dirty harry

dirty harry free software-synthesizer by de la Mancha

dirty harry is a free software synthesizer developed by de la Mancha. Available format(s): VST for Windows.

dirty harry is an unashamedly DIY lofi synth based on samples of dlM’s two home-made, lo-fi noise-makers, the Atari Punk Console and the BugBrand WOM.

dirty harry offers 20 unique waveforms in all their mono/monophonic glory. For extra grit the oscillators can be sync’d or ring modulated. Fidelity can be lowered further still with reduction in sample quality, distortion and a unique ‘bad contact’ emulation. 2 tempo-sync LFOs allow modulation of filter, pitch and contact, with one LFO modulating the depth and frequency of the other. There are envelopes for volume, pitch and filter, with different contours and pitch options. Throw in an arpeggiator, pitch drift and portamento and you can see that, whilst it may be lofi in sound, it doesn’t lack for sound design features.

Features:

  • 20 unique waveforms sampled from dlM’s home-made lofi synths, the Atari Punk Console and the BugBrand WOM.
  • 3 oscillators, syncable to osc1 and ring modulatable with each other.
  • Each osc can be routed to the filter independently.
  • 2 tempo sync LFOs with many waveforms, can modulate filter cutoff, each osc pitch and the contact depth and wet level.
  • LFO 2 can modulate the depth and speed of LFO 1.
  • 2 envelopes for volume, filter or pitch, with various contours and options to modulate up/down.
  • Tempo sync arpeggiator.
  • Dodgy contact emulation.
  • Pitch instability.
  • Low quality, dirty, lo-fi options.
  • 89 presets covering Lead, Bass, Arp, Drone, Fx and Basic styles.
Made with SynthEdit

https://delamanchavst.wordpress.com

Dirty Fuzz

Dirty Fuzz free overdrive | saturation by DamyFx

Dirty Fuzz is a free overdrive and saturation VST plugin developed by DamyFx. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Dirty Fuzz is the Classic FUZZ Sound with the addition of more dirt.

Made with SynthMaker

http://damyfx.altervista.org/

DirtBag

DirtBag free software-synthesizer by Istvan Kaldor

DirtBag is a free software synthesizer developed by Istvan Kaldor. Available format(s): VST for Windows 64b.

  • 9 Drawbars (responds to cc20-cc29).
  • PW: pulse width (when pulse waveform selected).
  • Det: Detune.
  • Dirt: Distortion/Overdrive (the heart of DirtBag).
  • Cut: Cutoff (LPF) after distortion.
  • Sine/…/… the waveform.
  • Rota: Leslie amount.
  • Width: Leslie spread.
  • Slow/Fast/Acc: Leslie Slow/Fast/Acceleration controls.
  • cc01/cc04/PBnd: Leslie Slow/Fast switch could be mapped to Modwheel, Footswitch or Pitchbend.
  • Cut1/Cut2/LPF/Res: tone-tweakers.
  • Perc/Dec/2nd/3rd…: percussion controls.
  • Mix/Mod/Fback: Delay controls.
  • Lim: Clipper (hard clip).
  • Vol: Volume (cc07).
Made with SynthEdit

http://www.joshgemmell.com/ik/

DiracFxAU

DiracFxAU free pitch-shifter | time-stretcher by The DSP Dimension

DiracFxAU is a free pitch shifter and time stretcher Audio Unit plugin developed by The DSP Dimension. Compatible OS(s): macOS.

DiracFxAU is a free pitch shifting plug-in for the Apple AudioUnit platform based on The DSP Dimension’s DiracFx API.

DiracFx is a high performance pitch shifting and time stretching algorithm that allows changing pitch and speed of audio signals independently of each other at very high quality and very fast speed. Optimized for use on mobile platforms, DiracFx uses no trigonometric operations and is available for iOS, Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. A feature-limited DiracLE edition of the SDK is available to developers at dirac.dspdimension.com (this distro also contains the AU plug-in), a professional version can be licensed from The DSP Dimension upon request.

http://www.dspdimension.com

Diode-108 Drum Machine Free

Diode-108 Drum Machine Free free drum-machine | sequencer by Vibrant Digital Engineering

Diode-108 Drum Machine Free is a free drum machine and sequencer plugin developed by Vibrant Digital Engineering. Compatible OS(s): macOS.

Diode-108 is the drum machine you’ve been waiting for. It’s packed with a variety of built-in vintage, classic, and acoustic kits, but you can easily mix and match the samples provided to make your own custom kits. Or import wav files for even more variety. Once you’ve built your groove, DIODE-108’s drag-and-drop beat effects make it fun and easy to create beats you’ve never heard before.

This free version is fully usable, with no ads and no timeouts, but it lacks save and export options compared to the full version.

