The RedFaux Transmission

Free Ableton Live Pack from Electronic Musician Mark Mosher

My friend Mark Mosher, who also released a great electronic album this year called "I Hear Your Signals" created an Ableton LIVE pack for his blog readers and fans for Christmas.  Mark is also interested in creating a community around this live pack for users to post their own notes about the instruments as well as receive updates from Mark.  Mark is also giving away the root samples so that folks who don't have Ableton LIVE but do have instruments such as: Absynth, Alchemy, ElectraX... etc can create their own compatible sounds. 

I haven't downloaded this yet.  I plan to do that this evening, but if this is like any of Marks previous synth work, the pack should be meticulously, well thought out and very cool sounding.  Check it out. http://www.outpostexperiment.com/

- Until Next time... Over N Out 

3 More Great Free VSTs

 Have you ever noticed that some free VST synths have names that sound like viruses? I've downloaded a few vsts that were so aptly named that I figured if they did turn out to be viruses it would be my own damn fault for not getting the hint from the title.

Here are the ones that hit the top of my paranoia list:

• The Devil Inside
• HAHAHA
• Karnage by Kriminal
• Scandalous
• Imp-osc-ter

Incidently, all these are legit and not viruses :)  Now that my nerdy joke is out of the way... here are 3 free VSTs I think are worth mentioning.

1. TranceDrive <-- DOWNLOAD HERE

 

TranceDrive, created by Maik Menz, is a nice big fat sounding VST, complete with 3 oscillators, 3 LFOS a choice of filters (Low, High and Bandpass) and a host of effects: gate, chorus, phaser, flanger, distortion, delay, reverb & EQ.  Each oscillator supports 6 different wave types including a super saw which allows you to get really fat sounding basses.

Probably the only drawback is there are only 11 presets, but the synth is cool and its fun to make your own. I'm working on a bank of original presets for this synth that I will post for you to download as soon as I finish :) 

2. Polly 8 <-- DOWNLOAD HERE

The Polly8 made by Osirus Synths is a wonderfully warm and fat sounding synth.  The sound reminds me a little bit of the Prophet VS.  It features 2 Oscillators, 2 LFOS, a Low and Highpass filter, Delay, Chorus, Arpeggiator, Phaser & EQ.  I love the pads and synth sweeps on this one.  Definitely worth the download in my opinion.

3. Hahaha CS33 v2 <-- DOWNLOAD HERE

The HAHAHA CS33, made by Perthu Music, has 2 oscillators, 1 filter, 1 LFO to EGs and Distortion, Reverb, Delay & Chorus.  I think the filters sounds really nice on this synth and some of the presets really show off some very cool sounding filter modulation.  Like the other 2 synths this one feels pretty polished and doesn't feel or sound at all like a free vst.  Another one worth downloading...

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In closing I also want to mention a relatively new resource on the internet called MyVST.  This is a cool site that shows you video demos of free VSTs and other audio tools. It has video demos of the three synths mentioned up above if you need more convincing before you take the plunge and download them ;-)

- Until Next Time... Over N Out

RED

New Free VST Instrument "Heather" from Cos&FX

I have some pretty nice friends... some of them even name synthesizers after me ;-) My friend, Scott Snyder, (aka Cos&FX) who aside from being a Sound Designer in the video game industry, also creates audio plugins on the side.  He decided he wanted to start making them available to the masses so I said I'd help out and offer a place to post them and help create the presets.  "Heather" is his first offering.  It's a VST synth that applies additive and subtractive synthesis elements to create its sounds.  The two filters are very resonant and with some tweaking can be really dramatic and wacky if applied to one of the 2 LFOs. This is a good synth for cutting basses, large screechy sweeping pads, leads and scifi sound effects. For just two oscillators it can be *really* F A T.

I've thoroughly hammered on this VST using Cubase 4 and Ableton Live 8.1 and it is solid... no wierdness.  Give it a shot... its free what do you have to lose?

click the image above to see a larger view.
 

Specifications:

• 2 Oscillators
• waveforms: sine, saw, ramp, triangle, pulse/square, white noise, pink noise
• 2 Low Pass Filters
• 2 free-tempo LFOS that can modulate: pitch, pulse width, filter (cutoff or resonance)
• Saturator
• Decimator/Sample Rate
• 30 presets

Product: Heather

Type: VSTi for Windows

Developer: Cos & FX

Download HERE

- Til Next Time... Over N Out

- RED

p.s. In the near future I will create a "Downloads" page and you can access this vst and other goodies from there... stay tuned!