Free Audio Plugins & Softwares for macOS

EnveLover

EnveLover is a free gate VST, VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by Press Play. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

EnveLover is a one-of-a-kind midi-controlled audio gate effect. It will speed up your musical workflow by giving you the ability to trigger a dynamics processor with MIDI signals. Play it with a keyboard or drum pad just like you would play any digital instrument. Versatile envelope settings and visualizations allow for accurate control of the sound.

Key features:

midi-controlled audio gate effect.

sample-accurate MIDI processing and zero latency.

analog and digital style envelope models.

fine-grained control over all important envelope settings.

support for velocity and aftertouch.

inverse mode for dynamic gain reduction (compressor mode).

envelope signal visualization.

EnveLover is an audio effect plug-in which applies a dynamic gain to the incoming audio stream. The amount of gain is controlled by an envelope signal that is triggered by MIDI note-on messages. The plug-in parameters allow to adjust both the envelope curves and the applied gain, covering a wide range of audio applications. There are three different envelope models available, two analog and one digital. In addition, it is possible to modulate the gain with MIDI velocity and channel aftertouch.

https://pressplay-music.com

Envelope

Envelope is a free vca and envelope VST plugin developed by mda. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Envelope follower / VCA. Most useful in a modular VST environment like AudioMulch.

http://www.mda-vst.com/

Engine

Engine is a free sampler VST, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by Best Service. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Engine is a fully customizable multi-page sample player specially designed for a variety of sample libraries and virtual instruments. It was developed in cooperation by Magix (former Yellow Tools) and Best Service and is based on the Independence Sampler Technology.

All Engine-based products are fully compatible with the powerful software sampler Independence 2 or newer – so you can also use the ENGINE products to expand your Independence library – of course including all Independence parameters and features.

You have access to hundreds of totally customized, music related features. The user interface, file management, and ultra fast streaming integration, multi core processor support and the Auto-RAM-Cleaner allow you to load and use an unlimited number of instruments in seconds.

Whether you want to work in mono, stereo or surround environments up to 8.1, Engine is designed to offer creative, flexible, and immediate solutions for the demands of music producers, film-composers, sound designers, songwriters and re-mixers.

http://www.bestservice.com

EnergyCM

EnergyCM is a free step sequencer VST plugin developed by Computer Music. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

EnergyCM is essentially a fully functional but cut-down version of Jorgen Aase’s Energy PRO:

Features:

Saw-wave synthesizer with analog sequencer.

Filter with cutoff, Q and overdrive control.

8 programs with MIDI program change support.

Up to 16 steps each with glide time, cutoff and filter decay.

VST and MIDI automation of cutoff and Q.

http://www.computermusic.co.uk/

Energetic & Evolving

Energetic & Evolving is a free software synthesizer preset pack for Corona, made by Solidtrax.

Energetic & Evolving for discoDSP Corona is a bank with presets that ranges from smooth to energetic, static to evolving and mellow to hard.

Solidtrax took great care in crafting these presets and made extensive use of all the features of this synthesizer.

128 Corona presets consisting of:

24 Basses.

14 Arps.

18 Leads.

11 Plucks.

19 Pads.

15 Keys.

2 Organs.

1 Guitar.

1 Flute.

9 Strings.

9 Drums.

5 FX.

Velocity, Aftertouch and Modwheel assignments for most presets. Soundbank information and installation instructions included in PDF file.

Its available via: http://www.solidtrax.nl/sound-design/discodsp-corona-e-e

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http://www.solidtrax.nl

EnDiskEx

EnDiskEx is a free audio converter plugin developed by EnDiskEx. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS, Linux.

EnDiskEx is a command-line tool that automates bulk extraction of instruments, sequences, songs, and banks from Ensoniq-formatted disk images (RAW, GKH, EDE, and EDA) for the EPS/ASR family of samplers. The extracted files are saved as EFE / SMF / TXT files.

EnDiskEx is explicitly aimed at extracting banks for recreation within a different DAW with as much automation as possible. It will track down the instrument and song files even if they were saved on another disk. There exists a powerful mapping feature to correct for any errors in this process which has been found to be useful for ‘correcting’ issues seen by the authors.

