ADSR Sounds is giving away the FRMS granular synth from Imaginando for free, so long as you make any purchase on their website.
Synths come in all shapes and sizes, but we do not often encounter a granular synth that you can get for free.
There is no minimum spending requirement, and any purchase will earn you FRMS as a bonus. ADSR Sounds currently offers many great deals, some as low as $5.
As we mentioned, this plugin is primarily a granular synth, but it goes beyond that. It has granular, FM, subtractive, and additive synthesis – all in one package.
It’s a powerful sound design tool capable of anything “from heavily-dense ambient drones to glitchy mechanical beings.”
FRMS (read: “frames”) features 4 layers, each with entirely independent controls. Each layer can be set to an oscillator or the granular engine, which has up to 20 grains per layer.
You can either use the stock sounds, drag and drop your own sounds, or even use live input using the built-in audio recorder.
In fact, Imaginando recommends you to try this sort of thing on your own and mess around with feeding found sounds into the granular engine.
Check out this creepy alien-like texture they’ve made out of a metal ruler vibrating on a desk.
On top of the oscillators and granular engines, FRMS features 8 pre-made FM modes, which make using the FM module very simple and fun.
Each layer gives you access to 4 LFOs, 2 envelopes, an arpeggiator, a filter, and a handy mod matrix.
There’s also a global filter, with delay and reverb sent to glue the sound together and add some depth to them.
FRMS gives you 4 voice polyphony as well as MPE compatibility, which can be a ton of fun to explore if your MIDI controller supports that.
Finally, as with any plugin, one of the best ways to understand it is to scroll through and dissect the presets. And speaking of, FRMS features over 150 presets to check out.
FRMS is available as a VST2, VST3, and AU plugin for Windows and macOS machines. No AAX version though, so it won’t work in Pro Tools.
Check out the deal: FRMS (FREE with any paid purchase for a limited time)
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14 Comments
James
onDeal expired while I had it in my cart.
James
onDisregard the above
Yauluhim
onAnyone else not able to drag n drop samples into the plugin?
Jaded
onIt has to be specific file type like .wav if i remember correctly
eric dexter
onI didn’t try that yet.. From where to where??? I did find it a little strange that my deegain plugin volume flipped directions for some reason it did not take midi consistently from Midi grid and I had to record live to get the sound out of it.. I will try to drag and drop from a folder and see what it does..
eric dexter
onI didn’t try that yet.. From where to where??? I did find it a little strange that my deegain plugin volume flipped directions for some reason it did not take midi consistently from Midi grid and I had to record live to get the sound out of it.. I will try to drag and drop from a folder and see what it does..
eric dexter
onI have no problems taking a sample from a directory folder and putting it in the software. I haven’t used it enough to know what was causing the other problems but I did have to record live with audacity instead of using cakewalks save function but I will use it some more and see if I can figure out what was causing that..
TM
onAnyone knows what is the cheapest product on ADSR? I really do not need any other product, just a “way in” to get the free one.
Numanoid
onI am looking at Brass by Thenatan, costing 10 bucks. Their Brain also cost 10 bucks, but I already got that, and I am not very impressed with it. But Brass looks interesting, filling a hole that many didn’t know they had in their arsenal.
James
onI got WA Prod SphereDelay 2 for 6.90.
eric dexter
onI would pay up and get the $19 gridmidi plugin make your rig worthwhile … there is a bundle package with that $9.50 drum one that is $30 or whatever that may be a good speculation. They don’t have a demo though so it is hard to tell if it is stuck on c where I do not have any space or not. The features to the drum plugin look good though.
TM
onThanks!
David
onI just bought Sphere Delay 2 too to get FRMS free, the banner is still online so I assume the deal is still on but I did not receive any link or instructions to redeem FRMS…I just emailed them.
Did anyone experience this as well?
David
onproblem solved with a complementary order. I finally could access the download and register the plugin.