Free Fridays! Freeware Plugin Picks — Limiter, Ring Modulator, Bass Boost, Step Sequencer, More!

July 27th, 2012 by Trenton

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is time again to present to you the best freeware plugins — some brand new, some classics — we have come across within the last few weeks and present them to our readers for their downloading pleasure. For free, there isn’t one plugin below that will fail to impress. Have at thee!

Softrave – Crash VSTi Virtual Drum Instrument

The first freeware offering is a virtual drum kit with hundreds of studio quality drum hits. Crash VSTi is available for Windows only. Here is what Softrave has to say about the free instrument:

“ Softrave presents Crash VSTi
This virtual instrument have 300 crash & cymbal drum  sounds from various studios. Different drums & drum boxes & effects were used to create this instrument. Sounds were recorded & collected in 10 years in different places.

Now this VSTi plugin is for free download – have fun with Crash VSTi”

WOK – Ring-O Ring Modulator Effect

WOK - Ring-O

Here we have a ringmodulator effect that offers plenty of flexibility for a freeware plugin. Ring-O is available as in VST format for Windows only. WOK says:

“RING-O is a ringmodulator effect plugin.

Modulation source can be the left and right side of a stereo signal modulating each other, or a stereo signal modulated by RING-O’s internal oscillator.

The internal oscillator has different wave forms, the pitch can be adjusted manually or by incoming MIDI notes.

RING-O also features a diode ring modulator style setting for less clean sounds and the ability to adjust the modulation mix.

And the best of it all: this plugin is totally free!”

Syncersoft – Bass Landscapes Harmonic Content Creator

Next we have a multipurpose freeware plugin that is suited for low frequency bass lines and instruments to help bring out the selected source of your mix. Bass Landscapes is available for Mac and PC. Here is what Syncersoft has to say about Bass Landscapes:

“Bass Landscapes VST & AU is a new bass boost audio plugin that creates new harmonics. With help of low-mid boost you can properly suite your bass or kickdrum in the mix. For those who like to add vintage touch to sound of their bassline tube emulation is now available. Plugin creates effect of intellectual boosting of harmonics in terms of Intellectual Information Technology (IIT) Development of this plugin was inspired also by psychoacoustics research of Shlejonkin Alexandr and russian works on mathematical physics.”

Ohm Force – Frohmage Resonant Filter

The Ohm Force Frohmage freeware plugin has been around for a while but is one quality filter plugin that everyone should pick up. Frohmage is available for Mac and PC. Ohm Force says:

OhmForce - Frohmage

“Sorry, did someone say FREE? Yes indeed. And despite being a freeware the Frohmage is not a cheap plugin at all: we’re talking about a worldwide acclaimed resonant filter, which have been described by top producer Stuart Price (2 Grammys awards in his shelf + remixed/produced Coldplay, Madonna, The Killers, and many others) as “still the most original and best sounding filter”. It delivers a unique palette of sounds, combining lowpass filtering and analogue crunch with a bunch of special features. Core features are:

• Highly resonant low-pass filter.
• Cutoff frequency unit selection: Hz or musical note.
• Up to 15 additional bands, linearly distributed.
• Delay on each band for unique phasing-like effects.
• Distortion stage, with two routing schemes.
• Very fine MIDI control (PRN and NPRN sent or recorded by Frohmage are 14-bit accurate).
• Low CPU load.

You can easily tune the filter to resonate with specific notes in your music (you got it right, you can *play* the filter) and then built in harmonic multi-band feature adds tons of warmth to your sound. For extreme fun, delay effects can be applied across the filters at the turn of a single knob, creating swish phasing or weird gliding echoes. Want to see it in action? Take a look at this video tutorial and realize how stinky it could be…

Finally, why not dial in some distortion. Whether you like your music to scream in pain, or simply crave that phat, analog tone, Frohmage’s final overdrive stage is waiting to be abused. Oh, and did we mention that it’s free?”

PSP – PianoVerb Reverb Plugin

This transposable reverb plugin is a unique idea from the minds at PSP. It is available for download for Mac and PC in VST, RTAS or AU formats. PSP says:

PSP - Pianoverb

“PSP PianoVerb reproduces special kind of reverberation originally provided by piano strings. It generates reverberation using twelve string operators with adjustable damping and decay time. Each of them is tuned to a particular note starting from A(55Hz) to a G#(103.8Hz). The PSP PianoVerb string system can be transposed in the range of +-24 semitones, tuned within a range of +-100 cents and be detuned as well. Transposing to lower octaves produces a bigger and less resonant sound similar to traditional reverbs, while in turn transposing to higher octaves produces a very bright harp-like effect.

TubeOhm – Anti-Transpirant Mono + Stepper

Here we have a VSTi that offers 8x oversampling. Although it is a heavy load on your CPU, 8x sounds the best. There are also two other options to lower the load on your which technically offers three different instruments. Anti-Transpirant is for PC only in VST format. TubeOhm says:

“TubeOhm ANTI TRANSPIRANT is a wonderful analogue sounding VSTi Instrument. For the first time we built an Instrument with 8 x oversampling. This means crystal clear high frequency modulations, high frequency PWM, FILTER FM and RING

MODULATION. 8 x oversampling needs a lot of CPU usage but it gives the best sound.

The TO STEPPER 16 P is in the A-T bundle. The stepper can play mono or polyphon 4 and 8 x multi trigger mode (ratchet mode) available 2x MIDI CC send. 5 directions, random function, audio trigger and three key-modes. Velo, hold and octave select.

Features:

This VSTi contains three Instruments

• 8x oversampling  – AT 8000
• 4x oversampling  – AT 6000
• no oversampling  – AT 6
• and also the TO STEPPER 16 P
• The TO STEPPER 16 P is in the A-T bundle.
• The stepper can play mono or polyphon
• 4 and 8 x multi trigger mode (ratchet mode) available
• 2x MIDI CC send.
• 5 directions, random function, audio trigger and three key-modes.
• Velo, hold and octave select.”

vladg/sound – Limiter No6

One of the two GUIs of the Limiter No6