whiteLABEL has announced that all of their previously released VST plugins (made with SynthEdit, compatible with 32-bit VST plugin hosts on Windows) are now available for free download and use, with optional donations.
The developer has released dozens of excellent freeware and commercial VST plugins over the years (they’ve been on the scene since 2008), including some quite advanced mixing tools such as the TENQ equalizer. Most of their payware plugins came with feature limited demo versions that were offered as free downloads, but now EVERYTHING they ever made can be downloaded completely free of charge. You also have the option of sending a donation to whiteLABEL, as a sign of appreciation for their work.
Sadly, whiteLABEL won’t be developing VST plugins in the future, at least not on a scale they used to do it in the past. The developer has moved to other things in life, mostly because the recent changes in European VAT regulations made the administration tasks much more complicated, effectively putting whiteLABEL out of business (much like many other independent developers and sound designers, sadly).
Taking a quick look at some of the whiteLABEL plugins that are now freeware, the ones that stand out the most for me are the TENQ equalizer (an excellent 10-node parametric EQ for mixing and mastering purposes) and the Bolsteriser plugin series which are some of the most character packed compressors you can get for free. There are more than a dozen other plugins to choose from as well, so you’ll certainly have some fun downloading these and testing them in your DAW.
The only drawback here (apart from the fact that we won’t see any new whiteLABEL releases in the future) is the fact that these plugins won’t be updated and the developer won’t provide any support for them. But that’s hardly a drawback, considering how many awesome freeware tools we’re getting completely free of charge here! Still, you’ll need a 32-bit VST plugin compatible host in order to run these plugins, or a 32-bit plugin wrapper such as 32 Lives by SoundRadix.
Many, many thanks to whiteLABEL for releasing these plugins as freeware. If you happen to put them to good use in your studio and if you do have some money to spare, you should definitely consider supporting the developer with a donation.
whiteLABEL plugins are available for free download via the developer’s official website (32-bit VST plugin format for Windows, made with SynthEdit).
12 Comments
[v i a n]
onI firstly see this post on BPB facebook page and the first thing come up on my mind is…what is going on there? And then you mention about the European VAT regulations.
So for the records, I’m totally curious, but…how is going on there, friends?
Tomislav Zlatic
onYou mean in Europe?
[v i a n]
onIn Europe, yes. How it affect the business?
Tomislav Zlatic
onWell, my country is not in the EU so I don’t know how things are over there first hand. But as far as I can understand, the new regulations have made it much harder to maintain small online business (among other small business as well, probably). They have to pay larger taxes and do more paperwork than before, as far as I know.
Ronnie
onThe new EU VAT directive implemented in 2015 is just insane. You need to charge the rate of VAT of the country the customer is in, and register with each tax agency of countries you do business in. It’s just too much paperwork for small businesses, and many have thrown in the towel already…
Tomislav Zlatic
onOh I can only imagine the chaos that leads to when you sell cheap software or soundware products. The more customers you get the more time and energy you lose on paperwork. It sucks.
Esol
onWow great
dame
on32bit synth edit… dont need them even for free
ATA Music
onWhitelabel TENQ doesn’t work with FL Studio 12.2. I’ll try but so far, no succes.
Esol
onNo need they are not that great.
Dabro
onUnfortunately, analyzer in TENQ doesn’t work properly on the input and output,, but it is still good looking and sounding free eq.
Esol
onTried almost all of them. Didnt like a single plugin. Every plugin is too loud for some reason, and too small. But thats just me.