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Rough Rider is a modern compressor with a bit of “vintage” style bite and a uniquely warm sound. Perfect for adding compression effects to your drum buss, it also sounds great with synth bass, clean guitar, and backing vocals. Definitely not an all-purpose compressor, Rough Rider is at its best when used to add pump [...]

1-Time (one-time) is a FREE mono tape saturation plug-in. It can smooth out harsh transients, add weight to kicks, and more. There is only one setting and only one knob that adjusts the gain. It is a handy and useful tool and it’s free!. 
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http://www.reigndesign.net/ (717 clicks)

micronAU is an audio unit that allows one to fully control and automate the Alesis Micron synthesizer. As anyone who owns one of these synths knows, it can generate some wicked sounds but it can be a real pain to program via its single knob. This audio unit provides an interface through which the entire [...]

SoundHack Delay Trio is a group of three plugins derived from the same basic delay algorithm: a hermite interpolated delay line with variable modulation, and a feedback loop with dc blocking and saturation. Pitch shifting is achieved with a dual head crossfading delay (ala Eltro Tempophon/Dennis Gabor/Pierre Schaeffer phonogene) and is decidedly low-?. The saturating feedback [...]

After the success of TAL-Dub, we decided to release TAL-DUB-II, an extended version with a completely new sound engine. A 4x oversampled distortion stage allows to add vintage distortion to the delayd signal, but its also possible to make clean delays.
A sinus LFO has the possibility to modulate delay time and low pass filter cutoff. [...]

TAL-Tube is a saturation plugin that have the characteristic of tubes and an additional amplifier mode. It’s very suitable for adding higher harmonics and can give more excitement and analog character to digital sounds or drums. At extreme values it can also be used as a grungy distortion effect…
 

Amplifier mode.
Soft and hard mode (2 different tube [...]

Tune It! is a piece of software that helps musicians to tune their instrument. It can also be used to monitor the pitch during live performance. 
Tune It! is based on a original and very accurate pitch detection algorithm. It can tune a wide range of instruments such as guitar, bass, piano, flute, violin, saxophone, etc… 
Tune It! [...]

This tool allows a super precise control of the stereo image.
Stereo Tool features ultra precise controls of input gain and individual pan for left and right channels. A phase inverter is available for each channel. A global stereo pan and a stereo width settings are also implemented to complete the management of the [...]

Clocker is a utility plug-in that sends MIDI clock.
Why would you want a plug-in to do that, when your host app sends MIDI clock perfectly fine? Well, with Clocker you have a separate, adjustable source of MIDI clock. So [...]

InstantSampler takes samples (instantly) from the audio input whenever you hit a specific MIDI note for the first time.
Every consecutive time you hit the same MIDI-note, it plays back the recorded fragment (or shorter, depending on the note’s length).
When you play the sampled fragments, you have the possibility to vary the following:
velocity – Playback [...]

StormGate1 is an unique and innovative amplitude rhythmic gating effect which lets you draw the gating patterns freely by hand or with the aid of powerful drawing tools.
It can be used as a creative tool to create rhythmic parts out of anything (pads, noises, etc…), as an enveloper, or even like a simple but powerful [...]

Side Chain Compressor was developed by Slim Slow Slider for VST windows. apulSoft ported this plugin to OSX and to the AU format.
This is a Side Chain only compressor which requires special routing.
For VST there are two versions, mono (2 input channels/1 output channel) and stereo (4 input channels/2 output channels). Not all vst hosts [...]

X-ISM is a state of the art VST/AU plug-in which can interpret inter-sample peaks, allowing engineers to make informed judgements about the resultant sound quality of the mix.
There is currently a trend in the in the audio industry known euphemistically as ‘The loudness war’ in which the engineering process is driven to produce a product [...]

Hypercyclic is an LFO-driven MIDI arpeggiator. Two tempo-synced LFOs can be used to modulate various parameters to create interesting rhythmic effects and chord variations.
The sweetspot for hypercyclic is the narrow border between chaos and regularity. Or, in other words, how to induce a certain pleasant randomness, yet forcing everything to align again on [...]

These plugins are intended to constitute a spectral sound-design toolbox. Most of them are inspired by image processing techniques as you can find in photoshop for example. I’ve used the FFTReal class by Laurent De Soras that can be downloaded at musicdsp
::WARP::
This plugin swap a frequency band defined between the fmin and fmax parameters while [...]

SoundMagic Spectral is a suite of 22 Audio Unit plug-ins that implement real-time spectral processing of sound. This groundbreaking set of effects give you unprecedented control and creativity in the processing of audio, whether from static audio files to live audio streams. SoundMagic Spectral builds on the work of the OS 9 set of effects [...]

