TAL-Dub is a simple but comprehensive delay ideal for dub and more besides. While delay may seem a fairly straightforward effect, many dub producers (and those of other genres) have embraced delay as an intrinsic compositional and creative element. When (if) you need that sound, the SSL LMC-1 can't be bettered. It's an emulation of the compressor used to create the legendary gated drum sound found on Peter Gabriel's intruder and Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight. But SSL's vintage compressor, the LMC-1, is freeware. You'd be hard pressed to think of many manufacturers making costlier gear than SSL. It's also incredibly light on your CPU.Ībove (click to enlarge): The LFX-1310 recalls classic rack multi-effects units Effects include reverb, delay, chorus, tremolo, distortion, auto-wah, EQ, compression and more and they sound good across the board. It offers a trio of slots into which you can insert any one of 24 effect algorithms. Luxonix's LFX-1310 multi-effects processor takes its cue from the multi-effects modules of old. The TAL-Bassline doesn't sound exactly like the real thing, but it pleases in precisely the same way. It's a nearly pixel perfect recreation of the SH-101's signal-path, although it omits the original's simplistic sequencer. Togu's TAL-Bassline is a clone of Roland's SH-101, one of the biggest-selling monosynths of all time. It's a spectral morphing four-oscillator synth - it sounds amazing and it's rammed with advanced features, too. Every so often we stumble across a freeware synth of such quality that it gives us reason to re-evaluate exactly how much we should be paying for commercial offerings.