de la Mancha recently released Dynamite Cowbell, a ground-breaking free percussion VST instrument for Windows that brings you "more cowbell than even Gene Frenkle can deliver". (idea, samples and GUI by www.audiofudge.com).

Features:

• 6 cowbells mapped to MIDI keys.
• 5 velocity layers.
• Close and room mic levels.
• Damping control.
• 5 bonus digibells.
• 1 cow.

de la Mancha has also updated a couple of other free plug-ins - envy to v1.1 and moot to v2.3.

envy is a MIDI-triggered volume envelope plug with added features:

• 2 envelopes, for L & R channel.
• 2 'hit me' buttons to start each envelope independently.
• Control both envelopes from one 'hit me' if required.
• Run both L & R channels through one envelope if required.
• 'hit me' can be assigned to any MIDI key and can be latched if required.
• Either or both channels can be inverted so volume decreases instead of increases.

moot is a flexible audio mute plugin with a number of additional features. The aim is to have a mute switch (Hit Me) that can be assigned to a single MIDI keyboard key and act in 3 ways:

1. As a latch (one press mute, release stays muted, next press unmute, release stays unmuted).
2. In default mode (hold down to mute, release to play audio).
3. In invert mode (hold down to play audio, release to mute).

The minimum and maximum volume can be set so that as well as muting, moot can act as a switch between a high and low volume. In addition there is an audio gate to chop the audio and a smooth control to add a small attack/decay between changes.