Free Audio Plugins & Softwares for macOS

Scott Drums

Scott Drums virtual instrument is a free drums sound bank for Kontakt, by Ivy Audio.

Scott Drums is a sample library of a drum kit. Every kit piece was close miked in a professional studio and recorded with five round robins and eight dynamic layers. The library has built in per-channel FX, and includes a “dry mix” mode for a bleed-free sound.

Some features:

Almost 12,000 individual samples.

Built in per-microphone effects.

Multiple dynamic layers and round robins on all parts of the kit.

“Dry mix” mode disables mic bleed.

Free to download and use in personal or commercial projects.

Articulations list:

Kick: single pedal hit.

Snare: Snare hit, rimshot, flam, crossfading rolls with multiple roll speeds, snare with wires disengaged, ghost notes, cross stick.

Toms: Two rack toms and floor tom.

Hihat: Open, half, closed, and mute.

Cymbals: 22″, 18″, 16″, and 10″ cymbals with mutes and scrapes.

Bonus: Stick clicks.

Audio demos:

{See video at top of page}

http://www.ivyaudio.com

ScoreDate

ScoreDate is a free studio tools plugin developed by Massimo Callegari. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS, Linux.

ScoreDate is your date with the music!
It is an open source software written in Java that helps musicians to learn music reading and exercise on ear training. It is suitable for any skill, from beginners to professional users. From slow training to first sight reading.

Features:

Notes in line exercise.

Chords, intervals and accidentals exercise.

Rhythms exercise.

Score reading exercise.

Ear training exercise with 4 levels of difficulty.

Statistics with monthly and daily view.

Exercises editor. Users can create, save, modify and play exercises very easily.

Supports of 4 clefs: Violin, Bass, Alto, Tenor, with a maximum of 2 at the same time.

Supports of notes: Whole, half, dotted half, quarter, dotted quarter, eighth, triplets, pauses.

Selection of the notes range for each clef. Maximum of 4 additional lines above and below the staff.

Virtual piano, to exercise without having external devices.

Learning mode, that shows the name of the note or the chord displayed on the staff.

Real time playback through Fluidsynth.

Custom sound banks load in SoundFont 2 format (.SF2).

Translated in 14 languages.

http://www.mindmatter.it/scoredate/

ScaleFreq Generator

ScaleFreq Generator is a free fx plugin presets plugin for Glisseq developed by 4irmann. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS, Linux.

Scalefreq Generator is a tool for rendering frequencies of notes and musical scales into various output formats. It’s primarily aimed for mixing and mastering engineers and other musical interested people.

The frequencies of musical scale or non-scale notes (inverse) are important in mixing and mastering situations. E.g. non-scale frequencies are often attenuated using an EQ.

Currently the following output format renderer are included:

Voxengo GlissEQ Filter Renderer: generates importable EQ presets for Voxengo GlissEQ VST plugin.

Voxengo GlissEQ Areas Renderer: generates importable EQ Areas presets for Voxengo GlissEQ VST plugin.

HTML Renderer: generates HTML pages which contains scale frequency tables.

http://www.airmann.de

Scale-O-Mat

Scale-O-Mat is a free studio tools plugin M4L developed by Soundmanufacture. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Scale-O-Mat 3 is a M4L Scale Device for Ableton Live, where you can change a scale over your whole Live Project.
You get more than 40 Scales, included all Scales from Push 1 + 2 and the ScaleCollection from Tobi Hunke.

Scale-O-Mat 3 is a customized Version according to an idea from Tyondai Braxton.

Features of Scale-O-Mat 3:

– Scale-O-Mat 3 comes with 2 Devices – one Master Device and a Slave Device
– Assign up to 4 different Groups with various Scales
– More than 40 Scales
– All Scales from Push 1 + 2.
– Scale Collection from Tobi Hunke.
– Filter or Pitch the Notes that are not fitting into the Scale
– Transpose
– Presets & Preset Management.

http://soundmanufacture.net/

Saturation Knob

Saturation Knob is a free saturation AAX plugin developed by Softube. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Saturation Knob is the analog sounding, simple to use, yet versatile way of adding some sweet distortion to your tracks. The knob itself controls the amount of saturation, and there are three different distortion characteristics to choose from by flicking the switch.

