Pro Tools Elastic Time is great for fitting drum loops to a song’s tempo or changing the tempo of your entire session, as well as adjusting vocal phrasing. Check out this free lesson on D-TV

Not all things are bleak! The Internet has recently offered an abundance of free resources for your DAW including this cool plug-in from Brainworx. The bx_solo comes in TDM, RTAS, VST and AU formats and is available for MAC and PC.

Quick and Easy Do-it-Yourself Mod for Popular Low-Cost Dynamic Microphone

We recently wrote about a free plug-in from SSL but now we’ve hit the motherlode of gratis DAW resources. Massey Tools is a group of 7 free TDM and RTAS plug-ins from the mind of Steven Massey, a self confessed audio geek who’s been involved in the pro audio industry for over 7 years. Steven is a former employee of Digidesign and, more recently, was part of Trillium Lane Labs where he developed TL Aggro, TL Space and TL Drum Rehab. The set contains some real winners including an M/S encoder-decoder, high-resolution meter, a talkback plug-in with ducker and an auto-backup plug-in called Slacker.

In response to ghost stories of economic doom and gloom, Solid State Logic, the world’s leading manufacturer of professional digital and analogue consoles, invites you to celebrate the festival of witches and ghouls with a bit of fun. SSL is proud to offer you ‘X-orcism,’ our free Halloween VST/AU format plug-in.

X-orcism can be downloaded absolutely free of charge by visiting www.solidstatelogic.com.

Who doesn’t like free stuff? Especially when its GOOD free stuff! In this case, its Audacity, a DAW with a bevy of great features. For instance, you can record up to 16 channels at once, import audio including WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files, edit , then export your recordings in several common file formats. It also includes free effects and processors including Pitch Change, Compression, Noise Removal, Echo, Phase shifter, Wahwah, Reverse and more. If that wasn’t enough, Audacity runs on Mac, PC and Linux systems.