Best Free Software for Making Music

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  1. thantrax

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    HOFA-Plugins SYSTEM basic

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    SYSTEM basic provides you with endless possibilities in creating custom effect chains - for mixing, mastering and sound-design. 21 modules are available, while some have a limited range of functions.
     
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    Hi! If making a music-related video counts as making music, I've found these software as best free alternatives to AVID Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro/After Effects, Final Cut Pro and alike.

    1) Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 14 (Post-productions)



    Originally designed for Hollywood’s elite colorists, DaVinci Resolve has been used on more feature films and TV shows than anything else because it lets you create images that are simply impossible with other tools. DaVinci is also the world’s fastest growing and most advanced editing software! Now, with DaVinci Resolve 14, you get incredible new Fairlight audio tools specifically designed for film and television post production. It’s like getting 3 high end applications in one! All it takes is a single click to switch between editing, color correcting, audio mastering and delivery! Best of all, if you’re collaborating on a team, you can all work on the same project at the same time! DaVinci Resolve 14 is a revolution in post production! Download it for free and try it today!

    Homepage:
    https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/



    2) Blackmagic Design Fusion 9 (Motion effects) - I highly recommend this for EDM/Indie artist, imagine a DIY project making a random motion graphics for ur music track.
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    Fusion is the world’s most advanced compositing software for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphic designers, and 3D animators. Over the last 30 years, Fusion has been used on thousands of Hollywood blockbuster movies and television shows. Fusion features a powerful node based interface that lets you quickly and easily create sophisticated effects by connecting different types of image processing tools together! You get a massive range of tools, incredible VR and 3D support, GPU accelerated performance, unlimited network rendering and more! Fusion gives you everything you need to create exciting broadcast graphics, dramatic titles, and even major feature film visual effects!

    Homepage:
    https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion/
     
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  3. Mundano

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    Hi @Futurewine ! thanks for this add, it is just what I needed to complete my Free-Software Studio! Best, Mundano.
     
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    https://www.auburnsounds.com/products/Graillon.html
    this is Gold!

    Live Voice Changer

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    Graillon is available as a VST 2.4 and Audio Unit plug-in for Mac and PC (32-bit & 64-bit).
    Free Edition Buy Full Edition for 29€
    Secured payment through PayPal or Stripe.
    What's this?
    Graillon is a Vocal Live Changer that brings a world of possibilities right into your DAW, with carefully designed features:

    The Pitch-Tracking Modulation, unique to Graillon, changes the type of speakers, generates throat sounds, creates choruses, make octaver sounds, enriches a voice to make it more masculine.

    The Pitch Shifter cleanly transpose a voice up and down, and has been optimized for voice.

    The Pitch Correction module brings an immediate robotic sound, while the Bitcrusher addition softly add sparkles to the mix.

    Listen to audio examples...

    This is Freemium
    • Graillon Free Edition gets the Pitch Shifting and Pitch Correction.
    • Graillon Full Edition gets everything.
    Philosophy
    Graillon is the result of a long search for new kinds of vocal effects. Its processing adds 23ms of latency, which is not instant but competitive when compared to other pitch-shifters.

    First, do no harm
    We care a lot about your signal and how to preserve it. Refined tuning has been given multiple times to ensure the cleanest sound quality.
     
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    https://www.auburnsounds.com/products/Panagement.html

    Advanced Binaural Panner

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    Panagement is available as a VST 2.4 and Audio Unit plug-in for Mac and PC (32-bit & 64-bit).
    Free Edition Buy Enterprise Edition for 29€
    Secured payment through PayPal or Stripe.
    What's this?
    Panagement is a spatialization powerhouse that lets you control the stereo space quickly, with numerous carefully designed features:

    • The Binaural Panner positions a track from left to right in the sound stage,
    • The Distance Fader brings that track near or far,
    • The Mono-to-Stereo enlarges a thin track or simulates early reflections,
    • The Tilt Filter adjusts spectral balance between lows and highs,
    • The Phasescope control displays mono compatibility visually,
    • Finally, a LFO allows to create periodic or even random moves.
    Listen to audio examples...

    This is Freemium
    • Panagement Free Edition gets the Binaural Panner, Distance Fader, and visualizations. That makes Core features available for Free!
    • Panagement Enterprise Edition gets EVERYTHING.
    Philosophy
    Panagement is about practicality. Techniques that would be more realistic but have sound quality drawbacks, like sampled HRTF, were not included. We use simple HRTF models instead.

