Piotr ‘Habib’ Pyrzanowski has released Extremist, a VST plugin for guitars. It’s main purpose is distorting guitar signal to receive extremally heavy sound. This effect is not a tube amplifier simulator, however some methods of altering signal are similar to tube amplification characteristics.

The effect works in stereo mode, without any latency. It uses 15-band stereo equalizer. It’s prepared to use SSE instruction set for Pentium II or newer processors.

Features

• Drive, Dry, Wet, Volume - knobs for regulating amplification & mixing signals
• Feedback - level of feed back signal
• Clip - clipping level
• Reverb - stereofonic reverb effect, adjustable up to delay
• Mod Boost - mid tones amplification
• Eq Q - width of each frequency bin amplification of equalizer
• Post LPF filter Q - filtering of high frequencies of effect output
• Noise gate
• Amp curve - amplification characteristic
• Lock bars - steering of equalizer in mono/stereo
• Post gating - noise gate applied before/after effect
• Smoothing - signal smoothing (hiss reduction)

Visit Habib’s website for more information and a link to download Extremist.

NuGen Audio has released Visualizer beta 0.3

Visualizer is an FFT Analyzer ideal for invesigating and comparing characteristics of any audio material in real time.

Features in v0.3

• Spectrum Analyser
• Stereo Analyser
• Spectrogram
• Stereo Spectrogram
• Vectorscope
• Peak Level Meter
• RMS Level Meter

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Fragile Audio has released Shiver, a four Oscillator Frequency/Phase Modulation Synthesizer.

Shiver was made as part of a project for the University of Paisley and was constructed entirely in Outsim Synthmaker. It is currently in beta phase.

Features

• 4 Oscillator Frequency/Phase Modulation
• 4 LFOs, assignable to over 30 parameters each
• two filters (LP/HP/BP/BR/Peak)
• delay and reverb effects

Check Fragile Audio for more information and a link to download Shiver.

xoxos has released 9 new plug-ins: 23_words, lotus, ordinate, muchacho, channelswap, muchacha, power and formant shifter.

23_words loads 23 words wavefiles and plays them back sequentially/randomly in sync with host with randomised pitch, panning, looping, ’scratching’ (pitch envelope).

lotus is a 2 voice algorithmic synth which basically just spews notes in key. ~40-odd temperaments, the 12et scales are on the chart included with ‘talent’. Information on other scales is included.

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