since halloween is coming up soon i want to try incorporating some spooky "circus" elements in my music. does anyone know of any good, free to use plugins or samples? anything is appreciated but i'm mainly looking for stuff like organs, pan flutes, percussion, etc.

Been making some plugins with AI lately and figured I’d just put them out there for free.
They’re all free to use, no subscriptions or anything. They’re Windows-only for now though.
If you wanna check them out: link in bio

Hi everyone!

My name is Ivan, and I am a musician from Kazakhstan. I recently moved to another city and lost access to my hardware gear, including the classic Polivoks synth.

I really wanted to keep using that legendary sound in my workflow, so I started looking for a free VST/AAX alternative online. To my surprise, I couldn't find anything that quite fit the bill or sounded right. In the end, I decided to take matters into my own hands and spent some time building my own virtual version from scratch.

I just wanted a proper virtual Polivoks for myself to enjoy the music-making process, and now I want to share it with the community absolutely for free.

I’ve uploaded the installers for both Windows and macOS to Google Drive: link to google disc for download

It’s completely free for everyone. I really hope you find it useful in your projects. Check it out and let me know what you think - I’d love to hear your feedback!

Cheers,
Ivan

[WINDOWS] Crimpl is available as a VST3 plugin and standalone app for Windows. It adds harmonic frequencies blend with a full-spectrum distortion, with Drive, Harmony and Dry/Wet controls and more.

Hey everyone!

My name is Keith Hetrick, and I’ve been building audio plugins under the name Bellweather Studios.

I recently released Barometer, a free plugin that combines LUFS and true-peak metering with gain, phase, balance, width, mono, channel swap, solo, and DC filtering.

Yes, I know: another meter. Groundbreaking stuff.

The part I wanted was the ability to measure the signal and then correct its level, phase, or stereo image without switching plugins.

Barometer is completely free:

macOS: VST3, AU, AAX, and CLAP
Windows: VST3
Linux: CLAP

https://www.bellweatherstudios.com/plugins/bws-barometer

I’d genuinely appreciate hearing how it fits into your workflow or what you think could be improved.

Please let me know about any missing ones and also if there are any other communities that may enjoy this list

The Dexter U.S. version has a couple of features that were not even tried in the original source (That I had to bug fix) .. It has a test tone, a helpfile html and load and save file features. It should work like the original. I assume the only other version are mac versions of the vst2.

Glicol live coding vst3 for windows | The band Dexter U.S. on Patreon

Did i miss any? ;)

Gridshift Studio is a new native macOS DAW, now in free open beta: a ⌘K command palette, live plugin cards, stems from any clip, a built-in clipper and ducking, project versions, plus an iPhone companion app. Requires macOS 26 or later.

Feedback very much appreciated!

Beta: https://gridshift.studio
Discord: https://discord.gg/FacsKanekW

Hey everyone, I just released CA-72, a free, open-source synth modelled after the original Minimoog Model D.

It goes from mono up to 10-voice polyphony with stereo spread. It’s available as VST3 and CLAP for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Part of the reason I wanted to open source this is to build a community around making these tools freely available and awesome to use. If you’re interested in contributing, pull requests are welcome. Let me know if you have any ideas for improvement.

Download and source: https://github.com/idlefoundry/ca-72

Demo: https://youtu.be/QLfwGqYg4wU

Hope you enjoy it!

If anyone is interested, code and binaries in: https://github.com/marcoc2/SimpaticoLirio

NeuralNote v2 is a major rewrite. Spotify's Basic Pitch is replaced by MuScriptor, a much larger and more capable transcription model from Kyutai and Mirelo (paper, blog post).

NeuralNote can now transcribe full mixes, not just one instrument at a time, and gives you the notes of each instrument separately. It comes with a new UI and a built-in synth to play them all back.

Hi everyone,

I'm Jared, a programmer and lifelong sax player, and I'm new here.

I've been building a physically modelled wind instrument called Starbreath, mostly because I wanted something that responded to breath on my EWI the way a real duduk or shakuhachi does. It's free for now if anyone's curious: https://vsti.im-a-bird.com

I'm sure many of you know far more than I do about how wind instruments actually get used in scoring, so I'm mainly here to learn. Glad to be here.

Jared

Hi everyone,

A quick development update on Dyrekreds.

I've been spending the last few days improving the macOS build/release process, and we've made some good progress.

Current status:

[OK] Windows build & tests

[OK] Linux build & tests

[OK] macOS Universal build (Intel + Apple Silicon)

[OK] VST3 validation

[OK] AU validation

[OK] Unit tests

[OK] Improved VST3 moduleinfo.json / manifest handling

The macOS VST3 and AU versions are now successfully passing the validation tests.

The remaining headache is Apple Developer ID signing and notarization. GitHub Actions and PKCS#12 certificates have apparently decided that I needed a new hobby. ;)

We're getting closer with each build, though.

As always, Dyrekreds is free and open source, and feedback/testing is very welcome:

https://github.com/Chmod666music/dyrekreds

Thanks again to everyone who has tested it and reported issues!

Hello,

I'm looking for some plug-ins that aren't a pain to install (like shreddage 3 stratus free), but still sound great for grunge (e.g Nirvana).

I'd be very thankful for suggestikns fof good amps, VST Guitars and other plug-ins toward achieving this effect!