free plugins

free audio effect plugins built specifically for commercially successful and financially viable use cases. used on all my projects — maybe use it on yours too?

free for everything. use them on anything, commercial or not, no credit needed. if you make something cool with them please share it — tag @newspeechsound so i get to hear it.

vibe ↓ saturate ↓ slice ↓ glitch ↓
macosapple silicon + intelau + vst3signed + notarizedopen source

vibe

v1.0.0 · free

based on my "always on" modular synth bed of delay, grains, reverb and glitches. vibe is three stages in series: a tape loop that grabs and mangles the incoming audio, a tempo-synced repeat that dices to your session bpm, and a big plate reverb to smear whatever survives.

put it on your master bus, probably.

6.4 mb zip · au + vst3 · source
vibe — tape, repeat, reverb and out sections in the newspeech plugin ui

saturate

v1.0.0 · free

drive into a squelching filter, with a pll style micro-loop that grabs and repeats slices whenever the signal crosses a threshold. very tasteful. also features a distortion block that goes from gentle to basically square waves.

enjoy on everything.

6.4 mb zip · au + vst3 · source
saturate — loop, destroy, filter and out sections in the newspeech plugin ui

slice

v1.0.0 · free

hide messages in music, the same way madison avenue used to hide messages in advertising until we decided that was a bad idea. turn any sound into a morse code pattern, or bit data, or just paste in any numbers you want and it'll make something.

use responsibly, or don't. whatever.

6.4 mb zip · au + vst3 · source
slice — pattern, clock, shape, source, capture and mangle sections in the newspeech plugin ui

glitch

v1.0.0 · free

audio destruction masquerading as a step sequencer. draw into the lanes, adjust parameters, ruin whatever you've got going. pretty simple - use it as a loop or crank the mutate knob for random shit every repeat. lots of toys to play with here, but also just spam "reseed" and it'll give you a random set every time.

6.5 mb zip · au + vst3 · source
glitch — clock, seed, pattern lanes, stage, lane, block and out sections in the newspeech plugin ui

install

unzip, then copy the .component to ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and the .vst3 to ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3. restart your daw — logic may need a moment to rescan.

compatibility

au covers logic + garageband; vst3 covers ableton, reaper, bitwig, fl studio, studio one, cubase. no aax — pro tools users can wrap them with blue cat patchwork. signed + notarized, so macos opens them without complaint.

license

free for everything — commercial or not, no credit needed. the code is open source under gplv3: faust dsp (plain juce for slice and glitch) in a juce wrapper, one shared ui kit. source is here.