welcome to the home studio show in this episode i'm looking at the release of cubase 11
the announcement of ableton live 11. i've got some free plugins coming up some great
deals you don't want to miss out so be sure to stick around i'm zane welcome to the home studio
show where i do audio tech news and reviews to help you find new tools for your home studio
and links to everything mentioned in this episode are in the description so be sure to check down
there if you're interested in any of this stuff but right now let's get into it and first up in
audio tech news is cubase 11 has been released and if you're not familiar with cubase it's an
incredible daw that comes in three different options there's cubase elements 11 cubase artist
11 and cubase pro 11. some of the new features include advanced audio export with new export cues
and this will make exporting stems a lot easier and advanced key editor for creating pitch bends
scale assistant that will allow you to follow quantize and play live to a set scale plus
so many more features and if you were a user of cubase artist before the
new cubase 11 artist now allows you to have unlimited audio and midi tracks plus you have
variaudio 3 and ara 2 support you'll also get some new sample sets the squasher dynamics tool
plus much much more cubase 11 is available on mac and windows with upgrade pricing starting at just
45 or new purchase pricing starting at 150 check the link in the description for even more
information on cubase 11. and next up in audio tech news is the announcement of ableton live 11.
it's not released yet and i think it's going to be released in early 2021 but they are ramping
things up for the release right now by announcing some of the new features like record comping where
you can record multiple takes and keep the sections from each take that you want it's
a pretty standard feature in most daws so it's nice to see it here you can now use mpe compatible
controllers in live 11 and they've added some new devices like a hybrid reverb they've added tempo
following features so if you use this in a live situation instead of you and the band having to
follow the tempo in ableton ableton can now follow the tempo of your playing for a much
more dynamic performance plus they've included some new instruments like an upright piano a brass
quartet and string quartet so if you think ableton live is for electronic music styles and djs only
ableton live 11 is going to prove you wrong and you can get ableton live on mac and windows
plus if you purchase ableton live 10 right now you'll save 20 plus you'll get ableton live
11 for free once it's released up next in audio tech news is the release of the wires plugin from
audiothing wires is an effect plugin that's modeled after a 1970s soviet wire recorder
the hardware that this was based on was originally designed for military use in Russia but some
creative musicians discovered that it can be used as a creative lo-fi tool and a cool echo effect
the original hardware has a fairly high noise floor but audiothing's wire plugin allows you
to turn off that noise floor without sacrificing the unique sound you can get it right now for the
introductory price of thirty nine dollars but it will go up to fifty nine dollars after december
thirty first twenty twenty and now it's time for this week's deals but before we get into the deals
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it a thumbs up it really helps my channel out and i appreciate it so much now let's look at
deals and first up this week is the same deal from last week on plugin boutique where you can still
choose your free izotope plugin with any purchase on plugin boutique so if you purchase anything
you can choose from izotope ozone elements neutron elements and nectar elements all three of these
are great plugins so you may want to purchase three plugins in three separate orders that way
you can get all three by selecting a different one in each order now this week i want to take a
look at some deals over at loopmasters for those of you that use samples and loops this is for you
i've been using them more and more lately as you can grab some packs on sale and really start to
grow your sample library and these are all royalty free so you can have fun creating the music
and then you can make money off of your creations without having to worry they have even more deals
happening over at loopmasters check the link in the description for more information and it
will go right to the deals page waves have their early black friday sale on right now where you can
get deals on some of the best plugins available the great thing about waves plugins is they're
affordable and very high quality check the link in the description to go directly to their deals page
now if you want some hardware and plugin deals sweetwater currently have their early black
friday sale on right now and they have a lot of things on sale over at sweetwater right now from
gear to plugins so be sure to check the link in the description to go directly to that
black friday sale page and now let's look at this week's plugins worth checking out
and first up this week is the waves api 550 you actually get two plugins with this one
you get the api 550a and 550b which are modeled after the vintage gear of the same names
the eq knobs are stepped which is a nice touch the 550a features three eq knobs and each one has five
selectable frequency centers per band and up to 12 decibels of boost or cut per band the 550b has
overlapping eq frequencies with 4 eq knobs each with 7 selectable frequency centers and up to 12
decibels of boost or cut per band now i found the 550a plugin to be incredible on distorted guitars
it really enhances the tone in a nice way so let's check that out now and some other uses
now the next plug-in worth checking out this week is the drummer s73
intelligent master processor from softube this is based on the hardware version of the dromer
1973 compressor it's designed to give your mixes that analog sound without having to break the bank
the drummer s73 gives you easy settings to control so you don't have to be a mastering engineer
to bring in some sparkle and give your mixes an overall finish plus you can use
this plugin as a parallel compressor by adjusting the dry mix knob the drummer s73
goes for 89 normally and it's available on mac and windows so let's give it a listen right now
and now it's time for the free plugins of the week and first up this week is a fun new guitar amp sim
plugin from ml sound this is amped stevie t free the free version includes one amp called djentgod
and you can access three other amps but those amps are just in demo mode and will cut out after 30
seconds now if you're a guitar player you may know who stevie t is he's a youtuber that's an
incredible guitarist and also creates some very entertaining videos this plugin was created by ml
sound in collaboration with steve terreberry stevie t and features a fun user interface plus four cab
sim options it also has a pedal board section with some standard pedals the gent god amp really isn't
designed for cleans but you can lower the gain and maybe get some crunch out of it but it's
really designed for high gain it's available on windows and mac now let's give it a listen
so the next free plugin is the gsi varispeed copycat ic400. this plugin emulates the hardware
watkins copycat ic400 which is a vintage tape delay unit
the user interface is pretty cool looking and it makes it easy for you to adjust the settings
i may do a more in-depth full review on this in another video because it's a very cool plugin you
can get the gsi varispeed copycat ic400 on mac and windows but right now let's give it a listen
and if you want to check out even more free vst plugins click up here or click down
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