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Native Instruments Free Kontakt Instrument -Limited Time Only! Kontakt Instrument "25" For Free! Yes, for the 25th anniversary of Native Instruments, the company are giving away a very special freebie instrument. All you need to claim the free instrument is to have an existing account at Native Instruments or create a new account on their website. It costs nothing to create an account, and you do not have to install or download anything - you just need to log into your Native Instruments account and CLAIM the instrument following directions on the perhaps-misnamed DOWNLOAD button on the page linked to here... https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/play-series/twenty-five/ Once you claim them, freebies on this site are registered to your account and you can install them any time after you've claimed them. I claim all of them. They give frequent freebies, and they all can be installed and authorized via the excellent Native Access product management app. Wi...

Free Banks for DX7 And Compatible Synths My expanding resources list for DX7 and compatible synthesizers and plugins This Post is dedicated to my buddy in my FM adventure, John Gilbert , and to my Sweetwater rep, Erik Molenaar , who feeds my gear habit! To my horror I today noticed that a major source of free DX7 info and sound banks has vanished. Lucky for us, I was quickly able to locate a site backup on the archive.org Wayback Machine... It's a sad reminder that anything on the internet can vanish at any time. Thank heaven for the Internet Archive. I'm even posting my own creations to the Archive these days. I also contribute monthly. The Archive relies entirely upon user donations and You can support the Archive too! They even take Paypal. Go to  http://archive.org/donate Bobby Blues Free DX7 Patches - All The Web https://web.archive.org/web/20201108110724/http://bobbyblues.recup.ch/yamaha_dx7/dx7_patches.html There's a lot of info for a few different synths on that ol...

Free Audio Converter for Macintosh, Linux and Windows If you make sound recordings using a computer you no doubt have a regular need to convert from one file format to another. Free:Ac is a freeware and open source audio file converter that is current and maintained for all major desktop platforms including for Windows, Linux, Unix, and all modern flavors of Mac OS including for Intel, new M1 systems, and even for PowerPC systems! That's great news for audio and video content producers who still live on G4 and G5 Mac hardware. Free:Ac is also a thorough CD ripper ! You can grab a copy of the latest version at the Free:Ac website freac.org Follow my blog for more of my favorite freeware finds! Soon I'll be posting original sample libraries too, made by me, glenesis !

I paid for this ...you don't have to! iZotope Ozone Elements for Free For a Limited Time To celebrate the 20th birthday of iZotope Ozone mastering plugin the manufacturer is giving the limited version Ozone Elements away for free! The imager section alone is worth the download. If you make music on your computer, this is a good piece of software to have. Go to this link and download Ozone Elements for Free. Hurry up. It won't be free for long. https://www.izotope.com/en/shop/ozone-elements.html Follow my blog for more links to QUALITY and essential music production software that's absolutely free!

Free Chiptune Sketchpad BeepBox  Easy Online Sequencer! Tonight I stumbled into an online sequencer for making and sharing musical ideas. I am having a lot of fun with it and I need to share it with you! BeebBox.co is a sequencer in a web browser. It lets you enter notes into a grid and assign them sounds and edit your work. What's new to me is the way it saves files. Every change you make alters the unique URL of the composition! To save and share your works of musical genius, simply copy and paste your URL from the address bar! Here's a screenshot of the site... And here's a link to the site... http://BeepBox.co And here are a bunch of tweets featuring links to beepbox compositions... https://twitter.com/search?q=beepbox.co&t=PNFiVYBoH-F4Im9nHuFTPA&s=09 ModBox is a GitHub project that is a fork of BeebBox. ModBox offers more channels and more advanced controls than BeebBox. ModBox is at this URL... https://moddedbeepbox.github.io/3.0/ Both sites have detailed do...

Pianobook Overhaul 650 Free Sample Libraries These are places and people you computer-music-makers should all know about!!! Spitfire Audio & Pianobook were started by Christian Henson . Here is his youtube channel...There is Valuable Info there by the ton, including lessons on constructing your own sample libraries. https://youtube.com/c/ChristianHensonMusic In case you didn't know that the Pianobook site exists, it is an unfathomably huge repo of sample libraries for free , made by so many amazing people. Pianobook is a community of musicians who create and compose with these sample libraries. Membership is free, and you are welcome to contribute sample libraries and to participate in the forum. Pianobook currently has 650 beautiful, usable sample libraries in many popular formats. This week Pianobook received a complete overhaul of its interface, focusing more now on the people who create the sample libraries. Site navigation just got a big overhaul. Now it's easier ...

Coincidental with me starting my blog, David Hilowitz of Decent Sampler fame has made a video of his favorite 5 Free Software Instruments. I won't waste bandwidth, I'll let David tell you about them in his video. I will say that I use all of the plug-in instruments he mentions, and that all of them are epic! Here's David! https://youtu.be/CPjj6KzrW0s

Plugin Boutique is a great site to buy discount plugins, for sure, and they take Paypal, which is super convenient. I am in no way affiliated with Plugin Boutique nor with any site, but I do shop there monthly. I think a lot of retail prices for software are obscene, but every few weeks even insanely expensive plugins go on sale at Plugin Boutique for ridiculously low prices. Better even than the sales, though, are the tons of freebies available. They do require you to register on their site, but they have a colossal number of free plugins on site. Having an account there is good, too, because they keep all of your licenses and serials in your account pages for your convenience! If you've ever had a computer up and die on you then you know how amazing this feature is. Also, every month, they offer a great piece of usually expensive commercial software as a bonus with any purchase. All in all this is one of my favorite retailers, and I'm glad to share them with you. Of course, i...