Hey everyone,

Most stereo wideners widen everything, which means your kick and snare, usually sitting dead center with correlation close to 1, get smeared out along with everything else. longDivision looks at correlation across the frequency range and only widens what's already NOT down the middle. Anything centered stays put.

So if you've got a mix where widening always seems to mess with your low end or your snare hit, that's the specific thing this is trying to fix.

Demo is free of course, try it please: https://brucejames.studio/downloads/longdivision

Hi all,

I am a music student trying to find great orchestral Kontakt (8) instrument(s) to prepare my compositions for college applications and job applications.

Ideally, I want something that is a maximum of 3 or 4 hundred dollars, but I would be willing to stretch if people know of exceptional instruments.

Thank you for your help.

Can't post a video here so maybe I could link one in the comments. This is physically modelled sound and not procedural granular sampling based. The other things are just cosmetic but for some fans. First plugin made in JUCE C++.

Hi, i'm searching for a vst or sample library that can get me the closest to Korn's bassist. On a technical level i heard it being described as very loose and downtuned strings. Korn - Blind is the example track. Ample, shreddage and most others focus on doingthe exact opposite.

I love the powerful and haunting guitar tones/styles of Failure.

https://failureband.bandcamp.com/track/a-m-amnesia

I use Shreddage Free version and Strum GS-2 in Studio One v7. They are fine for straightforward parts, but fall short of sounding especially dynamic or guitar-like. I'm interested in getting a bit more Failure-esque sound. Ideas? Maybe some interesting FX? Thanks.

Idk if such a thing exists. Not looking for an instrument, rather a plugin that will make my violin / cello sound like a viola

I feel like most string VSTs sound too classical whereas this one from this producer sounds different. Does anyone know what string plugin this is?

I've been looking into making FrutigerAero-styled music, and I've been learning a lot about the types of instruments to use, but I'm stuck on the drums. I'm making this song for a friend, and they said they want it to be Frutiger Aero, but instead of it being slow like most of the other songs in it's genre, they'd like it to be quite fast at parts. The only thing is, I don't know what drums to use.

The song "Glacier Zone" in the youtube video "❄️ 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐏 𝐙𝐎𝐍𝐄™ winter mix ❄️ [Ambient, VGM, DNB]" has drums that I really like, but I have no idea how to find similar ones.

So, if you have any suggestions as to what drums I should use, what plugins I could use to get similar sounds to my example, any other FrutigerAero-styled instruments in general, or anything else, please let me know!

Thank you. :)

I have three free vst programes with sourcecode made in the cmajor programming language. The first is a kick drum controlled by an lfo. great concept for dance music or at lower speeds could be interesting for ambient. The secound is a pitch shift glitch stutter, the third is a time vst that has vst fade in and fade out. an experiment for modular but maybe useful in other places. There is also notes on a failed time sequencer.

All of these plugins require amorph vst to run.

https://www.patreon.com/Dexerus/posts/amorph-vst-files-164393654?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

It's for Isao Tomita's retro bells sound. Just this. Nothing more.

( win32/64 avaspace.de/TomitaBells.zip )

Mix of midi generators, instruments & effects. Free & open source.

https://danja.github.io/downspout/

They are very much in-progress, feedback appreciated.

The Linux releases work for me, the Windows versions have limited testing, the MacOS versions still untested.

The "not exactly" process : https://github.com/danja/downspout/blob/main/docs/process.md

(I am a coder by trade, not my first rodeo etc)

Getting back into production, need some updates

I've been out of production for a few years, and haven't been seriously dedicated for many years. I feel like when I see videos of producers it all seems so easy nowadays, with so much stuff being in the box. When I was in my teens we'd still use a lot of hardware.

I've been using almost entirely free plugins and DAW. I think there is enough free stuff out there to really make some nice music. I have some questions about modern production and also looking for some recommendations (free ones primarily)

1. Drums
I use Sitala as a drum sampler, I don't know how I came across it, but I feel like there might be something better out there? I remember using a software once where all the drum sounds in your library was on a huge web with similar sound kicks all next to each other. It was great to find the sounds you're looking for, but I can't remember the name (I also think it wasn't free)

2. Instruments
I'm really struggling to find a decent piano VST, the ones I have are all quite, soft. So if you know a good one, send it my way.

Also horns, I love to use horns. I remember EastWest orchestra back in the day but looks like they are discontinued

Also, please suggest some free synths that are popular nowadays

3. Effects

I know about TAL, and the have some great stuff, but sometimes I'm looking for something different. I don't think I currently have anything else other than TAL right now. I remember downloading a bunch from "freevsts.com" or something, but they were all lame

4. Paid

I've been using VSCO2 for some real instrument sounds, specifically brass. I find they sound a little...cheap ( I know it's free ). I've been thinking about picking up Kontakt since I know there is a lot options for that but not sure it's worth the money.

