Free Music Software

Have you been dying to get your regex on when you’re laptop jamming?

If so, and you’re on MacTel, you’ll want to check out Impromptu 2.0.

Impromptu is an OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ’s and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming.

I’ve embedded an example of Andrew Sorensen’s freestyle Impromptu hacking above.

In the screencast, Sorensen uses an earlier version of Impromptu’s analysis Audio Unit to retrieve FFT data which is then loaded into an image. The image is then blurred using a Gaussian filter. The image data is then pulled from the image and converted for use in vertex and color arrays in OpenGL, such that rgba is xyzw and rbga.

I only understand half of that, but Sorensen makes a compelling argument that Code=Music.

Give Sorensen’s video several minutes so you can see all hell break loose as he live edits a concise coded ambient techno jam.

Details on Impromptu 2.0 below.

If you’re using Impromptu, leave a comment and let us know what you’re doing with it. Read more…

Are your ready to use paper music gear that you download on your computer, print off, customize and then recycle when you’re done with it?

Charlie North’s video, above, is fantasy – but it’s not far from reality. Read more…

Knobster has released the Knobster Bundle, a collection of previously released software instruments that may be the strangest collection of Windows music software ever released.

How strange?

Try MeowSynth for strange:

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Line 6 is giving away POD Farm, its amp simulation software, for free, for a limited time to users with either an iLok USB Smart Key or a compatible Line 6 product. Read more…

Stereoklang has released a collection of free downloadable Reason ReFills:

We have been collecting free or demo Reason Refills for over 7 years and of course we are happy to share them with the rest of the world.

All Reason Refills you will find on this site are non-pirated this means that they are free to use in your music production, however we of course encourage you to visit the orginal sites for more information where available.

They’ve already published a couple dozen files, so check them out if you’re a Propellerhead Reason user.