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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 [...]

bs-spectrum is a spectrum analyzer for Steinberg VST plugin format that features linear and logarithmic modes.
http://homepage.mac.com/bismark/bs-spectrum/index.html (629 clicks)

The TremoLlama is a versatile tremolo plugin for live performance. The tremolo features are extensive, but what differentiates it from others are it’s easy to use visuals and the “live” tempo features. The depth slider is self-explanatory, but you may have noticed that it doesn’t have a frequency slider. You set how [...]

Fre(a)koscope is an FFT-based real-time spectrum analyzer featuring: lin/log/semitones/third-octave/Bark scales
- window size selection
- frequency zooming
- freeze
- peak hold
- cursor information (amplitude+frequency)
planned:
- mel/Erb frequency scales
- spectrum averaging
- basic informations like spectral centroid, dominant pitch…
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http://mdsp.smartelectronix.com/ffttools/ (1880 clicks)

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 [...]

RubyTube simulates tube preamps for those that can’t forget. If you are missing that subtle sparkling and compression that you get when using ancient audio equipment, RubyTube might be something for you. And like many other good things in life, RubyTube is free.
RubyTube is a real time, digital tube amp simulator. RubyTube simulates the saturation [...]

W1 Limiter is a clone of Waves L1, with identical output.
I have not seen any Waves source code, and this result was obtained by tweaking 4Front YLimiter, by doing the following:
Release curve simplified
Release time multiplied 3 times (see notes below)
Softening circuit filter changed
Waves L1 famous limiter (and thus W1 – for compatibility reasons) uses three [...]

Devine Machine are pleased to announce that Minion, a free VST effect plug-in for both PC and Mac OS X, is now available.
When you just have to have four filters being modulated by a total of twelve LFOs, you need Minion!
It’s got balls, you see. Four of them, pinging and swinging their way around an [...]

WWAYM NWEQ is a free plugin, perfect for mastering and sound designing.
Features:
- 5 parametric bands (low shelf, band 1-2-3, high shelf)
- high quality filters (10 Hz – 22 KHz)
- 2 cross fadeable filter models for band 1-2-3
- works as a filter a bank, too
- templates for most common EQ applications
- aesthetic and easy to use [...]

PSP VintageMeter (free plug-in VST, RTAS, MAS, AudioUnit for MAC and VST, RTAS and DirectX for PC hosts) provides professional VU and PPM metering for mono and stereo tracks. All parameters like integration times and reference levels are widely adjustable to make this free plug-in suitable for any application.
http://www.pspaudioware.com/ (343 clicks)

PSP PianoVerb is a completely free plug-in for any VST, MAS and DirectX compatible host (such as Cubase, Logic, Nuendo, Sonar, DigitalPerformer). It reproduces special kind of reverberation originally provided by piano strings. It generates reverberation using twelve string operators with adjustable damping and decay time. Each of them is tuned to a particular note [...]

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

Rebuilder is a VST plugin that regenerates its input audio using a large matrix of oscillators.
All standard types wave shapes are available to recreate the sound.
It’s grungy, and very CPU intensive :)
http://www.plogue.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=33 (13 clicks)

Its in a class of its own and its already a classic. Simulates rooms the physical way. Two virtual loudspeakers and two virtual microphones can be positioned freely. RoomMachine 844 takes care of the rest. RoomMachine 844 is a real time, digital audio room simulator capable of capturing the characteristic spacial sound of natural rooms.
RoomMachine [...]

This free plug in equips your sequencing environment with a fully programmable resonant filter. In short, you can send any of your audio tracks through this ‘virtual analog’ device to either create special effects or to simulate the behaviour of an analog 4-pole filter. It has the following specifications
The NorthPole PlugIn features
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24dB/Octave (4 pole) Low [...]

This is a bunch of “tools” (seems like I have a predilection for bundles…) intended to process stereo streams but focusing on middle and side instead of left and right.
The idea is *really* simple but the effects can be subtle and powerful.
::msEncode and msDecode::
These to ones are just converters mapping M -> L and [...]

InstaJungle is a VST plugin I wrote a while ago to help me with beat slicing. It was first inspired by Bram’s SupaTrigga, but the fact that they both buffer incoming audio and then slice it is the only thing they have in common. InstaJungle will let you slice beats on the fly, and let [...]

a free VST plugin to re-image stereo audio streams
it is easiest to think of the 3 modifying parameters to imager in terms of a pair of microphones setup facing each other at a 90 degree angle as in a blumlein stereo recording.
imager can be used to change the orientation of the microphones after the recording [...]

Based on a reduced version of the DX Reverb, the DX Reverb Light is the ULTIMATE FREE reverb plug-in for PC And Mac. Even if the DX Reverb Light offers less than 1/11th(*) of the power of the DX Reverb, it provides astonishing quality and extreme flexibility, allowing you to simulate from small rooms with [...]