EnDiskEx has been tested and validated against a variety of RAW, GKH, EDE, and EDA images files found on the Internet at one time or another, including but not limited to the ASR factory disks, the EPS 16+ factory disks, and the EPS (classic) factory disks.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/endiskex/

Emulator I

Emulator I is a free rompler VST, VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by Digital Systemic Emulations. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

– 58 E-Mu Emulator I disks, including Drums set.

– Recorded from a real Emulator I.

– Manually re-cut and looped.

– ADSR.

– Filter Cutoff / Emphasis + ADR Envelope.

– 1 sine LFO, amount on tune and filter.

– Chorus, mono/poly, master tune.

https://sites.google.com/site/digitalsystemic/

Emissary

Emissary is a free amp simulator VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by Ignite Amps. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

The Emissary is a digital emulation of a custom dual channel guitar tube amplifier. It has been developed to accurately model its real hardware counterpart, built for Ryan Huthnance (The Seer / Gaped / Chrome Bison / Emissary Studios) by Ignite Amps, in 2014.

The Emissary is a no compromise custom amp built for the kill. Featuring a very versatile clean channel that ranges from pristine cleans to slightly overdriven tones and a mean lead channel designed for serious bone-crushing distortions, it offers a very wide tonal palette for the modern metal musician.

Every single component on the signal path of the real analog circuit has been taken into account and modeled in the best possible way to match the original sound, keeping an eye on CPU performance and real-time playability at the same time.

The plug-in GUI has been 3D modeled and rendered by Voger Design, in order to resemble the real amplifier as much as possible.

The Emissary is meant to be used as a virtual guitar amplifier for live playing and jamming, tracking or mixing inside hosts capable of AAX, AU VST or VST3 Plug-Ins support.

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http://www.igniteamps.com/

Elysia niveau filter

Elysia niveau filter is a free filter and eq VST, VST3, Audio Unit, RTAS, AAX plugin developed by Plugin Alliance. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

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Get the niveau filter section of our famous mpressor plugin – its free! Add punch to muffled snares, reduce the harshness from active pickups, create some wonderful Dub and LoFi sounds…

This filter is a specialist in changing the overall sonic character of a signal with ease. It features two comprehensive controllers and is capable of producing convincing results in no time at all. Whenever a classic shelving filter would be too limited and a fully parametric filter would be too much, the niveau filter is the perfect tool.

Description

Its main function is to change the proportions between high and low frequencies. The principle is quite similar to a pair of scales: Dependent on the gain setting around a variable center frequency, the high frequencies are boosted whereas the low frequencies are attenuated (or vice versa) at the same time.

The center frequency can be shifted continuously between 26 Hz and 2.2 kHz or between 260 Hz and 22 kHz respectively (when the x10 switch is activated). The characteristics of the filter change in the extreme positions of the EQ Gain controller: The fully counter-clockwise setting will give you a low pass filter; fully clockwise position will result in a high pass filter.

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http://www.plugin-alliance.com/

Elite Reducer 2

Elite Reducer 2 is a free bit crusher VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Virtual Creations. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Elite Reducer 2 is a sample rate / bit rate VST reducer with two resonant low pass filters and a special logical values combination algorithm.

It features an automatic bank loader and a handy GUI which makes it easy to automate the reducer’s values. Elite Reducer is very useful to for adding a powerful distorted sound to beat constructions. It sounds also very good on acid basses and atmospheric sounds.

Digital computer lofi sounds can be created with reducer easily. Reducer as group master effect can be used as a filter.

Version 2 now comes with 3 interpolation algorithms, lp/hp filters, 2 bit reducers and improvements.

Changes in v2.2 beta:

Fixed default bank corruption error in 64-bit mode / OS X.

TODO: Fixed missing GUI update in 64-bit mode / OS X using some hosts like Renoise 2.81.

Changes in v2.1:

First OS X build.

Added VSTGUI 4.1 beta support.

Added Cocoa support.

Added 64-bit support in 32-bit processing mode.

Optimized anti-denormal algorithm.

Improved rate reducer.

Improved bit reducer.

Interpolation variants are now: Linear, B-Spline and Fake-Sin.

Various optimizations.

New much better default presets.

Minimum OS X version now: 10.5.

http://www.virtualcreations.de