Free Audio Plugins & Softwares for Windows

Soundor

Soundor virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Max, by Percussa.

Soundor is a free and open source FM Synthesizer for Max for Live, the visual programming environment in Ableton Live based on Cycling 74’s Max/MSP. Soundor is available as a free download from the Percussa website, and allows users to explore FM Synthesis using hand and finger gestures, through AudioCubes’ high speed and low latency sensors, requiring no MIDI mapping or programming.

Soundor features 4 oscillators each with their own waveform mixers, allowing the user to mix sine, square, sawtooth, triangle and noise waveforms to create totally new kinds of waveforms. Each oscillator section also features a state variable filter (SVF), and can modulate any other oscillator in pitch and/or amplitude. Each oscillator’s output can also be sent via its own ADSR to a master out, for lots of sound possibilities. Oscillators can overdrive each other through the built in waveform mixer, and can be controlled through the MIDI Keyboard as well as manual settings.

Soundor integrates seamlessly with AudioCubes: rather than having to MIDI map the AudioCubes onto parameters in Soundor, the moment an AudioCube is plugged in, it is automatically connected to any of the waveform mixer parameters and filter sections, through an easy to use connection matrix in the synthesizer. The 4 high speed low latency sensors of AudioCubes can control multiple parameters simultaneously and can even be inverted. A pedal input allows the user to keep the sensors values in place, while the hands are near the sensor, allowing exploration of the parameter space of the FM synthesizer while at the same time allowing rigid locking of parameters to keep the sound steady once an interesting combination of parameters has been found. Soundor supports the well known preset system of Ableton Live and Max4Live, so presets can be saved and recalled just as for other Max4Live devices.

Soundor is free and open source (creative commons, non-commercial, attribution, share-alike). Percussa encourages users to download the synthesizer and to come up with their own versions and modifications.

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http://www.percussa.com/

SoundGym

SoundGym is a free education plugin developed by SoundGym. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

SoundGym is an online audio ear training platform for music producers and sound engineers.

It will train you to detect subtle sound nuances, enhance listening resolution, and help you get better sounding mixes and music productions.

While playing fun sound games, you will enhance crucial listening skills: frequency detection, compression, coloration, gain difference detection, spatial impression and much more.

Each game is focused on improving a specific skill, delivering a comprehensive and effective learning experience with results that you can measure.

SoundGym provides a personalized training experience that fits your current abilities, designed to help you achieve your goals.

Take a daily audio workout, track stats and progress, follow friends, compare scores with others, achieve goals, win awards and get special prizes.

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https://www.soundgym.co

SoundField SurroundZone2

SoundField SurroundZone2 is a free stereo imaging VST, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by TSL Products. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

SoundField SurroundZone2 unlocks the information captured from any of the SoundField microphone systems and gives control over a wide range of microphone parameters from a single intuitive user interface.

SurroundZone2 is available free of charge to give anyone the freedom to manipulate SoundField B-Format and A-Format files.

The plug-in rolls all the functionality of the original “Surround Zone” and “SPS200 Surround Zone” plug-ins into one. At the same time adding some exciting new controls such as “Snap Tilt” and “individual polar pattern control” for the surround modes.

The main focus throughout the development of this plug-in was ease of use across the most popular of all Digital Audio Workstations, both from a usage and a set-up perspective.

Supported Output Formats:

Stereo (Mono).

5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1.

B-Format.

Available Controls:

Input and Output trims.

Hi-Pass Input filter.

Mic Orientation: End-Fire and Invert.

Solo and Mutes for the Individual outputs.

Rotate, Snap Tilt (individual front and rear tilt) and Zoom.

Individual Width Controls.

Individual Polar Pattern Controls.

http://www.tslproducts.com/

Sound Rider

Sound Rider is a free spectrum analyzer VST plugin developed by Polygon Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Sound Rider is a 3D visualizer that gives you the ability to navigate a 3D representation of a sound signal in your DAW. As well as the traditional horizontal frequency scale and vertical decibel scale the 3D aspect provides a time axis into the screen.

Sound Rider was written for entry into the KVR Developer Challenge 2012.

Sound Rider Main Features:

High resolution 3D Visualizer.

Navigation of the waveform with control of position and orientation in 3D.

Written from scratch in C++ for 64 bit and 32 bit windows.

User views can be stored.

Averaging and peak display.

User peak values can be stored.

Position and orientation can be automated.

Includes a 2D view with statistical output.

3 Rendering modes: Solid, Wireframe and Points.

Axis that can be moved in the Z plane for clear measurements.

Peak and RMS meter.

Settings can be altered to change key controls, smoothing, frame rate, ballistics etc.

Interpolation – the faster your machine the smoother the ride.

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http://www.polygonaudio.com/

Sound Recovery

Sound Recovery is a free audio restoration Stand Alone, VST plugin developed by Bitsonic. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

The objective of Sound Recovery is to repair hard to understand and low quality soundtracks to a decent level. The software helps in cases when the mid-high frequency is completely missing. This can be audio recorded through a wall, or a conversation from the microphone’s dead space. In these cases simply using EQ can’t help. The software fixes the mid frequency by creating harmonics from the low frequency sign using distortion overdrive. The created harmonics help a lot to make the sounds more understandable. This function is most useful to forensic expert and audio restaurators.

The other function of the software is Multiband Denoiser, that erases the unwanted noise from (low-mid) and (mid-high) frequencies. This function has a more broad use. It for situations when using Equalizer negatively affects the noisy audio overall.

Functions:

Input Volume: Simple volume control, the maximum value uses the original value of the amplitude.

Split Freq: Selects the frequency range where the user would like to have the biggest difference during the change of the audio.

Recovery: Connected to Split Freq, this function works in the frequency range set in Split Freq. Recovery sends the sign into overdrive. Use only when significant repair is necessary, or when only higher frequency ranges need to be strengthened. (See: Low quality MP3, with no high frequency range.).

Enhancer: This function is similar to Recovery’s mechanism, but the user can set a narrow frequency range, to get more harmonics from. The other difference is that overdrive is made by a more specific algorithm.

Low pass: This simple low pass filter can be used when the high frequency noise is deemed too much.

Denoiser Low/High: Filters the noise from the low/high frequency range set by Split Freq.

Denoiser Low needs specific settings to function properly. For example, when the user would like to handle the low frequency range while Recovery is at maximum and Split Freq modifies too high of a range.

If the software is used only for noise filtering don’t use Recovery and Enhancer. The blue led knobs can be used to turn these functions on and off.

Using the Standalone version the user can load audio using the Load WAV function. For playing, looping, and audio exporting 3 function knobs can be used. The part of the audio to loop is shown by the bottom graphic display, marked by two vertical markerlines.

After the editing is done, the preset can be saved used the File knob.

The VST version works only with 32-bit DAW software, but with Bridges it can be used on a 64-bit system as well. Standalone can be used on 64-bit systems too, and with the help of Wine works on OS X systems as well.

3 WAV files are included as well, to show the way the 3 presets work.

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http://www.bitsonic.eu/

Sound Recorder

Sound Recorder is a free audio recorder VST plugin developed by Anarchy Sound Software. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

AnarchySoundRecorder allows you to quickly get audio output from any VST host. Uses include recording real-time parameter-twiddling of any other plug-in whilst previewing in a wave editor.

http://anarchysoundsoftware.co.uk/anarchysoundsoftware/

sound art

sound art is a free sample pack by Stone Voices. Avalaible audio files format(s): .wav, .wav 16b, .wav 24b.

Do you want to talk with dolphins, trees, stones, or even representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations? With those who do not understand the human language. But we can not tell about ourselves in words. And waves, vibrations, sound. With the help of Sound Art, you can convert almost any image into a sound portrait. Including your own. And these sounds will tell more about us than any words.

Sound Art — a free program for visualizing sound and sound images. It is designed to convert images into sound and vice versa. Interpretations occur in accordance with the formulas of Fourier transforms and have mathematical precision! With the help of the program you can get very unusual sound textures, trying to convert various types of images, and making inverse transformations. It is very easy to work with the program, using simple actions from the sound you get a kind of picture, a sonogram. You can do anything with sonograms. For example, print and frame the wall. Or, after processing the image in any image editor, convert it back into sound and enjoy the new sound of the original material. Sound Art is designed for computer musicians, sound designers, specialists in the field of visual creativity. And all those who are interested in musical experiments.

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http://stone-voices.ru/

SoulRush

SoulRush is a free adapter VST, DirectX plugin developed by Nyr Sound. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

The SoulRush VST and DXi interfaces enable you to use SR Instruments in VST or DXi Hosts.

These interfaces are free add-ons to the SoulRush family, which are not free, and should be downloaded at the same time as the other products if required.

Current SoulRush instruments:

Chaosynth: Synthesizer module. Uses Granular synthesis driven by Cellular Automata.

Ice: Synthesizer module. Uses subtractive synthesis for a wide general purpose sound set.

http://www.nyrsound.com/

Soul Force!

Soul Force! is a free overdrive and saturation VST plugin developed by ndc Plugs. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Soul Force! is basically a waveshaper, but the shape control can be modulated using the feedback control and source switch, which makes things a lot more interesting.

Source code is available.

http://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs

Sonus Modular

Sonus Modular is a free multi fx and software synthesizer and sampler and looper plugin VCV Rack developed by Sonus Dept.. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Sonus Modular is a collection of modules for VCV Rack, an open source Eurorack modular synth emulator. It currently features the following modules:

Bitter: bit manipulator.

Bymidside: MS (mid-side) encoder.

Campione: live sampler.

Chainsaw: fat sawish oscillator.

Ctrl: customizable knob controller.

Deathcrush: distorsion and bitcrusher.

Harmony: chord generator.

Luppolo: simple looper.

Luppolo3: three track loop station.

Multimulti: a simple but handy double 2-in 8-out multiples.

Oktagon: quad-quad sine LFO/oscillator.

Osculum: a VCO capable of harmonic but unusual sounds.

Paramath: signals comparing and math utils.

Piconoise: an ultra compact white noise generator with 8 outputs.

Pusher: four button controller.

Ringo: ring modulator.

Scramblase: triple quadruple waveshaper.

Twoff: double CV static offset.

Yabp: blank panel.

http://www.sonusdept.com