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Free music tools - A lot of bang without $
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Storyteller
Due to this topic others thought of creating this. A collection of interesting plugins and platforms that one can work with for free.

Main thing is that the plugins should be stable and perform well. I'd insist on not including experimental/buggy plugins in order to keep this list practical and to the point.

Please inform me about interesting plugins by replying or by PM. Please mention a category it would fall under as well. If a link is dead, please inform me as well. I'll do the best I can to keep this page up to date.

I've also mirrored some files from my own archive as I couldn't find the original download source anymore.


In short:
- Free software only
- Demo's allowed if they do not limit critical features
- No time limits
- No buggy/experimental stuff

Just straightforward practical and useful plugins!


Please only mention plugins you like specifically, it's about the good ones. Do not send me links to existing lists please.






























DAW
Audio Editors
AudacityPC / MAC / LINUX
Sequencers / Piano roll-based
CakewalkPC
Trackers
BuzzPC
RenoisePC / MAC / LINUXFully functional excl. export functionality and ASIO - export can be done with Voxengo Recorder, also on this page
VST Instruments
Hardware emulators/inspired - do not always sound similar
Superwave P8PCBased on the Roland JP8000/JP8080
Synth1PCBased on the Clavia Nord Lead 2
TAL BassLinePC / MACBased on Roland SH101
TAL-U-No-62PC / MACBased on the Roland Juno 6
Real Instrument VSTs
4Front BassPC / MAC
4Front E-PianoPC / MAC
4Front PianoPC / MAC
4Front RhodePC / MAC
Spicy GuitarPC / MAC
Samplers
Subtractive synthesizers
GenobazzPC
TAL Elek7roPC / MAC
TAL NoiseMakerPC / MAC
Experimental synthesizers
Empty...
VST Effects
Analysis tools
Blue Cat FreqAnalystPC / MAC
PSP VintagemeterPC / MAC
SSL X-ISMPC / MACRegistration required
Bouncing / Exporting
Voxengo RecorderPC
Chorus
Blue Cat ChorusPC / MAC
Blue Cat Stereo ChorusPC / MAC
Kjearhus Classic ChorusPCMirrored - Found the source website or is this a rights breach? Contact me
TAL Chorus LXPC / MAC
Compression / Limiting
Audio Assault Head CrusherPC
Audio Assault KlipfreakPC
Audiodamage Rough RiderPC
Blue Cat Digital Peak MeterPC
Blue Cat Gain SuitePC / VST
Kjearhus Classic CompressorPCMirrored - Found the source website or is this a rights breach? Contact me
Kjearhus Classic Master LimiterPCMirrored - Found the source website or is this a rights breach? Contact me
TLS UltramaximizerPCMirrored - Found the source website or is this a rights breach? Contact me
Delay
Glitch Machines HysteresisPC / MAC
Kjearhus Classic DelayPCMirrored - Found the source website or is this a rights breach? Contact me
KR Delay FSPC / MAC / LINUX
TAL Dub 1 / 2 / 3PC / MAC
ValhallaFreqEchoPC / MAC
Distortion / Amp- or Cabinet simulators
Audiodamage FuzzPlus3PC / MAC
Audio Assault Bass GrinderPC / MAC
Audio Assault DefacerPC / MAC
Audio Assault Grind MachinePC / MAC
GeektronicPC
Izotope VinylPC / MAC
TAL BitcrusherPC / MAC
TAL TubePC / MAC
Voxengo TubeampPC / MAC
Voxengo BoogexPC
EQ
Blue Cat Triple EQPC / MAC
Kjearhus Classic EQPCMirrored - Found the source website or is this a rights breach? Contact me
TAL USEPC / MAC
Voxengo Marvel GEQPC / MAC
Voxengo Overtone GEQPC / MAC
Filters
Elysia Niveau FilterPC / MAC
Kjearhus Classic FilterPCMirrored - Found the source website or is this a rights breach? Contact me
Ohmforce FrohmagePC / MAC
TAL FilterPC / MAC
Flanger
Blue Cat FlangerPC / MAC
Blue Cat Stereo FlangerPC / MAC
Kjearhus Classic FlangerPCMirrored - Found the source website or is this a rights breach? Contact me
TAL FlangerPC / MAC
Gate
AraldFX StormGate1PC / MAC
Multi-effects
Camel Audio CamelcrusherPC / MACMirrored by the nice guys of audiopluginsforfree.com
dBlue GlitchPC
Glitch Machines FracturePC / MAC
Phaser
Blue Cat PhaserPC / MAC
Kjearhus Classic PhaserPCMirrored - Found the source website or is this a rights breach? Contact me
Pitch correction
GSnapPC
Reverb
Kjearhus Classic ReverbPCMirrored - Found the source website or is this a rights breach? Contact me
KR Reverb FSPC / MAC / LINUX
PSP PianoverbPC / MAC
Tal ReverbPC / MAC
Voxengo oldskoolverbPC
Stereo processing tools
Voxengo MSEDPC / MAC
Voxengo Stereo TouchPC / MAC
Transient processing
Audio Assault TransientPC / MAC
Flux Bittersweet v3PC / MAC
Tremolo
Audiodamage Pulse ModulatorPC / MACMirrored by the nice guys of vst4free.com
Vocoder
TAL VocoderPC / MAC
Samples
Wave AlchemyDrums, SFX
Storyteller
My personal favourites amongst the total list - and used in virtually all of my productions in the past and current:
Synth 1
Voxengo MSED
Flux Bittersweet 2
TLS Ultramaximizer
ividar
Maybe you could mark them PC, MAC and PC/MAC? :)
Storyteller
Great suggestion
.JEKL.
I used to use camel audio's camel crusher quite a bit. Has a few presets to flip through as well.