A free reverse delay and sampler with variable sample length Audio Unit for Mac OS X Tiger.
In a nutshell, the audio unit provides the following:
-Gapless semi-realtime reverse playback
-Automatic crossfading to reduce pops and clicks
-Sample (delay) time user configurable from 0.1 to 10 seconds
-Works seamlessly at 48 kHz
-Industry standard Cocoa user interface and compliance
-Freeware
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http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/projects/audio-units/reverse-sampler.php (634 clicks)

A free real time Eventide alike diatonic pitch shifter with per note adjustable shifting settings Audio Unit for Mac OS X Tiger.
In short, the Diatonic Shifter Audio Unit provides the following features:
-Diatonic pitch shifting and harmonizing on a per note basis
-User configurable tuning frequency for the A440 note
-Adjustable tracking delay setting to prevent note detection [...]

Octave Shifter 2 is a free real-time pitch shifting audio effect for Apple’s Audio Unit architecture. By leveraging existing technologies like CoreAudio, Altivec and SSE, Octave Shifter 2 offers a unique audio experience.
Key features of the Audio Unit include:

real-time, low latency processing for live performances
high precision post-processing for studio quality results
four full octaves of pitch [...]

NinjaPlugs is a suite of 6 plug-ins inspired by a set of commercially available plug-ins called GRM-Tools. They were written and compiled in Max/MSP 4.6.2, a highly powerful graphic programming environment and run under the Pluggo Runtime environment, both created by Cycling ’74.
They’re designed to produce slightly bizarre effects, not normally found in ‘standard’ plug-ins [...]

The idea behind this plugin is to have a panner you can use in any DAW you wish that is very configurable by the user without any special magic inside that leaves you wondering what happened to your audio. In other words, you have complete control of what the plugin is doing.
PAEIN is based on [...]

Some plug-ins to get that vintage glitchy sound people tend to be after. Drop them on your tracks and expect instant generic gratification. But don’t be fooled that anyone cares about your dsp efforts.
Requires Pluggo Runtime.
[Windows, Mac, VST/AU/RTAS]
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http://stephenlumenta.com/?page_id=30 (1400 clicks)

MultiInspectorFree is a 31 band spectral analyzer designed to be used in a multitrack environment. Based on the technology of FaderWorks to handle multiple dependent instances of the same plug-in, MultiInspectorFree provides an easy way for simultaneous spectral analysis of several audio signals.
The first instance of MultiInspectorFree behaves like a standard 31 band spectral analyzer. [...]

SonicBirth is an AudioUnit designing application. The first in its category, it allows users to build their own AudioUnit plugins, either by working with existing circuits or by creating circuits completely from scratch.
SonicBirth is also a free AudioUnits package, as it comes bundled with a set of plugins designed for standalone use as plugins [...]

BitControl is an editor for the Bit 01 and Bit 99 synthesisers. It runs as a VST or Audio Unit plugin.
BitControl is free of charge and open source.
Features
* Graphical, near-real-time editing for all parameters in a single Bit 01/99 program
* AU or VST plugin: program data can [...]

Kingdubby is an audio unit plugin for Mac OS X emulating and old school tape delay.
GUI design by bitplant . It is now compatible with logic 7 .
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http://www.lowcoders.net/kd.html (999 clicks)

Free distortion, compressor and filter for drums and guitar.
CamelCrusher is a free versatile ‘colouring’ multi-effect plugin. It offers two characteristically different distortion sounds which can be blended together to create a wide variety of tones and textures. Great for guitars, drums and plenty more!
There’s also a warm, smooth analogue-style low-pass filter, with buckets of resonance. [...]

It can connect several tubePlug users via the internet and allows high quality multichannel audio exchange between them and the t-u-b-e venue.
tubePlug runs as a VST/AudioUnit plug on MACOSX 10.3.9 or higher (universal Intel/PowerPC) and as a VST plug on Win9x, WinME, WinXP. You can use your favorite audio host (e.g. Cubase, Logic, Plogue [...]

The VoxReducer audio unit is designed to reduce the level of the main vocal track in a stereo music audio file. VoxReducer includes four factory presets designed for different musical genres. These include Jazz, Light Rock, Hard Rock, and Metal.
Requirements:
Audio Units host application, such as Garage Band, Final Cut Pro, Logic, Audio Lab, etc…
Source audio [...]

i am releasing five small plugins for the audiounit format. these will eventually be offered as macintel plugins and possibly other formats (vst, rtas, windows)
+chebyshev
a distortion unit which uses various low-order chebyshev polynomials to add even or odd harmonic distortion.
+compand
combined compressor/expander audio unit plugin. It has a softknee control as well as a switchable rms/peak [...]

this OSX VST/AU plugin is modeled after grmtools freeze. you’ll need the pluggo runtime to use this plugin.
http://www.hecanjog.com/software.php (1361 clicks)

This is the second version of MouseMusic. Instead of modulating filters in a synth, you are now able to modulate live input or a sound file. MouseMusic2 plays sound files from your hard disk, so the only limit to how large they are is dictated by your processor speed. MouseMusic2 tracks your drawing on the [...]