Features:

  • Drag and drop effects let you put effects on individual beats.
  • Drum kits licensed from respected partners. Dubsounds, Samples From Mars, Orange Tree Samples, and 99Sounds.
  • 16 drum voices with unlimited patterns that you can arrange into your own songs.
  • Each pattern can have its own swing and tempo multiplier.
  • Every voice has PER BEAT control of pan, volume, tone, pitch, decay, compression, and distortion, delay, and reverb.
  • Turn NOTE MODE on for any voice and control the musical note (up or down an octave from the original pitch). Great for basslines or pitched percussion.
  • Mix and Match kits (easily substitute any sample in any kit). Want an 808 kick in a 909 kit? No problem.
  • See the Diode-108 in action in this {See video at top of page}.
  • MIDI sync.
  • MIDI Note In.

Sequencer
Build your beat on a 16×16 pattern grid. 16 voices is almost twice the number of voices of some of our competitors, and it means that you can have an 808 kit with all the instruments you’re looking for (not just some of them). Set tempo and swing. Several time signatures are supported (and each pattern can have its own).

Pads
Tap your beat on our 4 by 4 array of drum pads. Record into the active pattern, or just play along.

Drum Machine
Unprecedented control over your drum kit. Dial in the settings you want, mix and match samples from different kits, and save out your modified custom kits for use in any song. How much control do you have? An amazing 7 dials for each of the 16 drum voices.

FX
Diode-108’s crown jewel is its drag-and-drop beat FX. Want a reverse cowbell? Want a bitcrushed tom? Want a cymbal that performs a pitch dive across several beats? Just drag and drop the effect tokens onto beats, and drag them left and right to cover any beats you like. Turn a long-lasting cymbal into a rhythmic backbone. You have to hear it to believe it. Head over to our SoundCloud playlist for sample songs.

Song
Build up a collection of named patterns from scratch, or import selected patterns from existing songs. Then drag and drop the patterns to build up a song. Each pattern can have its own swing setting and tempo multiplier if you like.

http://www.vibrantdigitalengineering.com

DimSong

DimSong free compressor | studio-tool by VenLabs

DimSong is a free compressor and studio tools plugin developed by VenLabs. Compatible OS(s): iOS.

DimSong creates custom remixes of music in real-time, controlling the intensity and density of songs based on touch, movement and light input.

The app operates in 3 modes of input:

  1. Shake: The music reacts to the user’s movements as they dance, workout, or flick the device.
  2. Light: DimSong uses the camera to detect the amount of light in the user’s surroundings and adjust the audio accordingly, functioning as a “musical dimmer switch” where more light means more intensity in the music.
  3. Touch: An on-screen slider lets the user control the mix manually.

DimSong comes with 3 exclusive, interactive remixes, and additional tracks are available for purchase from the in-app store. The company says that new music will be added on a regular basis.

http://www.dimsong.com/DimSong.html

Dimension Plus

Dimension Plus free reverb by EpicMStudios

Dimension Plus is a free reverb VST, VST3 plugin developed by EpicMStudios. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

Dimension Plus is a plugin that models sound reverberation in variable size spaces.

It has three controls:

  • Direction of the audio source
    • Physically simulates the binaural hearing of a sound source in 3D space.
  • Room Size
    • Alters how large the simulated space is.
  • Dry/Wet.
    • Alters how much of the effect is present in the mix.

The simple user interface yields a wide variety of options for any producer trying to add a third dimension to flat sounding tracks.

https://epicmstudios.com/

Digits

Digits free phaser | lfo by Extent of the Jam

Digits is a free phaser and lfo VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Extent of the Jam. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Digits is a phase distortion synthesizer inspired by Casio’s CZ line, but designed with a modern feature set. It comes with over 100 presets including a variety of basses, leads, pseudo-realistic instruments, phat pads and gritty sweeps. 3 LFOs. Variable-slope resonance filter. Analog chorus and flanger simulation. Harmonic bitcrush. 4 voice modes. Asymmetric pitchbend, and much more. And the GUI is designed explicitly to allow the user to quickly put together patches and fits entirely into one small window. This is one seriously versatile synthesizer.

http://extentofthejam.com

Digital Tube

Digital Tube free overdrive | saturation by Retro Sampling

Digital Tube is a free overdrive and saturation VST plugin developed by Retro Sampling. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Digital Tube will raise the total overall volume to achieve digital clip distortion.

Made with SynthEdit

http://www.retrosampling.se/

Digital Musician Plug-in (DMP)

Digital Musician Plug-in (DMP) free sequencer | daw by digitalmusician.net

Digital Musician Plug-in (DMP) is a free sequencer and DAW VST, Audio Unit developed by digitalmusician.net. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

The Digital Musician Plug-in (DMP) sits in any insert channel of any VST or AU Audio Sequencer/ DAW enabling real time, online connection of different music production applications with one audio and video stream.

Features:

  • ASIO and Core Audio support.
  • Sample accurate sync.
  • Drag and Drop of audio files.
  • Video feed.
  • Talkback.
  • Chat.
  • And a host of other features.

DMP 2.0 is a peer-to-peer solution requiring a host DAW that uses ASIO/Core Audio and a high-speed Internet connection. It is available as a free download to all registered members of digitalmusician.net.

Digitalmusician Container (DMC) is a standalone application providing the same feature-set as the DMP Plug-in.

http://www.digitalmusician.net/