The Utiliator is a small but fine multitool for mixing. With it, you can quickly switch a mixer channel to mono or invert the phases of a signal separately. It also has other useful functions.

Utiliator Features:

- Mono Switch.
- Phase Switches.
- Bypassable Low Cut Filter.
- Volume Control With Amplifier Function.

RDGAudio releases SideChainer 2, free plugin for Windows and Mac (VST3/AU).

This unique plug-in also allows users to sculpt custom curves and shapes and comes equipped with dozens of presets to achieve desired results quickly.

Customizable point + tension curve editor. Time with Triplet, Dotted and Straight.

Along with Mix and Smooth Parameters.

Coded in C++ to minimize the CPU load during operation.

Features:

- Draw your own shape for Sidechain, Gate or Pumping.
- Customizable point + tension curve editor (Mouse Scroll).
- Shorten out Favorite Presets.
- Factory Presets with Sidechain, Sequence and Gate.
- Save User Presets as .rdg format.
- Smooth and Time Settings.
- VST3 for PC and AU, MAC VST3.

Instruments used:

- Gibson J-45 Acoustic Guitar
- Fender High Strung Acoustic Guitar
- 5-string Banjo
- Mandolin
- a pretty broken Marxophone
- DIY Cardboard Dulcimer (link below)

I hope you like it and please share your experiments with me! More to come! (Requires the FULL version of Kontakt 5.6.8 or later)

CHOW Tape is an analog tape machine physical model, originally based on the Sony TC-260. The current version can be used to emulate a wide variety of reel-to-reel tape machines. The physical modelling process is described in a technical paper presented at the 2019 DAFx conference. This work began part of a class project for Music 420 at Stanford University (CCRMA).

CHOW Tape is currently available in the following formats:

SPARTA is a collection of flexible VST audio plug-ins for spatial audio production, reproduction and visualisation, developed primarily by members of the Acoustics Lab at Aalto University, Finland.

In particular, this release sees the addition of 9 new plug-ins:

- compass_binauralVR: essentially, this is the same as the compass_binaural plugin, except it also supports listener translation around the receiver position and multiple simultaneous listeners.

- compass_spatedit: a flexible spatial editing plug-in intended to be used with 2 instances. The first instance you make of the plugin will allow you to specify marker directions and it will output the beamformed signals, which you can then equalise/re-balance/modulate/swap/modify as you wish. These modified signals can then be routed to the second instance of the plug-in. The ambient components of the first plugin are then also sent internally to the second plugin instance. The edited sound-field is then reconstructed and outputted by the second instance of the plugin.

- compass_gravitator: a sound-field focussing plugin affecting only the direct sound components in the sound scene. It essentially pulls sound sources towards user defined marker directions with a certain degree of 'gravitational pull'.

- hodirac_binaural: a parametrically enhanced binaural ambisonic decoder, based on the higher-order Directional Audio Coding (HO-DirAC) method

- hodirac_decoder: the loudspeaker decoder variant

- hodirac_upmixer: the ambisonic upmixing variant

- sparta_spreader: a source panner with coherent and incoherent source spreading options. While by default it loads HRIR data for binaural spreading, the approach is quite general; for example, you could also create synthetic microphone array recordings of spread sources if you wish, by simply loading a SOFA file of microphone array IR measurements instead.