CamelCrusherFree
Storyteller
Better layout now. Added some formatting and found some major security holes in this forum but hey, as long as we're not abusing it's still fun :).
mathieu
RCGAudio SFZ, a free soundfont player wich is quite useful

http://www.cakewalk.com/Download/sfz.aspx
cryophonik
Let's not forget the rhythmic plugins. These are all very cool:

Arp - Kirnu Free Arpeggiator (VST/Win 32,Win 64,non SSE2, Mac OS X )

Glitchy - Illformed/DBlue Glitch (Windows VST only)

Gate - AraldFX Stormgate 1 (PC VST format and MAC VST and AU formats (it works on Mac/Intels too))
cryophonik
More freebies that are widely used and recommended:

Togu Audio Line (TAL) plugins (VST & AU)

Cakewalk/RGC:Audio Triangle II

Cakewalk/RGC:Audio Square I

Both of these Cakewalk/RGC:Audio synths were developed by the same guy who developed Z3TA (Windows VST only)

Fuzzpilz Oatmeal Synth (Windows VST only)

Blue Cat Audio Freeware - 11 excellent plugins (Mac-AU / Mac-RTAS / Mac-VST / Win-DX / Win-RTAS / Win-VST / Win x64-DX / Win x64-VST)

Solid State Logic X-ISM Meter (PC/Mac)
Zombie0729
i use these all the time to layout ideas, very CPU & hard drive friendly:

Piano - http://www.kvraudio.com/get/597.html

(that company has a bunch more, bass, e-piano, rhodes, etc 90% of them are free)

Storyteller
@Cryo: Will add the Blue Cate later on. Square one still seems to be a paid plugin according to the website... It links to a page that allows you to choose your preferred currency.
sleeping
some cool free synths:

Spicy Guitar http://www.spicyguitar.com/
Trancedriver http://www.yedey.com/
SuperWave 8 http://www.kvraudio.com/db/superwave_p8_by_superwave
Genobazz http://audio.tekit-studio.eu/genobazz/
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