Intimate Strings Lite: Solo Cello

Intimate Strings Lite: Solo Cello free soundbank by Embertone

Intimate Strings Lite: Solo Cello virtual instrument is a free strings and cello sound bank for Kontakt, by Embertone.

Our free Solo Cello was created for our Facebook community – it’s an octave + of a slurred solo cello with controllable mic positions. Although the instrument is lightweight, don’t be fooled – it has many of the same expressive capabilities as our solo violin, “Friedlander”, because it’s powered with many of the same sampling techniques:

  • Just for our Facebook Fans.
  • Solo cello – TRUE Slurred Legato.
  • 3 Mic Positions recorded 24/96.
  • 1 Octave Range (1.5 Stretched).
  • Controllable vibrato and dynamics.
  • Additional bonus patches.
  • Full Kontakt 4.2.4+ required.

http://www.embertone.com

Intimate Strings LITE

Intimate Strings LITE free soundbank by Embertone

Intimate Strings LITE virtual instrument is a free strings sound bank for Kontakt, by Embertone.

Intimate Strings LITE is an expressive, true legato patch consisting of 4 virtuoso strings players performing in unison. As with our other patches, users have control of the optional 3x borrowed round robin legato, reverb switch, and POLY/MONO mode.

Intimate Strings LITE is part of a larger collection which is in production as of July 2012. The larger library will feature deeper patches with much more possibilities of sound:

  • 4 virtuoso string players.
  • Expressive, natural tone. True legato.
  • 3X round robin neighbor borrowing.
  • Full Kontakt 4.24+ required.
  • 500 MB instrument, 16-bit/44.1 kHz.
  • Part of a larger series, coming soon.

http://www.embertone.com

InstantSampler

InstantSampler free sampler | slicer | stutter | glitch by Muxer

InstantSampler is a free sampler and slicer and stutter and glitch VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Muxer. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

InstantSampler is a simple sampler that records audio from the audio input when a MIDI note is played for the first time. Any consecutive time you play the same note, it plays back the recorded audio with the possibility to vary or trigger:

  • Velocity.
  • Attack and release.
  • The level of the input audio which is passed unaffected while no samples are played.
  • Playback speed using the pitchbend control.
  • Normal or reversed playback.
  • Looped scrolling, which enables you to use the modulation wheel to control the position in a sample at which small loops are played (e.g. “hello” becomes “h-h-e-e-l-l-o-o”).
  • Clearing of the sample memory.

This plugin is especially handy if you want to do some ‘remixing’ (like stuttering or scratch effects) on your mix without having to make a bounce-down of that mix first. You have explicit control over these effects, compared to other glitching “mess things up” plugins that often do things randomly.

http://www.muxer.nl/

Instant Twister

ZynAddSubFX free software-synthesizer by paulnasca 2

Instant Twister is a free midi controller plugin for M4L developed by Soundmanufacture. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Instant Twister is a Max for Live Device for the Midifighter Twister to edit the colors and Settings on the fly from your Ableton Live Project.

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http://soundmanufacture.net/

Instalooper

Instalooper free looper | glitch by Audioblast

Instalooper is a free looper and glitch VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Audioblast. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Instalooper is an effect for looping the incoming audio on the fly: with trigger buttons to loop the audio, and knobs to change the loop duration. It is synced with the host. Once looped you can adjust the speed and/or add an effect on the audio loop. 5 effects are available:

  • Samplerate reducer.
  • Autopan.
  • Hipass filter.
  • Chorus.
  • Time expand.

http://www.audioblast.me

InstaJungle

ZynAddSubFX free software-synthesizer by paulnasca 2

InstaJungle is a free glitch and pitch shifter and filter VST plugin developed by Laurence Davies. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

InstaJungle puts the power of beat slicing and granulizing at your fingertips, live.

InstaJungle was inspired by Bram @ Smart Electronix’ SupaTrigga, but the fact that they both buffer incoming audio and then slice it is the only thing they have in common. InstaJungle will let you slice beats on the fly, and let you play back different slices in the buffer with just the movement of a slider or the twist of a knob.

http://www.instajungle.com/

Inspiration

Inspiration free sequencer by Musical Entropy

Inspiration is a free sequencer stand alone application developed by Musical Entropy. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Inspiration is an application developed to stimulate the creativity of music composers.

Influenced by Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, and techniques described in several books about songwriting, Inspiration allows its users to get random, more or less abstract advice that can provide ways to handle the blank page syndrome, new “cooking recipes” to create music in general, ideas to develop or finish your last song, write a lot of music in a short time, take different musical paths…

Considering Inspiration as another software adaptation of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies is wrong:

  • Indeed, those advice items are gathered together like the Oblique Strategies, but also other thematic sets like the Horizontal Strategies from -musicalentropy for example, the Frustrated Songwriter’s Strategies, the Advancing Guitarist strategies, and others.
  • The advice items are classified and can be filtered with numerous tags, allowing the users to target specific needs at specific moments. Some examples of these tags : musical instruments like the guitar, the drums or keyboards, various abstraction levels, themes like motivation, harmony, rehearsals, sampling, the development of existing ideas etc.

