Freeware Music Tools

---=oOo=---

 

ACID XPress is a music creation tool. Make your own original music with the click of a mouse and a few "painted" strokes. It's easy--just pick some loops, paint them into a track, and play them back.
;
Algorithmic Composer is a Windows based program that allows users to create musical textures and events by piecing virtual objects together with patch cables on the computer screen, similar to the way a person might join pieces from a Mechano.
.
AmazingMIDI automatically transcribes music, converting WAV files into MIDI files. It can recognize single-instrument polyphonic music. It's a powerful tool to help you to transcribe music, to practice musical instruments and to make MIDI files.
;
Free software for audio, network, programming, MP3.
;
AutoTune analyses sampled sounds in frequency space to allow you to tune all of your sounds to the same frequency! Just simply enter the note you want to use as the base for all of your sounds, such as C3, and then simply drag your samples onto the application, and voila! Let AutoTune do the rest!
;

AP Guitar Tuner
AP Guitar Tuner is the most advanced guitar tuner in existence. It is faster and more accurate than any other PC or hand-held tuner in the market.
;
"Arp Wizard" by "Ed Deighton." is a free midi programming tool for any musician interested in developing more articulate melodic or harmonic progressions in their music. It also features extensive midi controller edittors and real time capabilities.
;

Audacity
A fast multitrack audio editor and recorder for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Supports WAV, AIFF, Ogg, and MP3 formats. Features include envelope editing, mixing, built-in effects and plug-ins, all with unlimited undo.
;
This simple program converts bitmap images to sounds, and vice versa. Every line of loaded image is assumed to be a spectrum of sound, and it is converted to sound signal by means of inverse Fourie transform. Additional features, like image filtering and picture morphing, having sound morphing in mind, are available.

;
Hybrid tracker/synthesizer/generator/sequencer with future proof design growing up with new plug-ins. Buzz includes everything needed to produce and record any style of music. Sounds are createdthrough the use of modular Generators and Effects called machines. These machines create/modify sound which are sequenced through Patterns much like the old Trackers.
;
This vst plugin attempts to emulate the classic string ensemble sound, made popular by such classic synths as the Crumar Performer or the Arp Solina.
;
This allows one to draw wave forms and then generate them.
It is more complex that simply described and has these cool
other features:
The capability to import another data sources - like *.mid, *.wav and *.bmp (by the latter I mean graphs like EEG which could be scanned and used to produce somewhat 'natural').
The capability to 'snap' the manually drawn graphs to fixed rhythm patterns.
The capability to 'harmonize' sounds by adjustment instant frequencies to musical scales.
;
Drumstation features 8 channels of drums (either samples or synthesized drum sounds), programmable via an easy-to-use step sequencer, effects (realtime reverb, delay, flanger, filter, distortion) for each channel, loops could be sliced and stretched. With the drumkit manager, you could create your own drumkits.
;
Standalone softsynth : 5 standard oscillators, dual oscillator model including "morphing", realtime resonant filters, great user interface & skin support, frequency and volume envelopes, 256 notes step sequencer, 16bit 44.1 khz CD quality, .wav rendering option.wav rendering option, groove section for drumloops.
;
A freeware XG Drum Setup editor & sequencer.
;
The program applies rhythm patterns over source sound, so it acts like an amplitude or phase modulator. It also provides a built-in noise and sine generator for test purposes.
;
Fat Rock Studio is a hard disk recording program designed to work like a normal hardware multitrack audio recorder. It supports 16 channels of audio and multiple sound cards. It has a plug-in architecture designed to work with external audio processing DLL's. It mixes all effects on all channels in real-time.
;
FractMus is a algorithmic-music generator, that is, it creates melodies using mathematicalformulas. Since the times of Ancient Greece, people have realized that music and mathematics had a very close relationship, maybe because music is the most abstract form of art. Using mathematics explicitly to create music is nevertheless something of our time. Without the help of the modern computer it would be a daunting task (if not an impossible one) to do all the necessary calculations by hand.
;
Granular synthesis provides independent control over time-stretching and the pitch of a sound. You can move freely from straight playback of speech or music to a variety of effects, and back. Some of the effects should be appealing to those who like playing around with analog synthesizers.
;
HammerHead is a simple TR-909-like drum computer program aiming at the dance-scene. HammerHead features six separate channels, 29 built-in drum sounds, six complete breakbeats and the possibility to import six samples of your own. You can save your patterns to completely noise-free CD-quality wave files.
;
Vst softsynth : The advanced oscillator engine does not use wavetables and yet avoids the aliasing effects which have plagued software synths since their very conception. You can now be confident of crisp oscillator sweeps and modulation.
;
Karlette is a "tape-loop" echo emulation as a VST plug-in. Each of the four replay "tape heads" has separate pan and high-frequency roll-off controls. Karlette can be used as both a Send or as an Insert Effect.
;
Freeware Multitracker : 16 audio tracks, 32 Bit floating point audio engine, 44.1 to 192 kHz sample rate, 3-band parametric EQ, 2 VST insert slots per channel, 3 VST master effect slots, ASIO low latency audio driver support, 4 KRISTAL PlugIn slots
;
The MODPlug Tracker is a freeware program that allows you to create any type of music you want. You can use preformatted samples, or make your own, and mix them together to make your tunes. Unlike the packaged commercial products that limit your creativity, the MODPlug Tracker offers you an infinite array of possibilities by letting you mix up to 64 sounds at once, and add effects like vibrato, portamento and reverb.
;

