Free Music Software: Hollow Sun (the sound developers that are working on the Hammond Novachord sample library) have released a free sound pack that features bass synth samples from the Novation Bass Station: What’s on offer here are 30 excellent synth bass sounds that cover a wide range of genres, uses and applications and which… Read More Free BassStation Sound Pack
Trash_Audio’s Surachai has created a Roland TR-808 sample library and is releasing it as a free download: Justin graciously let me borrow his Roland TR-808 and when trying to program some patterns I noticed a few problems. A) I’m clearly too stupid to work this machine – I eventually figured it out but off the… Read More Free Roland TR-808 Sample Library
SoundMagic Spectral is a free suite of 23 Audio Unit plug-ins that implement real-time spectral processing of sound. Included in SoundMagic Spectral are the following effects: Spectral Averaging Spectral Bin Shift Spectral Blurring Spectral DroneMaker Spectral Emergence Spectral Filterbank Spectral Freezing Spectral Gate and Hold Spectral Gliding Filters Spectral Granulation Spectral Harmonizer Spectral Partial Glide… Read More 23 Excellent Free Audio Unit Effect Plugins
Last month, we covered Kenji Kojima’s RGB Experimental Music Laboratory – a free app for Windows and Mac that lets you translate images into music. RGB MusicLab converts the RGB (Red, Green and Blue) values of an image to chromatic scale sounds (or other scales). Here are several video examples that demonstrate the variety of… Read More RBG MusicLab Generative Music Examples
Free Music Software: Nick Collins’ TOPLAPapp (App Store link) is a sonic puzzle based around a virtual machine for sound synthesis. This machine only accepts a few valid instructions, and you control it by placing each command letter within a grid, along with setting some associated parameter sliders. The machine runs through the grid, following… Read More Don’t Download This Free iPhone Synthesizer Unless You Are Open To Strange Sounds!
Free Music Software: Minimalfabrik’s Deep Throat is a free Windows-only software synth. The developers don’t provide any audio demos, so Windows users are just going to have to try Deep Throat to find out what it sound like. Download from the Minimalfabrik VST page.
Free Music Software: ProToolerBlog has posted a nice list of free RTAS plugins, including plugins from: Blue Cat Audio Digidesign Flux FXpansion Isotope Native Instruments Ohm Force Prosoniq Sonoma Wire Works and others.
Ever wonder what sample gurus do for fun over the holidays? Probably not – but this video reveals their secrets, anyway. Dark secrets. Secrets you may not want to know. Secrets that may make you think twice before playing a kazoo in the future. Get the free sample library Tonehammer Solo Kazoo and other free… Read More Secrets Of Kazoo Sampling With “The Mariah Carey Of The Butt Plug”
Free Music Software: Peff has introduced Monologue – a free monophonic analog synthesizer Reason ReFill: The Monologue Refill is a monophonic analogue synthesizer library for the Reason 4.0 NN-XT sampler. The sets include the standard sawtooth, square, triangle waves. Also included are a fixed rate pulse width modulation set, and hard sync sawtooth set. Other… Read More Free Reason ReFill – Monologue
Free Music Software: Developer Rurik Leffanta has announced that, effective today, all Xoxos plugins (Windows) are now freeware. Merry Christmas, Windows users!
