Free music software round-up: Week 14

Classic synths meet a NSFW effect

Ben Rogerson, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 2:33 pm UTC

Granalizer

Morfiki grANALiser

Platform/format: PC/VST Download

Described as a hybrid of a granulator and a delay, grANALiser promises the likes of chorus, pitchshifting and ring modulation. Even more intriguingly, we're told that it contains "explicit pixel animation that should only be viewed by adults". We should have guessed as much after seeing that name…

AcmeBarGig cab enhancer

AcmeBarGig Cab Enhancer

Platform/format: PC/VST Download

AcmeBarGig's roster of free plug-ins is growing rapidly (in fact, it says that'll be releasing a new product every week for the foreseeable future). Cab Enhancer is designed not just to emulate a speaker cabinet, but also to enhance an existing mic'd or IR cab.

Xoxos acoustic

Xoxos Acoustic/Malt

Platform/format: PC/VST Download

A couple of new offerings from Xoxos: Malt (which is short for MIDI alt) uses an LFO to alternate between two MIDI channels; and Acoustic (pictured above) is described as a "simple acoustic body resonator model" (this is based on the resonator model from the company's Boing2 bowed synth).

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