Terry West Plugins has released for download version 1.2 of their free VST plugin for Windows Easy-NY, an effect that provides the famous “Parallel Compression” (New York) effect.
In this update, Mix acts from OFF to Max effect

Parallel compression, usually used on drums, is a technique used in mixing achieved by mixing a dry or slightly compressed signal with a heavily compressed identical signal, in order to maintain the characteristics of a performance while stabilizing the dynamics.
Also known as New York compression effect, it can also add a pump or breathe character to the processed sound.

Easy-NY 1.2 compressor features:
Dry/Wet dial, Volume dial, Special Motown EQ effect for vocals + boost, Global bypass, Stereo and mono versions.

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Atom Splitter Audio just released 2 new free vst effect plug-ins for Windows, Mechaverb (reverb) and Clip-R, a clipping fx that appears to sound very good on percussive sounds.

From Atom Splitter Audio’s site:
“Mechaverb is a reverb effect where you can set the ranges of the internal delays which make up the reverb sound, you can also pan the bands and set there mixing amount which gives you a range of possible sounds from large halls to ringy metallic reverbs.

Clip-R is a stereo effect which allows you to trim/clip the ceiling (top) and floor (bottom) of any audio you put through it, it also features a boost control which happens before the clipping and can be used to distort the signal in combination with clipping. The left channel is shown in green and the right in red, the clipping level is show in black and this lets you see exactly what is happening to the signal. The effect works well on basses and basic waveforms like a saw etc and can change the shape.”

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Terry West updated his EasyVox vst plugin for Windows XP and Vista to version 1.3. This version fixes a problem withpre-limiter being broken.

EasyVox features:
-Dynamic mono vocal compressor/limiter.
-3 bands equalizer.
-Autogain and Pre-Limiter.
-3 equalizator models.
-3 Independed Low-Mid-Hicut filters.
-Vocal Doubler effect.
-Pre in/Post out gain.
-In/out/reduction meters.

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If you are looking for a drum vst instrument, another very interesting plug-in from the same developer that could capture your attention is mini Drumz, a drum sample rompler (for Windows) that include sound sampled from a huge list of “hardware” drum machine:
Ace Tone Rhythm Ace, Akai XE8, Akai XR10, Alesis HR-16, Boss DR-55, DR-220, Fricke MSB512, Kawai R50, Korg DDD-1, Korg DDM110, Mattel SynSonic, MXR 185, Roland CR-78, Roland TR-606, Roland TR-727, Roland TR-808, Roland TR-909, SCI DrumTraks, SCI Tom, Yamaha RX11.

Togu Audio Line releases TAL-BassLine instrument plugin as a free download for Mac OS X and Windows systems. TAL-Bassline freeware vst synth is a virtual analog bass synthesizer especially made for bass, acid sounds and effects, and it has a very similar appareance and structure of the legendary 80′s analog monophonic synthesizer Roland SH-101 (the filter doesn’t sound exactly the same as a real SH-101, but it’s equally very nice being a -18dB low pass filter with a lot of asymmetric and random components that introduce a warm and analogue sound.)

This synth plug-in needs a VST2.3 or VST2.4 compatible host, such as Cubase or Ableton Live.
Users of Pro Tools, Logic or Digital Performer (Mac environment) need adapters if they want use it. Some adapters that should be compatible:
- FX-Pansion VST to AU Adapter
- FX-Pansion VST to RTAS Adapter
- Audio Ease VST Wrapper (peculiar to Digital Performer)

Main features:
# Saw or pulse oscillators.
# Sub-oscillator: square -1 oct., square -2 oct., pulse -1 oct, pulse -2 oct.
# -18 dB/octave low-pass filter (resonant/self-oscillating).
# LFO (frequency: 0,1 .. 30 Hz, waveforms: sin, tri, saw, rec, noise).
# Very fast nonlinear envelope
# Simple Arpeggiator (up, down, one octave mode).
# 2x Unisono Mode.
# MIDI automation
# Precise fader control while holding down the “Shift” button.
# Supports all sample-rates.
# 2x oversampling.

Click here to download freeware TAL-Bassline vst instrument

A free plugin in vst format for Windows, useful for sure for whom interested in electronic music production, developed with Synthedit and available for download fro de la Mancha.
Subatomic (sub-bass drum synth) generates a pure sinusoidal wave and allow to easily obtain the tipical sound of a deep bass – or sub kick like a roland 808.
Just be sure to play this vst instrument in the right low octave, or what you will obtain will be more similara to a bell than a wrecking bass.
Subatomic features:
- pure sinewave oscillator
- volume decay and pitch decay envelopes
- variable pitch drop
- six different vol / pitch decay shapes (concave, deep concave, linear, convex, S curve, inverted S curve)
- drum mode or synth mode
- Control Change MIDI signal assignable to all available controls
(CC 21 – drum/synth / 22 – decay del volume / 23 – pitch decay / 24 – pitch drop / 25 – tipo di vol/pitch decay)

Click here to download this vst drum synth from de la Mancha.

Musicrow, a company that specializes in the development of professional VST instruments, effects, and top quality ensembles for the NI Reaktor platform and is committed to the accurate recreation of analog vintage sound, releases a vst preamp plugin (Preamp Emulator) as a free download for Windows.

From Musicrow’s website: “Preamp Emulator emulates the way tube preamps behave and sound. It will add the typical saturation and warmth of real tubes to your digital tracks!
Preamp emulator is very easy to use, and there are only a few parameters for you to handle: input level, tube drive amount, tube type selection, output level and a power switch.”

Minimum system requirements:
- Processor Pentium III/AMD 400 MHz with 128 Mb Ram and 3 Mb free hard disk space
- Operating System Windows 95 to Windows XP
- Host Application Steinberg Cubase SX/SL, Nuendo (1.5 or higher) or other VST 2.0 compatible host application.

Click here to download the emulator.