Free Music Software

Download the free TC Electronic reverb plugin M30 for Windows & Mac before November 18th.
If you give it a try, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Electronics For Music has a collection of basic free VST effects for Windows.
The free VST effects include:

Fuzz Muff
Distortion
Delay
RMod
GSynth
Phasor
Flanger
Panner

If you’ve used EFM’s free VSTs, leave a comment with your thoughts on them!

Free Windows Music Software: Synthgeek has introduced a free glitch music plugin for Windows, sg-glitchgate.
Description:
SG-Glitchgate is basically a rhythmic gate, but not set up in the standard way. There are two periodic gates which can be used for anything from regular rhythmic chopping to random rhythmic manipulations and strange dropouts.
The gates are followed by a [...]

Could you score a piece of music with 140 characters or less?
Supercollider 140 is a free album of Twitter music – audio pieces composed of Twitter-sized snippets of SuperCollider code.
It started as a curious project, when live coding enthusiast and Toplap member Dan Stowell started tweeting tiny snippets of musical code using SuperCollider. Pleasantly [...]

Blastwave FX has released a free sample library, creatively named Download Pack #2 (Note to Blastwave: see this earlier post about sample libraries with porn movie titles).
It’s got ominous thuds, kitties screaming – all the stuff we mentioned in the headline. And more.
You can unleash this monster download at the Blastwave FX site.

This video demonstrates how you can use the new Novation Launchpad like a monome.
To try this out, you’ll need a Launchpad (You can get them for $199 at Zzounds and other online retailers), a free app called nonome and a monome app.
For this demo, Mike Tron built a Windows executable that combines nonome with a [...]

Lucas Xie has released ganK the Synthesizer, a free synthesizer instrument for Windows.
ganK the Synthesizer is a free soft synth developed by Lucas. It is presented in both VSTi format and Windows standalone application. ganK is an additive/substractive synth with 3 oscillators , a moog filter, a lfo, effects like an 8-band eq and a [...]

Ableton is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Live by giving away 10 free Live Packs for Ableton Live 8 and up.
The Live Packs feature the work of 10 top Ableton Live artists, and let you look inside their songs and see how the artists work their magic.
The Live Pack artists include:

Adam Freeland
Apparat
Brian Ales
Covert Operators
Junie Morrison
Martin [...]

Here’s an example of free music software that doesn’t play it safe.
_02.circles is a Windows software synthesizer that features a user interface inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract painting Einige Kreise:
This plugin opens an intuitive access to sound construction, modification, modulation, live performance tweaking, etc. being an interactive painting and thus a form of art by [...]

New free music software for Mac and Windows – PanCake – a VST plugin that lets you create customized tempo-synced pan automations.
Key Features:

Free, and available for both PC and Mac.
Creative Modulation Tool: Create complex pan modulations with ease.
Unique Waveform Drawing Capabilities: Construct your own modulation curves in a very intuitive manner. Waveforms [...]