Wavesfactory Plugins Series And Rack#

Trackspacer is an award winning plugin that creates space in a mix by carving the frequencies.

The affordable plug-in is extremely easy to use, with three main dials, a magic button and a few sliders. Best plug-ins for making lo-fi music at a glance:Baby Audio’s lo-fi offering comes in Super VHS, with an emphasis on fuzzy VHS-style effects – go figure. It’s then likely that the track is processed through a tape machine or old mixing desk to add that old-school flavour.Here, we give you some software alternatives to tape machines, old samplers and vintage synths that can help you achieve a lo-fi sound. You’ll hear warped pianos and pads that are absent of rich high-end frequencies, along with drums that are slightly distorted and often sampled from old records. As a result, genres that include the word ‘lo-fi’ have exploded into the mainstream in the last six or so years.Lo-fi hip-hop, lo-fi house, chillwave and hypnagogic pop are among the many genres that embrace the imperfections of low-fidelity hardware.

As you move through the timeline, you’ll essentially be listening to your sounds as if they were recorded in that era, with all their primal imperfections. Plus, a recent makeover has made Vinyl even more accessible and intuitive, with a new Lo-fi button that iZotope says instantly brings the “worn timbre of late-80s hip-hop”.A core and enjoyable feature is Vinyl’s ability to transport your sounds back through the decades, all the way to 1930. This does it all for you and isn’t a burden on the CPU.”IZotope’s free lo-fi effect has long been a go-to weapon for producers, whether it’s for adding a subtle touch of vinyl-style saturation or full-on mechanical noise. The Magic button instantly applies a Juno 60-style chorus to your sound, while the Static slider generates noise and the Shape slider adjusting sample rate, resulting in drastic bit reduction in ten different steps.In our review, we said: “Producers looking to create lo-fi, nostalgic, vintage-sounding tracks won’t need to create lengthy plug-in chains of EQ, chorus, compression and saturation.

Each module sports a Flux slider which can adjust the extent of its effect, from subtle to extreme. Arming you with the tools to bring the textures of vintage analogue hardware to your DAW, RC-20 features six engines to colour your sounds with.The effects engines enable you to replicate the crackle of vinyl, the wobble of tape, crunchy distortion, chorus and reverb, and more. Much like iZotope Vinyl, this multi-effects unit is a staple plug-in among lo-fi artists. XLN Audio’s RC-20 Retro ColorOne of the top-charting plug-ins on Splice is XLN Audio’s RC-20 Retro Color, and is consistently found in the ‘Popular This Week‘ plug-in round-up. IZotope’s Vinyl is free to download, so this is a no-brainer.Learn more at izotope.com.

You’ll notice the difference in ‘quality’ in each of them, and you can further manipulate their tone with an Age slider, which you can gradually move from New to Used to Worn.SketchCasette II has independent controls for Wow and Flutter, with rate, depth and waveshape, with the option to sync to your DAWs tempo. If you’re looking for tape models, this plug-in has 12 of them, with three types each boasting four variations: Cheap, Value, Standard and Master. Aberrant DSP SketchCassette IIWith a GUI that perfectly symbolises the goal of the plug-in, SketchCasette II is a lo-fi dream maker.

Bad Tape is a simple and affordable plug-in that focuses on bringing extreme artefacts of tape to the forefront: Wow, Flutter, Hiss, Squeal and Harm, along with sliders for Color, saturation and Speed.In our review, we said: “Bad Tape stands out because of its mission statement: to sound bad. Sometimes, though, to make things sound good, you have to make them sound bad. Denise Audio Bad TapeDenise Audio has created a different type of tape effect – one that is designed to sound bad. This wonderful tape emulation is made all the more special with its animated reels.Learn more at abberantdsp.com. A flanger, saturator with two modes, a dropout control and compressor are built into the plug-in, too.

Wavesfactory Plugins Series And Rack

This will give you that classic metallic sound in the sample, sending you straight back to the 90s. Akaizer is a free plug-in that lets you time-stretch in the style of the Akai S950, S1000, S2000 and S3000 samplers. Their old-school processors result in tones that are hard to achieve in high-spec DAWs – without the right tools, of course. The distortion and harming effects are great for crunching bass sounds or drums, and for the price, it might be worth adding to your arsenal for its variety of uses.”Akai samplers, such as the MPC desktop series and rack-based machines, are fond favourites of lo-fi beatmakers.

SP950 recreates this with its single slider, combining the pitch of the source and the detuning of the SP to compensate for each other. They would then slow down the sample in the SP1200, which resulted in some dusty sounds. The SP950 combines the sound and look of the E-mu SP-1200 with the filter of the Akai S950, sporting just one slider, a knob and two buttons.Producers using the SP1200 to sample would capture the incoming signal from a vinyl record at a faster speed – 78rpm, for example – to save sampling time. WaveTracing SP950Much like the creator of Akaizer, WaveTracing has a solution for lovers of vintage sampling machines.

This is a great plug-in for individual elements, but can also be used on your master output to add some dust to your whole track. Made in 2011, but still used heavily by acclaimed producers, the effect is modelled on a vintage reel-to-reel tape machine that can provide you with all the wow and flutter you’d need, along with adjustable tape speed, bias, flux and noise parameters.The GUI oozes ‘vintage’ with its spinning tape reels, and is friendly enough to have you tinkering and dialling in warm tones in no time. Waves Kramer Master TapeAs the name alludes, Waves teamed up with legendary producer Eddie Kramer on this tape-based plug-in. There really is very, very little to choose between them, and as each original Juno sounds subtly different anyway, the sonic lines between software and hardware blur further.”Read the full review here. This is true both to the naked ear and when you compare frequency graphs between the original’s hardware and Softube’s software. There’s plenty of choice out there for emulations, but we’ve found a favourite in Softube’s Model 84.In our review, we said: “The sound is almost a perfect facsimile of the Juno-106.

In addition, the central Finisher knob is onboard to control the dozens of processors under the hood, with reverbs, delays, flangers, tape hiss and more.Wavesfactory Casette is another plug-in that brings back the casette tape deck back into vogue, with four casette emulations to choose from. Parameters such as Grit, Color, Mode and Rate will let you fine-tune your finishing touch, with over 100 presets for some quick inspiration. Whether it’s the 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s vibe you’re after, Retro’s 20 sound modules should be more than enough to satisfy your needs.Ujam touts Retro as Instagram filters for your audio, with 50 modes across four decades. Each Finisher product is a multi-effects plug-in, with Retro primed for “instant old-school flavours”, the brand says. UJAM Finisher RetroHans Zimmer and Pharell Williams’ company Ujam has a range of intuitive effects and instruments, with its Finisher series being ideal for soudnu design.