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.
New in the Free Windows Music Software department – Variety of Sound has released epicVerb 1.5 – a major update to the free digital reverb that makes it even more epic. epicVerb 1.5 contains not only some bugfixes and stability improvements but also re-worked algorithms which support “way more dense and three-dimensional reverberation processing.” If… Read More epicVerb 1.5 Is More Epic, More Verb, But Windows Only
Free Music Software: Overloud Slego is designed to let guitar players “rock out” with the guitar amp effect simulator engine of Overloud’s flagship product TH1, for free.
George Yohng’s W1 Limiter VST is a free clone of the Waves L1, It’s available in DLL, VST & AudioUnit formats. via waveformeless
Free Music Software: Developer Chris Reed has released a new version of MidiKeys – a free application for Mac OS X that presents a miniature MIDI keyboard onscreen. You can use the computer keyboard to play MIDI notes, or click on the keys with the mouse. There is also an option to select a MIDI… Read More MIDIKeys Turns Mac Computer Keyboards Into A MIDI Keyboard
2010 NAMM Show: Yamaha as released Tenori On v2.0, a free firmware update for the Tenori On. The update improves timing, including “tighter operation”, MIDI sync & swing. If you’ve used Tenori On firmware 2.0, leave a comment with your thoughts!
Sonic Entropy has introduced Zombie Killah 2, a free synthesizer instrument plug-in for Windows that they describe as “THE ultimate badass synth”. “Most recommended for use for lead parts, especially in Drum’n’Bass, Breakbeat, Dubstep, Jungle music.”
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
