Tag Archives: AU

ScorchCrafter ~ Guitar FX DAW Plugins

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A group of audio DAW plug-ins targeting Windows (VST), Mac (VST/AU), and Linux, mostly for guitar amplifier simulation, with the C-120 being the flagship product (which started off long ago as a closed-source VST). Open source, mostly under GPL.

Features:

  • Up to 128-bit (internal) Multi-Stage Guitar Amplifier Layered Distortion, also runs in 64 and 32 bit modes
  • Native Mac and Linux ports coming soon
  • Advanced maths for tube-like guitar amplifier distortion, doesn’t use cheap waveshaping
  • Designed with dynamic response that changes according to the input level – Much more than just a basic “sample in, sample out”
  • Up to 12x Internal Oversampling, separate controls for live/online and off-line render
  • Multi-Band EQ – low, mid, high, contour, presence
  • Built-in custom convolution-based cab-mic effect, works with almost any sample rate and/or audio buffer size
  • New version of C120 has less clutter in GUI, separate page for advanced features
  • No commercial bloat!
  • GPL license, but just for the plug-in itself
  • Any rendered/processed audio is YOURS (any license you want)!
  • Hand-Coded in C++, pre-fab code or “wizards” were NOT used to build this!
  • Primarily built with MinGW-w64 and Code::Blocks IDE
  • NEW Jykwrakker plugin also features custom stereo reverb FX you won’t find elsewhere.
  • NEW Source code available under zlib license (long overdue)
scorchcrafter

sourceforge.net/projects/scorchcrafter

Protoplug ~ Scriptable Audio Plugins

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Create audio plugins on-the-fly with LuaJIT.

Protoplug is a VST/AU plugin that lets you load and edit Lua scripts as audio effects and instruments. The scripts can process audio and MIDI, display their own interface, and use external libraries. Transform any music software into a live coding environment!

Cross-platform: builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This means that all protoplug scripts are compatible with these platforms and can be loaded into a huge amount of audio software (glory to JUCE).

Fast: Use the speed of LuaJIT, and perform DSP tasks as efficiently as old school C implementations.

Free and open source: Want a new feature? Add it yourself. The source is MIT-licensed and available on Github.

protoplug_example_5-6

www.osar.fr/protoplug
github.com/pac-dev/protoplug

Helm ~ Open Source Synthesizer

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Helm runs in GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. Run Helm as a standalone synthesizer or as an LV2, VST, VST3 or AU plugin. Comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
helm_screenshot

tytel.org/helm

Tune It! ~ Tune Your Instruments

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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! is available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. It can be ran as a standalone application or as a plugin within a VST or AU host.

Features:

  • Automatic note recognition from A-1 up to A6.
  • Programmable A440 reference from 400 to 480Hz (step of 1Hz or 0,1Hz).
  • Programmable Precision
  • The highest precision, the finest tuning.
  • The lower precision, the lower latency (suited for tuning control during live performance)
tuneit

tuneit.free.fr

SonicBirth ~ Create Powerful Audio Plugins

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SonicBirth is an AudioUnit designing MacOS 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 as well as pre-constructed circuits to modify or build upon for creating new plugins. Whether you’re looking for traditional eqs, compressors, and reverbs, or softsynths, distortion, and filters, etc., SonicBirth allows you unprecedented freedom and creativity over your sound.

sonicbirth

sonicbirth.sourceforge.net

Youlean ~ Free Loudness Meter

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Youlean Loudness Meter is your ultimate free VST, VST3, AU and AAX plugin for loudness measurement.

Youlean-Loudness-Meter

youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter

ardour ~ Freeware Digital Audio Workstation

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Grab yourself a nice audio interface. Plug in a microphone or a keyboard. Import audio or MIDI from your hard drive or the Freesound database. Cut, move, stretch, copy, paste, delete, align, trim, crossfade, rename, snapshot, zoom, transpose, quantize, swing, drag, drop. All with unlimited undo/redo. All in the same window.

Mix, mute, solo, fader, automate, EQ, dynamics, insert, send, pre-fader, post-fader, sync, monitor, isolate. Floating point fidelity, the most flexible mixer architecture in the industry, hundreds of plugins and external control surfaces.

Ardour - Retina - No Plugins

ardour.org
community.ardour.org/download
Plugins
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardour_(software)