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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)

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! [...]

The Kammerl-Kaske-VSTs are a comprehensive set of five soundmanipulating VST audio plug-ins, ready to be used with your favourite music production software like Steinberg’s Cubase or Ableton’s Live. Kammerl-Kaske-VSTs is a cooperation between Julius Kammerl (audio programming) and Klaus Kaske (artwork) and contains following plug-ins:
The Slicer:
The Slicer-Plug-in cuts all incoming audio signals into slices and [...]

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 [...]

You can never have too many different types of EQ in your toolbox, especially if they use advanced 64-bit analogue modeling, sound great and costs nothing! The FreeeQ is a high-quality 3 band ‘instant results’ EQ which is also highly optimized (especially considering what it’s doing ‘under the hood’) for CPU usage, so you can [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A self-modulated pitch shift delay effect made with MaxMSP.
(requires Pluggo Runtime)
Mac OSX UB, VST
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http://web.mac.com/vjeran.salamon/iWeb/vjeran.salamon/soft.html (649 clicks)

This is a standalone version of the chorus implemented in U-NO-60.

Characteristics of the Juno-60 chorus
2 modes
Dry/wet adjustable
Volume knob
Low CPU

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http://kunz.corrupt.ch/ (661 clicks)

TAL-Dub is a vintage style delay effect. It can be used for a wide range of delay effects from clean to extreme distorted, resonating never ending delays :-)

12dB resonance filter
Low cut filter
Maximal 4 Seconds delay time
Limiter with distortion for rising feedbacks or loud inputs
Delay time and feedback for each channel (linkable)
Input signal swap (L/R swap)
Filter [...]

TAL-Phaser is a carefully modelled stereo phaser effect. The user can choose between two, four and six stages. Its possible to adjust the lowest and highest frequency of the filter.

Two, four and six stages.
Syncable LFO.
Lowest- and highest-frequency adjustable.
Stereo phase offset from 0 to 180 degree.
Feedback (a very small amount of second order distortion in the [...]

TAL-Flanger is a easy to tweak stereo flanger effect with its own special sound and some asymmetric analog like components in the feedback corner. Useful for a wide range of flanger effects from subtle to extreme.
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http://kunz.corrupt.ch/ (661 clicks)

bx_solo is a nice little tool that we have designed to get you STARTED with and used to the way we approach the M/S technique – be it for recording-, mixing- or mastering purposes. The “heart” of our M/S tools are our unique SOLO BUTTONS that allow you to actually LISTEN to [...]

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 [...]

“Endless Tone” can be used to synthesize classic Shepard/Risset tones. It can also be used as a ring modulator either using an internal sine wave or the audio input for the carrier signal.
“Endless Tone” is part of “The Endless Series” and it’s freeware. The other plugins in the series are shareware.
Requires Pluggo Runtime (free from [...]

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 [...]

Pondular is an experimental synth interface by Kevin Ferguson, the lead developer of Mopis.
Pondular was part of the KVR Developer Challenge 2006, where it earned sixth place.
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http://www.pondular.com/ (1027 clicks)

It consist in a delay unit followed by a 2nd order lowpass filter with saturation. The delay-time can evolve between 0 and max-delay which lets you be very accurate. You can also synchronise the delay to the tempo with different resolutions from 1/128 to 1 bar and control the way the delay-time is interpolated with [...]

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 [...]

Seen it before? As a MIDI instrument? As a VST plugin?
When you play pong, you play music. You can try it as an applet, though that’s not half as cute as connecting it to a nice soft-synth sound, adding a few effects (arpeggiator, anyone?) and letting it play some loops for you.
Note that I’ve used [...]