With the switch set to Neutral, the entire frequency spectrum of the sound gets distorted when you turn up the Saturation knob. Put it on Keep Low, and the saturation will mainly affect the lower part of the frequency spectrum, while the top end stays clear. Conversely, with Keep High selected, the low end will retain its clear sound and instead only the treble parts of the sound will get distorted. This makes a wide variety of distortion characteristics available to you.

Get the AAX version here

Get the RE version here

Also available in SONAR as a ProChannel plug-in

http://www.softube.com/

Saturate

Saturate is a free saturation VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by BlueLab | Audio Plugins. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Saturate is a simple saturation plugin.

It is not aimed to replicate the saturation of a particular device, it just makes a saturation in the strict sense of the term.

The plugin processes the waveform to make the saturation effect, by cutting the waveform as soon as the level exceeds a threshold value. The output gain is then automatically adjusted to correct the loss of global level. For a better quality, an oversampling of x4 is used for the processing.

https://bluelab-plugs.com

Santoor n Dulcimer Player

Santoor n Dulcimer Player is a free rompler VST, VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by RDGAudio. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

SANTOOR n DULCIMER

Santoor n Dulcimer is a sample based Instruments. It has been sampled from Asian and many types of real Santoor and Dulcimer Instruments. Sampled with 3 Mic Position.It is velocity sensitive instrument with built in Round Robin. It comes with Win 32-64-bit VST, VST3, AU and Mac VST plugins. Santoor n Dulcimer comes with free Player, however you need to purchase the factory expansion to Up and Run the full rompler instrument. 4 HQ Instrument presets with Low Cut & Reverb. Now just play real Santoor and Dulcimer right inside your host DAW.

Santoor n Dulcimer Player

Santoor n Dulcimer is a free player. It can load only santoor n Dulcimer Expansions.4 Factory Presets, all have been sampled from real Santoor and Dulcimer. All expansions have Velocity sensitivity.

Features:

SANTOOR n DULCIMER Player is free.

4 Istruments Factory Expansion (Purchase separately).

Sampled from real Santoor and Dulcimer.

Dulcimer RR, Muted Dulcimer, Dulcimer Soft, Santoor RR.

New VST3 formats.

Tunning.

Low Cut and Reverb.

Presets Browser.

Round Robin and Velocity sensitive.

Amp with Volume & Pan control.

Level meter.

All major DAWs supported.

VST3, AU, Win 32-64-bit & Mac VST.

System Requirements:

Santoor n Dulcimer Expansion.

Graphics Card 1GB (2 GB recommended).

RAM 1 GB (2 GB recommended).

Intel or AMD CPU.

ASIO driver and audio interface.

VST3, VST 32-bit, 64-bit, AU & Mac VST.

Windows 7,8,10 (64-bit).

Latest Mac OS X.

{See video at top of page}

https://youtu.be/uYcfRLbjCYk

https://rdgaudio.com

Santa Jussi

Santa Jussi is a free software synthesizer developed by Klevgränd Produktion. Available format(s): VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX for Windows 64b, macOS.

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Santa Jussi is a Christmas:ified version of Klevgränd’s popular vocal synthesizer Jussi. The user interface offers no parameters, but this special version of the plugin has been tinkered with for both playability and how-how-how-ability.

Note: To get a copy of Santa Jussi, one need to login at the Klevgränd website (it’s free to register as a new user). When logged in, the download is available as a “exclusive member content” in the user area.

http://klevgrand.se

Samplitude Skin

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/

SampLink

SampLink is a free routing VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by 112dB. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

SampLink is a technology that allows audio to be recorded into Morgana. SampLink allows ultimate flexibility since it can be used on any track which allows VST inserts, even across different hosts.

SampLink recreates what has been lost in the transition from hardware samplers to software samplers: sampling. Use SampLink to record your own instrument multisamples, to resample after applying synthesis and processing, or even to “remix” tracks live through creative audio routing.

http://www.112db.com/