Image unavailableRoots - Choral Fragments
An experimental vocal instrument that manipulates choir recordings into unusual, atmospheric soundscapes and textures.
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Image unavailableImage unavailableRoots - Dust Piano
A warm, dusty upright piano with a soft, nostalgic sound and additional atmospheric texture layers.
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Image unavailableAcon Digital - Multiply 2
Multi-stage chorus with up to six voices, independent pitch and amplitude modulation, stereo spread, pre-delay and a built-in 5-band EQ.
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Image unavailableAnalog Obsession - MuChild
Fairchild 660-inspired tube compressor with classic time constants, adjustable ratio and knee, sidechain filtering and parallel compression.
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Image unavailableAnalog Obsession - TheBus
Straightforward bus compressor designed to add glue and punch to drums, groups and mixes, with selectable attack and release times plus sidechain filtering.
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Image unavailableAnalog Obsession ToneShaper
Simple passive-style tone shaping plugin with controls for brightness, low-mid body and clean output gain.
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Image unavailableAuburn Sounds - Psypan (Free Edition)
Binaural panning and stereo multi-effect for creating width, movement and three-dimensional positioning around the listener.
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Image unavailableAudioFusion Bureau - RoomDIY
Acoustic modelling plugin that lets you design virtual rooms, position sound sources and simulate reflections, materials and acoustic treatment in real time.
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Image unavailableBEATSURFING - VRAC
Sample-based drum instrument that turns any imported sound into a playable kit by morphing it toward kick, snare, clap and hi-hat models.
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Image unavailableBox of Rules - Box of Bass
All-in-one bass processing plugin that splits a DI signal into nine channels with sub, cabinet, driven mic and room sounds, plus drive, saturation and EQ.
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Image unavailableCrow Hill Company - Lyre Lyre Pants On…
Sampled lyre instrument ranging from soft brushed tones to harder koto-like plucks, with tremolando, delay and reverb for atmospheric textures. Crow Hill explicitly says it’s free forever.
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Image unavailableCure Audio - Scream
Aggressive resonant filter inspired by Native Instruments Massive’s Scream filter, with dual drawable LFOs for complex tempo-synced modulation.
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Image unavailableDark Fairytale Instruments - PIXIE
Sampled antique toy piano featuring traditional keyboard sounds and felt-mallet strikes for delicate, quirky and cinematic tones. It’s still listed as free by the developer.
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Image unavailableDarkpalace Studio - Parrot
Creative three-band delay with independent timing, panning and effects per band, plus saturation, pitch shifting, modulation and MIDI tracking.
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Image unavailableDAWJunkie - VinylSynth Jr
Sample-based lo-fi synth built from sounds recorded from vinyl, with three sound layers, filtering, unison, arpeggiator and built-in effects.
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Image unavailabledBdone - Wasser
Multiband delay that splits audio into frequency bands and lets each band have its own delay time for rhythmic and experimental effects.
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Image unavailableDeadloop - Moonverb
Shimmer reverb with pitch-shifted feedback, freeze and modulation controls for lush ambient spaces, drones and evolving textures.
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Image unavailableDehli Musikk Overtonium
32-partial additive synthesizer that lets you shape each harmonic like its own mixer channel, with individual tuning, envelopes, modulation and stereo placement.
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Image unavailableDezert Audio - Polyfreq
Virtual analog synth with dual oscillators, sub and noise sources, a Soviet-style multimode filter, flexible modulation and wide unison controls.
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Image unavailableDifferent Instruments - PartialString
Physical-modelled string synth that generates plucked and evolving string sounds in real time rather than using samples.
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Image unavailableDSPTone - RESTRUKT
Ambience reduction and transient-enhancement plugin that removes unwanted room tone, ring and sustain while preserving punch, with added excitation and tail reverb.
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Image unavailableDusk Audio - Tape Echo 2
Space Echo-style tape delay and spring reverb emulation with three playback heads, wow and flutter, tape ageing and tempo sync.
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Image unavailablee-instruments - Velvet Guitars Fragment
Atmospheric baritone guitar instrument with sustains, mutes, legato and dead notes, plus two amp sounds and real spring reverb.
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Image unavailableFracture Sounds - Blueprint: Textural Sax
Atmospheric tenor sax instrument featuring four textural articulations, an additional atmosphere layer and built-in lo-fi, delay and reverb controls.
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