 I've scoured the pages of plug-in boutique again this month to find out what I think are some of the best plug-in bargains around. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. Thank you so much for all of your wishes regarding my voice. As you can hear, it's almost there. Now I've got a whole bunch of bargains for under $29 for you this month. Also there's a bit of a focus on mastering plug-ins and a free gift with every purchase. But first of all, let's take a look at a great, fun, new synth. What happens if you take a cute little 1980 synth, use it as inspiration for your first synth plug-in, add a second main oscillator with an FM oscillator, a whole bunch of effects and a sprinkle of quirkiness, where you get the baby audio BA1. Let's play. I can honestly say I haven't had as much fun with the synth in a long time. What I love about this synth is it's what you see is what you get approach. Even if like me, you're not a sound design expert, you pretty much hear what each control does as you play with it. In other words, it's a lot of fun. We essentially start off with two main oscillators, adjusting their pitch and wave type and blending them together. Then we have the FM oscillator, which is modulated by oscillator 1 to give some extra overtones, and we can add some further character and shape to our sound using the filter and ADSR envelope. An LFO can be applied to either oscillator 1 or the filter, the sidechain can be used for some great ducking or pumping, and a bunch of other effects can further enhance the sound. Now, if you head over to plug-in boutique, you can currently pick this up for around about $50. It's 50% off, and don't forget to check out Baby Audio's other plugins, which also have some great savings. Talking of great savings, plug-in boutique have a bunch of plugins under $29 at the moment, it really depends on what you're wanting, but I have to say there were a couple that really caught my eye. Firstly, Pluralis, which is not to be mistaken for just another delay plugin, it's actually got a really unusual way of splitting the signal to its two delays in a few unique ways. We can split the left and the right channels, sending each to a separate delay, or we can split the side of the mix from the middle, the low from the highs, or the quiet from the louds. For example, in this case I've decided to split the low and high frequencies between the two delays, and have panned them hard left and hard right. Have a listen. And if I switch to quiet and loud notes, have a listen to how the quiet note sounds and its repeats. Compared to this, there's a lot more to this really nice delay, and at $19 I definitely think you should check it out. Also at $29, Lifeline Console is a plugin I actually got for myself quite some time ago. It's basically a channel strip with a really great interface in my opinion. Each of the modules, including the preamp, EQ, compressor, modulation and wear, can be easily reordered and used in either simple or advanced mode. We also have the option of mid-side processing on each module and various modes as well. Finally, this handy little control allows us to blend dry, clean and vintage desk emulations. At $29, I'd definitely be looking at this one. It's also mastering month at Plugin Boutique, with a whole bunch of limiters, compressors, EQs and saturation plugins. Nevo and Velo 2 from SoundSpot look really interesting to me, and if you don't already have it, now is a great time to pick up Ozone 10 in one of its various editions. This is perhaps the most popular of all mastering suites. If adding some tape saturation is your thing, check out the new TM700 Tape Emulator from Tone Empire. They claim to have used some machine learning algorithms to model every aspect of the way analog tape haves in terms of frequency response, distortion and compression. You can currently pick up the TM700 for only $29 at Plugin Boutique. Don't forget that with every purchase at Plugin Boutique this month, you'll get this free gift, the wonderfully named cluster flux from Moog. Essentially this is a very quirky, very Moog style chorus flanger effect, and it's actually a part of a much bigger bundle. M-O-O-G is pronounced Moog, which is why this is called the Moogafoga effects bundle. With it is this low pass filter, there's a ring modulator, there's a phaser, there is MRF, which is a multi-resonant filter. We also have frequency box, we have a saturator, we have cluster flux, which I mentioned earlier, and we also have this delay pedal. Now you can probably imagine what many of these effects actually do, but what I think is the most interesting thing about this bundle is the way that they can actually interact with each other. For example, I have on the left here a low pass filter and on the right an analogue delay. Now the low pass filter has this filter cutoff control, let's just play with it and see what it does to this piece of music. Now I'm manually adjusting this at the moment with my mouse, and you could automate it of course using your DAW's automation controls, but what's really interesting is we can actually use a control from another effect in this bundle to control this and sort of automate it. I'm going to do that by going up to the top here, clicking here and you can see these kind of patch connections here. I'm going to click on the first one, you can't actually see the menu, it's just off screen at the moment, but I'm going to select the rate control from the delay here to control and animate this filter here. So you can see I've done that and you can see it's flashing here at the same rate as it is over here with this rate control. Let's just have a listen and I'm just going to push this cutoff up a little bit first of all and let's have a listen and see what it's doing. So you can see that's automatically happening there and now I can go over and control the rate with the delay over here. And you can see that that control is now affecting this control in another plugin. I think this is a really sort of unique idea. I haven't I can't remember seeing it in any other plug-in suites. I really love it's very, very creative and you can buy this bundle and get one hundred and thirty dollars off at the moment if you follow the link in the description down below. Now, I mentioned earlier that isotopes ozone is a part of the mastering focus this month and if you want to find out a little bit more about the latest version, check out this video right here.