Xoxos has announced the release of Element, a free sampler/sample player instrument for Windows.

Xoxos Element sample player with dark skin (click image for light skin).

not really a sampler oc, it’s a wav player, but people often call them samplers..

loads one sample, does some loop modulation stuff, prolly more or less the same as samplers like this (eg. helios). loads 8 and 16 bit mono or stereo wavs.. and not in a fancy way, though it loads all the samples i’ve got. this was produced because i released some open source modules for synthedit to help people develop wav players.. i figured i ought to wrap one as a vst.

Element features

• Wrap mode looping (‘normal looping’) with crossfade.
• Bounce mode looping (forward-reverse).
• Two crossfade modes: fixed time (up to 1s) or loop relative (up to entire length of loop).
• 4 interpolation modes: floor (‘none’), linear, cubic and hermite.
• Emulated downsampling.
• Loop position can modulate filter cutoff.
• Filter modes (low, band, high, cut, peak in moog, svf or biquad).
• Curveable envelopes.
• Modulating start/end (loop or otherwise) reverses playback if end is lower than start.
• 8 voices poly.

The plug-in is available to download at no cost at http://www.xoxos.net/vst/element.zip (Windows VST).

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xoxos has announced a Springwater Sale, offering selected plug-ins at a limited time discount.

Buy Spring2 and Water VST for $15 and select any two other VST for free!

This means you can select Elder Thing and Amboea ($20 and $15) or plugins normally included in bundles, such as Radian and Aurora. That’s right, it’s spring, and that means it’s time to pay my website hosting!

The sale is available until April 17th, 2012.

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xoxos has released Spring2, a spring reverb emulation effect plug-in for Windows.

Spring2 uses conventional signal processing techniques to model the well-known spring reverb effect. While significantly more CPU power would be required to achieve closer emulation using this method, especially to model the dispersive characteristics more accurately, this version is intended as a compromise between what is possible and what is sensible, and the impulse response of this effect is generally similar to that of a physical spring.

Spring2 allows the length and dispersive frequency of up to three springs to be configured and includes a non-linearity to model the amplification transformer.

Spring2 is available to purchase as a VST effect plugin for Windows, priced at $10 USD.

More information: xoxos / Spring2

The Indie Dev Collective has launched its Winter Sale, offering over 30 deals on its products.

The Indie Dev Collective 2011 Winter Sale brings you a diverse selection of top quality synths, effects, and soundware for Windows, Mac, and iOS from 11 developers. Over 30 deals with prices as low as $6.99 and discounts up to 65% off for this limited time sales event!

The Indie Dev Collective Winter Sale includes products by Dangerous Bear Underground, H.G. Fortune, Manytone, Mildon Studios, Nucleus Soundlab, Perimeter Sound Arts, Ugo, Westgate Sounds, whiteLABEL, White Noise Audio Software, xoxos.

The sale runs from November 25th – December 4th, 2011.

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xoxos has released Pink, a freeware amp effect plug-in for Windows.

xoxos Pink

Pink VST is a free amp simulation effect for guitars, featuring 10 shaping options and an optional second gain stage for additional drive.

Both of the shaping and clipping stages are performed at four times oversampling using bicubic interpolation for upsampling.

Pink for Windows (VST) is available as freeware from xoxos.net. The download includes mono and stereo versions.

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xoxos has released Standard, a synthesizer instrument plug-in for Windows.

xoxos Standard

Two pristine bandlimited impulse train BLIT oscillators (and a bonus “seven saws” mode) are combined with a dual stage filter with eighteen filter modes.

Standard is a great choice for classic analog waveforms.

Standard for Windows (VST) is available as part of the xoxos Synthesizer Bundle, priced at $10 USD.

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