plugins

Whysynth

Whysynth is a DSSI Softsynth Plugin.

Features include -

4 oscillators, 2 filters, 3 LFOs, and 5 envelope generators per voice.
10 oscillator modes: minBLEP, wavecycle, asynchronous granular, three FM modes, waveshaper, noise, PADsynth, and phase distortion.
6 filter modes.
Flexible modulation and mixdown options, plus effects.

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DISTRHO plugin suite

The DISTRHO plugin suite, is a collection of plugins, and various ports. Notable plugins include -

Obxd - An emulation of the famous ob-x, ob-xa and ob8 synths.
TAL Plugins - Including TAL Dub-3, Filter, NoiseMaker, Reverb and Vocoder.
Merb - A practical demonstration of Dattorro’s figure-of-eight reverb structure.
Luftikus - A digital adaptation of an analog EQ with fixed half-octave bands and additional high frequency boost.

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Tal NoiseMaker

Tal NoiseMaker is a very flexible, and popular, softsynth.

The Linux port of Tal NoiseMaker is part of the Distrho ports, , maintained by falkTX.

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Infamous Plugins, v0.1 - The Eye Candy Release

Updated: Fri, 2014-10-03 18:12

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 plugins include:

New release of Guitarix, including new LV2 plugins

Updated: Thu, 2014-10-02 09:40

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

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Sidechaining in Qtractor using Ducka

Updated: Fri, 2016-06-03 08:03

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.

MOD Duo launches Kickstarter campaign

Updated: Wed, 2014-09-17 18:09

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.

New release of Vee One Suite plugins

Updated: Sun, 2014-09-14 12:39

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