The Sound Board

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

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/

Synthmaster One wavetable synth free until Jan 4.

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

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.

What are the unique selling points of Insight?

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

scherzo wrote: ↑Dec 17, 2025 4:55 pm 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.

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

scherzo wrote: ↑Dec 17, 2025 4:55 pm 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?

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.

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

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