SoundScaper is a free VST Effect Plugin for Windows capabable of Reverb, Echo and Comb effects. It was designed primarily as way of creating atmospheric landscapes. It has almost infinite feedback time for many modes, and so is capable of producing rich and complex drones when used with a continuous sound source. It can also… Read More Free Windows Audio Effect
MuTools‘ MU.LAB is a software application for OSX and Windows that turns your computer into a virtual music studio. It’s available in two versions: MU.LAB Free has a 6 track limit and can only mixdown in 16 Bit. MU.LAB Unlimited can do unlimited tracks and can also mixdown in 32 Bit for more extensive musical productions. Included… Read More Free Electronic Music Studio For Mac Or PC
Over at CDM, Peter Kirn turned me onto Hans Kuder’s tiction – a new visual music performance/sequencing application. Tiction is a flexible, nodal music sequencer created in processing. You can see it in action in the video, above. Each node represents an event, and a connection from one node to the next triggers the next event… Read More Fascinating Interactive Generative Music Application
Azertopia’s Sample tagger is a Windows application that can be used as an audio sample cataloger or a file explorer dedicated to audio samples. The software is a database that holds the structure of your personal sample collection (wac, aiff,flac, mp3,midi file) in a explorer style view. Each item can be cataloged by 255 user-defined ‘tags’.
Soundhack‘s Tom Erbe has released a new trio of audio delays as freeware for the Mac and PC. “My new release – soundhack delay trio. its not quite out of beta, so for the adventurous only.” Download links: windows – http://music.ucsd.edu/~tre/soft/SDT10.zip mac – http://music.ucsd.edu/~tre/soft/SDT604.dmg
Ambient/space music artist Michael Meara has a large collection of free MP3 downloads available at his site, Sonic Journey. “Most pieces are either in the vein of cold void space ambience or the warmer currents of classical ambient drift. The artists’ ultimate aim is to aid in the navigation of various sleep-states by providing the… Read More Free Ambient Music From Michael Meara
OpenTape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web. If you tried MuxTape – it looks like this is basically a free software clone of the site. Links: demo, download it.
PolybiuS has released Switched On, a free collection of 74 retro-styled patches for u-he Zebra. Patches are all created at a 135 BPM setting. At higher speeds, please alter MSEG / Arpeggiator / LFO / delay… timings to your liking. Download the patch library at PolybiuS‘ site. You can preview the Switched On Zebra library… Read More Free Switched On Synth Patches
Styrofoam is a lovingly rendered emulation for Windows of the classic ROFL Harris endorsed analog synth of yesteryear. And it’s got TruAnal technology. And it’s free! Description: Take a nostaligic stroll in soft-focus, sepia-toned memories, when summers lasted for 16 months and you could still buy Penny Chews for a penny. Bring back the sounds… Read More Free Virtual Stylophone For Windows Features TruANAL Technology
ScoreRender is a WordPress plugin for rendering sheet music fragments into images. It supports converting fragments in excerpts, posts, pages and (optionally) comments. Currently it supports 4 music notations: ABC, Guido, Lilypond, Mup. For latest version, detailed usage instructions and demo cases, visit the ScoreRender site.
