But in credit to AD, the vast majority of these plug-ins worked perfectly. Now, honestly, if you’ve given a bunch of money to Apple, you should give some money to Audio Damage. So, of course, I tried to run all of these plug-ins on an M1-based Mac with the latest Monterey build. The one thing you should definitely not do is try to run all these plug-ins on, like, an M1-based Mac with the latest Monterey build. Okay, so the whole point of this is that they’re legacy plug-ins. And if you’re me, you do really want everything. *.zip* filter with the DownThemAll extension is a quick way to grab everything. That’s something that happens in gaming a lot (erm, also buggy and unsupported some of the time cough Nintendo), so why not in music? And it’s a chance for other folks to see them for the first time. It’s a chance for some of us to revisit plug-ins from years past. So the freebie giveaway is great on a few levels. And it sure hasn’t hurt that AD’s public personality Chris Randall is a regular presence on the Interwebs, broadcasting from Satan’s Taint. You see it in iOS apps, Reason Rack Extensions, the lot. You can also see some of the impact they’ve had on other developers – a license to be equally creative with making stuff we actually want, with interfaces that are free to have some fun. And in an industry that frankly can become both drab and mercenary, pummeling us with DRM, subscription services and planned obsolescence, marketing from some industry heavyweights talking about how compressor X won them a Grammy, and then still delivering the exact same channel strip for the eleven-hundredth time, AD has been a stalwart breath of fresh air. The folks at Audio Damage have just steadily churned out clever, inventive, seriously fun effects and instruments. If you’ve been producing since the 2000s – I guess that’s a thing now – you may find some of these effects trigger genuine nostalgia. There are some other details in that blog post, but that’s the main stuff.ĭownload the plug-ins here – plus Rough Rider 3, a superb free compressor, for Windows + Mac + Ubuntu Linux + iOS:
Beloved boutique plug-in house Audio Damage has found a heck of a retirement for 33 of its vintage plug-ins: it’s giving them away for free for macOS and Windows.