the input chord spans multiple octaves, transposition is done by that number of octaves

Guarantees that a higher LibreArp note will always be higher in the output MIDI.

On by default in New: instances; off by default in existing ones.

The loop can now be resized and moved from the beat bar above the note grid.

Added a Swing parameter that staggers the pattern in real time.

Added a Chord size parameter that makes the plugin use a fixed number of input notes

If the actual number of input notes is greater than the chord size, they are selected according to the New: Note selection mode parameter.

Added a Bypass parameter for DAWs that do not have a built-in bypass function.

The plugin no longer crashes when the user clicks Cancel in the preset chooser dialog.

LibreArp is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License v3. VST3 and LV2 binaries are available to download for Windows, Mac and Linux.

https://librearp.gitlab.io/

Panipulator $0.00 free

Panipulator is an indispensable, CPU-friendly tool that lets you achieve accurate mix translation across various less-than-ideal playback systems. With simple streamlined controls, you can you check mono compatibility, speaker polarity, identify phase issues in multi-miked instruments, isolate speakers in mono, and more—and it’s absolutely FREE.

User Manual

Available Formats

Mac: osx 10.11 or greater

Windows: XP or greater

64-bit VST2.4, VST3, AU, AAX

Features

Simple one click channel tools

Check mono compatability

https://www.bozdigitallabs.com/product/panipulator/?ref=16

JazzLab 3.0.3 (Jan. 29, 2022)

 

JazzLab 3.0.3 (Jan. 29, 2022)

New features:

Dark Theme with improved graphics

The Light Theme is gone -it was too much work to maintain 2 themes.

Auto-update of the playing backing track

No more need to stop and restart the playback in order to take into account changes made while the song is playing.

New Drums Transform rhythm parameter

For example make the hi-hat louder in the intro song part, or add a tambourine phrase in 1-click.

New Custom Phrase rhythm parameter

For example use your own bass line for the chorus song part.

Notes viewer

See notes of the selected chord symbol on a piano keyboard or using guitar diagrams. See real-time notes from the backing track.

User tracks

For example add a melody to your song.

(Pseudo) Arranger keyboard mode

Select a song part, press the Arranger Play button and JJazzLab will recognize the chords received on Midi input and update the backing track accordingly.

Improvisation help

JJazzLab generates guidelines in your chord leadsheet for selected improvisation exercises.

Midi input and remote Midi commands

You can trigger music control actions (play, stop, …) from any Midi input sequence via Midi Learn.

New languages Spanish and Brazilian/Portugese

plus the usual English, French, Chinese, German

And many more…

Adjust audio latency, new keyboard shortcuts, Midi file drag & drop support, jump playback to next/previous song part, etc.

See the RELEASE NOTES for more details and screenshots about the new features.

Discover JJazzLab, the new free backing track application

https://www.jjazzlab.com/en/download/