LoudMax ~ Loudness Maximizer Plugin


LoudMax is a Look-Ahead Brickwall Loudness Maximizer Plugin with a clean transparent sound. It is designed to retain the original character of the music as much as possible even at high compression levels.

Features:

  • True Peak Limiting (Further information for ISP below)
  • Supported Samplerates: 2kHz – 384kHz
  • Latency: 1.25ms (+ 6 samples with ISP)
  • Look-Ahead and Attack Time: 1.25ms
  • Release Time: Automatic – depending on the input signal
  • No audible distortion
  • Possible overdrive: 740dB
  • Very low CPU usage
loudmax.blogspot.com

terminatorX ~ Realtime Audio Synthesizer


 This software allows “scratching” on digitally sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.ogg, *.mp3, etc.) the way hip hop DJs scratch on vinyl records. It features multiple turntables, realtime effects (built-in as well as LADSPA plugin effects), a sequencer and MIDI interface – all accessible through an easy-to-use gtk+ GUI. This software is designed to run under Linux, FreeBSD and the like.

terminatorx.org

Sony HiRes Recorder ~ Record High Resolution PCM or DSD


Hi-Res Audio Recorder is an application to record audio tracks of a vinyl record onto your computer in the high resolution format.

Hi-Res Audio Recorder for Windows:
www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/audio-components-turntables/downloads/Z0005565
Hi-Res Audio Recorder for Mac:
https://www.sony.ca/en/electronics/support/downloads/00016410

Sunvox ~ Create Music & Add Synth Tracks


SunVox is a small, fast and powerful music sequencer with modular synthesizers. This application is addressed at all those who want to compose music everywhere they go.

Built-in synthesizers: FM; Generator; Sampler (supported formats: WAV, XI); SpectraVoice (FFT-based synth for analog-like pads); Kicker; Stereo Delay; Distortion; Echo; Filter; Vocal Filter; Flanger; LFO; Loop; Reverb.

Features and highlights:
  • Modular interface
  • Highly optimized synth algorithms
  • Flexible architecture: SunVox can working on various devices
  • Built-in synthesizers & effects
  • Analog Generator
  • DrumSynth with 120 unique synthetic drum sounds
  • FM synthesizer
  • MetaModule (use it to build your own synths/effects)

Windows download available sunvox.en.lo4d.com/windows
www.apksum.com/app/sunvox/nightradio.sunvox
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nightradio.sunvox
apps.apple.com/ca/app/sunvox/id324462544

CMT ~ Linux Computer Music Toolkit


The Computer Music Toolkit (CMT) is a collection of sixty five LADSPA plugins for use with software synthesis and recording packages on Linux.

www.ladspa.org/cmt

Calf Studio Gear ~ Free Your Sound!


You have the need for professional and state-of-the-art audio plug-ins – but don’t have thousands of bucks to spend on it? Then we believe you will love Calf Studio Gear! Focused on high-quality sound processing and a highly usable interface Calf Studio Gear is designed to give you a professional production environment for your open source operating system. Play your SF2 sample banks, create filthy organs, fatten your sounds with phasers, delays, reverbs and other FX, process your recordings with gates, compressors, deesser and finally master your stuff with multiband dynamics – for free! Calf Studio Gear is available exclusively for LINUX-based operating systems and runs as a stand-alone effect rack connectable through Jack sound server or as plug-ins in every audio host that is able to fire up LV2 compliant devices, e.g. the highly recommended Ardour Audio Workstation

calf-studio-gear.org
github.com/calf-studio-gear
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf_Studio_Gear

TAL Reverb ~ Cross Platform Reverberation VSTs


TAL Reverb-II is a super diffuse and lush reverb effect with a fast build up time. Ideal for ambient reverb sounds.

TAL-Reverb-III is an easy to use stereo reverb plugin. It’s popular because it’s very very diffuse sound 😉 It has an additional signal feedback path.

tal-software.com/products/tal-reverb

foo_wave_minibar ~ Foobar2000 Waveform Seekbar


A foobar user interface element providing a seekbar that displays the waveform of the playing song, compatible with both the Default and the Columns interface components.

foo_wave_minibar_mod display
foo_wave_minibar_mod display

www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_wave_minibar_mod

  1. Download the component file (foo_wave_minibar_mod.fb2k-component)
  2. Open foobar2000
  3. Open the Preferences dialog using File → Preferences or the Ctrl + P shortcut
  4. Select Components in the left-hand pane
  5. Click the Install… button at the bottom of the Components page
  6. Browse to the downloaded component file, select it, and click Open
  7. Click OK or Apply to confirm the installation
  8. Restart foobar2000 when prompted
  9. After restart, open View → Layout → Enable Layout Editing Mode
  10. Right-click anywhere in the layout and choose Add New UI Element → Tabs (or Tab Stack, depending on your UI)
  11. Right-click the new tab and choose Add New UI Element → Seekbar → Waveform Minibar (mod)
  12. Resize the panel as needed so the waveform is clearly visible
  13. Exit layout editing mode using View → Layout → Disable Layout Editing Mode
  14. Play a track and allow the waveform to generate; it may take a few seconds on first playback

Options:

Match pattern
Title-formatting pattern used to identify tracks when storing and reusing generated waveforms.