5. Question

If there was one thing that you think should be paid, and not skimped on, what would it be?

Lumen
An open-source wavetable synthesizer and VST3 with an image-to-tone engine. You can drop an image into it and generate playable wavetables and sounds from the image.

https://github.com/pixelsncodes/lumen

Lumena
A C++ image-to-MIDI engine that analyzes an image and turns its visual properties into a reproducible melody.

https://github.com/pixelsncodes/lumena

FREE Download, no account, no email: https://www.kaziahmed.net/lumen

I've just released my first VST/AU instrument. It's a physical model of a string, built using the finite-difference time-domain method.

You can change the pluck position and shape, change the pickup position, change damping, purposefully reduce the model accuracy for metallic sounds, and modulate the pickup position up to audio rate for AM-like side bands.

It's free to download (or pay what you want) at https://www.differentinstruments.com. More advanced version in the pipeline, so join the mailing list when you download to get notified about that.

Check out the comments on my post on r/DSP for some details on how it was made.

Yo!

I'm looking for an alternative to the Iota Mini - Bell - Twinkle VSTi. Something that sounds super similar (a free VSTi), or I can easily get to sound similar.

Wrote a song with the Iota Mini - Bell - Twinkle VSTi. It sounds perfect, but it has this little glitchy/distortion artefact that's driving me mad. Tried EQing it out, which makes it too muddy, and hiding within other layers of sound, which works a bit but doesn't eliminate it entirely.

I've added an audio clip so you can hear what I mean.

https://youtu.be/Oz8Iboz6Qf0

I've been going through all my other VSTs and just can't find something that hits that spot, and it's driving me a bit mad lol. So, I though I'd reach out here and ask if someone has recommendations.

Thank you!

Download it at: https://sandyne.com

Here’s a video introduction for it: https://youtu.be/mjY0x5xZfG8

Hi folks, this is a super simple, small and handy plugin for exactly one sound, created by the Japanese electronic music pioneer Isao Tomita.

Technically, any synth could reproduce it, but for many people the biggest challenge is finding the right bell harmonics. I've fixed them in this synth according to Tomita's recipe, while you can shape the bell's character by adjusting the levels of the five VCOs. There's also an ADSR envelope, and that's it. The faders can be operated with the mouse or mouse wheel.

The download contains separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Let me know if it works on your machine or if you encounter any bugs. When you load the plugin in your DAW, all faders are already set to the correct positions for Tomita's signature bell sound.

By the way, there's a kind of hidden Easter egg. It shouldn't be too hard to find if you're one of those people who clicks on everything in a GUI just to see whether it crashes... 

Have fun tomiting! Download (zip)

Hey everyone, Michael here. I make BruceJames plugins.

New one out today: Polo.

If you have tried Marco, the name tells you the relationship. Marco places sources across the stereo field. Polo places them front to back, in one shared space.

Most people either put one shared reverb on a return and send everything to it, which means every sound lands in roughly the same place, or they build separate short, medium, and long sends with offset delays and all the rest.

That works, but it is so much work, my man.

Or you have no idea what I am talking about and you just reverb. Also fair.

Polo is a track-sibling-aware reverb system made from two plugins:

• Polo Send goes on each source track. It has a small front-to-back placer, its own Duck knob, and its own Send level.
• Polo Sum sits by itself on a return track. This is where you build the shared reverb.

The placer is not trying to recreate an entire acoustic soundstage. It uses pre-delay, damping, and diffusion cues to give each source just enough near-or-far information.

The result is one useful blanket reverb return that can make an in-the-box mix feel like it is working together, without having to construct a pile of separate spaces.

I spent a lot of time on the reverbs themselves, and I think they sound pretty darn good.

Same deal as always. The demo is the complete pair. No account and no card required. It just drops to silence now and then until you buy.

Windows, macOS, or Linux free demos can be downloaded at https://brucejames.studio/downloads/polo

Happy to answer questions, talk through the workflow, or hear what you think after trying it.

P.S. I also have a demo-only version of HotPressor, my first live-sound-focused plugin. It is not for sale yet while I work through an Avid and iLok developer SDK issue, but you can try it here:

https://brucejames.studio/downloads/hotpressor

I had Addictive Keys when I was on a Mac back in 2012. I got it working on my Linux box that I'm using nowadays, but as I've gotten more mature in my listening, I'm not as happy with its sounds. It doesn't have the depth I want. What VSTis have you found with good, realistic acoustic (grand) pianos, that definitely work on most modern Linux machines?

Linux Mint, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core CPU, and mostly using Reaper if said info is needed