    First, do no harm
    We care a lot about your signal and how to preserve it. Refined tuning has been given multiple times to ensure the cleanest sound quality.
     
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    http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1851
    http://qtractor.org

    Qtractor 0.8.4 - End of Summer'17 release!

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    Description:

    Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.
    Website:
    http://qtractor.org
    http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
    https://qtractor.sourceforge.io
    Project page:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
    Downloads:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files
    License:
    Qtractor is free, open-source Linux Audio software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.

    Enjoy && Keep having fun.
     
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    HY-Plugins HY-Lofi2

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    HY-Lofi2 is an effect plugin that processes audio to give it a low fidelity sound. Links - Win (Installer - Portable) | MAC

    Note:
    Rekkerd.org exclusive
     
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    > sound design

    https://sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc2017/

    Save thousands of dollars on sound effects in the Sonniss Halloween Sale!VIEW DETAILS
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    THE #GAMEAUDIOGDC BUNDLE (PART 3)


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    In celebration of #GDC2017 we are giving away 20GB+ of high-quality sound effects from our vendors here at Sonniss. You can use them personally or commercially without attribution. (Everything is royalty free).

    View the Tracklist
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    DOWNLOAD OPTIONS
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    If you missed the 16GB bundle from last year or the 10GB bundle from the previous year just drop me a message and I will hook you up. My email address is [email protected] or you can add me on Facebook. Alternatively, you can just send me a tweet using the hashtag #GameAudioGDC

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    If you found this resource useful, please consider sharing it with your friends by clicking on one of the icons above.

    Enjoy.

    A SPECIAL THANKS GOES OUT TO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE:

    3maze, Alexander Ahura, Alexander Kopeikin, Antisample, Articulated Sounds, Bluezone, Borg Sound, Byron Abadía, Charlie Atanasyan, Chris Skyes, Collected Transients, Creative Audio Pool, Detunized, Digital Rain Lab, Double Trouble Audio, Eiravaein Sound, Eneas Mentzel, Fascinated Sound, Game Audio Factory, GainWalkers, Gamemaster Audio, Glitchedtones, Griffin Sound Design, Hammer & Spark Audio Production, Hzandbits, Jack Powell, JC Audio, Joshua Reinhardt, Kevin Durr, MatiasMacSD, Mattia Cellotto, Mechanical Wave, Mindful Audio, Mononeshot, Monte Sound, Nikkö Barrera-Amaya, Pole Position, Raconteur Sound, RedSonic, Resonance Sound Design, Robin Barstow, Russell Gorsky, Sergey Eybog, Shapingwaves, Sonocaine, Sound Ex Machina, SoundBits, SoundFxwizard, SoundHolder, SoundMorph, Soundopolis, Soundreorganized, Stereo Chemistry, Studio238, The Sound Keeper, The Sound Pack Tree, The Soundcatcher, Tone Manufacture, Tovusound, West Wolf, Zero-G & TS Sound.

    REMINDER:
    Everything that we send out is just a small sample of our suppliers complete libraries (nothing has been modified, these files are exactly what we sell). If you would like more options and design choices to work with, please consider purchasing their corresponding collection.

    You can view our complete catalog here.

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    I thought ALL software was free?............

    oops, thats right just the kind that is ones and zeros.
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    > sound design

    http://www.spectmorph.org

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    SpectMorph

    SpectMorph is a free software project which allows to analyze samples of musical instruments, and to combine them (morphing). It can be used to construct hybrid sounds, for instance a sound between a trumpet and a flute; or smooth transitions, for instance a sound that starts as a trumpet and then gradually changes to a flute. In its current version, SpectMorph ships with many ready-to-use instruments which can be combined using morphing.
    SpectMorph is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 3.

     
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    > sound design

    http://www.olilarkin.co.uk/index.php?p=pmix

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    Introduction
    pMix is a sound design, composition and performance tool for Mac OSX that allows you to morph between VST plugin presets using an intuitive graphical interface.

    Presets are represented by coloured balls that are positioned on a 2D plane. The size of each ball and its proximity to the cursor affects the weight of the associated preset in the interpolation.

    Morphing between presets often results in the discovery of interesting hybrid sounds. By constraining sound manipulations within a predesigned "interpolation space" complex transitions can be achieved that would otherwise be hard to manage.

    pMix can load four VST2 audio plug-ins. It comes with a suite of specially designed plug-ins which cover a range of experimental DSP techniques (noise generators, FM synthesis, formant filtering, frequency shifting etc). These plug-ins can also be used in other VST host applications.

