Author: Bryan Lake
Bryan Lake
Bryan Lake is a sound designer and a musician. He publishes sound design tutorials and sound libraries on his website Sound Author.
Dave Elton, developer and founder of Enginehouse Studios and Ursa DSP, has announced the release of Lagrange, his entry in this year’s KVR Developer…
RePro-1, U-He’s software emulation of Sequential Circuits’ legendary Pro One mono synth from 1982, has officially graduated from the alpha phase and is now…
In this review, I’ll be focusing on TkDelay, but if you haven’t already, you should definitely go check out our review of their wonderful…
Kevin Brown has released a huge archive of free SynthMaker creations in 32-bit VST plugin format for Windows, emulating classic vintage analogue synthesizers and…
Obviously, Kontakt is no big secret. For well over a decade, producers, sound designers, and professional mix engineers have made expert use of it.…
Airwindows has released five free mastering plugins: Density, Lowpass, Highpass, Average and ToneSlant, all of which were previously released for Mac only, but are…
Rosen Digital has announced the release of Pulse, a cross-platform impulse response loading platform powered by Ignite Amps and featuring the “Pulse Cab” IR…
Cakewalk has made the CA-2A (their emulation of the legendary Teletronix LA-2A Leveling Amplifier) available as a free download via their free Command Center…
Russian developer Vasily Makarov (who gave us the Marazmator synthesizer last year) has announced the release of Brandulator, a tempo-synced arpeggiator/resonator effect that distributes…
Developer NSP has announced the release of his newest creation called Over Diver od82o, an overdrive effect in VST plugin format for 32-bit and 64-bit host…
Self-proclaimed “performance-led musician and technologist” Tim Exile has just released SLOW, yet another amazing Native Instruments Reaktor ensemble to add to his list of…
The AM106 advanced Ring Modulator has just been released by Amazing Machines as a free download for Native Instruments Reaktor.
Denis Tihanov has announced the release of OrilRiver, a freeware algorithmic reverb plugin in VST2 format for Windows, even though plans are in the…
Noizefield has put out a good number of impressive freebies in recent history, and their newest software synthesizer is certainly no exception. Once again,…
Every so often, whenever I find myself underwhelmed by the current offering of VST plugins, I bump into something that previously had escaped my…
I just don’t have the nerve to refer to myself as a “professional guitarist”. I’ve been playing for about seven years, and during that…
In a time when software instruments are more powerful than ever, it becomes increasingly more difficult to get excited about “the next big thing”…
It still amazes me that decades after Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi, Tom Oberheim and Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits originally discussed the general idea…
There are plenty of adequate resonator effect plugins out there, most of which offer ugly user interfaces and fidgety controls. Often, they are highly…
Every once in a great while, I sit down with a new software synthesizer (well, new to me that is) and I’m just floored…
For half a century, professional keyboardists have had their instrument of choice attached to synthesizers, organs, electric pianos, and in recent years, software instruments,…
With the VST software market oversaturated with a good number of perfectly serviceable host applications, I can see how newcomers arriving fresh on the…
Now that Image-Line’s FL Studio 12.1 has officially gone live as a public beta version with multi-touch support for mobile devices, a bevy of…
As a dyed-in-the-wool atmosphile, I’ve had a long love affair with reverb and delay-based effects. I usually gravitate towards algorithmic reverbs since ambient soundscapes…