8 NEW FREE Plugins That Shouldn’t Be FREE (+DEALS)

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This Week’s Plugins

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1. Session Guitarist – Electric Neon Deluxe

Native Instruments has released Electric Neon Deluxe, a new Session Guitarist instrument aimed at modern pop, EDM and electronic production.

You get 240 guitar patterns, melody mode, plectrum and finger articulations, plus a collection of amps and effects designed to give you polished modern guitar sounds without actually having to play guitar.

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2. Lyre Lyre Pants On… by The Crow Hill Company

Crow Hill is back with another completely free instrument, this time based around a lyre recorded at Castlesound Studios in Edinburgh.

It goes from soft brushed performances through to harder Koto-like plucks, with built-in tremolando, delays and reverb for turning the short natural sound into much bigger atmospheric textures.

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3. forms:steel Free Edition by Venus Theory

Venus Theory has released another free instrument in the FORMS series, this time built from samples of a handpan.

The free edition comes with 15 natural performances and preparations, with long metallic resonances that work brilliantly for cinematic music, ambient tracks and more unusual melodic textures.

It runs inside the free Decent Sampler plugin.

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4. Lucid by Minimal Audio

Lucid is Minimal Audio’s new granular effect designed to turn normal sounds into textures, harmonies, rhythmic effects and completely different sound-design ideas.

What makes this one interesting is that its granular processing can stay locked to your key and project timing, so things can get weird without immediately turning into an unusable mess.

It also comes with over 350 presets covering everything from subtle layering to full sound destruction.

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5. EDYN Preamp by Tone Empire

EDYN is a vintage-inspired discrete transistor preamp designed to give sounds more punch, harmonic weight and analogue character.

You get drive and overdrive modes, impedance switching, filters and automatic gain compensation, making it useful on drums, vocals, guitars, bass, synths and even the mix bus.

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6. Reason Free

This is probably the biggest free release of the week.

Reason Studios has released Reason Free, a completely free version of the Reason Rack that works as a plugin inside compatible DAWs.

It includes 15 Reason devices, including Europa, Kong Drum Designer, Scream 4, The Echo, RV7000 Mk II and the MClass Maximizer.

There’s no trial, no expiry and no watermark. You can download it and keep it.

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7. PIXIE – Free Toy Piano

PIXIE is a free virtual instrument sampled from an antique Schoenhut toy piano.

It includes both the normal keyboard sound and the sound of the metal plates being played directly with a felt mallet, which you can blend together for softer, stranger and more cinematic tones.

Each note was sampled multiple times to keep things sounding more natural, and it comes with 10 presets to get you started.

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8. bathROOMs by Hot Shower Audio

Yep. Someone finally made a bathroom reverb plugin 😂

bathROOMs is built around five different bathroom spaces, with controls for things like wall surface, room position, slap, diffusion and even water temperature.

It’s pay-what-you-want starting at $0, so technically you can grab it completely free.

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🎁 More 100K Giveaway Prizes Added

The 100K giveaway is still going, and I’ve added even more prizes to the pile.

Bloom Bass Impulse

A bass-focused instrument packed with modern synth bass sounds, loops, samples and presets covering everything from subs and Reese basses to distorted, tech and dubstep sounds.

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Motion: Fractal

A creative granular multi-effect with twin granular engines, trance gating and stutter effects for turning normal audio into moving, glitchy and rhythmic textures.

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