    Key Features
    • Realtime VST2 plugin chainer
    • Live processing of audio input, file playback or instrument plug-ins
    • Unique multi-layered interpolation approach
    • Rich visual control interface with real-time feedback
    • Includes a suite of 9 high-quality audio FX and generators
    • Many options for randomisation
    • Break-point function and "freehand" automation modes
    • Audio file player & recorder built in
    • Controllable via OSC and MIDI
    • Can be used with other applications via Rewire or Soundflower
    Screenshots/Videos
    System Requirements
    • Mac OSX 10.5 or higher (sorry Windows users!)
    • Core2Duo or better CPU
    Reviews/Press
    How to Purchase
    pMix v1 is free software.

    Download it on the Mac App Store


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    http://cabs.kalthallen.de/kalthallen_free.html

    Kalthallen Cabs Free

    Launched in 2012 with thousands of downloads Kalthallen Cabs has become a very successful IR and Nebula guitar cabinet replacement for a lot of guitar players around the globe!


    Features
    - Most realistic Nebula programs and impulse responses of guitar cabinets especially suited for heavy rhythm guitars
    - All microphone positions captured in 44.1 kHz
    - All microphone positions captured with a tube power amp and a solid state power amp
    - See pictures of the microphone placement
     
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    > sound design
    this is Gold! i am editing my samples for a new VI with this

    http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/

    S P E A R
    Sinusoidal Partial Editing Analysis and Resynthesis
    for MacOS X, MacOS 9 and Windows

    News
    Nov. 29, 2009 Version 0.7.4 has been released. Click here to download for Windows XP/Vista and MacOS X (10.4 or later). This version fixes a bug with SNDAN files.


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    What's new in this version?

    • Support for Unicode filenames/pathnames. This fixes the long standing problem with pathnames containing non-ASCII characters.
    • Reorganized and streamlined synthesis options in the Sound menu. Choose various options under the "Synthesis Method" submenu.
    • Reorganized synthesis preferences.
    • Preferences for controlling noise resynthesis. The noise bandwidth and filter order can be adjusted. High filter orders will produce a noise band with a steeper amplitude cutoff slope.
    • Adjustments to the scaling effect of the noise slider.
    • Windows bug fixes.

    Introduction

    SPEAR is an application for audio analysis, editing and synthesis. The analysis procedure (which is based on the traditional McAulay-Quatieri technique) attempts to represent a sound with many individual sinusoidal tracks (partials), each corresponding to a single sinusoidal wave with time varying frequency and amplitude.

    Something which closely resembles the original input sound (a resynthesis) can be generated by computing and adding all of the individual time varying sinusoidal waves together. In almost all cases the resynthesis will not be exactly identical to the original sound (although it is possible to get very close).

    Aside from offering a very detailed analysis of the time varying frequency content of a sound, a sinusoidal model offers a great deal of flexibility for editing and manipulation. SPEAR supports flexible selection and immediate manipulation of analysis data, cut and paste, and unlimited undo/redo. Hundreds of simultaneous partials can be synthesized in real-time and documents may contain thousands of individual partials dispersed in time. SPEAR also supports a variety of standard file formats for the import and export of analysis data.

    Read more in the ICMC paper “Software for Spectral Analysis, Editing, and Synthesis.” (pdf) or in the dissertation paper Spectral Analysis, Editing, and Resynthesis: Methods and Applications.

    Current Status
    Currently SPEAR runs on MacOS X (PowerPC), MacOS 9 and Windows. For a variety of reasons SPEAR will probably operate better on MacOS X. The program is still in a pre-1.0 stage, meaning that not only will there be some bugs but that significant underlying changes may still take place before a 1.0 release. With that said, it is currently quite stable and useful.

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    Please address feedback to:
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    Please visit the download page.
     
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    Synthblitz Audio

    Spazial

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    "Spazial" is a powerfull audio VST designed for create wide stereo effect and is able to encode and divide the incoming stereo signal into M / S signals but also for decode M / S signals into stereo signal

    "Spazial" uses different ways to processing the incoming signal. There are 5 modes of using it : "internal", "send mid", "send side", "spazial" and "decoder mode". "Spazial" allows the processing of the signals encoded by five potentiometers on the panel or sends the encoded pure signals directly to the output via the functions "enc mid" and enc-side. "

    The panel also has a useful high-pass filter and a special vibrato control. Spazial is free donationware and available in VST format for Windows.

