911TABS ~ Tablature Web Search


Tablature Search Engine

Guitar
Guitar Pro
Bass
Piano
Sheet music
Drum
Power
Video

www.911tabs.com

Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer ~ Web App


This is a web version of the Roland TR-909 drum-machine with painfully hand-made generated html, svg & css and a proper web-audio-api sound engine. It emulates the exact same cumbersome user experience of the original machine.

andremichelle.github.io/tr-909

AcidBox ~ DIY Hardware Synthesizer


ESP32 headless acid combo of tb303 + tb303 + tr808 like synths. Filter cutoff, reso, env mod, accent, wavefolder, overdrive within each 303, per-instrument tunings, hi-pass/lo-pass filter and bitcrusher in drums, send to reverb, delay and master compression. All MIDI driven. 44100, 16bit stereo I2S output to the external DAC or 8bit to the built-in DAC. No indication. Uses both cores of ESP32. Cheap ~$10. Consult with midi_config.h to find out and to set up MIDI continuous control messages.

github.com/copych/AcidBox

Drum Count ~ Measure Drumset Strokes


Drum Count is a simple tool which analyzes sound in real-time to measure the number of strokes played on a drumset.

sourceforge.net/projects/drumcount

Vintage Drums ~ Free VST Percussion Sounds


Add an authentic edge to your music with this essential collection of vintage drum sounds captured at one of the few remaining analogue recording studios: KERWAX. Discover two stunning kits — a 1970 Ludwig with 26” bass drum (as made famous by John Bonham of Led Zeppelin) and a 1940s custom kit fitted with original calfskin heads for a warm, rounded tone. Produced and engineered by Christophe Chavanon.

labs.spitfireaudio.com/vintage-drums (registration required)

Playtime ~ 10 Toy Instrument Plugin


Playtime is a FREE premium VST created by Daniel of Reflekt Audio. Playtime consist of ten different toy instruments that range from a desktop drum kit with a few toms and a hi hat, to a toy keyboard, a toy banjo, and more! The Playtime VST plugin has multiple blend-able microphones that the user can blend together to create one overall tone. Each instrument was sampled from real toys so you can bet on a unique and interesting toy like sound.

DrumGizmo ~ Multilayered Drum App & Plugin


DrumGizmo is an open source, multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums in midi and mix them with a multichannel approach. It is comparable to that of mixing a real drumkit that’s has been recorded with a multi mic setup.

Features:

  • Stand-alone, Lv2 and VSTi versions available
  • Open drumkit file format, allowing the community to create their own drumkits
  • Drum velocity, allowing for several different hit velocities for each drum
  • Multichannel output, making it possible to mix it just the way you would a real drumkit
  • Optional built-in humanizer, analyzing the midi notes, adjusting velocities on-the-fly
  • Stand-alone midi renderer, generating .wav files, 1 for each channel
  • Stand-alone midi input, making it possible to use DrumGizmo as a software sampler for an electronic drumkit

www.drumgizmo.org

AGS ~ Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer


Advanced GTK+ Sequencer is intended to use for music composition. It features a piano roll, as well a synth, matrix editor, drum machine, soundfont2 player, mixer and an output panel.

It’s designed to be highly configurable, you may add effects to its effect chain, add or remove audio channels/pads.

You may set up a fully functional network of engines, therefore exists a link editor for linking audio lines.

In conjunction with AGS you need a realtime kernel and alsa support. `ags` uses conditional locks to keep several threads in sync that’s why you need at least a preemptible kernel.

Features:

  • save or open Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer XML files with XPath support
  • add or remove audio engines with adjustable audio channels and pads
  • link channels with property dialog
  • output panel, mixer, drum and matrix sequencer, soft synth and audio file player
  • piano roll with basic notation editing supporting copy & paste
  • adjustable BPM
  • LADSPA, DSSI and Lv2 support
  • export to WAV, FLAC, OGG and others
  • multiple sinks like Pulseaudio, JACK, ALSA and OSS
  • automation editor
  • waveform editor with copy & paste
  • capture sound with AgsAudiorec machine
  • MIDI instrument input
  • import/export to Standard MIDI Files
  • OSC content format support
  • OSC server for remote control and monitoring

nongnu.org/gsequencer/

sourceforge.net/projects/ags/

Cloudrum ~ Steel Tongue Drum Plugin


Cloudrum is a unique and relaxing Steel Tongue Drum with a range of 3 octaves. It produces wonderful tones, add color and a unique moderation to your music no matter the genre.

cloudrum interface

www.amplesound.net/en/pro-pd.asp?id=27

Spitfire Labs ~ Series Of Virtual Instruments


An infinite series of free software instruments, made by musicians and sampling experts in London, for anyone, anywhere. Presented in our own plug-in, they are easy to use, and compatible with any DAW. And in case you missed it — they’re all free.

https://labs.spitfireaudio.com/

KickMaker ~ Plugin Drum Synth


KickMaker is a synthesizer designed specifically to create good kick drum sounds. It uses four independent oscillators and a wide range of effects, allowing one to create perfectly customized beats.

Features:

  • Four independent oscillators
  • Each oscillator has its own ADSR curve
  • ADSR curve for mixed signal
KickMaker 1.x/2.x screenshot

CHOW ~ Maximally Truculent Distortion


CHOW is a digital distortion effect designed for maximum truculence, somewhere between a true half-wave rectifier and a noisy vintage compressor. Useful for mixing guitars, drums, even vocals when a heavily degraded sound is desired. Feel free to build and use for your own enjoyment!

chow

github.com/jatinchowdhury18/CHOW