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Audio editing and production gathers tools for recording, mixing, and shaping sound. Entries include digital audio workstations, mixers, synthesis tools, sound effect libraries, and small utilities for pitch, tempo, or mastering. They range from full studios to single-purpose tools, so look at what each one does before you build a workflow around it, since track limits, plugin support, and how it handles latency matter more than a long feature list. Sample packs and presets carry their own licences, so check what you are allowed to use in a release. Some entries are free and some are commercial, with very different support.
Helm is a free, cross-platform polyphonic synthesizer with a powerful modulation system by Matt Tytel. It runs on GNU/Linux, Mac and Windows as a standalone program or as an LV2, VST, VST3 or AU plugin. Helm is free software, with source code that can be studied, changed and redistributed.
Learn is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
Pantam Playground is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
PIXELSYNTH is an audio creation tool for recording, editing, mixing, sound design, or music production.
Signal is an audio creation tool for recording, editing, mixing, sound design, or music production.
SNES Soundfonts is a William Kage project offering soundfonts of music from Super Nintendo games, presented in the style of titles such as Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy. The page includes a quick-start guide for selecting a music program and an index of soundfonts, with all projects described as non-profit and without ads.
Theremin is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
VCV Rack 2 is a virtual modular platform based on Eurorack synthesizers. It is available as a free standalone version with free modules and open-source code, and as Rack Pro, which adds DAW plugin formats. It offers built-in and library modules, and can integrate with hardware and software.
WD-1 DJ-TRAINER is an online electronic musical instrument with 22 sound banks. It is based on six looping sounds, three beats, two guitars and a piano, and includes triggered sound buttons, highpass and lowpass filters, and a soundbank selector.
Kilohearts Essentials is a free collection of over thirty effects plugins and Snapins from Kilohearts. The effects can be used as regular plugins in a DAW or loaded as Snapins in any Kilohearts Snapin Host. The bundle is available free with a Kilohearts account, and new plugins are intended to be added at no extra cost.
Little Sound Dj is a Game Boy music sequencer and editor. Its features include 4-channel, 4-bit Game Boy sound, dual sample playback, a waveform synthesizer and sync options for analog, Game Boy, MIDI and VST. The ROM image and manual are available as downloads, and the ROM can be used with a Game Boy emulator or on an original Game Boy via a flash cartridge.
MyInstants is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
Zrythm is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
Online Sequencer is a browser-based music sequencer for making tunes and sharing them with friends. It offers instrument selection, note and marker selection, grid and time-signature settings, and export to MP3, WAV and MIDI, along with MIDI and sequence import and sheet music opening.
Efflux is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
EXP Soundboard is a soundboard application that supports almost all MP3s and WAVs. Sounds can be triggered with custom keyboard hot-keys and played through up to two outputs. It includes a Mic Injector to route microphone audio into a virtual audio cable and a converter tool for audio files. A Java 7 requirement is noted.
Htmlview is a public Google document or spreadsheet containing organized links, notes, data, or resources.
Telegram link is a Telegram channel, group, or bot link for updates, files, community posts, or support.
Krush is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
Music Experiment is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
SampleBrain is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
sforzando is a free SFZ player that supports the open SFZ format. It has a single instrument slot and no fancy UI, effects or mixers, so every tweak must be made at the SFZ file level. SF2, DLS and acidized WAV files dropped on the interface are converted to SFZ 2.0. It runs as a standalone application and as VST3, CLAP and AAX plug-ins on Windows and macOS.
Tenacity is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
TONEX CS is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
