in this episode of the home studio show I'm looking at the Reaper 6 daw update
waves plugins abbey road saturator lounge lizard electric piano free
plugins plus more plugins and news I'm Zane and this is the home studio show on
simple green tech this is a weekly show featuring audio tech news reviews and
sometimes tips and I first want to give a quick shout out to DJ computer love
and Kasinath Roy both of them answered last week's trivia question correctly
which was David Guetta's titanium now if you want to get a shout out in a future
episode be sure to stick around for this week's trivia question but now let's get
into the news and first up we have the Reaper DAW it's been updated to Reaper 6
some of the new notable features of version 6 are effects plug-in embedding
you can now embed small versions of certain plugins into your tracks control
and mixer panels for easier access and editing some of the plugins that you can
embed are REAEQ reAFIR reaXomp the graphical Jsfx plugins and more another
new feature is midi CC envelopes you can now handle midi CC data as continuous
data envelopes instead of discrete events this will help to create smooth
musical articulations and effects also you can now automatically stretch audio
around complex tempo changes thanks to the new auto stretch time-based feature
and if routing is your thing you'll want to check out Reaper 6's
new routing diagram where you can view and edit project routing using a
high-level graphical patch Bay emulation there are numerous other updates in
Reaper 6 I've linked to their website so you can head over there and check it all
out now next up in news waves have released another new plugin and this one
is the Abbey Road saturator this waves plugin was created in collaboration with
Abbey Road Studios it's a recreation of crunchy tube and smooth solid state
analog saturation the EMI tg12321 compander excites the input
pre saturation which is a method that was used by the first generation of
Abbey Road pop engineers you get detailed pre and post gain EQ to shape
the distortion character and the phase knob will alter the distorted sound you
can also use the mix control to blend the saturated or distorted signal with
the original signal and to top it all off you get presets from Grammy winning
producers and engineers check the link in the description to head over to the
waves plugin site and check out the waves Abbey Road saturator
next up in News vember audio has updated surge to version 1.6.4 they fix some
things with the MPE mode in this release and did some other small changes too you
also get some MPE patches from roger linn and producer damon armani
contributed a set of EDM and dubstep patches as well if you aren't familiar
with vember audio surge it's a free open-source synthesizer plugin available
for Windows and Mac it used to be a paid-for plugin but it's now available
to you totally free UVI are bringing back the 80s with the release of Kroma 1.5
this virtual synth gets its inspiration and sound from the rhodes
chroma which was a 16 voice analog synthesizer from 1982 the real-world
synth is very rare but UV eyes plug-in will get it into your studio for around
$80 as of the time of this recording check it out if you want to add some
warm 80 sounds to your tracks okay so I know my channel talks a lot about making
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your annual membership which is pretty good now let's move on
to plugins worth checking out first up is a great instrument bundle from
applied acoustic systems it's their session bundle this includes session
versions of lounge lizard strum and ultra analog lounge lizard delivers
authentic classic electric piano tones with outstanding sound quality action
and feel if you're looking for some great electric piano sounds this plug-in
is for you now let's check out some of the sounds now
strum session combines an acoustic and an electric guitar in the same package
with chord recognition chord voicing strumming and picking action you get a
MIDI riff library amp and effects so you can now play guitar on your keyboard
Ultra analogue session is a virtual analog synth with a few knobs and big
sounds you get a ton of presets with this one and you can create many vintage
warm sounds this bundle of three instruments can typically be found on
plug-in boutique for a nice low price link to it is in the description
the next plugin worth checking out is from cherry audio and this is voltage
modular nucleus this is the ultimate introduction to modular synthesis and it
includes a collection of 22 modules and 67 presets you get all of the
fundamentals of subtractive analog synthesis including oscillators filters
envelope generators amplifiers and mixers plus a sequencer arpeggiator and
a full suite of useful utility and effects modules with voltage nucleus you
can discover new sounds by patching modules together in a new endlessly
creative way now let's give Cherry audio voltage nucleus a listen
now before we get to the free plugins section of the show it's time for trivia
if you want a shout out in the next episode of the home studio show be
amongst the first ten people to answer this question correctly name the song
and the original artist from these lyrics shakedown 1979 cool kids never
have the time if you know the answer put it in the comments and you'll get your
shout out in the next episode now let's move on to the free plugins worth
checking out first up is an electric guitar plug-in this is ample bass P Lite 2
you can grab this for free from plugin boutique and the link is in the
description ample base P light 2 aims to bring the sound of the fender Precision
Bass to your home studio they can do hammer-ons pull-offs slapping and many
other bass playing styles you can even load tablature into it and it will play
from the tab so let's give it a listen now
if you know of a plug-in new or old that I should check out in a future episode
be sure to let me know in the comments now let's move on to the next free
plugin in this episode and this one is fairmageddon fairmageddon has been
released as a free beta from forward audio this is a new guitar cabinet
impulse response plugin and this is from their website fairmageddon is a
community project with the goal to create the ultimate guitar cabinet
impulse response designer for the growing needs of guitar players of the
21st century with fairmageddon you'll be able to load combined adjust merge
and manipulate your irs to achieve this goal with ease if you're interested in
getting into impulse responses this is a great free way to get started now let's
give it a listen
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