91 Results for "sound design"

Stream is a creative granulizer plug-in inspired by Eurorack equipment

Need a creative new audio mangling tool? Check this out. Stream is a modular-inspired granulizer with up to 16 voices that lets you manipulate audio with a sleek, user-friendly interface.

Enter SoundWeaver, a standalone sample layering and sound design tool

SoundWeaver conjures fresh sound FX from any sample library you have laying around. It searches for audio files by keywords, picks them randomly, and layers them. Neat!

Sampleson Push: Generative sounds at the push of a button

Sampleson has released a one-button polyphonic synthesizer called Push. It will create a new patch every time you hit the button - it doesn't get much simpler than that and it's completely free.

Best free plug-ins this week: Brutal 2, London Atmos and Rough Rider 2

This week, our list of the best free plug-ins starts off with a cool 3-oscillator synth. There's also been a new Spitfire LABS release (yay!). Check out Brutal 2, London Atmos and Rough Rider 2.

Madrona Labs Aaltoverb: Change the size of the room in real time

Madrona Labs has released Aaltoverb. The reverb plug-in has a very simple GUI that may not look like much at first glance, but it has a very cool trick up its sleeve.

Best free plug-ins this week: Efektor, Room Piano V2 and Cyclotronic Signals

This week’s lineup of free plug-ins: A graphic EQ, a tasty lo-fi piano, and an awesome electromagnetic interference instrument. Check out Efektor, Room Piano V2, and Cyclotronic Signals - Aurora.

Bitwig Studio 3 is finally out. Enter the Grid!

Bitwig Studio 3 is officially out! The newest version of the DAW is now here, featuring "The Grid", a fully modular sound design environment. The update also comes with several workflow improvements.

Instinct: a distortion and dynamics processor from the land of the weird

Need an experimental sound-shaping tool for your next project? Take a look at Instinct, a creative processor that bridges the gap between saturation and dynamics processing in interesting ways.

Cosmosf Saturn7 dynamic stochastic synthesizer blows our minds again

Cosmosf Saturn 7 suggests that you rethink how you interact with sound and embrace the potential of shrinking and expanding sonic spaces on multiple time scales.

denise.io releases Noize 2 creative sample mangling plug-in and Berlin sample pack

Upgraded to version 2, Noize adds new parameters designed to let you more flavours of dirt to instruments and sounds, and even includes a pack of atmospheric samples recorded in Berlin.

K-Devices WOV and TTAP: creative modulation and dual-buffer delay plug-ins

K-Devices has two new plug-ins out that share the same development DNA: WOV is an amplitude modulator, TTAP is a creative delay. Plenty of creative potential here, we think...

Igniter vehicle sound design: spaceships, sports cars, trucks and texture

Craft your own plane, train, rocket, bike, alien, chopper and automobile engine sounds with Igniter, a fascinating granular sampling and synthesizer sound design machine.

Alpha Forever: a grey environment of deep modular sound design

Part modular synth, part sound design playground, Alpha Forever is among the strangest and most intriguing (if poorly accessible) bits of kit we've come across recently.

Texture: A sound design plug-in that embraces layering sounds

Some of the creative possibilities offered by Texture incude “glueing” your hi-hats transients by adding dynamic filtered noise and beefing up a kick drum with a low sine wave.

Digital Brain Instruments’ Transformer is a sample mangler and VST host

With convolution processing, Transformer is able to load samples, microphone and virtual instrument inputs; and morph them into sounds unexpected and unknown. It adds new sound layers to existing audio this ...

DRONAR Master Edition gives you 50GB of Gothic Instruments cinematic spookiness

Gothic Instruments have bundled together 8 of their most atmospheric DRONAR instruments into a singular, improved and yet familiar interface so you can go to town on creating the most awesome of sonic ...

Norns: a platform for sound processing, synthesis, poetry and form

Norns is a minimalist metal box harbouring the power of processes to evolve and morph into anything you can write a script for. Monome's slow reveal is an enticing look into the mind of a synthesis developer.

Cargo Cult’s Envy sound design plug-in for Pro Tools steals envelopes

Envy is designed for thorough envelope modulation, enabling interesting possibilities like transplanting the volume and pitch characteristics of a sound onto a completely different one.

Krotos is coming in guns blazing with Weaponiser, a hot shot sound design tool

Krotos' upcoming tool looks interesting and capable. It's focused on weapon sounds, with a library of SFX organized by gun type and firing mode. The sounds can be edited in great detail!

Can UVI Meteor make an impact on the modern rompler market?

Meteor is designed to bring the most content to producers and sound designers involved in film, games, music production and anything else in need of a variety of moods and timbres.

Turbine: design sounds with fighter jet engine simulations!

Turbine's sound generation capabilities stem from simulations of actual engines. Said virtual engines, among which you will find more than a few fighter jets, are supposedly authentic recreations...

Flintpope Palette brings some thick synth pads for free on Windows and Mac

in case you are in the mood to try something new, here's a cool freebie that just popped up - Palette is inspired by paintboxes and has eight coloured rectangles that trigger samples.

AES 2017: Transformizer Pro sound design plug-in finds your inner “Child”

Not for the weak-hearted, Transformizer Pro delivers extensive signal processing options, analysing a "Parent" sound for pitch, amplitude, duration, and timbre and applying it to your "Child" signal.

Krotos Reformer Pro: blend, perform and design sounds in real-time

Krotos, maker of the innovative Reformer sound design plug-in, has announced Reformer Pro, improving on the original concept with the ability to analyse and design sounds...