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I’ve just finished a new review of DSK’s wicked mini drumz 2 plugin here . It includes a download. Very cool plugin.

DSK mini drumz 2

Zander

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It’s nice to see a big music software company showing a little bit of Christmas generousty and in this case it’s Native instruments. They have relesed the Kore sound pack compliation Vol 1 which you can download for free. To use it you’ll need the free Kore 2 player which also has some sounds bundled with it. The sounds range from synthesizers, acoustic instruments, percussion, groove construction kits and multi-effects patches and are taken from 12 different Kore packs.

Kore free player

Although you might not like the sounds this will be a good way to test out Kore 2 which is aimed to be used live.

Download Kore sound pack Vol 1

Download free Kore player 

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Compression is one of the most important and useful types of processing, especially when mixing and mastering. Compression is often misunderstood and therefore misused and if there’s one thing about compression its that when it’s used badly it sounds absolutely terrible and will put any listener off immediately. You can get some cool effects from creative compression but there will be more on that in other tutorials. This tutorial will guide you through the basics of using a compressor explain what its does to the sound, what the different parameters do and when you should use it, plus some tips to get you going.

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Watkat screenshot

GSI’s Watkat is a free plugin which emulates the classic sound of the Watkins Wem copicat tape delay. This plugin is a must for serious delay and lo-fi haeds. Article includes free download of plugin.

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Download Watkat

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Metrobus

Metrobus is a software plugin metronome which syncs to your sequencer or host tempo and then provides a click or metronome track.

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Livecut screenshot

Livecut is a live beatsliceing tool developed by Paul Kellett (mdsp) and is based on BBCut, the BreakBeat Cutting library written by Nick Collins for SuperCollider. Livecut has many more features than just slicing a beat. Aswell as different cutting styles like cutproc11, warpcut and SQpusher theres also a bit crusher and comb filtering.

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Kjaerhus audio classic delay

I get down and dirty with Kjaerhus audio’s classic delay as part of Live-Laptops.com free software articles.

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