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Happy New Year! Free Drum Plugs!

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Happy New Year, Everybody! This link was just sent to me from my dear friend, Orlando Florida's famous radio deejay, recording artist Jill Winter! (you can visit her at Jill Winter Official Website ) Waste no time clicking the image below, to be taken to an article where the wonderful people at music radar have compiled a list of their favorite freeware drum plugins of 2021! Thanks for making my first year of this so fulfilling! I've made a lot of new friends and visited with a lot of old friends, and I look forward to a wonderful, happy year 2022!! Peace and Love, Glenn in Rochester, NY, USA

Baby Audio Freebies

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Free Juno Ensemble Chorus Plugin And More! I'd be remiss if I didn't give a special shout out to the kind folks at Baby Audio. There are a few freebies on this page. All of them get great reviews. The only one I have used so far is Magic Switch - and I find myself using Magic Switch ALOT. I try it on every track, and keep it inline on around half of those. Sometimes I even use two instances in series. When this fantastic, amazing freebie turned up, for some time, I had been on the lookout for a great emulation of the ensemble chorus that's part of Roland's iconic Juno 6/60/106 synthesizer line. It adds a whole depth and dimension to any synth patch but I stick it on drums, vocals and guitars as well. I had a previous free emulation of this effect. It was generously given away by Arturia. That's beautiful, but it eats up a lot of CPU power and it's slow to load. The one from Baby Audio sounds exactly the same as the Arturia sounds in default mode, and the Baby Au

Free Holiday Gifts from NI & Izotope

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https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/holiday-gift-2021/ Grab a Trash 2 license & an NI Play Series:Twenty Five license - just 18 days to go as of today. Plus a voucher for 25 per cent off any NI purchase including sale items. imho NI prices are not their best right now but the freebie is great. Don't miss out on it. And Trash 2 is a lot of fun, too. Details at the link above.

Mastering Plugin Free N.I. SUPERCHARGER

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Ok, mastering stuff aside, this plugin compressor is unbelievable and it's free. It does a great job of smashing mixes together to about any extreme of squish or polish. I'm loving this thing! https://www.native- instruments.com/en/products/ komplete/effects/supercharger/ Supercharger is a free install inside the Native Instruments' plugin manager Complete Start and it's totally worth grabbing it. It just blew my mind. I just used it this way and it's going to stay on my mixes now. Once it's installed put it on your master. 1) Once it's on your Master Fader, click on the DIRT button! 2) Turn the big knob until you hear distortion then back it down just til the mix is clear and balanced again 3) Turn the output knob up until you are at maybe minus 1dB on the output meter Now the magic I found happens in step 4) 4) Back down the INPUT KNOB just until the whole mix opens up!! It's a one stop solution. It's magic. While you are at Native Instruments, gra

Free Waves Lofi Reverb Plug-in Black Friday Only!

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 Yes! Happy Black Friday! Waves have released the first of two new plug-ins today. It's a rude Delay & Reverb plug-in called Lofi Space and ONLY for Black Friday it is completely free!! Just make a Waves account or log into your existing account and got to this page... https://www.waves.com/plugins/lofi-space As with all Waves plugins, after you claim it, it lives in your account. You don't need to install it today! You DO need to CLAIM IT today! I'll let you go get it. Go! Get it 😅

November 2021 Freebies

Happy Thanksgiving, folks! I am totally cheating here. I'm stuffed like a turkey and ready for bed, and frankly, I can't even cope with the list if freebies this year. Fortunately, Amner Hunter on YouTube already compiled a crazy long list of this months crazy freebies on his channel. He explains what everything is in this video, and he links to everything from the video description. Go show him some live and get some free software! https://youtu.be/h6fWiyOxhLA

3 Free Sample Packs Limited Time

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Hip-hop Sample Kits Bundle Free Until Black Friday By Cymatics Hi gang! I just heard from the talented people of Cymatics. In the spirit of Black Friday, they are giving away 3 brand-new, well-recorded, functional and useful music construction kits. There are audio demos on the free product's web page at Cymatics, here... https://cymatics.fm/collections/store/products/hip-hop-sample-pack-bundle Of course, you'll need a free account on the Cymatics.com website to claim the freebies. There are more free packs and plugins on their site, and none of them are boring, so by all means, look around while you're there. The first of the three packs is called Panther Hip-hop Drums Kit. It's 64 loops of hits and patterns. Next is called Purple Hip-hop Melodies. It's 16 melodic loops in the style of Trap. Finally, we have Seismic 808 Samples. This kit is made up of 18 fresh and unique hits from the classic Roland TR-808 drum machine. You'll need at least 1.2 gigabytes free o

