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November 2021 Freebies

Happy Thanksgiving, folks! I am totally cheating here. I'm stuffed like a turkey and ready for bed, and frankly, I can't even cope with the list if freebies this year. Fortunately, Amner Hunter on YouTube already compiled a crazy long list of this months crazy freebies on his channel. He explains what everything is in this video, and he links to everything from the video description. Go show him some live and get some free software! https://youtu.be/h6fWiyOxhLA

3 Free Sample Packs Limited Time

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Hip-hop Sample Kits Bundle Free Until Black Friday By Cymatics Hi gang! I just heard from the talented people of Cymatics. In the spirit of Black Friday, they are giving away 3 brand-new, well-recorded, functional and useful music construction kits. There are audio demos on the free product's web page at Cymatics, here... https://cymatics.fm/collections/store/products/hip-hop-sample-pack-bundle Of course, you'll need a free account on the Cymatics.com website to claim the freebies. There are more free packs and plugins on their site, and none of them are boring, so by all means, look around while you're there. The first of the three packs is called Panther Hip-hop Drums Kit. It's 64 loops of hits and patterns. Next is called Purple Hip-hop Melodies. It's 16 melodic loops in the style of Trap. Finally, we have Seismic 808 Samples. This kit is made up of 18 fresh and unique hits from the classic Roland TR-808 drum machine. You'll need at least 1.2 gigabytes free o

Free Waves Plug-in care of Reason Studios

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Free Berserk Distortion plugin from Waves and Reason Studios Hi guys. T is the season for pricey freebies... Reason Studios is giving a free Waves Plugin called Berserk. All they want is your email address. Anyway, by all means, take a minute now and claim it, then carry on. Reason Studios sends you a serial and a link to your email box. Copy the serial provided in the email. Click the link in the mail. If you don't have a Waves account you'll need to make one. If you have a Waves account, just paste the serial number into the reg box, click through, and this plugin will live in your account. Install it any time with the Waves software manager thingie app. https://www.reasonstudios.com/waves-berzerk If anyone sees the SSL SiX for $1199 new this season please let me know ASAP. Thanks! Have a great day! Cheers, Glenn

Free Brainworx Mastering Plugin NOW

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Free Mastering Plug-in Brainworx bx_masterdesk Classic Free for now at Plugin Alliance Use code: BX-FOR-FREE (expires November 24) Cut to the chase: This thing sounds great. I bought the full version months ago. I wish I'd known about this instead! It sounds great and clean and really picks up perceived loudness very nicely. I'm not suggesting that you use this in place of a professional mastering engineer like the esteemed Roger Lian formerly of the late, great MasterDisk, but in a pinch it's always handy to have stuff like this on-hand. It does what I'd do with a string of Plug-Ins for what producer Andrew Bertrand calls "Poor-man's Mastering", and it does it well... AND IT'S FREEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! ANYWAY ... Go here to get the plugin https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/bx_masterdesk_classic.html#downloads If you don't yet have an account, make one. There are really no strings attached. Hey, just get it claimed. Add it to your cart, paste thi

Free 2GB Pack 24-hours only

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Cut to the chase... Here's the link... https://producertools.net/products/modular-megapack From their web site... "MODULAR MEGAPACK VOL. 1 €0,00 “Modular Pack”. It has been recorded exclusively using Eurorack modular with a totally analogue single path, in order to help you create syncopated rhythms with an harder and darker edge. The kit has complex modular sounds designed for electronic music and experimental, future genres made by modules from Cwejman, Make Noise, Moog, Mutable Instruments, Intellijel, Erica Synths, Endorphines, Verbos, Vermona, Frap Tools, and many more. It was compiled to add creative flair to forward-thinking producers, especially for genres like Techno, Minimal, Tech-house, Experimental and Microhouse. consists:  2,86 GB of Samples and Recordings 374 Files 24 Bit integer resolution 29x Synth Recordings 62x Percussive Recordings 52x Bass Recordings 26x Hat Loops 19x Kick Loops 17x Clap & Snare Loops 9x Live Recordings 21x Textures 120x Oneshots (Fx,

Sample Science Free Sample Packs & Plug-ins

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Sample Science Free Sample Packs, Plug-ins and More High Quality Sampling is no easy business. It's not easy to craft a great sample set. It often involves painfully long hours in uncomfortable positions recording and trimming and processing dozens, hundreds, and often thousands of individual digital sound clips. Getting artful performance qualities out of thousands of digital audio clips certainly does involve a lot of science. Sample Science is the alias/nickname/handle as well as the company and website name of one such amazing, diligent practitioner of this labor of love. Yes, you have to be in love with sampling to produce anywhere near the volume of the body of work produced by Sample Science. And for the volume of freebies and donation-ware (pay what you want) this fine person has made available to our music making community, imho, he should change his name rightly to "Saint Sample Science". Good community is hard to come by, and in his many forms, Sample Science

NI Kontakt Instruments 25th Anniversary Freebie "25"

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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 DX7 Patch Banks

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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 File Converter

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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 !

Ozone Elements Free! Hurry!

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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 Sketchpads

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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!

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