Plogue has released updates for chipspeech, chipsounds, chipcrusher and sforzando.
chipspeech
chipspeech is a vintage-style speech synthesizer which recreates the sound of famous 80′s voice synthesis chips. It features 7 different voices, each with its own characteristic timbre. It is specially tailored for musical needs – simply type in your lyrics, and then play on your MIDI keyboard. It’s a true synthesizer, the sound can be extensively modified for easy and expressive performances.
Changes in chipspeech v1.009
- Tweaked Lady Parsec’s consonants.
- Added ‘Attack’ parameter (CC30).
- Added Mod Wheel (CC01) GUI control.
- Added “save as default” in plugins.
- Improved Release time in POLY mode.
- Fixed silent playback when restarting in some hosts.
- Fixed parameter automation in a few hosts.
- Fixed SP0 Bending’s “non looped” allophone-built strings.
- Fixed ambience reverb memory use under 192kHz.
chipspeech is available for purchase for $95 USD.
chipsounds
chipsounds turns your VST, AU, RTAS or AAX host into a classic video game console, vintage 8-bit home computer and even an 80′s arcade.
Plogue chipsounds authentically emulates 15 vintage 8-bit era sound chips (on top of their variants), down to their smallest idiosyncrasies.
Changes in chipsounds v1.809
- Fixed parameter automation in a few hosts.
- Added “save as default” in plugins.
- Fixed ambience reverb memory use under 192kHz.
chipsounds is available for purchase for $95 USD.
chipcrusher
chipcrusher is an vintage DAC emulator, a speaker simulator and noise machine. It’s an audio effect which plays back input audio through a simulation of early lofi digital audio codecs (DAC Encoding), adds grit (Background Noise), and outputs through a selection of speaker and filter impulse responses (Post-Processing).
Changes in chipcrusher v1.809
- Fixed parameter automation in a few hosts.
- Added “save as default” in plugins.
chipcrusher is available for purchase for $39 USD.
sforzando
sforzando is a free, highly SFZ 2.0 compliant sample player. Advanced sample hobbyists now have a powerful tool to experiment and share instruments without relying on proprietary formats. sforzando has only one instrument slot; no fancy UI, effects or mixers. Every tweak has to be done at the SFZ file level, no cheating!
Changes in sforzando v1.809
- Fixed parameter automation in a few hosts.
The updates are now available to download.
More information: Plogue