Free Music Software

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 [...]

This year’s KVR Challenge resulted in a lot of interesting new free music software – including this Windows ambient sound synthesizer, Antorpya.
Here’s a demo of Antopya in action: Uranus:

 

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Free Music Software: The Venom VB-303 is a pattern-based acid bassline synthesizer for Windows inspired by the Roland TB-303.
Venom VB-303 is actively under development, but is still in beta.
Download links are available at the KVR forum.

Free Music Software: Hotelsinus Sound Design has released version 0.23 of TonesynthDS, a free software synth for the Nintendo DS. TonesynthDS combines matrix sequencing with a simple synthesizer.
Features:

16×16 pattern editor (16 accord, 16 tone (the scale is selectable), first line is always the C3).
16 different pattern stock.
Different volume setting possibility for each [...]

Free Music Software: In the late 60’s composer Steve Reich stumbled across a technique he called phasing, which was to have two identical tape loops that run at slightly different speeds, the result is that every possible combination of sound is cycled through until they arrive back in sync. The result with a melodic piece [...]

 

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LDaySynths has released Bass-Cruncher – a free bassline synthesizer, inspired by the Roland TB-303.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
BASSCRUNCHER
Monophonic Bassline Synthesizer mit einem Quitschigem Lowpassfilter ähnlich dem tb-303.
Features:

Monophonic Synthesizer
1 OSC (saw/pulse waveform)
1 LP Filter mit 303 artiger Resonanz
Drivemode (Soft/Hard sience V1.1)
Filter Stepsequencer in 16 Stufen

You can preview Bass Cruncher [...]

 

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OT: The Halloween Scream Machine (App Store link) is a free iPhone app for Halloween.
It plays back creepy sounds and soundtracks, and it also lets you record and play back custom samples.
Combine these scary sound effects with the Halloween dark atmospheric music mix and get read to scare the neighborhood……

The KVR Developer Challenge 2009 has ended and that means that there are some interesting new freebies available.
There were 42 entries:

40 of these are available for Windows;
6 for Mac OS X; and
1 for Linux.

Highlights include a Moog Model D clone, a bassline synth with built-in effects, a granular synthesizer and a convolution reverb.

Free Windows Music Software: Artifake_Labs has introduced a free software synthesizer, RedTron_MKV, that emulates the Mellotron MKV (essentially a double M400), one of the rarest Mellotrons ever made.
Features :

Realistic user interface.
Six sound types : 3 Violins, 8-Voice Choir, Flute, Brass, String Section, Cello.
“Loop” and “Non-Loop” modes : as the original “Mellotron”, each sound is eight [...]