Free VST - Lektro

Lektro is a Phase Distortion Synthesizer.

Features:

• 2 Phase distortion Oscillators.
• A Waveshaper.
• 3 LFOs of which one can be used as a sub Oscillator.
• An LFO waveshaper.
• A Randomizer.
• 2 ADSRs.
• A Tone Controller.
• A Filter with 13 different modes.
• A Delay.
• Modulation.

Most sections of the synth can be modulated with any of the LFOs, ADSRs or the Randomizer. Usually a section can be modulated by two LFOs/Randomizer and only one ADSR. With 3 separate sliders for each. The LFOs/Randomizer can be connected parallel or in series.

Developer: Xenobioz

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Free VST - BaxterEQ

BaxterEQ is a transparent mastering and mix buss shelving EQ.

Finest tonal sweetening and finishing which always stays true to the source:

• Natural and accurate bass response.
• Authentic analog style HF curve rendering.
• Smoothest shelving operation.

Perfectly suited for the mastering chain:

• Stepped controls throughout for repeatability and matched channel operation.
• Full dual channel layout.
• Full mid-side encoding support.
• Per channel level control for easy A/B match.

Artifact free technical design:

• Low ripple and distortion filter implementations.
• 64-bit floating point internal processing.
• Oversampled for superior impulse response.

Meticulously selected frequencies:

• Baxandall shelving filters:
  • LF @ 74, 84, 98, 116, 131, 166, 230 and 361 Hz.
  • HF @ 1.6, 1.8, 2.1, 2.4, 3.4, 4.8, 7.1, 11 and 18 kHz.
• 2-pole Butterworth filters:
  • LC @ 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 43 and 54 Hz.
  • HC @ 7.5, 9, 11.1, 12.6, 16, 21, 28 and 40 kHz.

An additional analog signal path emulation provides some subtle but precious stereo imaging improvements.

Developer: Variety Of Sound

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Free VST - The Interruptor - EchoLive

EchoLive is a tape delay plug-in with special features for live use.

Features:

• The delay time can be defined by tapping the tempo with the mouse or on a MIDI keyboard or MIDI controller.
• Alternatively the delay time can also be set manually or synchronized with the host application.
• Latency compensation: you can compensate your soundcard's latency for perfectly timed echoes in live applications.
• Tape model including tape saturation, tape hiss, wow & flutter, low and high pass filtering, smooth parameter for continuous delay time changes like on a real tape delay.
• Stereo-control: ping pong delay, time symmetry, stereo width.
• All parameters are controllable by MIDI controllers.
• Pop-up hints help to understand the function of each control on the user interface. These appear when the mouse rests over a control.
• The assignment of MIDI controllers is documented in the pop-up hints.

Developer: The Interruptor

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Free VST - Decibel-O-Meter Free

      

Decibel-O-Meter Free

Measure the volume of sounds using your smartphone! Use your smartphone to measure the volume of music, noise or any sound and you want in decibels (dB). Ability to change the calibration settings coming soon. Ad supported. The paid version has no adverts and receives updates first.

Developer: Joseph Earl


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Free VST - Astralis Baby Bion V2

Updated to V2 which corrects the semitone tuning error - This is a new version, so you will still need V1 for old projects to save re-tuning them.

Baby Bion is lightweight Synth using the Oscillator from the forthcoming Astralis Bion. It was designed primarily with SoundScaper in mind, the free FX plugin from hgsounds which can create Complex Undulating Collages. Baby Bion adds a Synth to create the Sound Source, as well as Flanger/Filter, a complex LFO and a couple of 32 stage Envelopes. Although it specializes in Soundscapes and Atmospheres, it can also be used as a general Lightweight Synth, the uniquely developed Dual Oscillator provides over 3500 different waveforms which can be mixed in many flexible ways including FM.

Here are the main features:

• Dual Oscillator - The Oscillator provides 2 waveforms which can be mixed using on of the many modes which includes A+B, A-B, Various FM Modes, Dual Pitch, Split and Distorted.
• Filter - Cascadable up to 8 times and includes Low Passes, Hi Passes, Band Passes, Comb, Low Shelf, Hi Shelf and Peak.
• 32 Stage Envelopes - Capable of Repeating Sections, One Envelope is for volume and the second is for the Filter and general purpose, assigned via the Modulation Routing.
• Drive - Auto Volume Distortion
• LFO - Uniquely Developed LFO with standard Shapes, plus custom shapes with Smooth Control.
• SoundScaper - Comb / Delay / Reverb Effect for creating interesting soundscapes.
• Flanger/Filter - Switchable between Flanger and Filter effect, LFO has over 300 predefined shapes with smooth control as well as standard shapes.
• FX Routing - 3 different Paths available.
• Modulation Routing - Multiple options for assigning Modulators to Destinations.
• Stereo Spread - Allows setting a random value to the Pan of each voice. Created with Synthedit, though much of the code that makes up Bion based synths is unique, additional modules are also created by Chris Kerry.

Developer: Homegrown Sounds

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Free VST - Variety Of Sound - Density mkII

Density mkII is a Bus Compressor that offers smooth and versatile dynamic processing on the stereo bus. It isn't modeled after any specific outboard gear but rather incorporates some proven dynamic shaping approaches from the past, combined in a seamless fashion with some much more modern concepts in audio processing - the best of both worlds. 

Density mkII was primarily designed to work in a typical stereo audio group mixing situation or while summing and to glue all things together in an unobtrusive way. Yet it's capable of signal colouring, but in a subtle and pleasant way, and can also perform quite different tasks (i.e. it's very versatile).

Features:

• Perform ultra smooth 2-bus compression.
• Master difficult to handle audio dynamics.
• Manage mid/side dynamic processing in a true two channel layout.
• Apply dynamic range adjustments easily.

Plug-in specification:

• Zero latency processing, no phase alterations.
• Performance crucial parts are written in assembler.
• Completely SSE optimized.

 

Developer: Variety Of Sound

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Free VST - Audacity

The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems

Learn more about Audacity... Also check our Wiki and Forum for more information.

The latest release of Audacity is 1.3.13 (Beta). This is our active version with the latest features and fixes. We recommend this version for more advanced users, and for everyone on Windows 7, Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.6/10.7. Documentation and translations into different languages may not be quite complete. See New Features in 1.3 for more information about the 1.3 Beta series.

Audacity 1.2.6 is our main release, complete and fully documented, but no longer under development. You may install Audacity 1.2.6 and 1.3.13 on the same machine.


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Windows 1.2.6

Mac OS X 1.2.5 (Intel) or 1.2.6 (PPC)

Linux/Unix 1.2.6 (in source code)