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With a gorgeous interface, this free delay and filter plugin offers 3 fully configurable independent delay bands (Low/Mid/Hi) with complete and accurate control over the frequency width of each band. Each band is split into left and right channels with independent delay time and feedback and there’s a comprehensive filter bank section. Each band has its own fully featured filter on both left and right channels complete with cutoff and resonance controls. There are a total of six filters and six LFOs. Blue Cat’s Freeware Pack contains some excellent mixing tools for Mac and PC in all major formats.

The Chorus is a vintage chorus effect with variable delay, the Flanger sounds great on everything from guitars and drums to vocals, and the Phaser rounds out the modulation effects. Gain Suite contains a series of gain utilities that let you use MIDI automation to control the volume of several channels at the same time. Finally, FreqAnalyst is an excellent spectral analyzer that helps you better understand what’s going on inside your mixes. This free limiting plugin has five modules: an RMS compressor, peak limiter, high frequency limiter, clipper and a true peak limiter.

Both brickwall and soft limiting are supported and use different timing settings depending on the effect you’re going for. Mid / side is supported and there’s a multiband mode which is useful for getting more precise control over the limiting of different frequency bands within a track.

4x oversampling is available and you get retro level meters as well as choice of two different GUIs. A mini synthesizer that is controlled by audio that you route into it, this plugin uses three different oscillator waveform modes (pure sine, ring mod sine and phase mod sine) and the idea is that it turns any sound source into a series of dynamically generated basses, bleeps, blips, sweeps or glitches.

Just like VJ software makes graphics respond to the characteristics of incoming audio, Zap does it with synthesized sound. It’s a quick way to beef up beats by adding auto-generated synth elements.

A1 TriggerGate for Mac and PC is a rhythmic gate audio processor that can be used to get the popular effect that’s heard a lot in dubstep, house and other electronic styles of music. There’s a variable onboard step sequencer where each beat consist of four steps, or three in triplet mode, and each step has its own volume fader. Designed to be as simple as possible, the effects sound great. Although highly programmable, the effect also has a randomizer for punching in a whole new bunch of settings instantly. Atom is a filter with a focus on dynamic, tempo-synced modulation. With five different resonant filter types each with three slope settings, you also get two modulators with multiple waveforms that run at rates ranging from 1/128 note to 16 bars.

A chaos function randomizes the amplitude of each modulator cycle and you get a lag switch to smooth out the waveform curves. It also features an different kind of interface, with simple graphics rather than the kind of GUI you might be used to seeing. Advanced transport sync algorithm and support for tempo and time signature automation round out the feature set.

This chorus effect uses a phase randomizing filter that avoids any unwanted comb filter effects from the signal. It can simulate up to six additional voices and the pitch and loudness of any of these can be tweaked.

You also get an integrated EQ and a pre-delay section to create modulated and diffuse echo effects. You get undo and redo capabilities, A/B of setups and a preset manager. It comes in VST or AAX formats for Windows and VST, AAX or AU on the Mac, all in 32 or 64-bit versions, and with support for 96kHz sample rates and mono or stereo processing. The Sonalksis FreeG plug-in for Mac and PC is a simple master fader plug-in that can actually be inserted on any channel, not just the master buss.

It gives you a physically much larger fader to work with, with finer controls, plus very accurate metering. You get multiple metering ballistics types, peak and RMS level meters, pre and post metering options and a selectable pan law control. There’s also a Fine mode for more sensitive calibration of the master fader and a mono mode for when you are working with mono tracks inside a project. Span is a realtime FFT audio spectrum analyser that can give you an accurate visual readout of what’s going on in terms of the frequency and amplitude of your audio. It’s highly configurable, letting you specify FFT block sizes and visual slope amongst other things, and supports multichannel analysis or displaying spectrums from two different channels or groups at the same time for comparison. You also get output metering with adjustable ballistics and metering time, headroom estimation and clipping detection as well as correlation metering. This free plug-in visualizes up to four different audio signals in realtime in one window and helps you identify overlapping frequencies within a mix.