Berrtill is a distortion-unit modelled on circuit bent hardware.
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http://www.shuriken.se/ (1098 clicks)

dirtsky is a frickin’ mess… on one side it’s a grain-based mangler similar to gleck, but with more control. On the other side it’s a 3 way harmonizer with independent pitch controls. You can set the wet/dry value of the effect in general and the amount of dirt and/or sky to your liking.
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http://homepage.mac.com/andrew_burgess/plugin.html [...]

reanimator contains a granular pitch shifter, a stutter/repeater with semi random behaviour and a sonograph to see it’s inner beauty
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http://homepage.mac.com/andrew_burgess/plugin.html (961 clicks)

gleck is a granular delay/repeater with pre and post effect waveform displays (for people who like to see the effect)
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http://homepage.mac.com/andrew_burgess/plugin.html (961 clicks)

Werd contains 2 independent delay lines, a multimode filter, and a re-pitcher each with independent wet/dry levels
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http://homepage.mac.com/andrew_burgess/plugin.html (961 clicks)

this plugin provides a beat-syncronised gate (whole to 1/64th notes) with volume sliders for each step, also a multimode filter and delay/reverb.
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http://homepage.mac.com/andrew_burgess/plugin.html (961 clicks)

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 [...]

Let’s assume that you have a stereo track in which an acoustic guitar is the only instrument in the left channel, and a voice is the only signal in the right. If you pan all left, you might intuitively think that the singer will gradually be heard in the left channel. But with typical hardware [...]

Real-time sample assembler that accumulates loops from live or prerecorded audio sources. which means you can do all sort of nice things with it.
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http://www.shuriken.se (1040 clicks)

This my friend is a what you would call a FSU VST, all it does is chopping up buffers and plays them back. of-course you can choose the length of the piece of audio played back and when to apply it.
Blargh its hard to explain what it does, throw it into your DAW feed it [...]

SqakAttack is a midicontrolled buffersynth with a duck for GUI.
Hook SqakAttack up with audio and midi then when you press a midi note whats currently coming in on audio will be used to synthesize audio. Does it sound stupid and hard to grasp? check out my stupid explaination down under here with [...]

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. [...]

This dynamic processor manages audio transients.
Bitter Sweet is especially active on loud percussive tracks.
Turning the central button on the sweet side, decreases the transients amplitude. On the bitter side, the transients amplitude is magnified. Bitter-Sweet also features a control for the signal to be processed. When the main position is engaged, the process affects [...]

The Delta Series is a plug-in toolkit.
Containing five completely free plugins that encompass filtering, distortion, phasing, delays and spatialisation they are a powerful arsenal to add to your plugin folder.
The Delta Series are available for Mac and Windows VST format. The Macintosh versions are Universal Binaries and require 10.4 or higher to run.
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http://www.expdigital.co.uk/freeware.htm (423 [...]

VST plugin that simulates the Eight-Octave Filter Bank module built in 1971 by EMS.
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http://web.mac.com/pierre.couprie/iWeb/Logiciels/Eight-Octave%20Filter%20Bank.html (599 clicks)

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 [...]

Square-o-matic will try to create square waves from other waves. It works best on sond that are symmetrical. That is, the upper halve (above zero) of the wave is similar to the lower halve (below zero).
The envelope follower detects the current amplitude, the attack is instantanious and the release is controlled by the Falloff knob.
The [...]

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 [...]

Basically a delay set to work with very short delay times, and high feedback. It’s most useful (imo) on guitars, as a kind of fake (amp) feedback effect. (sorry for the stupid name… I hate naming things) (C++)
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http://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs/ (485 clicks)

MoviePlayer – VST plugin to play video in Live

Here is the second update of the video device I built for Ableton Live. I used Max/Msp (demo), and exported it as a Pluggo plugin. That plugin needs Pluggo runtime (free) to run.
- I made it in two size, since it is not resizable.
- When Live [...]

VST – Pd Bridging Plugin
PdVst is a software system that allows Pd patches to run as VST plugins.
-How PdVst Works-
PdVst consists of two main parts, a VST plugin and a custom version of Pd. When a PdVst plugin is opened by the host application, a setup file is read to determine information about the plugin, [...]

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 [...]