Free Virtual Instruments

BPB Cassette 808

BPB Cassette 808 virtual instrument is a free drums sound bank for Kontakt, by Bedroom Producers Blog.

BPB Cassette 808 is a free collection of Roland TR-808 drum machine samples in 24-bit WAV format. The sounds were recorded by Gregor Zemljic in his mastering studio, passed through a high end signal chain and enhanced with a subtle LF boost. An additional set of drum hits that were re-sampled from an audio cassette deck is also included, providing a different take on the classic 808 drum sound.

The pack contains a set of three instrument patches for NI Kontakt 5. These NKI patches feature a simple customized user interface providing direct access to the low-pass filter, envelope, reverb and delay controls.

Contents:

87 audio samples in total (24-bit WAV format).

3 instrument patches in NKI format.

9 MB download size (ZIP).

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https://bedroomproducersblog.com/

Bowed Glass Clouds

Bowed Glass Clouds virtual instrument is a free percussions sound bank for Kontakt, by Riot Audio.

Introduction

BOWED GLASS CLOUDS is Riot Audio‘s first release – a cinematic morphing pad instrument running in Kontakt 5.8 and above. It is based on recordings of bowed resonant glass bowls and jars, as well as a few selected sound design sources including a household hoover, and an Ebow-driven resonator guitar.

BOWED GLASS CLOUDS makes use of Kontakt’s AET Filter technology to seamlessly morph between layers of sound, both tonal and non-tonal. The instrument has a simple GUI allowing for controls for the morphing within each layer (A and B) as well as adjustment of balance between these layers. Other controls include distortion, BP filter, delay and reverb as well as three-band parametric EQ.

Kontakt Instrument

BOWED GLASS CLOUDS is a one-page Kontakt instrument designed for ease of use and immediate results.

Much of the appeal of our CLOUDS engine derives from how it generates movement between different sample sources and groups. It contains two layers, A and B, each of which in turn contains a base sublayer and a target sublayer, i.e. four layers in total.

Features

12 patches: Atmospheric Whiteout, Frozen Air, Ground and Ionosphere, Harvest Sunset, Horizon, Jetstream Organ, Lone Whisp, Nebulae, Solo Puff, Stratosphere, Sudden Squall, Warm Haze.

Samples include bowed large bowl, bowed small jar, bowed medium bowl, Ebow resonator guitar, household hoover.

12 layers of sound in total: A/B layers with two sublayers each and a 3 octave spread.

Lexicon Reverb Modelling.

Based on Riot Audio’s proprietary CLOUDS engine using Kontakts AET Filter morphing capabilities.

https://riotaudio.com

Boomed-FM II

Boomed-FM II is a free software synthesizer developed by SpearGear. Available format(s): VST for Windows.

Boomed-Fm II is a hybrid FM/Phase Distortion synthesizer which produces clean or distorted sound from many ranges: Strings, bass, keys, leads, pads, etc.

Features:

Oscillators and envelopes: Six combined oscillators (modulators and carriers). Separately for every combined oscillator, there is a Low Pass 4-pole moog-style filter with adjustable cut frequency. Afterwards there is fine-tuning and Phase modulation adjustment for an analog sense. Mixer adjusts the level from oscillators and enables or disables output.

Master Filter: Biquad filter with enveloped frequency-CUT. There are three filter modes: Constant Skirt Gain (CSG), Constant 0db Peak Gain (COPK), and Peak. If Peak is selected, Gain/Attenuation can be adjusted from -60 to 24 db.

Delay: Delay module if selected creates stereo output. “Full In” and “Normal” delay mode. The first one is used for soft distortion and feedback modulation, while other gives delayed stereo sound with adjustable speed and timing.

Chorus: Stereo input and fat stereo output with high quality signal processing.

MIDI: MIDI section allows to choose playing Octave, select Mono mode (which enables Retrigger function), There’s also velocity level and Portamento Time adjustments.

82 presets in two SoundBanks.

http://www.speargear.co.nr/

BooBoom

BooBoom is a free software synthesizer developed by scamme. Available format(s): VST for Windows.

Features:

2 synced oscillators.

LP/HP/Moog filters.

ADSR.

Flanger.

LFO.

Delay.

Joystick.

http://www.sanusart.com/

Bonus Pack (Exp for LittleOne)

Bonus Pack (Exp for LittleOne) is a free software synthesizer preset pack for Littleone, made by Xhun Audio.

Bonus Pack (Expansion for LittleOne) is a selection of presets carefully chosen from all the commercial expansions released by Xhun Audio for LittleOne synthesizer. More and more presets are continuously added over time among with the release of new commercial expansions. The Bonus Pack library can be downloaded for free.

http://www.xhun-audio.com/

Boing2

Boing2 is a free rompler VST plugin developed by xoxos. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Boing2 is a physically modeled BOwed strING synthesizer. Oscillation is produced by a friction calculation applied to a dispersive waveguide string oversampled at rates of up to 16x. The string loop includes a mass-spring modeled bridge. The body resonator consists of a mass-spring modeled “air tone” and a 5 band banded waveguide.

https://www.kvraudio.com/developer/xoxos

Blueshift

Blueshift is a free software synthesizer preset pack for Ob Xd, made by Ghostwave Audio.

Blueshift is a signature free bank for OB-Xd by Ghostwave.

Featuring 64 high-quality sounds, it is designed for all types of electronic music and contains a wide variety of presets: basses, pads, plucks, leads and many more.

Head over to the Ghostwave Audio website to download it.

http://ghostwaveaudio.com

Blowfly

Blowfly is a free software synthesizer developed by DocNashSynths. Available format(s): for Windows .

Blowfly generates a sound-scape by applying random motion (within user-defined parameters) to the control points of a Bezier curve that defines a single cycle of the sound. Thus, both the shape and wavelength of the curve change from one cycle to the next.

Blowfly can be considered a ‘method showcase’ product as it introduces a novel dynamic stochastic synthesis technique via a functioning product, so as to bring it to the attention of other developers who may then choose to evolve and incorporate it into their existing or future products.

Of course Blowfly is useable as-is, as a stand-alone, unrestricted synth for producing a variety of new sounds and textures, just lacking in ‘trimmings’ like the ability to save and load patches.

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http://flexibeatz.weebly.com/

Blood Bucket

Blood Bucket is a free software synthesizer developed by Insert Piz Here. Available format(s): VST for Windows.

Blood Bucket is apparently a pointless experiment in synthetic stupidity. Two oscillators are combined in a variety of ways to modulate a third oscillator and presets are named after parts of the human head.

http://www.thepiz.org/

bLO-FIsh

bLO-FIsh is a free software synthesizer developed by Opulent Audio. Available format(s): VST for Windows.

bLO-FIsh is a 3 Oscillator LO-FI synth. Not an emulation of any particular “chip”, bLO-FIsh incorporates classic chip-type (8 bit, video game, etc.) sounds with traditional analog synth elements.

Generators:

3 Wave Oscillators with Sine, Saw, Ramp, Triangle, Square and two different widths of Pulse waves.

Audio rate is switchable between standard 16 bit/44 khz and 8 bit/22 khz LO-FI mode.

Graphic amplitude ADSRs and volume controls.

Output routing to one filter, both filters, or no filter.

Hard sync feedback loop.

Filters:

2 Parallel SV Filters with Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass and Band Reject modes.

Graphic ADSRs routable to cutoff, resonance, or both. Knobs to control amount of envelope applied.

Pan and volume controls.

Effects section:

No frills distortion device.

Efficient reverb unit. Normal, gated and freeze modes.

Modulation devices:

2 Tempo-synced LFOs with 20 waveforms and wave modifier options.

1 Free-tempo LFO, 2 Graphic ADSRs (modulation also from velocity, aftertouch and mod wheel).

16 step tempo sync gate that mixes independently with all 3 oscillators.

6 slot modulation matrix with 8 sources and 63 targets.

More:

Phrase Arpeggiator with several modes, tempo synced.

Designed to be quick and easy to use. Large, visible, color coded interface.

Most parameters are controllable via MIDI.

Monophonic or 8 voice polyphonic operation with retrigger and portamento/glide.

Small to medium CPU hit, depending on system and patch used.

70+ presets.

PDF manual.

https://opulentaudio.blogspot.com/