New 1970s Summer Camp virtual instrument brings “the sound of early 1970s educational films” to life
The plugin is shaped by the "pastoral sounds" typically found in educational documentaries of the time
A new virtual instrument from SampleScience brings “the sound of early 1970s educational films” to life. 1970s Summer Camp is a plugin shaped by the "pastoral sounds" typically found in educational documentaries of the time and "esoteric films" of the same era.
Among the features offered are 34 lo-fi sounds, multi-LFO, Room reverb, and three voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato. 1970s Summer Camp is available for $30 from the SampleScience site.
Earlier this year, Novation made its Bass Station and V-Station classic synth plugins available for free. Bass Station refashions the 1993 dual-oscillator hardware synth of the same name for your DAW, also comprising two digital oscillators and an analogue filter, while the V-Station is an 8-voice polyphonic synth that recreates the K-Station hardware synth first released in 2002.
Spitfire Audio also released a new free plugin this year. The plugin is called Tape Piano and is based on a classic upright piano, recorded through some vintage tape machines in order to achieve that saturated, warbled sound that lo-fi piano is famous for.
You can also read our recent feature asking: are subscription models better for producers? We looked into the three different models for using plugins — outright ownership, continual rent, and rent-to-own to find out.
