For people who work daily with music production, mixing, and mastering, searching for plug-ins for your DAW to get different sounds to enrich inspiration and creativity, is a constant
habit and research.
Choosing and browsing through plug-ins for experimenting can be a challenging task, due to the infinite number of options, possibilities, and brands.
And sometimes, when finding the perfect plug-in, that can sound and look perfect for using, it can be an expensive task as well.
So here are three plugins with interesting sounds and possibilities that are available for free that can help on stimulating creativity and getting new inspirations.
BOREALIS-LE is the FREE version of BOREALIS, a dynamic reverb plugin designed for the studio, stage, and beyond. Featuring one of BOREALIS’ inspiring algorithms, it transcends conventional reverb plugins by allowing you to create an interplay between your dry input and its wet output, using its envelope follower and unique modulation possibilities. BOREALIS-LE allows you to delve into this unique world of dynamic reverb for free!
It is not a strict simulator of tape, vinyl, tubes. It can make you remember these devices, but it contains no physical models of these devices. Vintager Toy contains mathematical calculations but was essentially developed in an intuitive way. The author was based on their small knowledge, he listened devices and recordings from different eras and vintage synthesizers and used his own conception of vintage sound. Therefore, you must use it considering that clarifications. Vintager Toy is not a professional tool, although it can be used professionally if the user finds it useful.
VariSpeed is a new plugin that GSi offers free of charge to everybody. It's a
simulation of the WEM Copicat IC-400 Belt Drive VariSpeed model, the first tape echo
machine made by WEM with a DC capstan motor capable of changing speed, thus
varying the delay time. GSi VariSpeed replicates the hardware instrument “as is” with
all its pros and cons, without any additional feature except the fact that it is digital
and MIDI-controllable. This can be considered as the second chapter of a tribute to
the genius of Mr. Charlie Watkins that GSi began back in 2008 with the release of the
freeware “WatKat”, which was a simulation of the “Custom Copicat”.
This post is just a quick glance at these plugins, be sure to check them out!
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