SN76489

SN76489 free software-synthesizer by SocaLabs

SN76489 is a free software synthesizer developed by SocaLabs. Available format(s): VST, Audio Unit for Windows 64b, macOS.

Product Description:

  • Emulates Texas Instruments SN76489 of the Sega Master System and other consoles.
  • 3 Square wave channels.
  • 3 Note polyphony.
  • 1 Noise channel with 2 types.
  • Waveform display.
  • Windows VST 32/64.
  • Mac AU 32/64.

http://www.socalabs.com

Smart Metronome

Smart Metronome free metronome by Mirax Labs

Smart Metronome is a free metronome plugin developed by Mirax Labs. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Metronome that can listen and detect the tempo for the input audio, and includes support for creating custom presets.

Metronomes are designed to help musicians keep a particular tempo, especially while practicing to acquire a certain sense of timing when playing. Smart Metronome brings the functions of a classic metronome to your Mac while also packing innovative features.

Intuitive to use metronome app that can automatically detect the tempo

The Smart Metronome user interface is represented by a single window where you get to configure both the metronome and the audio setup. The app allows you to select the input and output sources, the active channels, the audio sample rate, the buffer size, and the active MIDI inputs and outputs.

Within the metronome tab, you can manually set the beats per minute rate, or you can allow the app to listen to the input audio and automatically detect the tempo. Note that is the Listen button is active, you cannot modify the BPM manually.

Fast to setup metronome that comes with presets support

Smart Metronome also provides support for various predefined tempos that you can select from a simple drop down menu, yet you also have the option to manually adjust the BPM value.

In addition, Smart Metronome enables you to set the time signature by modifying the notes subdivision and offers you the opportunity to use one of the built-in sound packs (classic, drum, or techno).

The best part is that all settings can be saved in a custom preset, and you can easily load any of them via a simple menu. Note that Smart Metronome also enables you to adjust the tempo tick and the sound pack volume, so you get to create presets that fit your practice sessions flawlessly.

Check your tempo while playing or practice your timing

Smart Metronome includes all the functions one would expect from a classic metronome, but can also listen to the input audio and determine the tempo. This way, you can quickly identify the tempo used for any song, or make sure you are keeping the correct timing while playing.

Features:

  • Listens to your playing and estimates your tempo.
  • Professional grade with unmatched timing precision.
  • Preset saving and loading.
  • Sound packs.
  • Professional and intuitive user interface.
  • All the metronome functions you would need.

http://miraxlabs.com/

Small Saw

Small Saw free soundbank by Cmusic Production

Small Saw virtual instrument is a free ethnic sound bank for Kontakt, by Cmusic Production.

Usually Small Saw is used by artists of the original genre. It has a specific sound issued with the help of a violin bow. We decided to make this tool and see what will come of it.

Features:

  • Legato, Portamento and Glissando Velocity Control.
  • Gliss-Up articulation.
  • Saw FX.
  • 257 MB on disc, 487 samples, 44.1 kHz / 24-bit.

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https://www.cmusic.pro/

Slam

Slam free drum-machine | rompler by Extent of the Jam

Slam is a free drum machine and rompler VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Extent of the Jam. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Extent of the Jam: Slam is an original algorithmic drum machine design inspired by analog drum machines of days gone by. It’s made to allow users to create hard-hitting snares, beefy bassdrums, and all kinds of other sounds– with ease.

Each sound was meticulously tweaked to give you deep organic sounds with a wide range of options and settings. Close your eyes and you won’t even think it’s digital.

But Extent of the Jam: Slam isn’t content to just emulate old drum machines. While most old drum machines only had two levels of velocity (accented and non-accented), Slam gives you 127 levels of velocity for each drum. And it’s not just different volume levels: the velocity alters how the drums react. It also features drums not commonly found on analog drum machines such as finger-snap and tambourine. It’ll even produce gnarly synth bass tones that you can play on a chromatic scale.

Slam is 100% native C++ code.

http://extentofthejam.com

Sknote SDC Double Compressor Presets

ZynAddSubFX free software-synthesizer by paulnasca 2

Sknote SDC Double Compressor Presets is a free fx plugin presets plugin for Sknote Sdc developed by Lay-It Productions. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Here are 47 presets for your Sknote SDC plugin. This compressor has 2 compressors a Opto and a Discrete compressor for both the right and left channel and also mid and side functionality Features on this Famous compressor.

http://layitproductions.com/

Sknote Disto Presets

ZynAddSubFX free software-synthesizer by paulnasca 2

Sknote Disto Presets is a free software synthesizer preset pack for Disto, made by Lay-It Productions.

Here are 72 presets for your Sknote Disto plugin. This compressor slash distortion plugin that combined two famous hardware units into one great plugin to give every home studio that famous and sort after sound.

http://layitproductions.com/

Sitala

Sitala free drum-sampler by Decomposer

Sitala is a free drum sampler VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Decomposer. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Sitala is a free drum plugin and standalone app.

Sitala’s beauty is simplicity. It’s fast and musical. Six knobs. Sixteen pads. Drag and drop. Playable like instrument.

16 Assignable Pads:

  • Drag and drop kit management: drag and drop samples into Sitala from your DAW or file browser, and easily drag around sample pads once in Sitala to rearrange them.
  • Built in file-browser: built into the sample viewer making it super fast to select samples without ever having to deal with dialogs.
  • Sample preview: browse through a directory or sets of directories using left and right arrows to quickly listen to and view sample analysis.
  • Velocity sensitive.