Use custom colors
Enables manual color selection for the waveform instead of using the active UI theme colors.

FPS
Sets the frame rate for waveform rendering. Higher values produce smoother movement but increase CPU usage.

Waveform scale
Controls vertical scaling of the waveform. Original preserves natural peak levels, while Normalize scales all tracks to fill the available height.

dB scale
Switches between linear amplitude scaling and logarithmic decibel scaling.

One mouse wheel notch seeks ahead/back
Defines how far playback jumps when using the mouse wheel over the waveform. A value of 0 disables wheel seeking.

Reversed
Reverses the mouse wheel seek direction.

Track to prefer when showing waveform
Determines which track’s waveform is displayed: the playing track, the selected track, or the playing track with fallback to selected when stopped.

Cursor width
Adjusts the thickness of the playback position indicator.

Do not revert to rendering the active track on player start
Prevents the waveform from automatically rendering on startup until playback begins.

Always show cursor
Keeps the playback position marker visible even when playback is stopped.

Abort seekbar generation when speed drops below real time
Stops waveform generation if decoding becomes too slow, preventing playback or UI performance issues.

Half wave mode
Displays only one polarity of the waveform (typically the positive half) instead of mirroring the signal above and below the center line. This creates a flatter, denser display that works well in very short or narrow panels and improves readability when vertical space is limited.

Draw window border
Enables or disables a border around the waveform panel.

Transparent background
Removes the panel’s background fill so the waveform blends with the surrounding UI or theme. This is useful when embedding the minibar into tab stacks, splitters, or custom layouts where a solid background would look out of place.

This component is highly configurable, making it suitable both as a simple compact seekbar replacement and as a detailed visual waveform display in more complex foobar2000 layouts.

References:

wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Components_0.9/foo_wave_minibar_mod
foobar.hyv.fi/pre1.4/?view=foo_wave_minibar_mod
Foobar2000 ~ How To Install A Component

Transport ~ Transport Info Display


A handy little tool which provides all the information about measure, time, sample count etc that most hosts usually hide somewhere in a tiny little part of the screen. Transport is resizable and you can pick your own colours. Ideally, you’d drag it onto an external monitor in your 1000 square feet wooden studio and make it fullscreen so that your recording artists always stay oriented, but it works in smaller settings as well ;-). Made upon request by a DDMF user, we thought this gem is too good to not make it available for everybody. Transport is available as a 32 and 64 bit plugin in VST, RTAS, AAX (Win + Mac) and AU (Mac) format. MacOSX 10.6 is required.

ddmf.eu/freeware

Cassette Retro Player ~ MP3 Player With Beautiful Cassette Look & Feel


Transform a set of mp3 files into a virtual cassette and interact with it just like a real cassette.

Live again all that emotional load attached to the cassette format and the way you interacted with these gadgets: press play, rewind, fast forward and reverse the cassette tape. Concepts that do not exist anymore in modern media players in the same way, but they are still wired in your brain with the music you used to listen in the 70s, 80s and 90s and the places and people that were around you at those moments.

Play the music as you used to do it decades ago, and bring a piece of happiness from the past. Nostalgia ensured.

Features:
  • Simple controls: Play, pause, rewind, fast forward, stop, eject and master volume.
  • Customize cassette color and label aspect.
  • Create a cassette library with all your most appreciated music.
  • Edit cassette track list, adding, removing and reordering the audio files.
  • Support for mp3, aac, and all popular audio formats.
  • Because the music sounds better in the format in which you heard it for the first time.

sourceforge.net/projects/cassette-retro-player

IIEQ ~ Parametric 10-band Equalizer


The IIEQ is a free, fully parametric 10-band equalizer with its own, characteristic sound and low CPU consumption. The 1st and the 10th band are low and high shelf filters, respectively; all other bands are peak filters. Individual bands can be switched on and off (click on the small green buttons!). It is available for Windows (32/64 bit) and Mac (32 bit). Alternative GUIs are available for Windows 32bit only.

SmallEQ ~ Tiny 10 Band Equalization


Sick and tired of huge GUIs taking up all screen space? Want an EQ that easily fits in your pocket but sounds just like the big guys? Then it’s time to meet SmallEQ! The world’s smallest 10-band EQ, sporting eight fully parametric bands plus one low- and one high-shelf filter on exactly 9135 square pixels. Controls from left to right: band choice, gain, frequency, width and overall gain.