waves have updated to version 13 of their plugins and what does that mean i've got two free vsts
that i'm going to check out in this episode universal audio have announced what looks to
be very high quality audio interfaces for a budget price there's a new version of a very interesting
DAW plus more all coming up in this episode of the home studio show which is brought to you
by DistroKid the easiest way to get your music onto Spotify iTunes and all of the online music
stores plus you keep 100% of the royalties i'm Zane welcome to the home studio show on audio tech tv
links to all of the gear and software mentioned in this episode are down in the description and first
up in news this week is waves have updated to version 13 of their plugins so what does that mean
well if you're on an apple m1 computer this update brings full support for the m1 if you're thinking
of upgrading to windows 11 this upgrade will work for you and they've also included high dpi
graphics to a few of their plugins you can upgrade for free if you're currently covered by the waves
update plan or you can renew your update plan and upgrade if this is something you want to do
next up in news is universal audio have announced their volt lineup of audio interfaces these look
like they might be a game changer for home studio musicians looking for studio quality sound from
their audio interface but want to pay a budget price there are five interfaces available in this
lineup plus two studio packs volt one gives you one mic preamp with vintage mode which delivers a
classic tube sound you can also connect a guitar or line input source into it but you can only
record one thing at a time volt 2 is basically the same thing but you get two inputs volt 176
and 276 are similar to the first two but these give you built-in analog 1176 style compressors
on each input there's presets built into it so you can switch between vocals and instruments and
some other modes plus the 76 models also have a cool classic wood panel style on the side of them
so far all of these volt interfaces have had just two outputs and are bus powered meaning
you can just plug them into your computer and you don't need an external power supply now the fifth
interface in the lineup is the 476 which has four inputs to our mic preamps and the other
two are line inputs plus you have four outputs and of course the 1176 style compressors on the
mic preamp channels this model does need external power supply to use it so it's more designed for
staying in the studio and not as much for on the go all of these are supposed to have very high
quality converters and they all come with a great software bundle which includes ableton live lite
a bundle from softube and another bundle from plug-in alliance plus much more the starting
price is just 139 for the smallest interface and it goes up to 369 for the 476 interface
there are also studio packs for the volt 2 or volt 276 and these include a microphone plus headphones
is a great way to jump in and get started in recording next up in news is traction has released
a free update to their abys synth i did an overview video on this synth and i really enjoyed it
this update adds fm capabilities which brings in so many more sound possibilities you also get two
times the amount of presets with it and like i said this is a free update if you already own
abyss if you don't own abyss you can download a 90 day free trial to see if it's for you
it's such a cool synth and it's really worth checking out we'll give it a listen a little
later in this episode the next piece of news is 1bitdragon 3 has been released this is a
simple sequencer program or daw that's designed to make music making easy and affordable in the new
version 3 you get a bunch of new instruments tools and abilities and this is all adding to the 175
instruments and 150 drum sounds that are already included if you want to quickly and easily make
music maybe for video games or for video 1bitdragon 3 can help to make that happen
it's also a great tool to sketch out your tracks and create some unique sounds
it's just twenty dollars and is available on mac windows or linux all right i still have the free
plugins coming up a couple of plugins we're going to give a listen to and we're going to check out
some deals like this one for just twenty dollars a year you can release unlimited music to spotify
itunes title amazon and all of the major online music stores through DistroKid and you keep 100%
of the royalties plus on top of that distrokid gives you helpful tools for promoting your
music on social media sites like these little video clips that you can use in your stories or
quick images that you can post on your socials to promote your latest single plus they also get your
music onto those social media sites so you can easily share them on instagram tik tok twitch or
wherever like i said it's just twenty dollars a year but if you use the link down in the
description you're going to save seven percent on that so click the link save some money and get
your music out there now here's some other deals to check out purchase anything over on plugin
boutique and you'll get the punish lite plugin for free and one notable deal is the native
instruments complete classics collection which is just $99 right now that's 80 percent off and you'll
get the massive synth absynth 5 fm 8 and replika effect over on sweetwater they have some great
deals on home recording gear in their deal zone the akg p220 for just 139 dollars is a great deal
plus they have a bunch of studio monitor deals over there right now i've linked directly to the
deal zone page so you can check that out pretty easily and over on the wave site they have buy one
plugin get one free now i just purchased a couple of plugins over there with this deal it's pretty
simple you buy one you get one free now if you're going to be buying multiple plugins buy them in
separate orders and you'll get more free plugins i'm pretty sure it has to be on separate orders
for it to work now let's look at this week's plugins worth checking out and the first one
is tracktion's abyss synth seeing as we talked about it earlier this is a visual synthesizer and
it's capable of creating some huge creative sounds that could be great for cinematic use edm styles
or pretty much anything the price is 129 but you can download a 90-day free trial before you buy
it to see if it's right for you it's available on mac and windows now let's give it a listen
the next plug-in worth checking out this week is ik multimedia's mixbox this is a virtual rack
plug-in that emulates a 500 series rack you get over 70 studio processors and these are taken from
ik multimedia's t-rex amplitube and sample tank you can use this in your daw or in standalone
mode as well and not only can you save settings on the individual processors that you load in there
but you can save your entire channel strip that you create making this super easy to load up your
effects chains in other projects ik multimedia's mixbox is 199 and available on mac or windows
rockin dreams racing like steve mcqueen this is the best ride i've ever seen
now it's time for the free plug-ins of the week and the first one this week is
one that was just updated this is softube's saturation knob i use this one quite often
i have other saturations that are paid plugins but i still find myself going to this one
to get a nice quick saturation sound with this updated version you now have some input and output
meters with level controls a high pass filter headroom controls and a phase convert control
turn the big knob in the center to increase the amount of saturation and then you can choose where
you want that saturation to be neutral will affect your entire signal if you go to keep highs it's
going to affect the lower range keep low affects the higher range but keeps the lows relatively
intact and like i said it's an easy plugin to use and it sounds great you can get this one on mac or
windows friday night and you're mad at me again if you were the queen of hearts with my head oh yeah
i don't know what i said i don't know what i did but you think i should be bowing to your feet
the next free plugin of the week is dbcomp from analog obsession now this
one was designed with your drum buss in mind but they also recommend using it on
acoustic or electric guitars and bass guitar as well it has a very nice user interface and
a cool thing is if you click on the analog obsession name it enables a four times
over sampling mode dbcomp is available on windows and mac in vst2 vst3 and au formats
now check out 12 more freebst plugins by clicking this video here and if you liked this video please
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watching for audio tech tv and the home studio show i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon