SVArTracker

SVArTracker free host by SVAr software

SVArTracker is a free host application developed by SVAr software. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

SVArTracker is a modular VST/DirectX supporting tracker application.

Pattern Editor:

  • Customizable view.
  • Change track order, hide tracks and/or rows.
  • Restructure input mask for up to 9 notes and 9 effect columns per track.

Virtual Studio Scheme Editor:

  • Can load VST, VSTi, and DirectX DMO plugins.
  • Allows complex connections between placed sound components.
  • Routing of wave and control signal as you wish.
  • Cut/Copy/Paste enabled.

Pattern Order Editor:

  • Place patterns one by one or in parallel.
  • Stretch pattern duration, transpose notes, set repeat count, apply volume curve.

Flow Editor (static automation):

  • Allows parameter automation.
  • Create & place parameter change curves in the time line.
  • Ability to stretch curve, add or remove points while playing.

Effect Processor (dynamic automation):

  • Build complex automation for parameters and organize them on the tasks palette.
  • Tasks can be used as effects in the pattern effect column.

Function Variator:

  • Customize pattern hot keys for built-in functions (volume slide, shrink/expand selection, iterate instrument, transpose notes in selection…).

Audio Engine:

  • All internal operations are 32-bit floating point, except calculations requiring 64-bit floating-point precision.

Output:

  • DirectX wave and MIDI driver output.
  • Renders wave file (PCM16 PCM32 FLOAT32 at 22100-196000 Hz).

http://www.svarsoft.com/

StudioRack Plugin Chainer

StudioRack Plugin Chainer free routing | wrapper by Waves

StudioRack Plugin Chainer is a free routing and wrapper plugin developed by Waves. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

StudioRack is a software rack designed to run plugin chains, giving you the choice of directing the processing to a SoundGrid DSP server or to your host computer’s CPU. When processing your plugin chains on SoundGrid, StudioRack lets you monitor your tracks in low latency via theeMotion ST Mixer. Compatible with most popular hosts, StudioRack has a dedicated component for Pro Tools TDM and HDX systems, giving you access to both Avid and Waves offload capabilities:

  • Compatible with most native DAWs.
  • Bridges Pro Tools HD and HDX DSP with the SoundGrid DSP server in order to process plugins in low latency while recording.
  • Compatible with Waves and third-party plugins.
  • Plugin chains used for low-latency monitoring are instantly available for mixing as well.
  • Up to 8 plugins per rack.
  • Fully automatable.
  • Presets for plugin chains can be saved to and loaded from any DAW.
  • Plugin chain presets saved on StudioRack can be loaded in MultiRack, and vice versa.
  • Quick access to plugin parameters within your chain.
  • Intuitive MIDI control over all plugins.
  • Avid Control Surface support.

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http://www.waves.com/

Skale Tracker

Skale Tracker free other-utility by Skale

Skale Tracker is a free audio and studio utility VST plugin developed by Skale. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Features:

  • Completely Based on Fast Tracker 2 Environment.
  • Full Keyboard Customisation.
  • Support for Stereo Samples, 256 Virtual channels. NNA’s.
  • Support for VST Instruments.
  • Graphic Track Edition.
  • Full Midi Support IN/OUT.
  • FUN GAME and FUN VISUAL to synchronize demos and to play custom games.
  • Enhanced Global Mixer and Instrument Mixer to control every parameter of the sounds individually and quickly.
  • OLD MS-DOS FULL SCREEN MODE – or WINDOWS Mode.
  • PERFECT XM Loading (in the Final Version. Some minor effects remain incomplete).
  • WAVE OUT Export.

http://www.skale.org/

SAVIHost

SAVIHost free host | wrapper by Hermann Seib

SAVIHost is a free host and wrapper application developed by Hermann Seib. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

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SAVIHost is a derivative version of VSTHost that can be used to make any VST Effect or VSTi run like a standalone application.

This offers two major advantages:

  1. Effect or VSTi can be used (tested, checked or tried) easily and directly without the need or search for another host.
  2. Effect or VSTi can be distributed to be tested in a temporary directory without the need of the presence of another host or to search for a dedicated VSTPlugIns-subdirectory. The VSTi-dll can still be used within other hosts like Cubase, Sonar etc. when copied to that host’s VSTPlugins-subdirectory.

For use just rename SAVIHost.exe to the corresponding VSTi.dll e.g. if there is abc123.dll rename SAVIHost.exe to abc123.exe and this will run the VSTi.

Separate versions for VST 2, VST Module Architecture, and VST3 are available in 32- and 64-bit versions.

http://www.hermannseib.com/english/

Samplitude Skin

Samplitude Skin free softsynth-skin by Dj Pedro Nunes

Samplitude Skin is a free softsynth skin stand alone application plugin for Samplitude developed by Dj Pedro Nunes. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

ALTERNATIVE SKIN FOR SAMPLITUDE (ALL VERSIONS).

http://www.samplitudeskin.ga/

Rosegarden

Rosegarden free sequencer by Rosegarden Project

Rosegarden is a free sequencer stand alone application developed by Rosegarden Project. Compatible OS(s): Linux.

Rosegarden is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. It runs on Linux using the JACK audio system. Rosegarden can be used to record and arrange audio and MIDI compositions with effects and instrument plugins. It supports LADSPA effects and DSSI instrument plugins natively, and hosts VST effects and instruments through the DSSI-VST wrapper plugin.

Rosegarden is Free Software released under the GNU General Public License.

Some of Rosegarden’s features are:

  • MIDI and audio playback and recording with ALSA and JACK.
  • Piano-roll, score, event list and track overview editors.
  • DSSI synth and audio effects plugin support, including Windows VST effects and instrument support via dssi-vst.
  • LADSPA audio effects plugin support.
  • JACK transport support for synchronization with other software.
  • Ability to build and run without JACK, for MIDI-only use.
  • Score interpretation of performance MIDI data.
  • Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability.
  • Triggered segments for pattern sequencing & performable ornaments.
  • Audio and MIDI mixers.
  • MIDI and Hydrogen file import.
  • MIDI, Csound, Lilypond and MusicXML file export.
  • Clear, consistent and polished user interface.
  • User interface translations for Russian, Spanish, German, French, Welsh, Italian, Swedish, Estonian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, as well as UK and US English.
  • Help documentation available substantially or entirely translated into German, Swedish and Japanese as well as English.

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

Qtractor

Qtractor free sequencer | daw by rncbc

Qtractor is a free sequencer and DAW Stand Alone developed by rncbc. Compatible OS(s): Linux.

Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.

Website: http://qtractor.org, https://qtractor.sourceforge.io.

Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor

Weblog: https://www.rncbc.org

Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.

Features:

  • Multi-track audio and MIDI sequencing and recording.
  • Developed on the Qt C++ application and UI framework.
  • Uses JACK for audio and ALSA sequencer for MIDI as multimedia infrastructures.
  • Traditional multi-track tape recorder control paradigm.
  • Audio file formats support: OGG (via libvorbis), MP3 (via libmad, playback only), WAV, FLAC, AIFF and many, many more (via libsndfile).
  • Standard MIDI files support (format 0 and 1).
  • Non-destructive, non-linear editing.
  • Unlimited number of tracks per session/project.
  • Unlimited number of overlapping clips per track.
  • XML encoded session/project description files (SDI).
  • Point-and-click, multi-select, drag-and-drop interaction (drag, move, drop, cut, copy, paste, paste-repeat, delete, split, merge).
  • Unlimited undo/redo.
  • Built-in mixer and monitor controls.
  • Built-in connection patchbay control and persistence (a-la QjackCtl).
  • LADSPA, DSSI, native VST and LV2 plug-ins support.
  • Unlimited number of plug-ins per track or bus.
  • Plug-in presets, programs and chunk/configurations support, including native VST FXB/FXP file support.
  • Unlimited audio/MIDI effect send/return inserts per track or bus.
  • Loop-recording/takes.
  • Audio/MIDI clip fade-in/out, cross-fade (linear, quadratic, cubic).
  • Audio/MIDI clip gain/volume, normalize, export.
  • Audio/MIDI track and plugin parameter automation (dynamic curves, sample&hold, linear and spline modes).
  • Audio clip time-stretching (WSOLA-like or via librubberband), pitch-shifting (via librubberband) and seamless sample-rate conversion (via libsamplerate).
  • Audio/MIDI track export (mix-down, render, merge, freeze).
  • Audio/MIDI metronome bar/beat clicks.
  • Unlimited tempo/time-signature map.
  • MIDI clip editor (matrix/piano roll).
  • MIDI instrument definitions (a-la Cakewalk ™);
    SoundFont (*.sf2) and MIDI Names XML (*.midnam) files also supported.
  • MIDI controller mapping/learn/assignment (mixer and plug-in parameters).
  • MIDI system exclusive (SysEx) setups.
  • JACK transport sync master/slave.
  • JACK session support.
  • NSM (Non Session Management) support.
  • MMC control surface enabled.
  • MIDI Clock, Song Position Pointer (SPP) support.
  • Configurable PC-keyboard and MIDI controller shortcuts.

http://www.rncbc.org

Psycle

Psycle free daw | sequencer | host by Psycle

Psycle is a free DAW developed by Psycle. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

Psycle is a free, Open-Source, music creation program that offers an easy way to create your own music, fast, and with high quality.

Psycle uses a classical tracker interface (a text grid of notes which are sequenced one after the other), coupled with modularity (plugins) that allow to extend the sounds that you get from it.

It supports three ways to get sound: its own native format, the VST Plugin standard, and recorded .wav samples using the sampler machine.

Notes are entered in patterns, where you can also use commands (plugin specific, or global), as well as automating parameters via the mcm and twk commands. These patterns are then organized in a linear sequence, which becomes the song order.

Main features:

  • A 64 Tracks Pattern Editor, with up to 1024 lines.
  • 256 sequence positions.
  • Audio Routing (machine) view to interconnect the virtual machines in order to apply different effects. Multi I/O for VST plugins is supported.
  • Internal Stereo Sampler unit which supports .wav, .aiff, .iff/svx, .s3i, .its files of any sampling rate, 8/16 and 24-bits, mono or stereo.
  • Modern tracker Sampler (Sampulse), with extends sampler support to .xi and .iti, and supports most of the Impulse Tracker like features, including filter.
  • 70+ Native Plugins (generators & effects), most of them open-source and with an easy to use API to create new ones.
  • Multithreaded audio engine.
  • Support for VST1 and VST2 plugin standard, including support for jBridge.
  • Imports .xm, .s3m, .it, .mod.
  • Exporting to wav, as well as recording realtime to .wav.
  • Configurable Keyboard Layout.
  • MIDI-In Support (control Psycle using a MIDI keyboard, or even a software sequencer).
  • Themes and skins support.

http://psycle.pastnotecut.org/

Podium Free

Podium Free free sequencer by Zynewave

Podium Free is a free sequencer stand alone application developed by Zynewave. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

Podium Free is a modern DAW that supports recording and editing of audio and MIDI, and hosts VST2 instrument and effect plugins.

Podium Free is a fully functional freeware edition of Podium. It is identical to the commercial Podium version except for the following feature limitations:

  • MIDI interface setup is limited to one input and one output.
  • 64-bit mixer engine option is disabled.
  • Plugin multiprocessing is disabled.
  • ReWire is disabled.
  • Surround-sound playback is disabled.

http://zynewave.com/

PluginWrapper for Percussa AudioCubes

PluginWrapper for Percussa AudioCubes free routing | wrapper by Percussa

PluginWrapper for Percussa AudioCubes is a free routing and wrapper VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Percussa. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

PluginWrapper is a VST / AudioUnit effect / instrument plug-in developed specifically for the Percussa AudioCubes hardware. It hosts your favorite plug-ins, and automatically links their parameters to the 4 high speed and high sensitivity sensors of an AudioCube.

This means the user can create and shape sound using their hands and fingers. Color feedback is provided using the built in RGB lighting of the AudioCube(s). You can also sequence the colors in sync with your music using MIDI notes or CC messages. The plug-in works with all the major DAWs and can be used for sound design, music production, live performance.

Key Features:

  • Attach AudioCubes(s) automatically to plug-in or instrument parameters without MIDI mapping.
  • Control AudioCube colors via MIDI notes and continuous control messages.
  • Built in easy to use VST plug-in manager to scan and load your favorite plug ins inside the plug-in.
  • Easily lets you control your favorite plug ins using your hands and fingers and one or more AudioCubes.
  • Translate hand and finger gestures directly to new sounds.
  • Compatible with all the major DAWs.
  • Built in MIDI note to color and MIDI CC message to color functionality for visual feedback.

http://www.percussa.com/