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Piano

Roots - Dust Piano

A warm, dusty upright piano with a soft, nostalgic sound and additional atmospheric texture layers.

macOS · Windows

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Chorus

Acon 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.

Windows · macOS

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Compressor

Analog Obsession - MuChild

Fairchild 660-inspired tube compressor with classic time constants, adjustable ratio and knee, sidechain filtering and parallel compression.

macOS · Windows

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Compressor

Analog 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.

Windows · macOS

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Tone Shaper

Analog Obsession ToneShaper

Simple passive-style tone shaping plugin with controls for brightness, low-mid body and clean output gain.

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Spatial FX

Auburn Sounds - Psypan (Free Edition)

Binaural panning and stereo multi-effect for creating width, movement and three-dimensional positioning around the listener.

macOS · Windows · Linux

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Reverb

AudioFusion Bureau - RoomDIY

Acoustic modelling plugin that lets you design virtual rooms, position sound sources and simulate reflections, materials and acoustic treatment in real time.

macOS · Windows

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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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Amp Simulator

Box 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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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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Filter

Cure Audio - Scream

Aggressive resonant filter inspired by Native Instruments Massive’s Scream filter, with dual drawable LFOs for complex tempo-synced modulation.

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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Delay

Darkpalace 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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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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Delay

dBdone - Wasser

Multiband delay that splits audio into frequency bands and lets each band have its own delay time for rhythmic and experimental effects.

macOS · Windows

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Reverb

Deadloop - Moonverb

Shimmer reverb with pitch-shifted feedback, freeze and modulation controls for lush ambient spaces, drones and evolving textures.

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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.

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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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Ambience Processor

DSPTone - RESTRUKT

Ambience reduction and transient-enhancement plugin that removes unwanted room tone, ring and sustain while preserving punch, with added excitation and tail reverb.

Windows · macOS

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Delay

Dusk 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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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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Curated collections

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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.