Ambisonic Decoder Vst Plug-In (1st- and 2nd-Order) for Mac OS X and Windows.
Version 1.0 RC
9 Inputs, 12 Outputs
http://www.gerzonic.net/?prod=5&rub=2 (8 clicks)

GetaBlitch Jr. is a sequenced gate effect that is different from traditional “trance gates” in two significant ways: first, it uses MIDI to sequence the gate, rather than a built-in step sequencer; second, it gates the left and right channels of a stereo signal independently and potentially simultaneously.
http://www.betabugsaudio.com/plugs.php (365 clicks)

Reverses the sound for a set amount of time (set according to note length) when the Reverse button is pressed.
Probably best in a live environment, hence the option to assign a MIDI CC or note to trigger the reversing operation. (C++)
http://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs/tsreverser.htm (187 clicks)

A simplistic realtime audio-reversing plugin (GUI made in Blender). (C++)
http://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs/reversinator.htm (202 clicks)

Simple tremolo/auto-panner plugin, allows for tempo-sync, and syncing the oscillator’s phase to bar starts.
http://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs/ndctrem.htm (123 clicks)

A pack of MIDI utility plugins I made to use with Tracktion’s Rack Filters (though they’ll probably work in most hosts). Uses the Simple Controls library of widgets I’m making for VSTGUI (still in development, not sure I can really be bothered to finish them). Scroll down for download links. (C++)
MIDI Note Filter
Allows through only [...]

Reads in a cycle’s-worth of the input signal, then (once the whole cycle’s been read in) outputs it again, on top of the current output. Works best with long/sustained sounds (e.g. strings, pads etc.), sounds like a weird kind of gentle distortion. (C++)
http://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs/cycleshifter.htm (139 clicks)

Takes 2 stereo inputs and imposes the amplitude envelope of the first one on the second one. Also has a threshold level for the second input, so that when the signal falls below it, it is amplified up to the threshold, to give a greater signal to be amplitude modulated. You’ll need a relatively flexible [...]

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 [...]

Convolver is a plugin for doing realtime convolution using impulse responses from the user’s hard drive. Convolution is the process of combining two signals to produce a third signal, which reflects their co2mbined frequencies. For more information about the nature of convolution, check out the wikipedia entry on the subject, or for a more technical [...]

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)

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 [...]

Monomaker is a simple mono-merging and stereo-recentering utility. You can use it to progressively mix down a stereo signal to mono and you can use it for equal power, center-shifting pans.
http://destroyfx.smartelectronix.com/extras/ (596 clicks)

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)

LFX-1310 is a Free plug-in multi-effector including 24 types of algorithm and 3 serial slots. This freeware is the stand-alone version of Effecting Module of Ravity(S) & Ravity(R). Every algorithm realizes the very effect you have on your mind, and is fully optimized for low CPU load.
Effectors :
- S’Filter 12 / S’Filter 24 / 3-band [...]

Guitar Tuner.
You must have Pluggo, Pluggo Demo, or a free Pluggo Runtime installed to use it.
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html (3202 clicks)

Spectral filter.
You must have Pluggo, Pluggo Demo, or a free Pluggo Runtime installed to use it.
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html (3202 clicks)

Extreme destruction plugin in form of a Multiband saturation device.
You must have Pluggo, Pluggo Demo, or a free Pluggo Runtime installed to use it.
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html (3202 clicks)

Piczer is an insane pitch shifter/distorion pluggin made on Pluggo. It chops incoming audio into small grains and plays it back overlapping them.
You must have Pluggo, Pluggo Demo, or a free Pluggo Runtime installed to use it.
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html (3202 clicks)

Philter is a 4 band filter made with pluggo, You must have Pluggo, Pluggo Demo, or a free Pluggo Runtime installed to use it.
LPF/HPF – 12 dB/oct
notch Q – up to 100
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html (3202 clicks)

Peakme is a large RTAS peak meter with phase probe and scope. .
NEW: MS decoding, mono monitoring, phase invert and more…
You must have Pluggo, Pluggo Demo, or a free Pluggo Runtime installed to use it.
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html (3202 clicks)

Autowash is a automatic wah-wah plugin that tries to imitate classic wah-wah filtering…
You must have Pluggo, Pluggo Demo, or a free Pluggo Runtime installed to use it.
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html (3202 clicks)

Limiter plugin with auto makeup gain.
You must have Pluggo, Pluggo Demo, or a free Pluggo Runtime installed to use it.
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html (3202 clicks)

AutoFreq is a kind of auto filter. Its cutoff frequency depends on spectral contents of incoming sound.
You must have Pluggo, Pluggo Demo, or a free Pluggo Runtime installed to use it.
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html (3202 clicks)

Spectrum Analyzer and more…
Inspector’s spectrum analyzer gives you a clear picture of the sonic properties of your mix. Real-time numeric readouts for balance, headroom, and clip incidents tell you exactly what is happening from sample to sample. All in a compact size to save your desktop space.
Let Inspector keep watch over your mix – you [...]