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Synth1
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possibly the most important free synth ever,
Ichiro Toda's take on the Clavia Nord Lead 2
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Live Enhancement Suite (LES)
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huge upgrades for Ableton Live,
especially if you don't have 11
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Vital
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fantastic wavetable synth with audio-rate modulation
free version is barely different than the paid one;
it limits use of the text-to-wavetable feature and
also leaves out some of the presets and wavetables
this one is a must-have, please support Matt Tytel
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DtBlkFx
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quirky harmonic filtering and spectral shifting thing;
think Unfiltered Audio's SpecOps
if it were from 2006
and sacrificed the whole modular aspect. super cool
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VCV Rack
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fantastic standalone modular synth environment
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Exakt Lite
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4-operator FM synth with an intuitive interface
alternatively, Oxe FM has 6 operators but a smaller
more "classic" interface. i prefer both over Dexed
b/c that only has sine wave operators to work with
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Magical 8bit Plug
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quick 'n' easy authentic NES/Famicom sound maker
and the second plugin i ever downloaded (i think)
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PPSE C700
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fantastic emulation of SNES/SFC sample playback that allows
for importing of your own sounds or instruments directly
from your favorite games by means of an .spc file
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GENNY
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Sega Genesis/Mega Drive emulation FM synth that can import
a variety of instrument formats from your favorite games.
made by Landon Podbielski aka superjoebob,
the creator of Duck Game, who made this plugin for its soundtrack
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Camel Audio
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a company acquired by Apple
that you probably know for CamelCrusher, a freeware version of their distortion, CamelPhat. they also made a neat rhythmic multi-effect, CamelSpace.
none of their stuff is available to purchase anymore, but their Alchemy synth was integrated into Logic, so i've left that one out just to be safe
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Valhalla DSP
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- Supermassive - reverb/delay capable of HUGE spaces
- SpaceModulator - neat flanger doubler sorta thing
- FreqEcho - the psychedelic combo of a Bode-style frequency shifter inside a delay,
like a free Echobode but different and with less features
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Crank Sinatra's Break Maker
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Ableton rack for automatic random chopping of breaks
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Misstortion 2
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lovely emulation of Logic's Clip Distortion,
which is/was the go-to for hardstyle kicks
still updated as of 2020; go follow
Melissa
and support her other projects
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KeroVee
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a great free autotune plugin that can mix
two
independently formant- and/or pitch-shifted outputs
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Captain Credible
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creator of carefree audio smashifying plugins.
9th Gate Xtal brings a big stupid smile to my face
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PaulXStretch
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plugin version of a popular sound stretcher
that most people associate with Audacity
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Ableton Soundgoodizer
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some of FL's iconic Maximus presets recreated for Ableton.
A and B use only stock effects, C uses Fabfilter Pro-MB
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Xoxos VSTs
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some seriously unique albeit esoteric plugins. there's synths that aim
to emulate the vocal tracts of animals!
i quite like pling4, a karplus-strong string synth
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Akaizer v2.3
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a standalone freeware timestretching tool based on a
reverse-engineered algorithm from old AKAI samplers
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Anarchy Effects
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weirdness like Spectral Autopan and
the Shepard-tone-esque Corkscrew
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Astro's aka
Elysian Tunes'
Ableton Instruments
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fun and useful Ableton racks.
there's a dub siren,
big distorted kick maker,
eurobeat lead, percussion generators, and more
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Disto:FX
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multimode waveshaping distortion
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Dada Life VST
Ableton Racks
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iconic very-way-more-loud-inator and buildup enhancer recreated for Ableton.
the Endless Smile rack is by
Joshua Casper
and i think the Sausage Fattener one
is from Cymatics but i honestly am not sure
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DarkWare VSTs
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bonkers synthedit plugins + source files
! MAJOR NSFW WARNING - ECCHI AND HENTAI UI !
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Tunefish 4
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cool and tiny synth with an atypical iFFT-based generator.
V3 uses a spline-based oscillator because that version was made
with less of a size constraint, making it debatable which
version is the more powerful one. why not try both?
read about this synth's demoscene origins here
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dblue Glitch 1.3
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old (but free!) version of what is now Illformed Glitch 2
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AquesTone 2
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a Miku-alike vocal synth using the Japanese phoneme set
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Mutated Texturizer
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two M4L devices based off the
Clouds eurorack module by Mutable Instruments
and its alternate Parasite firmware
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Surge
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used to cost money, now free and open source!
3 oscillators per scene with various synth engines
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Sevish's Microtuning Resources
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various ways to explore alternative tunings
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EngineersFilter
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free EQ by rs_met capable of extremely steep filtering
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Argotlunar
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weird granular delay sorta thing. make sure to use the download links further down the page because the version on github doesn't appear to be the most recent revision (which is 2.0.6 as of writing this)
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sfxia
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fast & easy sound effect generator with parameter locking
so you can randomize only the things you want randomized
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sfxr
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like sfxia but different and way older (from 2007)
at some point you've probably played an indie or
flash game that utilized this
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Keyfinder
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open-source harmonic mixing tool to make DJing easier
not maintained on Windows anymore (even if it says there's an update)
but still a good alternative to Mixed In Key
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Oscilloscope
by Hansi Raber
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software emulation of old ray-based oscilloscopes
great for getting a new look at your sounds or if
you want to try some
Jerobeam Fenderson
type stuff
without buying an expensive piece of hardware first
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Speakonia v1.3.5
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charmingly goofy text-to-speech. not in development any more. registration info is as follows:
- Name: Unlimited License
- E-Mail: none@needed.com
- Registration Code: SPK-174101-172083
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Greggman HTML5 Bytebeat Maker
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bytebeat is music made from very small amounts
of code/math.
read more about bytebeat here
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IBNIZ
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a strange but fun little program for making
audio and visuals with small amounts of code,
so a bytebeat demoscene virtual machine
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Wurstcaptures Bytebeat Maker
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similar to the other html5 one above but i tried
this one first so it feels right to include it
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Winamp Community Update Project
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WACUP is a modern version of a beloved classic media player many know for its amazing visualizers.
kept up-to-date by Dr. O, one of the original developers. especially good for people who livestream since it can
output info about currently playing music to a text file and its album art to an image file for easy access in
OBS or whatever other streaming software you use
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United Pro Audio Web Groups
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an incredibly helpful log containing information
about the latest releases by your favorite groups
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