STSideComp

STSideComp free compressor by STSoft

STSideComp is a free compressor VST plugin developed by STSoft. Compatible OS(s): macOS.

STSideComp is a straightforward, fully parameterized, compressor with a dedicated sidechain input stereo channel. It is designed as a VST effect for Mac OS X and is specially created for and tested with Ableton Live to create typical French House style ducking effects.

http://www.senortorpedo.de/stsoft/

Striptool

Striptool free channel-strip by VB Audio

Striptool is a free channel strip VST, DirectX plugin developed by VB Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Striptool is a virtual channel strip offering various types of digital audio processing. As with a real mixing desk, you may use Striptool on all channels of a multitrack project. Originally programmed in assembly language in the early 2000s, Striptool can be inserted on every track of your mixing project.

Striptool V1 is free while Striptool V2 & V3 can be bought online (see www.vb-pack.com). They include everything you need to produce a professional mix : a 4-band parametric EQ, low-pass and high-pass filters, an expander, a de-esser and also input/output level controls…

http://www.vb-audio.com/

Stereo Compressor

Stereo Compressor free compressor by slim slow slider

Stereo Compressor is a free compressor VST plugin developed by slim slow slider. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

StereoCompressor/MonauralCompressor features threshold, ratio, attack, release, knee and output controls.http://www.geocities.jp/webmaster_of_sss/vst/

Spectrum Analyzer

Spectrum Analyzer free spectrum-analyzer by Seven Phases

Spectrum Analyzer is a free spectrum analyzer VST plugin developed by Seven Phases. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Spectrum Analyzer is a real-time spectrum analysis VST plugin. The idea was to create an old-fashioned tool reminiscent of classic hardware analyzers of the earlier centuries. Unlike most of other analyzers available these days, this plugin is not FFT-based but utilizes a filter-bank algorithms that mould its unique pros and cons.

Features:

  • 1/3, 1/4 or 1/6 octave mode (30, 40 or 60 bands respectively).
  • Simultaneous peak, peak-hold and average (RMS) display.
  • Bar, Curve and Curve Fill modes.
  • Entirely adjustable ballistics.
  • Unrestrictedly resizable display window.
  • Customizable colors.
  • Supports any sample rate.

https://sevenphases.wordpress.com/

Spazial

Spazial free utility by Synthblitz Audio

Spazial is a free audio and studio utility VST plugin developed by Synthblitz Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Spazial is a powerful audio processor VST plug-in designed to create wide stereo effects and is able to encode and divide the incoming stereo signal into M / S signals but also decode M / S signals into stereo signal.

“Spazial” uses different ways to processing the incoming signal.

There are 5 modes of using it : “internal”, “send mid”, “send side”, “spazial” and “decoder mode”.
“Spazial” allows the processing of the signals encoded by five potentiometers on the panel or sends the encoded pure signals directly to the output via the functions “enc mid” and “enc-side”. In the panel also has a very useful high-pass filter and a very special vibrato control.

“Spazial” is free donationware and available in VST format for Windows.

Made with FlowStone

http://synthblitz.altervista.org

SPAN

SPAN free spectrum-analyzer by Voxengo

SPAN is a free spectrum analyzer VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by Voxengo. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

SPAN is a real-time “fast Fourier transform” audio spectrum analyzer plug-in for professional music and audio production applications. For the most part it was derived from Voxengo GlissEQ dynamic parametric equalizer and reproduces its spectrum analysis functionality.

Features & Compatibility:

  • Output signal power statistics.
  • K-metering.
  • Internal channel routing.
  • Undo/redo history.
  • Clipping statistics.
  • Multi-channel analysis.
  • Channel grouping.
  • A/B comparisons.
  • Correlation meter.
  • Mid/side analysis.
  • Preset manager.
  • Contextual hint messages.

https://www.voxengo.com/

Sound Rider

Sound Rider free spectrum-analyzer by Polygon Audio

Sound Rider is a free spectrum analyzer VST plugin developed by Polygon Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Sound Rider is a 3D visualizer that gives you the ability to navigate a 3D representation of a sound signal in your DAW. As well as the traditional horizontal frequency scale and vertical decibel scale the 3D aspect provides a time axis into the screen.

Sound Rider was written for entry into the KVR Developer Challenge 2012.

Sound Rider Main Features:

  • High resolution 3D Visualizer.
  • Navigation of the waveform with control of position and orientation in 3D.
  • Written from scratch in C++ for 64 bit and 32 bit windows.
  • User views can be stored.
  • Averaging and peak display.
  • User peak values can be stored.
  • Position and orientation can be automated.
  • Includes a 2D view with statistical output.
  • 3 Rendering modes: Solid, Wireframe and Points.
  • Axis that can be moved in the Z plane for clear measurements.
  • Peak and RMS meter.
  • Settings can be altered to change key controls, smoothing, frame rate, ballistics etc.
  • Interpolation – the faster your machine the smoother the ride.