Music Studio Producer 1.20b2

Music Studio Producer is free MIDI sequencer, DAW which can host VST(i), supports ASIO. Music Studio Producer has a great number of functions for every music scene, such as composition, arrangement, recording, mixing and mastering.
;
Get Pro Tools FREE and experience the power and flexibility of Pro Tools. Using your computer's built-in sound capability, Pro Tools FREE offers up to 8 tracks of audio and 48 tracks of MIDI, real-time plug-ins, and many of the same editing and mixing features the pros use.
;
One of the special features of this synthesizer is a very easy to handle modulation-system
with 8 LFO/S&H-outputs plus Transition system plus Supermodulation and FilterFM.
There are even patternlike LFO-waveforms as modsources so You can do quite amazing
and complex modulations with only very few settings. Basically this synthesizer
is best suited for highly vivid pads and textures but you can also do standard
synth sounds like bass, leads etc.
;
Quartz AudioMaster Freeware is a powerful though easy-to-use multitrack recorder and MIDI sequencer running under Windows 95/98/NT/2000 (fully working - no limitation at all - it's not a trial version).It features 4 stereo audio tracks, 16 MIDI tracks, effect plug-ins, per-track EQ, Aux buses, Video sync, Score, GM/GS/XG and "Piano roll" editors and all the functionalities required to easily share musical projects across the internet up to its multitrack compressed file format.
;
Soliton is a sound editor that allows you to record and edit WAV files. You can view a wave file spectrum, change the sampling rate and amplitude resolution, and also to apply some basic filters and effects.
;
Soundplant 26.1 is a self-contained digital audio performance program that turns your computer keyboard into a fully customizable sample-triggering device.freeware version plays .wav, .aif, and .au files.
;
STOMPER Hyperion is a Microsoft Windows software synthesis program for drum-like sounds. STOMPER Hyperion uses a very simple synthesis method, mixing pitch-shifting narrow-band noise sources or pure sine waves (zero bandwidth noise, really) together to one sound. Still, it manages to make faithful reproductions of 909's, 808's, and Simmons drums - and even phatter sounds!Also, it does much more than just drumsounds, now. It's more of an analog synth-thing as well, with several different waveforms, resonant filters,
;
SynthEdit is a modular software analog synthesizer that allows you to create complex synthesis engines that can work in real-time or off-line.
;
SynthFont is a free tool for playing MIDI files making use of SoundFonts. With SynthFont you do not need any particular sound card. In fact, if you only want to render audio files ("WAV" files) you don't even need a sound card. SynthFont makes it easy to assign different SoundFonts to difference MIDI channels.
;

TRIONIMOX
A polyphonic analog modelling synthesizer made with SynthEdit. Called a "Standard Synthesizer" with up to 16 voices featuring: 2 oscillators ( each with various Waveforms ), filter section with filter envelope, LFO, mod-section and it also comes with some pesets.
;
VSTSynthFont is a VST instrument. (TM by Steinberg). It is built upon the synth engine used in SynthFont and makes use of the same basic concept.
 
---=oOo=---