Category: COOL PLUGINS

  • How to use ReaVerb as a virtual guitar cabinet

    How to use ReaVerb as a virtual guitar cabinet

    ReaVerb can be used to load an impulse response of a guitar cabinet (and microphone and room). This tutorial explains how to set that up.

  • m.phase Multi-touch DAW controller for iPad

    m.phase Multi-touch DAW controller for iPad

    It’s been a while since we talked about using controllers with REAPER (It’s been awhile since we posted anything, but nevermind that), previously it was TouchOSC. I’ve just been made aware of “The world’s first multi-touch gesture remote for DAWs!” called m.phase and it officially supports REAPER. Check it out at mphase-studio.com It’s nice to…

  • ReaComp Vs Devil-Loc

    ReaComp Vs Devil-Loc

    In the last experiment I matched the vibe of the SSL Bus compressor using ReaComp but that’s a fairly clean sound still. So let’s see just how colorful ReaComp can be.

  • ReaComp is a compressor engine.

    ReaComp is a compressor engine.

    Yesterday I came across a very old post from Schwa praising ReaComp Schwa – 3.38.2007 I have just spent about 2 hours A/B(/C/D/E/F…)ing 2 measures of vocals with every compressor plugin I have. Which includes a couple of trendy character compressors in the $500 retail neighborhood. I finally realized that reacomp is not a compressor.…

  • Vocal doubling trick with ReaTune

    Vocal doubling trick with ReaTune

    How to make a thick doubled vocal effect using ReaTune and chorus plugins

  • Video: Slate Digital SSD 4 – Multi-Output Tutorial

    The Slate Digital team put up a really quick tutorial for setting up SSD4 multichannel routing in REAPER. This isn’t how I set up SSD4 for my sessions but I just like things a certain way. After you follow the instructions in the video, name the tracks, put them in a folder and then save…

  • TyrellN6 – u-he’s great freeware virtual analog synth

    The very cool free cross-platform synthesizer TyrellN6 has just been updated to version 2, Now 3. I’ve been wanting to post about Tyrell N6 for a while, so this update is a great opportunity to show it some much deserved love. TyrellN6 was created by Urs Heckman for Amazona.de, a German music production magazine. Originally…

  • Video: Mastering with FabFilter Pro Plugins in REAPER

    I came across two ridiculously good tutorial videos on mastering from FabFilter.  Mastering engineer Dan Worrall demonstrates (in REAPER 4) how to use some of the FabFilter plugins for mastering. The MS mode for the sidechain is droolworthy almost, I’m going to have to check these effects out myself. Dan’s parallel upward compression trick is…

  • TAL NoiseMaker free virtual synthesizer

    New from Togu Audio Line comes NoiseMaker. A VST/AU plugin synthesizer for PC and Mac. TAL-NoiseMaker is an improved version of TAL-Elek7ro and has a completely new synth engine and a lot of improvements in sound and usability. The synth also includes a small effect section with a reverb, chorus and a simple bit crusher…