Speaker_GuitarHacksCab

Speaker_GuitarHacksCab free amp-simulator by flos-audio-plugins

Speaker_GuitarHacksCab is a free amp simulator Stand Alone, VST plugin developed by flos-audio-plugins. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, Linux.

Speaker_GuitarHacksCab simulates a miked guitar cabinet based on a subset of GuitarHack’s impulse responses.

Features:

  • Combine two individually adjustable channels.
  • Various microphone positions.

Available as VST plug-in and as stand-alone application for Windows and Linux.

http://flos-audio-plugins.eu/

Speaker_GodsCab

Speaker_GodsCab free amp-simulator by flos-audio-plugins

Speaker_GodsCab is a free amp simulator Stand Alone, VST plugin developed by flos-audio-plugins. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, Linux.

Speaker_GodsCab simulates a miked guitar cabinet based on the free God’s Cab impulse responses (by Wilkinson Audio).

Features:

  • Combine two individually adjustable channels.
  • Various microphone models and positions.
  • Presence control.
  • Optional (linear) signal filtering with a Tube Screamer.
  • Extra room microphone section.

Available as VST plug-in and as stand-alone application for Windows and Linux.

http://flos-audio-plugins.eu/

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/

SpacePort ’77 for SampleTank 4

SpacePort '77 for SampleTank 4 free software-synthesizer by IK Multimedia

SpacePort 77 for SampleTank 4 is a free software synthesizer developed by IK Multimedia. Available format(s): VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX for Windows 64b, macOS.

Expand your sound collection with two iconic synthesizers from long, long ago, to create sounds far, far away from the ordinary. The new Spaceport ’77 Collection welcomes two familiar keyboard characters, the OB-1 and CP-30 to give your tracks some ’70s and ’80s sci-fi flavor.

Newly recorded and programmed to take full advantage of all the features of SampleTank 4’s new sound engine, this expansion library adds 100 new instrument presets and 3.9 GB of samples covering two classic analog keyboards. A great complement to both the modern synth sounds and classic electric piano sounds already in SampleTank 4’s library, these new sounds further expand your sonic library.

The Oberheim OB-1 is an early monophonic analog synthesizer released in 1978 with two discrete oscillators and suboscillators, along with a noise generator. A discrete lowpass filter can be either 12dB or 24dB per octave, for both a classic Oberheim 2-pole sound and the legendary Minimoog 4-pole sound. Notable users of the OB-1 were the composer and musician Vince Clarke and the bands Tangerine Dream, Rush, and The Grid.

The Yamaha CP-30 is an electronic piano from 1976 that uses analog synthesis sound generation. The CP-30 has a Decay control knob that can be used to simultaneously adjust attack and decay parameters not unlike those of a regular synthesizer’s ADSR envelope. Two tone-generation systems, each with independent decay control, let users like Herbie Hancock, Fleetwood Mac and The Cars conjure up unique sounds using modern synthesizer techniques.

SPECS:

  • Over 3.9 GB of content.
  • 100 new instruments.
  • Sci-fi inspired analog keyboard sounds.
  • Free for SampleTank 4 users for a limited time.

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/

SoundBytes Wusik Station 8

ZynAddSubFX free software-synthesizer by paulnasca 2

SoundBytes Wusik Station 8 is a free rompler VST plugin developed by SoundBytes Music Magazine. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

SoundBytes Wusik Station 8 is a virtual instrument rompler from Wusik, addopted specially for SoundBytes music magazine. It comes with 1 GB of sound content and with a bonus additional 500 MB Acoustic collection available for our subscribers.

(Full version comes with exact the same engine, offernig around 16 GIGA of sound.)

http://soundbytesmag.net

Sound Gadgets

Sound Gadgets free drum-machine by Reflekt Audio

Sound Gadgets is a free drum machine VST, VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by Reflekt Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

https://reflektaudio.com

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/

SonEQ

SonEQ free eq by Sonimus

SonEQ is a free equalizer VST, VST3, Audio Unit, RTAS, AAX plugin developed by Sonimus. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

SonEQ is a digital equalizer that takes parts from some vintage gear and combines them. SonEQ has 3 bands, bass, middle and treble. Also, SonEQ has a pre-amp section.

Features:

  • 3 band Equalizer, Low, Mid, High.
  • 2 Musical Filters, High-Pass Low-Pass.
  • Preamp stage with bass booster.
  • 64-bit floating point precision.
  • Up to 192kHz sample rates supported.
  • Mac Intel AU/VST, Windows 32 VST.

http://www.sonimus.com/

Soft Glow Organ 3

Soft Glow Organ 3 free rompler by SynthIV

Soft Glow Organ 3 is a free rompler VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by SynthIV. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Soft Glow Organ 3.1.

64-bit Mac AU / WIN VST3.

v3.1 Updates:

-New graphics; background, buttons, and arrangements.

-Fixed LFO speed issue.

-File cleanup to address MAC/Graphics issues.

Soft Glow Organ 3 is a Rompler that uses samples from a 1960s electric organ and synthesizer-style controls to produce warm sounds with modern effects.

Sample (from my grandparent’s vintage home organ) plays on note press. 3 voices, amplifier envelope, filter envelope, hp/lp filters, reverb, boost (which can be chained after the filters), LFO (tempo-synced) which can be sent to the sample pitch (vibrato), filter pitch, and pan, mixer with an assignable volume knob, and a panel of extra controls (including mod wheel and a fine tuner) hidden under the reverb controls.

(Soft Glow Organ 3 differs from Soft Glow Organ v1 and v2. SGO 3 is 64-bit and now works with MAC).

Made with SynthEdit

https://synthiv.ivysirena.com/

SnareBuzz

SnareBuzz free software-synthesizer by Wavesfactory

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

SnareBuzz is an audio effect plugin that emulates the wires of a snare buzzing when there’s another instrument playing near.

Why do you want to emulate this effect if every engineer in the world has tried to get rid of it? Short: because it’s cool! Long: because it doesn’t exist in the DAW environment, it’s something that we are all familiar with, and if you’re really used to play live with a band it’s weird not hearing it when recording instruments separately.

Do you imagine a Led Zeppelin recording with Bonzo’s snare not buzzing?
“Music is people playing live in the same room with eye contact and feeling each other”.

Attack and release controls that set how the snare reacts to the incoming signal, HP and LP filters to shape the sound of it, room ambience for a more natural feel, overall gain, panning of just the effect and dry/wet controls.

Insert it on the bass track, adjust the mix knob just a tiny bit and hear how these little wires bring life to your mix. You’ll miss it when it’s bypassed.

Download for free here.

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http://www.wavesfactory.com/