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.
Matriosity is a free Mac application designed to help with serial matrix creation – in case you want to get your Schoenberg on, atonal style. It lets you enter in a prime row, either as numbers (1-11, and either 0 or 12 for C) or letters (C, C#, etc.). It then generates a serial matrix,… Read More Mac App For Serial Matrix Composition
Qui Robinez has released a free Korg M3 sound library, Qui Robinez – Visions of Shiva Combi Collection V2.0. This soundset is made exclusively for the Korg M3 synthesizer. It uses lots of the special features that the Korg M3 synthesizer has to offer. The combi’s were designed to showcase and test the different features KARMA… Read More Free Korg M3 Sound Library
Blue Cat Audio has announced Blue Cat’s Freeware Plugins Pack – all the company’s freeware VST and directX audio plug-ins gathered together in a bundle. Choose the VST or DirectX plug-ins download, and get them all. The bundle contains a wide range of modulation effects as well as analysis tools. Available formats include Windows VST… Read More Free Audio Plugins For Mac & PC
Impromptu is a free OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ’s and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a programmable AudioUnit host. A powerful environment for creating AudioUnit graphs of arbitrary complexity with precise programmatic control over individual AU nodes. Musical material can be precisely scheduled for performance… Read More Free Mac App For Composers, Sound Artists & VJs
Noteflight today launched a very cool Web-based application that lets you create and edit music, in standard notation, using a standard Web browser. The score can be played directly from the browser, shared with individuals, published online or printed as sheet music for use by live musicians. Scores may also be embedded in other pages… Read More Noteflight Introduces Social Media Music Application
UltraMixer is a DJ mixing program which lets you mix music in MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG, WAV or CDs formats. UltraMixer claims to be the first DJ software in the world available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. There are three versions of UltraMixer available – a Free Edition and a Basic Edition for private… Read More Free DJ Software For Mac, PC, Linux
Audio Recorder is a free program that lets you record with your Mac from any input device directly to AIFF, WAV, MP3, MP4 or AppleLossLess formats. Download link
cellsDS is a free programmable grid-based music sequencer for the Nintendo DS. Description: cellsDS is six sequencers in one, with each sequencer being controlled by a user definable Lua script. It is the peculiar anti-social stepchild of the Tenori-On and Monome. Features include: Dead simple user interface. Ability to create your own unique sequencer rules… Read More Free Music Sequencer For The Nintendo DS
Sexy day at Synthtopia continues: here’s something pretty sexy for Mac musicians – KingDubby is a free dub tape delay Audio Unit plug-in, developed by lowcoders and bitplant. According to the developers – this version is the first step on the road to some cool new features coming for version 2.0 along with VST 3… Read More Sexy Day: Free Dub Tape Delay For Macs
Audio Damage has released a free compressor plugin for Mac and Windows, Rough Rider. Description: Rough Rider is a modern compressor with a bit of “vintage” style bite and a uniquely warm sound. Perfect for adding compression effects to your drum buss, it also sounds great with synth bass, clean guitar, and backing vocals. Definitely… Read More Audio Damage Releases Free Rough Rider Plugin