  • Assignable trigger and kill groups.

  • Mappable with MIDI learn, sequential notes or General MIDI.

  • Each sample is analyzed for dynamics and pitch, and the controls are automatically adjusted to have a wider effective range and more musical expressiveness.

Controls:

  • Shape: Adjust attack, length and sustain of your sounds while the overall volume remains constant.
  • Compression: Make sounds punchier with more sustain. Automatic gain makeup maintains the overall volume while changing dynamics.
  • Tuning: Pitch sounds up or down by up to one octave.
  • Tone: Emphasizes the highs or lows in a sound. Accentuate or scoop the mids to position the sound in the mix. Adapts based on the pitch content of each sound. Operates as a high-pass, low-pass, sweepable mid-boost or mid-scoop EQ.
  • Volume
  • Pan

Audio Engine:

  • Selectable stereo output or 16-channel one-output-per-pad.
  • Standalone, VST and Audio Unit support.

https://decomposer.de/

Siren

Siren free software-synthesizer by Noise Makers

Siren is a free software synthesizer developed by Noise Makers. Available format(s): VST, Audio Unit, AAX for Windows, macOS.

Siren is a free synth for making dub effects and all sorts of psychedelic noises.

Features:

  • Three waveforms (sin, saw, square).
  • Seven modes (tone up, tone down, …)..
  • Reverberation.
  • Tape delay.
  • Feedback up to 110%.
  • Precise rate control for long sweep effects.

We really enjoyed making this synth, and hope you’ll enjoy playing it.

Cheers.

Noise Makers.

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http://www.noisemakers.fr

Sinnah

Sinnah free software-synthesizer by NUSofting

Sinnah is a free software synthesizer developed by NUSofting. Available format(s): VST, Audio Unit for Windows 64b, macOS.

Sinnah is a freeware VA synth plugin (*and a project) but instead of the standard subtractive resonant filter it uses a resonant delay network.

Features:

  • Sinnah is a synth based on a single complex oscillator that includes five waveshapes with increasing spectral complexity, harmonics level for all waveshapes, noise level, and a delay matrix.
  • The delay matrix can have various configurations, from a “triple chorus” per voice to highly randomized resonators, or tuned relatively to the note played.
  • The delay matrix can also do multiple slapback echoes.
  • The feedback control of the matrix can go from zero to extremely saturated and it’s modulated by its own envelope.
  • The output of each voice is stereo via the delay matrix, which features a stereo spread knob.
  • The main analogue modelled ADSR envelope is loopable: two, three or continuous repeats.
  • The envelope can modulate the waveshape selection and the harmonics level.
  • The synth also features a subtractive stereo filter to carve the spectrum of the sound, somehow like an equalizer, with three filters: high pass, low pass and band reject (notch). The band reject filter also features gain and bandwidth controls.
  • A useful simple reverb is included.
  • The oscillator is antialiased and can play eight voices or mono, and features octave and fine pitch controls.
  • The GUI is fully drawn by vectors and resizeable, featuring an oscilloscope and peak meters. And eight colour schemes are available to fit your mood and taste.
  • An extended ToolTip display provides information for each control at mouseover. So you don’t need to read a lengthy manual to learn what a knob or a slider is for.
  • The preset system is cross-platform, the files use the YAML format so they are very easy to read and edit if needed. Moreover, the preset names can support the complete international character set.

What’s new in Sinnah 1.1? LFO and more!

– New feature: GUI has been improved, especially for Mac compatibility.
– New feature: Noise and Harmonics controls can be linked, and act like a single parameter.
– New feature: LFO with several selectable targets, 9 waveshapes and delay (fade in).
– New feature: MIDI controls: ModWheel and Aftertouch with several selectable targets.
– New feature: Sustain pedal sensitivity.
– New feature: Pitchbend range adjustable up to 48 semitones, -24 to +24.
– New feature: Keytracking assignable to Harmonics and ADSR envelope level.
– New feature: Reduced CPU load, DSP optimization.
– New feature: “Inits” category with various initialize presets.
– New feature: More detailed HTML manual.
– New feature: Unlimited custom colour schemes using theme files.
– New feature: 152 presets now included.
– Fixed the click that happened playing in Mono legato over a previously released note.
– Fixed ADSR repeat 2 and 3 that weren’t working.
– Fixed incorrect behavior of the box slider GUI controls.

http://nusofting.com/

Simple Colour Organ

ZynAddSubFX free software-synthesizer by paulnasca 2

Simple Colour Organ is a free rompler VST plugin developed by ndc Plugs. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Simple Colour Organ is a simple OpenGL plugin based on the ‘colour organ’ ideas of people like Father Louis Bertrand Castel and A. Wallace Rimington, where musical notes are seen as corresponding to specific colours.

The plugin is strictly a visual instrument – it does not output any sound. Instead colour is displayed when you hit a key. There are 7 colour palettes included – 6 of which are based on the palettes by the aforementioned Father Castel and Rimington, as well as Alexander Scriabin (all obtained from here), while the seventh is a pastel ‘scale’ of ndc Plugs own devising. You can add your own palettes. The palettes can be changed while the plugin is running by using the left and right mouse buttons to scroll through them.

The plugin also has 2 ‘hidden’ parameters, accessible via automation, which control the attack and delay values of the colour envelope.

A good primer on colour organs and the idea of ‘colour music’ can be found here.

http://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs