Shruti Box

Shruti Box free soundbank by EarthMoments

Shruti Box virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Live, by EarthMoments.

Shruti Box


A Shruti Box is a small hand-pumped wooden instrument that provides a rich drone background as support to singing or playing almost any instrument.

The use of the Shruti Box has widened with the cross-cultural influences of world music and new age music, providing a drone for many other instruments not typically associated with it.

While normally it has been associated with Indian Music, the Shruti box is enjoying a renaissance in the West amongst traditional and contemporary musicians who are using it for a range of different styles.

We have captured an organic wooden shruti at 96kHz using tube mics and preamps.


Features :

  • A tube recording of hand crafted wooden Shruti box from India.
  • Captures the full range of the Instrument.
  • System of bellows.
  • Special designed Audio FX Rack to enhance the organic sound.

{See video at top of page}

http://www.earthmoments.com/

Shisaku

Shisaku free software-synthesizer by AW

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

  • 3 VCOs (SIN, TRI, SAW, SQR, SAWSIN, SQRSIN, EP, ORG, SAW(BLIT), SQR(BLIT), TRI(BLIT), White Noise, Pink Noise.
  • LP, HP, BP, Notch, LP24dB and HP24dB filter types.
  • ADSR envelope for VCA & VCF and ADR for VCP.
  • Largest simultaneous pronunciation several 16
  • Effects – Distortion, Flanger, Phase Shifter, and Stereo Delay.

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Bay/8284/

Shinyguitar

Shinyguitar free soundbank by Karoryfer

Shinyguitar virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Sforzando, by Karoryfer.

Shinyguitar is a free sample library of an archtop guitar for Plogue Sforzando.

Key features:

  • Graphical user interface with controls.
  • Blendable electric (direct pickup signal) and acoustic (microphone) recordings.
  • Simulated vibrato and muting.
  • Up to five unison voices with controllable width.
  • Notes sampled every minor third with four velocity layers and four round robins.
  • Muted plucks and release noises with five round robins.
  • Percussive sounds with four round robins.
  • 846 WAV samples with 24-bit depth and 44.1 kHz sample rate.
  • 439 MB total size.

Requires Plogue Sforzando version 1.822 or newer.

The below demo uses three instance of Shinyguitar. The melody is all pickup signal with the tone turned down and some vibrato applied, the chords are mostly microphone signal, and the percussion starts off as pickup signal but quickly changes to all microphone.

https://soundcloud.com/karoryfersamples/lullabye-of-the-leaves-on-shinyguitar

http://www.karoryfer.com/karoryfer-samples

ShinyDirt

ShinyDirt free software-synthesizer by BipTunia Synths

ShinyDirt is a free software synthesizer developed by BipTunia Synths. Available format(s): VST for Windows.

ShinyDirt is largely all about the mod wheel. The mod wheel does something different on each pre-set. A very musical homage to circuit-bent analog synths.

{See video at top of page}

Features:

  • 32-bit VST mono synth.
  • 128 presets.
  • Lots of user-defined options.
  • On-screen waveform readout. Looks cool, plus great educational tool.
  • Runs on any 32-bit DAW, and on some 64-bit DAWs (tested and working on 64-bit Reaper, Cubase, and on Sony Acid.).
  • Some of the settings sound beautiful. A lot of them sound extreme. Especially when you move the mod wheel. Sometimes the wheel is crazy, sometimes it’s subtle.
  • 2 oscillators, 2 LFOs, choice of what mod wheel does. Mod wheel behaves differently on different presets.

On many presets or user-defined settings, the mod wheel does more extreme things to sound than on many synths. On some, the wheel even works backwards of what would be expected. This yields interesting results and is a boon to ending “the same old thing” sessions.

All values go higher and lower than on most synths. Plus one filter is intentionally hooked up “wrong.” Because of this, sometimes things will work well (especially with the mod wheel) on one octave (or even part of an octave) and not elsewhere on the keyboard. But this unpredictability is part of the fun.

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LEGAL: VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, registered in Europe and other countries.

BipTunia Synths has been licensed for VST SDK use by Steinberg. Agreement countersigned by Steinberg on August 23, 2018.

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Full list of presets:

  • Drag You Through Dirt.
  • Don Wormovanni.
  • Underground.
  • Dust 2 Dust.
  • Dirty.
  • Grounded.
  • In the Dirt.
  • Soilant.
  • Air That Laundry.
  • Curly Dirt.
  • House Moss.
  • House Moss 2.
  • Pay Dirt.
  • Will Worm for Worms.
  • Outstanding in His Dirt Field.
  • Hit the Dirt.
  • Dirt Nap.
  • Onan’s Dirt Road.
  • Compost.
  • Crop Dusting.
  • Dusty Wheels.
  • Wheel in the Sky.
  • Wheel Turns in Dirt.
  • Muckraker.
  • Sines on a Dirt Road.
  • Whisky in a Dirty Glass.
  • Re-Dirt.
  • Dirty Faces.
  • Stuck in Dirt.
  • You Toe Up.
  • Junk Man.
  • Beat the Rug.
  • Beat Your Rug.
  • Move Yo Wheel.
  • Ghost to Ghost.
  • Art Hell.
  • Do You Like Worms?
  • A Worm in the Hand.
  • Worm Your Way In.
  • Don’t Worm Me Bro.
  • Poly Wanna Worm?
  • Slow Dirty Wheel.
  • 2 Worms and a Microphone.
  • Gummies.
  • Worms Ahoy.
  • Night of the Living Worms.
  • Worming Hard or Hardly Worming?
  • Dirty Gurl.
  • Cash Newmann.
  • Wheel it.
  • Steelers Wheel.
  • Worm Bell Jar.
  • Shivers up the Wheel.
  • Bippertronix.
  • The Wormic Flute.
  • Wrong Dong.
  • Madame Womerfly.
  • The Marriage of Wormaro.
  • Backworms Wheel.
  • Wiggle the Wheel.
  • The 6 Worms of Henry the 8th.
  • Journey to the Center of the Worm.
  • The Barber of Squrimville.
  • Peter and the Worm.
  • White Ghost.
  • Pink Ghost.
  • Stuff it in a Squirrel.
  • Fire Up the Wormicopter.
  • In the Company of Squirms.
  • Take My Worm for a Walk.
  • Dirty Little Squitten.
  • Worm Factory Basement.
  • WormCoin.
  • BipCot NoWorm License.
  • Hi-pH Dirt.
  • Lo-pH Dirt.
  • Chariots of Worms.
  • Wish You Were Dirt.
  • BitCorn.
  • The True Mod Wheel.
  • Emerson Worms and Palmer LLP.
  • Dirt McQuirk.
  • Bird Dirt.
  • Soil Ant.
  • Dirt Man.
  • Bad Man in the Dirt.
  • Organic Dirt.
  • Diagnostic Dirt.
  • Where’s that Dirt?
  • A Bug’s Life in Dirt.
  • Orgasmic Dirt.
  • Dig In.
  • It’s a Dirty Job.
  • But Someone’s Gotta Do It.
  • Epik.
  • Hot Filtered Dirt.
  • Worm Me All Night Long.
  • In the Company of Worms.
  • Gunk.
  • The Worms Go In The Worms Go Out.
  • M. Worm Shamalananadingdong.
  • Dirty Bird.
  • Dirty Pillows.
  • Dirt Play.
  • Dirt Bath.
  • Gunk in the Trunk.
  • In the Mud and the Blood and the Beer.
  • Rolling in the Dirt Together.
  • Show Me What You Got.
  • Grave Dirt.
  • Picnic at GG’s Grave.
  • Graveyard of Life.
  • The Great Filter.
  • Broadcasting to Alpha-Centauri.
  • Moon Dirt.
  • Black Hole Dirt.
  • Ergosphere Dust.
  • Eros 433 Regolith.
  • Vantana Row.
  • Felis Horribilis.
  • Felis Bippus.
  • Manipuli.
  • Taxation is Cruft.
  • Talk Show Plasmosis.
  • Euroracks Anonymous.
  • Pulse Waves Melt Steel Beams.
  • Tesla’s Weaponized Oscillator.
  • Only Dirt and Rubble Remain.

https://biptunia.com/?page_id=2070

Shimmerbox

Shimmerbox free software-synthesizer by Boxwarp

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

Shimmerbox is a simple FM synth with a stereo sound. Knobs respond to MIDI controllers 20-27.

