Pianobook is a community of composers, producers and music makers sharing free virtual instruments. Founded by Christian Henson in 2018, the site offers a catalogue of sounds and encourages use of the free Decent Sampler plugin. Instrument demos are contributed by the community.
Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems, developed by volunteers as open-source software. It supports recording from real or virtual audio devices, import and export of many audio formats extendible with FFmpeg, up to 32-bit float audio, and VST, LV2 and AU plug-ins.
Schism Tracker is a free and open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a sample-based music composition tool. Its player is based on a modified ModPlug engine with bugfixes and playback changes. It runs on platforms supported by SDL, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others.
SoundGator is a website offering free downloadable sound effects across categories such as buttons, interface, transitions, domestic, machines, transportation, human, miscellaneous, urban, industrial, nature and voices. Downloads are free and do not require registration or attribution, and the library is described as growing with new sounds added frequently, including airplane, crowd cheering, forest ambience, laughter and applause.
Airwindows is a digital audio project by Chris offering bespoke plugins. Its VerbSevens release is a calibrated reference reverb plugin available standalone as AU and VST2, and within Airwindows Consolidated under 'Reverb' as CLAP, AU, VST3 and LV2. The page describes reverb design using comb filters and Householder matrices to build echo density.
SmoredBoard is a free soundboard and realtime voice changer for Windows. It offers unlimited sound slots, drag-and-drop loading of audio files and a built-in sound editor for trims and cuts. Sounds and voices are stored locally and work offline without an account. A Pro tier is mentioned as offering extra features.
samplv1 is an old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. It is available as a stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session, NSM and JACK/ALSA MIDI input support, and as an LV2 instrument plug-in. It is free, open-source software under the GNU GPL version 2 or later.
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Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems, developed by volunteers as open-source software. It supports recording from real or virtual audio devices, import and export of many audio formats extendible with FFmpeg, up to 32-bit float audio, and VST, LV2 and AU plug-ins.
Schism Tracker is a free and open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a sample-based music composition tool. Its player is based on a modified ModPlug engine with bugfixes and playback changes. It runs on platforms supported by SDL, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others.
SoundGator is a website offering free downloadable sound effects across categories such as buttons, interface, transitions, domestic, machines, transportation, human, miscellaneous, urban, industrial, nature and voices. Downloads are free and do not require registration or attribution, and the library is described as growing with new sounds added frequently, including airplane, crowd cheering, forest ambience, laughter and applause.
Airwindows is a digital audio project by Chris offering bespoke plugins. Its VerbSevens release is a calibrated reference reverb plugin available standalone as AU and VST2, and within Airwindows Consolidated under 'Reverb' as CLAP, AU, VST3 and LV2. The page describes reverb design using comb filters and Householder matrices to build echo density.
SmoredBoard is a free soundboard and realtime voice changer for Windows. It offers unlimited sound slots, drag-and-drop loading of audio files and a built-in sound editor for trims and cuts. Sounds and voices are stored locally and work offline without an account. A Pro tier is mentioned as offering extra features.
samplv1 is an old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. It is available as a stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session, NSM and JACK/ALSA MIDI input support, and as an LV2 instrument plug-in. It is free, open-source software under the GNU GPL version 2 or later.
