This page brings together our latest posts on free music software, including VST, VSTi and AU plugins; free music applications for Windows, Mac and Linux; free mobile music software for the iPhone and other portable devices; and free audio loops and samples.
plastique is a new freeware software synth for Windows from de la mancha. It’s a 2 oscillator subtractive synth, using the 31 waveforms from the Casio HT-700 synth and some enhancements to the originals feature set. It does lofi 80’s sounds but also so much more, with a configurable filter (up to 16 poles), a pitch… Read More New Free VST Synth For Windows Is Casiotastic
The creators of Mixxx – the free, open source DJ software – are looking for a community coordinator: Would you like volunteer with the project, but don’t know how to code? If so, we might have found the role for you – We are officially looking for a Mixxx Community Coordinator. As the Mixxx community… Read More Mixxx Looking For Community Coordinator
Native Instruments has announced a free sound library, Kore Soundpack Compliation, Volume 1: To celebrate a great year for music production, Native Instruments has prepared this free gift for you. KORE SOUNDPACK COMPILATION VOL.1 is a full-featured production-ready sound library that includes 100 Kore Sounds plus 700 Sound Variations, taken from twelve different KORE SOUNDPACKS.… Read More Free Kore Soundpack Library From Native Instruments
The SoundCloud people are moving quickly and developing some interesting stuff. The Cloud Player is a browser-based music player. It lets you: Find and play all tracks from SoundCloud Save playlists to your Google Account Make smart playlists based on genre, BPM, etc Share your ready-made playlists with your friends Collaborate in making the best playlists… Read More Cloud Player Like A Browser-Based iTunes
iRecorder (App Store link) is a free virtual recorder application for the iPhone. It’s great to see these virtual instruments starting to proliferate – but it would be even nicer to see more developers working on original expressive instruments that take advantage of the iPhone’s capabilities. Description: Blow into the iPhone mic and experience the… Read More Free Virtual Recorder For The iPhone: iRecorder
Koblo Audio Software has made all of the code for the Koblo Studio available as an open source project at http://github.com/koblo. Koblo Studio, for Mac or PC, may be downloaded for free. By making it open source, Koblo is allowing any developer to build upon the Koblo Studio platform. “Our business model seeks to change the… Read More New Open Source Music Studio For PC & Mac – Koblo
Sound Animals (App Store link) is a bizarre iPhone audio sampler app, and it’s free, too.
Ever wonder why people pay a premium price for the Monome, a controller that doesn’t really do much out of the box? The promo video explains it. It’s for mlrV a new version of an open source app called mlr. Trent Gill took Brian Crabtree’s work on mlr and did a bit of software remixing, building on… Read More New App For The Monome: mlrV
http://www.vimeo.com/2085569 Here are a couple of videos that demo Matt Mower’s Elysium, a new visual generative sequencer. Here’s how he describes it: Elysium is a sequencer, that means it’s designed to produce sequences of notes that can be layered to form music. Elysium uses MIDI which means that it doesn’t make sounds itself but can drive… Read More Probabilistic Visual Music Sequencing With Elysium
Moogo Filter is a free Moog-style filter effect for Windows. It features an envelope generator, which can be triggered by MIDI notes so the plugin can be inserted behind any synth plugin, to play it thru a Moogish filter. The plugin also features an overdrive. You can preview Moogo below: [display_podcast] Moogofilter runs as a… Read More WOK Releases MoogoFilter VST