Made with SynthMaker

http://www.boxwarp.com/

shekrs

shekrs free rompler by Spacedad

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

shekrs is the third in the ‘reception models’ series (original models by Jacky-Lee). It is a free sample-based VST instrument for Windows featuring five shakers based on Jacky-Lee’s loo-roll, yogurt-pot and paper-cup shakers. Various grooves can be made using the speed, pitch and volume modulation controls, ranging from ordinary to insane. It also has high-pass and low-pass filters, distortion, bitcrushing and panning.

Made with SynthEdit

http://www.spaceraiders.co.uk/spacedad.html

SH-it Bass

SH-it Bass free rompler by VST4FREE

SH-it Bass is a free rompler VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by VST4FREE. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

SH-it Bass is a sampled bass sound from the Roland SH-101 synthesizer.

25 notes were carefully tuned and recorded from 3 layers for a total of 55 samples. You can make your own sound by mixing between the main oscillator (osc 1+2 from the SH-101), the sub oscillator and the noise generator:

  • Monophonic.
  • 3 layers.
  • 25 main osc samples.
  • 25 sub osc samples.
  • 5 round-robin noise samples.
  • Modwheel controls the LFO.

{See video at top of page}

Made with Maize Sampler

http://www.vst4free.com/?dev=VST4FREE

SH-009 Monosynth

SH-009 Monosynth free software-synthesizer by Postdawn Nurseries

SH-009 Monosynth is a free software synthesizer developed by Postdawn Nurseries. Available format(s): VST for Windows 64b.

SH-009 Monosynth is an emulated Roland SH-09 (Roland does not endorse this plug-in of course). It is pretty close in functionality and sound to the hardware version. Highlights include a LFO modulator with random / sample-and-hold step voltage that can be used to modulate the oscillator, the filter, and the pulse width. It also includes an invert switch for the envelope, which can modulate the filter and pulse width, as well as the amplifier.

Two versions are included: a VST instrument and a VST effect. The effect version can be used as an insert or in a modular host to process external audio through the filter and to control the filter envelope.

Made with SynthEdit

http://postdawnnurseries.com/

sg-noisebot

sg-noisebot free software-synthesizer by Synthgeek

sg-noisebot is a free software synthesizer developed by Synthgeek. Available format(s): VST for Windows.

This is another “noisebox” synth, similar in attitude to the previous SG-APCX (in that it is designed to be used as a sound effect generator more than a standard synth), but based on a completely different method of sound generation.

This synth is based around two sound generators- one that uses a math formula capable of chaotic behavior, and another which is an oscillator-synched noise source. The combination of these two sources produces a wide range of strange sounds, from clicks & beeps to grinding mechanical mayhem. Another interesting feature present in both versions is the “data corruption” effect, which adds another level of chaos to the mix. This is something like a software circuit bend which taps the audio stream at several points along its path, randomly mangles the signals in various ways (which are affected by various combinations of control signals from the synth’s modulators) & mixes the mess back into the output.

Made with SynthEdit

http://synthgeek.skincontact.com/

sg-Modutronic Messmaker

sg-Modutronic Messmaker free software-synthesizer by Synthgeek

sg-Modutronic Messmaker is a free software synthesizer developed by Synthgeek. Available format(s): VST for Windows.

This is a simple synthesizer based on a lo-fi hardware synth of the same name which I built (see my blog for more info). It consists of two squarewave oscillators, and uses both frequency and amplitude modulation to create sounds. The first osc is amplitude-modulated by the second, and the AM output is then fed back to modulate the frequency of the first osc.

This software version is different from the original in several ways, the biggest difference being the filter. The rest are down to differences in the implementation of various features/characteristics- in some cases, I did what I could to make it true to the original, in other cases, I left it alone. This means that the software is unable to mimic the sound of the original perfectly, but it can also do things the original can not.

Made with SynthEdit

http://synthgeek.skincontact.com/