A five-line multi-tap machine with individual gains for each line as well as individual stereo placement for interesting spatial effects. Also includes passing through of the clean input signal. TapCity can be further controlled with Midi continuous controllers 7 (volume) and 10 (pan). By clicking on the number boxes next to the line you wish [...]

A flexible granulator machine with sliders for controlling grain separation as well as rate, size, pitch and random variation degree of these parameters. Stereo spread control places your grains about the room and individual gain knobs can be used for the mono input signal, the effected signal, and the clean output so that you have [...]

Monalisa-Audio Unit is a software component which allows you to process audio using Apple Image Units by routing this audio through any Audio Unit capable application. Monalisa-Audio Unit acts as a plug-in host to mediate between Audio Units and Image Units, allowing you to process your audio signal through any Image Unit. All processing in [...]

LiveCut is a “Live BreakBeat Cutting tool” based on Nick Collins algorithms that can be found in the BBCut library for SuperCollider.
“The BBCut Library began out of work on an algorithm to simulate the automatic cutting of breakbeats in the style of early jungle or drum and bass [Collins 2001a].”
LiveCut syncs to the host tempos [...]

A simple but unique tempo syncing delay plugin
http://www.teragon.org/downloads/index.html (462 clicks)

The Wavebreaker is a wave shaper and outputs a weighted sum of the ten first Chebyshev polynomials, evaluated in the point represented by the input sample. Each vertical slider controls a weight.
Basically, it works like this: If you feed a sinusoid (a sine- or cosine-wave) into the Wavebreaker and drag the first slider marked w1 [...]

Distortion That’s Out Of This World!
Tired of using the same old distortion plugins? Check this Audio Unit which is based on a completely non-conventional distortion algorithm.
http://www.cs.camosun.bc.ca/~c0262447/software/#warp-drive (1043 clicks)

a simple vowel filter, with the possibility of mixing two vowels
http://airy.andre.online.fr/AU/ (712 clicks)

The ultimate lo-fi weapon, iZotope Vinyl uses 64-bit processing and advanced filtering, modeling and resampling to create authentic “vinyl” simulation, as if the audio was a record being played on a record player.
You have complete control over the following parameters:
Mechanical Noise: The amount of turntable motor rumble and noise
Electrical Noise: Internally generated electrical noise, [...]

FLOORFISH is a simple expander / gate device, easy to set up and offers a broad variety of processing, ranging from slight expansion, backgound noise attenuation to extreme gating effects.
What’s different from similar units is the ability to scan the source and adjust the transistion curve accordingly.
http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.php?item=2&subItem=5 (13 clicks)

SPITFISH is a dead-easy to use de-esser, aimed mainly at mono or stereo vocal tracks.
Just like classic analog de-essers, this unit dynamically filters out harsh, annoying s-like sounds that would otherwise ’spit’ in your face.
http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.php?item=2&subItem=5 (13 clicks)

BLOCKFISH is a versatile compressor with countless ways to shape the incoming audio.
Unlike many other digital compressors, BLOCKFISH has ’soul’. It likes to bite, but it can be tamed easily once you’ve learned how to use its potential.
You can remove the front plate and make further adjustments on the circuit board.
Everything is possible: clean, transparent, [...]

BeatCounter is a simple plugin designed to facilitate beatmatching software and turntables. It displays the current tempo in beats per minute (BPM), while the bottom window displays an accumulated average over the last few seconds. BeatCounter is the perfect tool for DJ’s that want to integrate computer effects or elements with turntables.
Features
Lowpass filter with variable [...]

A fairly straightforward phaser effect.
http://www.collective.co.uk/expertsleepers/phaser.html (196 clicks)

A simple stereo ping pong delay plugin.
I wrote this primarily as an exercise in learning about writing AUs, and I’m happy to make the source code available so others can get started too.
http://www.collective.co.uk/expertsleepers/pingpong.html (319 clicks)

Bitcrusher and downsampling plugin with anti aliasing.
http://mirrors.atariboy.com/steve_duda/ (543 clicks)

Multi Delay is a Multi Channel Filter Delay VST & AudioUnit Plugin.
Features :
Up to 10 individual Channels with a Delay and a Filter
Notch, Lowpass, Highpass and Bandpass Filter
Every parameter can be modulated by one of the 10 LFOs or by steps (in sync with the host app)
works on mono, stereo or multichannel tracks
altivec optimized
http://arne.knup.de/software/multidelay.php (338 [...]

Meringue is a delay effect. Unlike most delays, the delay runs alternately forwards and backwards, rather than continually forwards.
http://www.collective.co.uk/expertsleepers/meringue.html (468 clicks)