Free Waves Plug-in care of Reason Studios

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Free Berserk Distortion plugin from Waves and Reason Studios Hi guys. T is the season for pricey freebies... Reason Studios is giving a free Waves Plugin called Berserk. All they want is your email address. Anyway, by all means, take a minute now and claim it, then carry on. Reason Studios sends you a serial and a link to your email box. Copy the serial provided in the email. Click the link in the mail. If you don't have a Waves account you'll need to make one. If you have a Waves account, just paste the serial number into the reg box, click through, and this plugin will live in your account. Install it any time with the Waves software manager thingie app. https://www.reasonstudios.com/waves-berzerk If anyone sees the SSL SiX for $1199 new this season please let me know ASAP. Thanks! Have a great day! Cheers, Glenn

Free Brainworx Mastering Plugin NOW

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Free Mastering Plug-in Brainworx bx_masterdesk Classic Free for now at Plugin Alliance Use code: BX-FOR-FREE (expires November 24) Cut to the chase: This thing sounds great. I bought the full version months ago. I wish I'd known about this instead! It sounds great and clean and really picks up perceived loudness very nicely. I'm not suggesting that you use this in place of a professional mastering engineer like the esteemed Roger Lian formerly of the late, great MasterDisk, but in a pinch it's always handy to have stuff like this on-hand. It does what I'd do with a string of Plug-Ins for what producer Andrew Bertrand calls "Poor-man's Mastering", and it does it well... AND IT'S FREEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! ANYWAY ... Go here to get the plugin https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/bx_masterdesk_classic.html#downloads If you don't yet have an account, make one. There are really no strings attached. Hey, just get it claimed. Add it to your cart, paste thi

Free 2GB Pack 24-hours only

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Cut to the chase... Here's the link... https://producertools.net/products/modular-megapack From their web site... "MODULAR MEGAPACK VOL. 1 €0,00 “Modular Pack”. It has been recorded exclusively using Eurorack modular with a totally analogue single path, in order to help you create syncopated rhythms with an harder and darker edge. The kit has complex modular sounds designed for electronic music and experimental, future genres made by modules from Cwejman, Make Noise, Moog, Mutable Instruments, Intellijel, Erica Synths, Endorphines, Verbos, Vermona, Frap Tools, and many more. It was compiled to add creative flair to forward-thinking producers, especially for genres like Techno, Minimal, Tech-house, Experimental and Microhouse. consists:  2,86 GB of Samples and Recordings 374 Files 24 Bit integer resolution 29x Synth Recordings 62x Percussive Recordings 52x Bass Recordings 26x Hat Loops 19x Kick Loops 17x Clap & Snare Loops 9x Live Recordings 21x Textures 120x Oneshots (Fx,

Sample Science Free Sample Packs & Plug-ins

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Sample Science Free Sample Packs, Plug-ins and More High Quality Sampling is no easy business. It's not easy to craft a great sample set. It often involves painfully long hours in uncomfortable positions recording and trimming and processing dozens, hundreds, and often thousands of individual digital sound clips. Getting artful performance qualities out of thousands of digital audio clips certainly does involve a lot of science. Sample Science is the alias/nickname/handle as well as the company and website name of one such amazing, diligent practitioner of this labor of love. Yes, you have to be in love with sampling to produce anywhere near the volume of the body of work produced by Sample Science. And for the volume of freebies and donation-ware (pay what you want) this fine person has made available to our music making community, imho, he should change his name rightly to "Saint Sample Science". Good community is hard to come by, and in his many forms, Sample Science

NI Kontakt Instruments 25th Anniversary Freebie "25"

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Native Instruments Free Kontakt Instrument -Limited Time Only! Kontakt Instrument "25" For Free! Yes, for the 25th anniversary of Native Instruments, the company are giving away a very special freebie instrument. All you need to claim the free instrument is to have an existing account at Native Instruments or create a new account on their website. It costs nothing to create an account, and you do not have to install or download anything - you just need to log into your Native Instruments account and CLAIM the instrument following directions on the perhaps-misnamed DOWNLOAD button on the page linked to here... https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/play-series/twenty-five/ Once you claim them, freebies on this site are registered to your account and you can install them any time after you've claimed them. I claim all of them. They give frequent freebies, and they all can be installed and authorized via the excellent Native Access product management app. Wi