Moreover, a special editor is included, allowing users to create their own sets, with an efficient and ergonomic interface. With this functionality, you can :

  • Create your own advice sets, corresponding to your needs, your personality, and the way you work.
  • Share your own advice sets with all the users of Inspiration.
  • Fill a list of composition ideas, new tracks or concepts you would like to work on in the future.
  • Have a work plan for your preferred musical instrument, full of random exercises to do or existing songs to include to your musical repertoire.
  • Optimize your 20-songs game sessions, as described in the book “The Frustrated Songwriter’s Handbook” by Nicholas Dobson and Karl Coryat.

Anyway, be careful about the various things Inspiration can not do :

  • Write some music for you.
  • Play any musical instrument for you.
  • Take all the credits of the music you have created thanks to its advice.
  • Fill a lack of technical competences and/or a lack of musical knowledge.
  • Replace experimented musician’s advice.
  • Replace experimented musicians.
  • Force you read how to use Inspiration before having any opinion on its concept.
  • Bring the beers for the rehearsals.

Change history

1.1.0 (05-Aug-2014):

  • Added a link to copy and paste the current piece of advice.
  • Added a timer to pick a new piece of advice every N seconds.
  • Added a feature to mark a piece of advice as a favorite, and to access to all the favorite items only.
  • Fixed various bugs.

1.0.4 (16-Jan-2013):

  • The application saves its state when it is closed, and recall it at start-up.
  • Fixed an issue with the justification of labels.
  • The text editors in the editor tab are now multi-line.
  • Fixed various bugs and English translation issues.

1.0.3 (29-Nov-2012):

  • Added new advice sets, included with the application and available on the downloads page.
  • Fixed an issue with the randomness of advice items drawing.
  • Fixed an issue with the tag selector control in the edition tab.
  • Fixed various bugs and English translation issues.

1.0.2 (14-Nov-2012):

  • Added new advice sets, included with the application and available on the downloads page.
  • Fixed an issue with the use of the mouse wheel on any control in the edition tab.
  • Fixed an issue with apostrophes in the edition tab.
  • Fixed an issue with the randomness of advice items drawing.
  • Fixed colour change issues in the main tab.
  • Fixed various bugs and English translation issues.

1.0.1 (09-Nov-2012):

  • Fixed size of the author description font.
  • Fixed various English translation issues.

1.0.0 (05-Nov-2012):

  • Initial release for DC-12.

KVRDC12

https://musicalentropy.github.io

Impromptu

Impromptu free development-tool by Impromptu

Impromptu is a free development tool plugin developed by Impromptu. Compatible OS(s): macOS.

Impromptu is a Mac OS X programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJs and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a Scheme language environment, a member of the Lisp family of languages.

Time plays a major role in the Impromptu environment allowing accurate real-time scheduling of events and code. Impromptu is a dynamic environment designed for the creation and manipulation of running programs in live performance.

Impromptu is a programmable AudioUnit host. A powerful environment for creating AudioUnit graphs of arbitrary complexity with precise programmatic control over individual AU nodes. Musical material can be precisely scheduled for performance by any AudioUnit instrument node and parameters, program changes and presets can be programmatically changed on-the-fly as well as directly via the AU’s user interface.

Graphics routines can be applied with the same temporal accuracy as audio material allowing artists to tightly integrate audio and visual components. OpenGL, live video processing, vector drawing routines, image rendering, CoreImage filters, text rendering and quicktime movie support are a few of the graphics features available for artists to play with.

Impromptu also includes a bidirectional ObjC-Bridge allowing Scheme to instantiate and call ObjC objects and ObjC objects to call back into the Scheme interpreter. For those times when only C will do.

http://impromptu.moso.com.au/

Imperfektor

Imperfektor free soundbank by DCSI

Imperfektor virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Reaktor, by DCSI.

Imperfektor by DCSI is a free Dual Band Multieffect for N.I. Reaktor.

The idea behind it is the concept of unpredictable audio variations, freely inspired by those “analogue imperfections” which in certain cases old audio hardware machines were producing when their internal components were malfunctioning.

Its main use is to add random audio imperfections to music performance based mostly on long synth pads sounds, drones and similar sources, to let them act in an unpredictable, not time synced, neither repetitive way, making the sound more “alive and breathing”. You can anyway try it out experimenting on anything else you want.

Its largely customizable as most of the effects come with “on/off” switches and choices can be made too about the amount of random variations given by the selected effect stage.

Being dual band Imperfektor gives the freedom to add effects and random interventions in a different way to each one of the 2 frequencies groups, or to one only, when muting the other.

Features:

  • Band split point selector.
  • Dual effects chains, each one affecting the selected bands and allowing variations on:
    • eq/filtering levels on mid/mid-high.
    • sound pressure on low/mid-low.
    • resonance.
    • frequencies shifting.
    • saturation.
    • bands pan.
    • clipping.
    • limiting.
    • pre and post amplification options.
    • dry/wet mix.

It’s strongly recommended to read the pdf manual included in the download file before its use to get a proper view and understanding of its functions and signal flow.

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DCSI 2015.

https://dcsiproductions.blogspot.com/

Imperfect Samples Player

Imperfect Samples Player free sampler by Imperfect Samples

Imperfect Samples Player is a free sampler VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Imperfect Samples. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Imperfect Samples Player is a universal VST / AU player for all Imperfect Samples libraries. Users are no longer restricted to EXS24 or Kontakt, and can now use Imperfect Samples libraries on Mac OS X and Windows, in any VST or AU host.

Features:

  • Supports all new Imperfect Samples products.
  • 32-bit floating point audio fidelity.

http://www.imperfectsamples.com/