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Drum Machine

BEATSURFING - 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.

macOS · Windows

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Sample Instrument

Crow 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.

macOS · Windows

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Piano

Dark 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.

macOS · Windows

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DAWJunkie - VinylSynth Jr

Sample-based lo-fi synth built from sounds recorded from vinyl, with three sound layers, filtering, unison, arpeggiator and built-in effects.

macOS · Windows

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Dehli 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.

macOS · Windows · Linux

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Dezert Audio - Polyfreq

Virtual analog synth with dual oscillators, sub and noise sources, a Soviet-style multimode filter, flexible modulation and wide unison controls.

macOS · Windows

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Different Instruments - PartialString

Physical-modelled string synth that generates plucked and evolving string sounds in real time rather than using samples.

macOS · Windows · Linux

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Guitar Emulator

e-instruments - Velvet Guitars Fragment

Atmospheric baritone guitar instrument with sustains, mutes, legato and dead notes, plus two amp sounds and real spring reverb.

macOS · Windows

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Saxophone

Fracture 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.

macOS · Windows

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Full Bucket Music - FB3

Hybrid synth emulation of the 1986 Kawai K3, combining digital wave generation with analog-style filtering for glassy tones, punchy basses and lush pads.

Windows · macOS

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Hivetune - Delta6

Six-operator FM synth with a fully open modulation matrix, multiple oscillator shapes, per-operator envelopes and built-in chorus and reverb.

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Hivetune - Relica 2

Retro 8-bit synth with classic waveforms, pulse-width modulation, bit crushing, noise, vibrato, portamento and a tempo-synced arpeggiator.

macOS · Windows

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Drum Synth

Hyperfocus DSP - NINER

Kick drum synthesizer built from sub, body and click layers, with built-in compression, drive, limiting, tube warmth, clap voice and step sequencing.

macOS · Windows · Linux

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Drum Synth

Low End Candy - The Clap

Physically modelled hand-clap synthesizer that generates natural, humanised claps without samples, with adjustable crowd size, timing scatter, room sound and stereo width.

Windows · macOS

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Manu Riga - Drift Ritual

Atmospheric software synth with dual oscillators, cross-modulation, flexible modulation and built-in delay and reverb for pads, drones and cinematic textures.

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Sample Instrument

Moloko Instruments - Luch

Soviet-era metallophone instrument blending fragile acoustic samples with vintage synth textures, tape-like instability, noise and atmospheric effects.

macOS · Windows

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nakst - Altitude

Hybrid synth workstation combining subtractive, sampling and FM synthesis with eight sound generators, extensive modulation and built-in effects.

Windows · macOS · Linux

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OA Labs - OA-Phosphor-1

Experimental synth built around controlled instability, with dual oscillators, aging and chaos modulation, morphing filters, waveshaping and a generative arpeggiator.

macOS · Windows · Linux

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Overload Audio - MOODYSIX

KORG Polysix-inspired synth with classic analog architecture, built-in chorus, phaser and ensemble, plus several popular hardware-style modifications.

macOS · Windows

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Sojus Records - SD-1

Emulation of the Ensoniq SD-1/32, combining additive and wavetable-style synthesis with the original ROM waves, editing controls and effects.

Windows · macOS · Linux

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Sonuscore - Elysion Elements

Cinematic hybrid instrument combining sampled synthetic sources with pads, pulses, hits and animated textures, plus the full Elysion effects and modulation engine.

macOS · Windows

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Drum Machine

TerminalVST - Instant

Sample-based drum plugin with four 32-step sequencers, randomisation, per-step parameter locks, microtiming and drag-and-drop audio export.

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TiagoLr - TetraOP

Four-oscillator wavetable synth with FM and ring modulation, flexible filtering, large unison stacks and an extensive modulation system.

macOS · Windows

Curated collections

A good place
to start.

Small selections to spark ideas, solve problems or find something new.

Personal tested picks have their own label.

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The Sample Flipping Toolkit

Chop, stretch, pitch and rearrange your samples into something new.

Dust, Warmth & Wobble

Tape colour, sampler grit and pitch drift for sounds with a little history.

Soulful Keys

Characterful pianos, electric keys and organs, with tremolo to bring them to life.

Make Your Drums Knock

Shape the attack, add weight and glue your drums together.

Odd Ingredients

Unusual instruments, unexpected textures and effects for your next happy accident.

Space & Atmosphere

Build depth and atmosphere with echoes, reverbs, granular textures and evolving pads.