The Happy Thread Of Free

[Guy Rowland]

iZotope's Insight 2 is free again for a time. Again, what an age in which we live.

https://www.izotope.com/en/products/downloads/insight-2

[Guy Rowland]

U-he have now released Zebralette 3 for free. It's stripped down bits of the full Zebra.



https://u-he.com/products/freeware/zebralette/

[Guy Rowland]

Synthmaster One wavetable synth free until Jan 4.

https://www.kv331audio.com/synthmasterone.aspx

[Guy Rowland]

iZotope has their Insight metering plugin for free over the holidays, and NI has a new free Massive X expansion.

I use Insight all the time, it's very good.

[scherzo]

What are the unique selling points of Insight?

Alternatively: if I already have Supervision, TrackMeter and Metric A/B, do I need it?

[Guy Rowland]

What are the unique selling points of Insight?

Alternatively: if I already have Supervision, TrackMeter and Metric A/B, do I need it?

You probably don't need it if you use the first two of those, to be fair.

[scherzo]

Alright, thanks.

Free is good, but I'm always hesitant to get into yet another plugin ecosystem. Got enough stuff and software hubs to keep track of as it is

[Markus K]

What are the unique selling points of Insight?

Alternatively: if I already have Supervision, TrackMeter and Metric A/B, do I need it?

I stopped using Insight after Cubase introduced Supervision. I'd say no need to have both unless something very special in the GUI appeals to you more.

Btw. what is TrackMeter doing that the others don't?

[scherzo]

Good question. I'm honestly not sure, and I'm probably not the best person to answer. They both contain a bunch of meters and things that I barely even know what they are or what I should use them for

I've mostly used the usual FFT and the phase/panorama displays. Both plugs have them in various forms of course, though I think I prefer the look and some of the coloring options in TrackMeter. But I'm also just used to the DMG style after staring at Equilibrium for so many years. TrackMeter does have the rather psychedelic 3D spectrogram, which is very cool and pretty to look at, but I'm not sure it's actually useful.

Metric is a useful addition though for A/B comparisons with reference tracks, and one-button isolation of just the L/R/mid/side channels. It does crash on me a lot though.

[Guy Rowland]

UAD 610 Preamp and EQ collection free "for a limited time"

https://www.uaudio.com/products/610-collection

[Piet De Ridder]

You all probably have a similar tool already, but in case you don't or you"d like to try something different at no cost: KERN Audio — a Danish one-man operation — has a free stereo analysis tool called CHECK. Works well.



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[Guy Rowland]

Free for 4 more days only - Mastering The Mix's Animate via Plugin Alliance:

Free for 7 days only
Promotion limited to one license per customer. Ends Tue Mar 24.

ANIMATE is designed for the moment when your mix is technically fine, but it still feels flat. It lets you inject movement, punch, warmth, and width in a controlled way, using four modes that can be targeted by frequency and shaped with mid and side options.

Four modes, one purpose: make the track feel alive
ANIMATE's four modes Expand, Punch, Ignite, and Grow are each designed for a different kind of enhancement, from upward expansion and transient shaping to dynamic harmonic distortion and psychoacoustic widening. Use a single mode or combine multiple modes for more complex results.

Precision without losing control
Because each mode can be targeted and adjusted with intent, ANIMATE is useful on individual elements like drums and vocals, as well as on buses and full mixes when you want the track to feel more engaging without simply turning it up.

System Requirements

Mac: OS X 10.15 or higher. 64-bit AU, VST 3 or AAX host. Apple Silicon Native.

Windows: Windows 10 or higher. 64-bit VST 3 or 64-bit AAX host.

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/products/animate

[Guy Rowland]

UVI Sparkverb free for KVR members until April 12 https://www.kvraudio.com/giveaways/kvr- ... or-free-69

[RobS]

UVI Sparkverb free for KVR members until April 12 https://www.kvraudio.com/giveaways/kvr- ... or-free-69

not that I needed another reverb, but for free... it also sounds clean and smooth

[Lawrence]

I haven’t gone on KVR forever, and I’ll probably skip it rather than go through the password reset crap, which drives me nuts.

[Guy Rowland]

New freebie from 8dio, not sure how long it is free for or if it is now permanently free:

Synthetic Shadows is a library born in the shadow of a fully realized Synth Cinematic Orchestra: a synthetic library dedicated to bringing you analog and digital synths, to augment your existing compositions.

Synthetic Shadows contains over 7,600 samples and has 13 different Hybrid FX categories, hundreds of multi-sampled analog & digital synths, plus 4 large synth drumkit banks. It comes with a wealth of different options, bringing you Downers, Risers, Boomers, Pulses, Droppers, Strikers, Growls, and a fully realized Synth Cinematic Orchestra.

The library is built into our famous Hybrid Scoring Tools User Interface, which is a perfect complement to the Synthetic synths. It offers you many opportunities to modify and master all the hybrid effects. Synthetic Shadows is a package filled with pure inspiration: the only limit is your imagination!

Kontakt VST / AU / AAX
7,635 Samples / 7.57GB
13 Hybrid FX categories & 4 Synth Master Drumkits
100's of Analog Synths & Hybrid Instruments
Built Into Our Famous Hybrid Tools User-Interface

https://8dio.com/products/synthetic-shadows

[Piet De Ridder]

Cure Audio offer their Scream plug-in for free. The plug-in is a recreation of the acclaimed and in some circles very popular Scream filter from NI's Massive synth.
Scream screams very impressively — Korg-like, some might call it — but, fortunately, works also very, very well at much less aggressive settings, which is in fact how I prefer to use it. Great on any material that benefits from a bit of extra raw character and energy.



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[Guy Rowland]

Sonuscore Orchestral Strings Elements:

All Five String Sections
1st Violins, 2nd Violins, Violas, Celli, and Basses. Write for a full orchestral string body, not isolated patches.

Four Core Articulations
Sustain, Spiccato, Tremolo, and Sul Ponticello Tremolo. Enough to cover melodic writing, rhythmic passages, and tension textures from the start.

The Same Recordings as LUX Orchestral Strings
Elements uses the identical sample source and cinematic mix as the flagship version. What you hear here is what LUX sounds like.

1st Violin Legato Demo
A one-octave legato passage is included to show you the phrasing and transitions before you expand to the full range in paid tiers.

Pretty nice demos on their site:

https://www.sonuscore.com/shop/lux-orch ... -elements/

[Guy Rowland]

Universal Audio have made their oft-free plugins a permanently free bundle, UAD Explore, along with their LUNA DAW

https://www.uaudio.com/products/uad-explore-free

610 Tube Preamp & EQ Collection
1176 Classic FET compressor
LA-2A Tube compressor
Vibe Analog Machines Essentials
Pure Plate Reverb
Showtime '64 Tube Amp
Century Tube Channel Strip
PolyMAX Synth

[Thomas Mavian]

Universal Audio have made their oft-free plugins a permanently free bundle, UAD Explore, along with their LUNA DAW

https://www.uaudio.com/products/uad-explore-free

610 Tube Preamp & EQ Collection
1176 Classic FET compressor
LA-2A Tube compressor
Vibe Analog Machines Essentials
Pure Plate Reverb
Showtime '64 Tube Amp
Century Tube Channel Strip
PolyMAX Synth

Crazy...