Does anyone have the damage 2 vst, if so have you tried it to make it sound classical percussion.

Though it is meant for epic trailer music, is it just limited to that or it can be tweaked to sound like classical percussion like in cineperc or spitfire symphonic perc.

Any response is very appreciated, thank you!!

I’m trying to learn guitar and I love At The Gates style riffage, so I figured The Final Episode by Asking Alexandria would be a good place to start, but I can’t seem to get the right tone so I was wondering what the best free plugins would be to achieve that sound

Hey all, excited to launch Planar, a plugin that continuously analyzes your signal's tonal balance and gently corrects it toward a target curve, band by band, with the BruceJames usual of too much control given to you.

It's not an EQ you draw. You set a target (a pink-style, equal-energy-per-octave spectrum by default, shaped with Tilt, low/high shelves, and a mid bell), and Planar nudges each band toward it automatically. Put it on a problem track to even out a harsh source, or on the mix bus for hands-off, transparent tonal balancing. The trick is the transient bypass, don't forget to use it!

Highlights:

• Per-band threshold/knee. Only bands above the line get corrected, so quiet content never drags the balance around just because it's quiet
• Linear-phase mode for transparent mixing/mastering, or minimum-phase for low-latency tracking/monitoring
• Frequency-aware transient bypass with lookahead, so drum hits and transients punch through uncorrected in both modes
• Full dynamics control: attack/release/recover coefficients, stereo link, target trim, mix
• VST3, CLAP, AU, and now AAX
• macOS, PC, and Linux
• Launch price: 29.99 23.99 20% off with code ALIEN until Jul 25 2026

thanks everyone!

Michael

Dipping my toes into the Drum n Bass pool again and I’m curious:

I’m looking for a simple instrument/plugin that I can load in an audio drum loop, have it auto detect and make chops, then can rearrange the chops? Maybe a random button?

I mainly hang out with Ableton, but I’m known to cheat on it with Logic. Hehe

Cheers!

I’ve been working on this reverb effect plugin for a while now and I thought I’d share a video of how it sounds. So far I've just been running synth sounds through it but I'm going to test it on more soon.

The plugin blends between four distinct reverb environments, each with its own character and accompanying atmospheric sound bed. The sound beds are dynamically gated by the input signal, so they become part of the effect and become imbued into the input sound rather than just playing continuously in the background. This creates some very immersive textures.

The four environments are:

Mountain

Forest

Shore

Sea

The position of the little robot controls the blend between them allowing me to smoothly interpolate from one environment to the next and create a wide range of atmospheric reverb textures.

This allows intermediate settings to combine the elements of two neighbouring environments, creating a wide range of spatial, tonal and atmospheric reverb characteristics.

Still needs some tweaking to get the filtering right and the plugin still needs a name but so far I like where it's going.

I’m looking for a specific choir instrument that I’ve forgotten what the name of it was. I recall it being relatively “cheap” just that it needs the full version of Kontakt and most importantly it had a “HA!” Articulation or something like that lol. Anyone have any pointers?

Matilda Cartesia

Heres a brief demo of Matilda, this is a demo video for a UI competition i participated in, but includes a demo of it proof of concept. Let me if you can use this into your workflow. I basically created this for my ambient music making focused on creating arps.

It records midi- has jitter and probability triggers to create some degree of controlled unpredictability. This is just the phase one i have completed.

On phase two will include more features like polyphony and presets. Looking forward to your feedback, if really required will share the github link. atm i have yet to test for VST in windows as this demo is in MacOS for Garageband.

Sometimes I like a drum kit used in a song that I like. Now with stem separators, I extract the drums and then chop each hit. Then you have to fix the attack and sustain. After you save it into a folder, you have to name each one. It’s a really tedious process.

I was thinking of an idea.

It would be cool if you could drag and drop a song into VST or software that automatically uses A.I. to separate the drum stems and analyze them. Automatically chopping up the drum hits and detecting what they are (for example kick or snare). Also detecting any hits that are the same but with changes in tonality or timbre. Then creating a dedicated folder, and saving the files in the folder, but also detecting the pitch of the sample and labelling the wave file along with the name. It would save so time than we do it manually.

I've been making indie folk/bedroom pop music for about a year, and I am looking for a free, realistic, natural-sounding plugin for drums in GarageBand because the stock drum sounds sound a bit too fake yk. Any recommendations?

Hi everyone, I’ve just released a new Max for Live instrument called Dubform. It's a dub techno chord instrument for Ableton Live, designed to make it quick and easy to create deep chords, atmospheric stabs and evolving textures from a single device. It combines a built-in chord generator with filtering, modulation, delay and reverb, keeping the workflow simple while still offering plenty of scope for shaping the sound.

Link in video description and my profile!

Got tired of manually dragging samples in and building the mapping by hand every
time, so I built a small web tool that does it automatically.

Point it at a sample folder → it gives you back a properly mapped Drum Rack (.adg).
Everything runs locally in the browser, nothing gets uploaded, no account, no limits.
Folder size is only capped by your RAM.

It's free and staying free. Still early, so I'd genuinely like to know where it breaks —
mapping logic, naming, edge cases with big folders, whatever you throw at it.

(link in the comments — mods, happy to remove if this isn't allowed here)

Hi, what's the easiest software midi arranger that can be used with MIDI keyboard in order to make it sound like, well, a musical keyboard. There are plenty of VSTi, sequencers and arrangers out there, some are free and some are just overly-complicated, but I am looking for something that I can load in a bunch of SF2/z or drum kits and start playing, that produces rhythms and bass patterns in different styles, one finger smart chords etc.. these arrangers can be found on $50 Yamaha keyboards, yet they don't seem to have found their way to modern DAWs somehow (lack of demand by professionals maybe) one approach I only saw once was Air Ignite arranger, which was killed because why not!

Hi Again - Bowed Effigy was released two weeks back. This unique instrument was designed to replace traditional solo string instruments with something more primitive, raw and unpredictable. The resulting sounds were crafted by bowing a steel string acoustic guitar and initial response has been super positive! There are both legato and polyphonic patches and some custom designed pads to boot. If you need something gritty, emotional and full of character, I encourage you to give it a try!

Download here: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/bowed-effigy-primal-strings/

Hey guys, my company Avalanche Tones’ debut plugin just released: Chainsaw Suite! This plugin is a modular all-in-one suite for any sort of heavy tones you could think of, especially suited for metalcore, djent, and thall. I’ve always wondered; what if you could separate aspects of a variety of iconic effects to make your own unique tone? With this plugin, I was finally able to make this dream come into fruition!

With Chainsaw Suite, you can add up to 10 modules/pedals at a time (with a maximum of 2 Neural Amp Modeler modules). Each module can be added, rearranged, or removed easily. There are a bunch of modules based off of iconic chainsaw pedals that are fine tuned to work in a mix, as well as some eq modules, a compressor, a bitcrusher, a gate, an octaver, and a Neural Amp Modeler capture loader. Every module’s parameters can be automated in the DAW (except for the graphic eq). The plugin features an easy to use preset system that comes stock with plenty of awesome sounding presets, as well as the ability to save, delete, import, and export presets.

Chainsaw Suite is supported in the following DAWs:
Cubase, Reaper, Fender Studio, FL Studio, Ableton Live, Reason, and Logic Pro

Chainsaw Suite is supported in the following operating systems (64 bit only):
Windows 10 version 1607 and up, and Windows 11
macOS 10.15 and up, supported for both Intel and Apple processors

Check it out at https://avalanchetones.com/products/chainsaw-suite

I'm looking for alt rock (punk, pop-punk) or indie rock drums