The infamous plugins have been developed over the last couple years and now GUIs have been created for them. A fund raiser in the style of the OpenAV Productions release system has been started to free the source. The LV2 plugins are already open without GUIs and can be tried and used freely.
The Guitarix developers have just announced the release of Guitarix version 0.31.0. For the uninitiated, Guitarix is a tube amplifier simulation for JACK, with an additional mono and a stereo effect rack. Guitarix includes a large list of plugins and also supports LADSPA/LV2 plugins.
This is mainly a bug fix release but it also includes three new LV2 plugins. They are -
GxRoomSimulator (Based on Gardner's room reverberator models) GxDigitalDelay GxLiveLooper
Ducking is a special application of sidechaining. In this tutorial we take a track with a kick drum – the sidechain – to "duck" (silence) another track with a pad sound. The sequencer we use is Qtractor, the ducking-plugin is Ducka, from the Arty FX plugin suite.
The MOD Duo, a hardware guitar effects unit running open source software, has just officially launched it's kickstarter campaign.
As opposed to other hardware units out there, the MOD Duo allows you to download, arrange, control and share effects, all using the power of open source software.
Rui Nuno Capela has just announced version 0.5.1 of his Vee One Suite of plugins. The plugin suite is available in the LV2 plugin format as well as standalone JACK clients, with NSM support. There are 3 plugins in the suite. They are as follows -
Synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer Samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler Drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler