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Acustic Audio - Home of the Nebula plugin. Free version here
Algo Music - Some interesting freeware VSTi's
arcDev - Noise Industries. Interesting plugins
Audacity - Open Source Audio Editing and Recording Software
Analog X - Some really excellent utilities available here
Blue Cat Audio - Excellent freeware audio plugin bundle available here . Available as VST or Direct-X. Really like FreqAnalyst!
Deepsound Music - Large selection of plugins for Windows and Mac OSX
Don't Crac[k] - Though aimed primarily at developers you'll find lots of links to freeware and shareware plugs and apps
E-Phonic - Outstanding VST Plugins offered up free of charge. If you can, lend your support via the PayPal link
elogoXa - Group dedicated to the development of free VST plugins. Check the Links page for more developers
Falke Music Lab - Audio Software. Some free plugins available
freeaudioplugins.com - Free audio plugin effects and instruments for DX, VST, AU and RTAS
Free Plugin List - Free VST plugins and effects for Windows and Mac
GERSIC.COM - Free audio plug-in database
Glitch - Love this VST plug-in by dblue...it's just too easy!
Impulse Responses by Fokke Van Sanne. Quite a few are Mac only
Kjaerhus Audio - Excellent set of free plugins collectively known as the Classic Series
Kristal Audio Engine - 16 Track audio recorder and sequencer. 32-Bit audio engine which supports up to 192kHz (depending on hardware)
KVR Audio - Foremost resource for open standard plugins and instruments
LUNA - Available in Free and Unlimited versions, LUNA is an efficient Audio and MIDI sequencer. Its feature set is minimal so as to provide solid performance and to allow users to concentrate on the music rather than software features
Maize Studio - Modular studio environment using an object oriented design philosophy; functions are regarded as individual components which are then connected to each other by virtual wires to form processing networks
Maple MIDI Tools and Virtual MIDI Cable - MIDI utilities from Hurchalla
Maxim Digital Audio - Freeware Plug-ins; Some quite good!
MDA - Free synths, plugins and applications
Mozilla - Reclaim the Web!
MPEG X - Multimedia rippers, encoders, players etc.
NERO Speed check - Check your true CD/DVD drive speed
Plugins-audio - Expansive list of free and shareware plugins. Available in French, English and German
Reason Station - Propellerheads Reason Community - Songs, Samples, Tips
Reasonfreaks - Songs, Samples, Tips, Links
Seq24 - Loop based MIDI sequencer aimed at live performance
SIR Convolution Reverb - Convolution Reverb...and it's free! More Impulse Responses here and here
Smart Electronix - Music Software Developer Community. Unusual and interesting
Studio Devil - Developers of software tube amplifier models. Studio Devil BVC (British Valve Custom) VST plugin available as free download here
Synthedit - Shareware modular synthesiser for Windows XP and Vista. Design your synth, add a control panel and then save as a VST plugin
The Interruptor - Selection of Dub focused VST plugins. Also check The Dub Scrolls site from same author which discusses Dub production techniques
TK-Plugins - Plugins by TekTonik. A number are offered as free download
Tweakbench - Really interesting (and useful) set of VST plug-ins. You can download the bundle here for a meager $5 contribution. Please support this excellent work.
Vinyl - From iZotope this great little plug-in generates and adds electrical noise, wear, vinyl scratch and general dirt
Voxengo - Audio Software
Wally's MIDI Monitor - Very useful MIDI Data Monitor
Wavosaur - Increasingly popular (and free) audio editor. The software has all the features you expect in an audio editor including support for VST plugins, multichannel files, ASIO and real-time processing. You'll also find spectrum analysis plus an input and output oscilloscope.
XOXOS - Freeware VST plugins
At some point it's going to be necessary to perform a clean install of Windows on your machine. In plain speak, Windows needs to be refreshed periodically particularly if you're an intensive audio/video user. While it may sound treacherous and the domain of only qualified individuals the truth is that with some patience and little bit of reading you can very easily do it yourself. Here are some helpful links:
AllBootDisks - Free resource for Microsoft Boot Disks
Bootdisk.com : A one stop shop for the necessary utilities to reformat and partition your machine. Lots of info here on how to perform clean installs of particular operating systems - for example: How to perform a clean install of Windows XP
Delpart: Very useful utility for deleting partitions - particulary non-DOS partitions. Depending on the source of your boot disk you'll either find delpart.exe on the disk or you can add it to the boot disk yourself