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KVRDC12

http://www.polygonaudio.com/

Sonogram SG-1

Sonogram SG-1 free sonogram by ag-works

Sonogram SG-1 is a free sonogram VST plugin developed by ag-works. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Sonogram SG-1is a real-time sonogram allowing for fast and detailed spectral analysis.

Sonogram SG-1 Features:

  • Six scientific color palettes, each of them can highlight different dynamic ranges, from high power kick drum beats, to little spikes coming out from the noise floor.
  • Snapshots-per-second control that can be changed on the fly, to increase or decrease the time resolution.
  • At any time you can change the zoom ratio, without loosing frequency details for the signals which have already passed by.
  • The zoomed screen can be scrolled while analyzing, to easily locate the frequency range of interest.
  • Pause the visualization with the “freeze” control.
  • Both in frozen or running mode, every time you click or drag within the sonogram area, frequency and amplitude rulers highlight the values corresponding to that point.
  • Every palette can be shifted by simply dragging the dB ruler, to better contrast the right amplitude ranges.
  • A mark button is provided to highlight interesting parts of the waveform for subsequent individuation.
  • Every parameter supports host automation.

http://ag-works.net/

Sonic Visualiser

Sonic Visualiser free spectrum-analyzer by Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary

Sonic Visualiser is a free spectrum analyzer plugin developed by Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS, Linux.

Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files. The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the first program you reach for when want to study a musical recording rather than simply listen to it.

As well as a number of features designed to make exploring audio data as revealing as possible, Sonic Visualiser also has powerful annotation capabilities to help describe what you find, and the ability to run automated annotation and analysis plugins.

Features include sophisticated spectrogram views; multi-resolution waveform and data displays; manual annotation of time points and curves; measurement capabilities from spectrogram and spectrum; playback at any speed; looping and playback of discontiguous selections; ability to apply standard audio effects and compare the results with their inputs; and support for onset detection, beat tracking, structural segmentation, key estimation and many other automated feature extraction algorithms via Vamp audio analysis plugins.

Sonic Visualiser contains features for the following:

  • Load audio files in WAV, Ogg and MP3 formats, and view their waveforms.
  • Look at audio visualisations such as spectrogram views, with interactive adjustment of display parameters.
  • Annotate audio data by adding labelled time points and defining segments, point values and curves.
  • Overlay annotations on top of one another with aligned scales, and overlay annotations on top of waveform or spectrogram views.
  • View the same data at multiple time resolutions simultaneously (for close-up and overview).
  • Run feature-extraction plugins to calculate annotations automatically, using algorithms such as beat trackers, pitch detectors and so on.
  • Import annotation layers from various text file formats.
  • Import note data from MIDI files, view it alongside other frequency scales, and play it with the original audio.
  • Play back the audio plus synthesised annotations, taking care to synchronise playback with display.
  • Select areas of interest, optionally snapping to nearby feature locations, and audition individual and comparative selections in seamless loops.
  • Time-stretch playback, slowing right down or speeding up to a tiny fraction or huge multiple of the original speed while retaining a synchronised display.
  • Export audio regions and annotation layers to external files.

The design goals for Sonic Visualiser are:

  • To provide the best available core waveform and spectrogram audio visualisations for use with substantial files of music audio data.
  • To facilitate ready comparisons between different kinds of data, for example by making it easy to overlay one set of data on another, or display the same data in more than one way at the same time.
  • To be straightforward. The user interface should be simpler to learn and to explain than the internal data structures. In this respect, Sonic Visualiser aims to resemble a consumer audio application.
  • To be responsive, slick, and enjoyable. Even if you have to wait for your results to be calculated, you should be able to do something else with the audio data while you wait. Sonic Visualiser is pervasively multithreaded, loves multiprocessor and multicore systems, and can make good use of fast processors with plenty of memory.
  • To handle large data sets. The work Sonic Visualiser does is intrinsically processor-hungry and (often) memory-hungry, but the aim is to allow you to work with long audio files on machines with modest CPU and memory where reasonable. (Disk space is another matter. Sonic Visualiser eats that.).

http://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/

SKWOSH

SKWOSH free compressor by whiteLABEL

SKWOSH is a free compressor VST plugin developed by whiteLABEL. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

SKWOSH is a versatile multi-function stereo compressor featuring:

  • Envelope: peak / RMS 1 / RMS 2 …
  • Operation: hard knee / soft knee / hard boost / soft boost.
  • Sidechain: internal or external (2 stereo inputs).
  • Key filter: LP / BP / HP: 6/12/18/24 dB/oct – 80hz to 8kHz.
  • Lookahead: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 40ms with additional match / half / double modes.
  • Character: clean / static drive / dynamic drive – with controls for filth level and drive factor.
  • Output limiter: on / off.
  • Chain audition: on / off.
  • Input / output flip: 1&2 / 3&4.
  • Output wet / dry mix control.
Made with SynthEdit

http://dazdisley.co.uk/whiteLABEL/