    EQ 01 M/S

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    EQ 01 M/S is the first component on the "SPAZIAL series" It is double equalizer for mid/side signal.

    It is able to encode the incoming stereo signal into M / S signal, then equalizes M/S signal and converts into stereo signal. It can works also in "encoder" mode. Can be put in series with "SPAZIAL" or any decoder M / S, but is also designed to work alone. EQ 01 M / S is a component of the line "SPAZIAL".

    DDL link here
     
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    http://www.vamp-plugins.org/index.html

    The Vamp audio analysis plugin system
    Vamp is an audio processing plugin system for plugins that extract descriptive information from audio data — typically referred to as audio analysis plugins or audio feature extraction plugins.

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    Get some plugins!

    Do something with them!

    • Interactive audio analysis using Vamp plugins? Try Sonic Visualiser!
    • Analysis inside your audio editor? Audacity 2 can use Vamp plugins to create label tracks from analysis results.
    • Want to extract features from lots of audio files, writing results into text files or as RDF for linked data purposes? You need Sonic Annotator!
    • For simple command-line purposes, there is also a Vamp host included in the developer SDK.
    • ... other hosts you'd like to see mentioned here? Tell us!
    Developers and DSP researchers!

    Just like an audio effects plugin (such as a VST), a Vamp plugin is a binary module that can be loaded up by a host application and fed audio data. However, unlike an effects plugin, a Vamp plugin generates not more audio, but some sort of symbolic information. Typical things that a Vamp plugin might calculate include the locations of moments such as note onset times, visualisable representations of the audio such as spectrograms, or curve data such as power or fundamental frequency. Read more about the rationale for Vamp.
     
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    http://www.sonicvisualiser.org

    NOW FOR MAC AND WINDOWS 32 & 64 bits

    Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.
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    3rd March 2017: Sonic Visualiser 3.0 has been released.
    Read about what's new, or download it here!

    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.

    We hope Sonic Visualiser will be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file.

    Sonic Visualiser is Free Software, distributed under the GNU General Public License (v2 or later) and available for Linux, OS/X, and Windows. It was developed at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London.

    Citations: If you are using Sonic Visualiser in research work for publication, please cite (pdf | bib) Chris Cannam, Christian Landone, and Mark Sandler, Sonic Visualiser: An Open Source Application for Viewing, Analysing, and Annotating Music Audio Files, in Proceedings of the ACM
     
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    http://www.soundtoys.com/product/little-plate/

    via

    https://bedroomproducersblog.com/20...amples_for_2017_11_07_bpb&utm_term=2017-11-07

    SOUNDTOYS NEW! Little Plate

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    Electromechanical Reverb
    The lush sound of plate reverb – with a modern twist.

    FREE thru November 22


    The unmistakable plate reverb sound – warm, rich and spacious – is now at your fingertips.

    Inspired by the original EMT 140 plate reverb, we captured the gorgeous sound and vibe of this studio classic and turned it into a fun and musically inspiring plug-in. And we couldn’t resist pushing the limits of reality, so we added a couple of fun twists that let you take Little Plate to spaces the original hardware only dreamed of.

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    Simple Control, Infinite Possibilities

    Once we recreated the iconic 140 sound, we couldn’t resist going even further.

    While the original reverb could only muster a modest five seconds of reverberation time, we pushed that number higher. A lot higher. With Decay Time set to infinity, Little Plate’s reverb tails never fade away. Check out these audio clips of presets that demonstrate this:

    Zero to Infinity and Beyond


    Scott Jacoby

    “Instantly fell in love as soon as I heard it!” – Trevor Wright aka @mixedbytrev (Pro Era)

    “Little Plate sounds more like a plate than anything out there.” – Rachel Alina

    “This is the best plate reverb plug-in I’ve ever heard.” – Peter Katis

    Specs
    Current Version: 5.2.0

    Plug-in Formats (both 32 and 64-bit):

    • AAX Native, AAX AudioSuite, VST, and Audio Units (AU)
    Supported Sample Rates:

    • Minimum: 44.1 kHz, Maximum: 192 kHz
    System Requirements:

    • Operating systems: Mac OS X 10.8 or later; Windows 7 or later
    • An internet connection is required at the time of activation.
    Supported Hosts:

    • Pro Tools (10.3.5 or later), Live, Cubase, Nuendo, Sonar, Logic, Digital Performer
    • Click here to view our full list of compatible host applications.
    Other Requirements:

    • Free iLok.com account. Create a free account here.
     
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