Plugin Boutique’s monthly gifts are always among my favorite giveaways, and we have another excellent selection for October: you can get the Solina string ensemble or Orange Vocoder Nano for free with any purchase.
This month on Plugin Boutique, you can get Solina or OrangeVocoder Nano free with any qualifying purchase.
Qualifying purchases are paid products excluding rent-to-own options, and you cannot pay in full with coupons or virtual cash (anything less than 100% is OK).
AIR Music Tech’s Solina is based on the vintage Solina String Ensemble (or ARP String Ensemble), a multi-timbral polyphonic string synthesizer from the mid-1970s.
Solina features contrabass, cello, viola, violin, trumpet, and horn voices. Each voice has independent volume and pan settings, so you can shape the ensemble sound as you like.
Solina has 75 factory presets, bringing the best of that 70s/80s string machine sound. You also get some of AIR’s award-winning FX, including a four-band EQ, spring reverb, delay, and compression.
One of the more transformative effects is the ability to apply EQ simulations of tape machines, phones, and radios.
I really like Solina, and I feel like AIR Music Tech products are sometimes overlooked, but they make some great stuff.
Check out Short Strings from the Fracture Sounds Blueprint series if you want a more organic string sound.
This month’s other option is something very different, delivering a mix of classic and modern vocoder sounds with cutting-edge features.
Orange Vocoder Nano is the lite version of Orange Vocoder 4, the highly-anticipated release that Zynaptic showcased at NAMM 2023.
Even as a stripped-back product, Orange Vocoder Nano offers four high-end vocoding algorithms from the premium version.
It features a monophonic sawtooth synth as a carrier with a 24db low-pass filter and a formant shifter with a +/- 12 semitone range.
You can create smooth vocoder sounds that are prevalent in hip hop, funk, disco, etc., gritty robotic tones, and everything in between.
Other features include a three-way mixer (input, vocoder, synth) and a chorus effect that sweetens the tone.
If you’re a wizard with a mod wheel, utilizing legato glide and vibrato tastefully during performance sounds incredible.
It’s pretty wild to think that the first vocoder was demonstrated at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Although, it was used to send encoded messages rather than anything akin to Daft Punk.
All in all, thanks to Plugin Boutique for another awesome selection this month!
Check out the deal: Plugin Boutique October Gifts (Get the Solina string ensemble or Orange Vocoder Nano free with any qualifying purchase until November 1st)
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