Download of the Month: AlgoMusic Atomic 1.0 (Win) 

By Len Sasso

Atomic ($39.99) from AlgoMusic (algomusic.net) is unlike any step sequencer you've used in the past. Sound designer Tim Conrardy and software developer...

Download of the Month: XO Wave (Mac) 

By Len Sasso

Read about EM's profile on XO Wave download, which can be used for CD mastering, podcasting and scoring for picture....

Download of the Month: Tobor Experiment Gleetchlab 2.3 (Mac) 

By Len Sasso

Gleetchlab 2.3 (Mac) Gleetchlab (donationware) from Milanese software developer Tobor Experiment is a standalone application created in Cycling '74 Max/MSP....

Download of the Month: U-he MFM2 (Mac/Win) 

By Len Sasso

MFM2 ($79) is a reincarnation of Urs Heckmann's first VST plug-in, More Feedback Machine. It could be subtitled Everything you always wanted from a delay...

Download of the Month: Antoine Missout SonicBirth 1.3 (Mac) 

By Len Sasso

SonicBirth (free) began as a student project at cole Polytechnique de Montral by Antoine Missout. It is a tool for creating virtual instrument and effects...

Download of the Month: LiveLab LiveSlice (Win) 

By Len Sasso

LiveSlice ($64) from Danish software developer Jacob Carstens is a beat slicer and audio file munger for Windows that's both powerful and easy to use....

Download of the Month: Puremagnetik Big07 

By Len Sasso

Puremagnetik (www.puremagnetik.com) is a subscription download service specializing in virtual-instrument and effects libraries called Micropaks for Ableton...

Download of the Month: Polyfractus Model 1.1 

Model 1.1 (freeware) is an AU plug-in for the Mac. The plug-in's name is a contraction of the words modulation and delay, both of which it does in the extreme. Delay times for its cross-feedback stereo delay range from 1 ms to 1 second. The primary source of modulation is a souped-up LFO for controlling the delay time. You get seven preset LFO patterns, and you can draw your own....

Download of the Month: Crysonic 

By Len Sasso

Crysonic utility effects plug-ins bring you professional sound and feel at bargain prices. These VST plug-ins for the PC address spectral enhancement,...

Downloads of the Month: OP-X and OP-X Pro 

By Len Sasso

OP-X (Win, $99) and its sibling OP-X Pro (Win, $149) are excellent VSTi re-creations of the late-'70s classic synth, the Oberheim OB-X. OP-X Pro even...

Download of the Month: Blue Cat Audio Freeware 

By Len Sasso

Blue Cat Audio (www.bluecataudio.com) is a developer of custom audio plug-in effects for the PC. Its plug-ins emphasize audio analysis and repair, with...

Download of the Month: PhoneMon 1.0  

By Len Sasso

PhoneMon 1.0 is one of several freeware plug-ins from Bermudan software designer Ralph Gonzalez (www.geocities.com/rgonzale1/audio/vst). PhoneMon is inserted...

Download of the Month: Refuse Software Lowender 

By Len Sasso

Lowender ($49) is a subharmonic synthesizer designed for bass enhancement....

Download of the Month: FreeG 

By Len Sasso

FreeG (free) is a channel strip plug-in with extensive metering and customization options. It is intended for use as a track insert effect and is available...

Download of the Month: LiveCut 

By Len Sasso

LiveCut is a free beat-slicing effects plug-in with a mind of its own. You can try telling it what to do, but it doesn't pay much attention. LiveCut is...

Download of the Month: Andy Ware Analog Box 2 

By Len Sasso

ANDY WARE ANALOG BOX 2 (WIN) Analog Box 2 (ABox2) is a free and very powerful modular software synthesizer designed and implemented by Andy Turner. You...

Download of the Month: KVR Audio Developer 2006 

By Len Sasso

KVR Audio held the first of what will surely become an annual competition among independent music-software developers. The competition was open to anyone...

Download of the Month: KarmaFX Synth 

By Len Sasso

KARMAFX SYNTH (WIN) If you're curious about modular synths but all those knobs and wires leave you reluctant to dive in, KarmaFX Synth might be just the...

Download of the Month: Discord 2 

By Len Sasso

Discord 2 ($49) is the latest piece of audio-demolition software from Audio Damage (www.audiodamage.com), a partnership between plug-in designer Christopher...

Downloads of the Month: Drumular 1.1 and Vendetta 1.0 

By Len Sasso

Virtual-instrument designer Andreas Ersson offers a collection of innovative VSTi plug-ins for Windows. Prices range from inexpensive for drum synths...

Download of the Month: Reception 1.0 

By Len Sasso

Imagine your latest masterpiece as the soundtrack for a vintage sci-fi thriller viewed on a 1952 10-inch TV with rabbit ears. That's what Psychic Modulation's...

Download of the Month: Groove Analogizer 

By Len Sasso

NUSOFTING GROOVE ANALOGIZER (WIN) Groove Analogizer ($29), a Windows VST effects plug-in from Luigi Felici of NUSofting, is a percussion-oriented synth...

Download of the Month: Tactile12000 

By Len Sasso

Tactile12000, from Tactile Pictures (www.tactile12000.com), is a standalone software emulation of a 2-turntable DJ rig. The software is a free download...

Download of the Month: M 2.6 

By Len Sasso

M 2.6 (MAC) M 2.6 ($74) is the most recent and probably final incarnation of an algorithmic composition program developed in 1986 by Joel Chadabe, John...

Download of the Month: Rondo 1.2 

By Len Sasso

Rondo 1.2 ($25), from fracturedSoftware, is a MIDI-file player for Mac OS X. Rondo automatically routes MIDI playback to the QuickTime Music Synthesizer,...