De La Mancha

De La Mancha has introduced a new $15 software synth for Windows, Dirty Harry, described as “an unashamedly DIY lofi synth based on the samples of my two homemade, lofi noisemakers, the Atari Punk Console and the BugBrand WOM.” Read more…

De La Mancha has released a new drum sample player for the PC, Ballistic, as a fund raiser for cancer research. It sells for $10, and all money received from sales of ballistic will be donated to Cancer Research UK.

Description:

ballistic is a 15 slot drum sample player designed to get you making beats quickly without a million parameters to adjust. All controls are on one screen and the essentials are built in, but with one stereo output per slot, you can add more effects per slot in your hosts mixer. This keeps CPU low and workflow efficient.

Simple but effective, it boasts flexible midi triggers, sample audition, sample tuning, 4 choke groups, mute/solo options, sample reverse, sample normalisation, a lofi option and several kits of samples donated by many generous sample providers such as Loopmasters, Zero-G, Digital-Redux, Goldbaby, Soniccouture, Real Music Media, Ronnie @ Rekkerd, sink, polyslax and bedroom producers.

Even better, all proceeds of sales of ballistic will be donated to Cancer Research UK, helping them in their aim of beating cancer. More details on their work here.

ballistic is the little brother to erratic2, which uses the same sample playback engine, but adds many extra features that randomise and humanise the playback, as well as 6 velocity layers per sample and midi out to trigger external synths and samplers.

De La Mancha has introduced Slix, a randomising loop slicer for Windows (VST), which switches between up to 4 loops and can shuffle, repeat, reverse and gate the slices of each loop according to user defined probability.

Load any 4 loops, sync them to tempo, slice them up and then set probabilities that each loop will play and for each randomising effect per loop. Even the randomness is randomised, with a parameter that varies the probability in a user defined range. slix was co-developed with sink, who also provided the included 295 original loops.

Features:

• Load any 16, 24 or 32 bit, mono or stereo wav file into the 4 loop slots
• 445 MB of original drum loop content (295 loops) by sink covering many electronic genres (breakbeat, dubstep, drum & bass, electro, 8 bit, lofi, vintage, IDM, FSU and glitch)
• Tempo-sync each loop by setting length in beats, allowing stretching or different lengths if desired
• Choose any number of slices per loop
• Slix plays when triggered by any midi note, with volume envelope per loop for fades
• 4 effects with independent parameters per loop
• Reorder – plays slices out of sequence for variation per loop
• Repeat – stutter effect by repeating slices
• Reverse – play the slice backwards
• Gate – add silent gaps into the loop
• Variation range to randomise probabilities
• Normalise and mono options per loop
• Stereo-out and Multi-out versions (slix and slix 4×4)
• Single loop version (slix one) for simpler applications or lower CPU
• 57 presets covering a range of sounds and styles

Slix retails for $39. A loop free version is also available for download.

De La Mancha has introduced bathtub – a Windows VST that they describe as  ”more than just a simple compressor.”

It does multi-band compression, multi-layer parallel compression, series compression, mid/side compression, Left/Right compression, RMS/Peak detection, side-chaining, look-ahead, limiting & maximizing and has comprehensive metering and clip counting.

bathtub is really 2 stereo compressors that can be routed to be in series or parallel, can be fed the input signal split into high/low frequencies or full band, and can perform as different styles of compressor, limiter or maximizer to produce a range of flavours and effects. The metering shows you visually what is happening too, so you can see how much compression and gain you are getting. Read more…

Styrofoam is a lovingly rendered emulation for Windows of the classic ROFL Harris endorsed analog synth of yesteryear.

And it’s got TruAnal technology.

And it’s free!

Description:

Take a nostaligic stroll in soft-focus, sepia-toned memories, when summers lasted for 16 months and you could still buy Penny Chews for a penny. Bring back the sounds of living room renditions of your favourite hits, in splendid monophonic square-wave glory with this faithful emulation, minus the crappy vibrato, that was, let’s face it, crap. But back to that square-wave. It’s not just any old square-wave, no, it’s not just your bog-standard, ten-a-penny, digital square wave. This, ladies and gentlemen of discerning taste, is THE square-wave, the actual, real-life, carbon-copy, I-can’t-believe-a-plugin-can-be-this-analogue square-wave. Once you’ve tried it, there’s no going back to your complex, multi-waveform dreams. THIS is all you need

Features:

• one waveform, but a mighty fine one
• no GUI controls at all
• 4 presets, covering the full range of cleanliness
• TruANAL technology used to provide authentic pitch variation
• no filters
• no envelopes
• no LFOs
• no mod matrices
• no crappy vibrato
• er, that’s it, what more do you want?