I should have known that Peter Gabriel would be into Halloween given the extravagant array of stage costumes he's sported throughout his career. In celebration of this haunted spectacle, SSL is releasing a free plugin . . . but registration IS required.

AH, AH, AH!

Solid State Logic cites "ghost stories of economic doom and gloom" as one of the motivators behind this pan-daemonic plugin. The plugin is called X-Orcism and it arrives in "Halloween VST / AU" format, for no charge, save for the price of your soul!

AH, AH, AH!

It appears, at first look, to be some sort of vocal processor that will transform your voice into something that sounds more deviant and psychopathic. It's six jack-o-lantern style virtual knobs control six parameters with six frightening names:

• Echoes
• The Howling
• Wailing
• Tombverb
• Ghoul

And perhaps the most frightening . . .

• Input Gain!