“Every profound spirit needs a mask.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Jeder tiefgründige Geist braucht eine Maske.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Unleash your creativity with #MonsterPianoVST, the free piano VST that gives you access to a wide range of presets, including Grand Piano, Upright Piano, Electric Grand, and Experimental Piano. Monster Piano offers a diverse range of multi-tone characters that suit various genres, from pop to rock, jazz, classical, and more….
Mel-Lofi is a free virtual instrument plugin (ROMpler) for digital audio workstations on Windows and macOS. This virtual instrument is based on the Mellotron multi-samples recorded by Taijiguy (+ 1 “invented” preset) and brings a total of 24 presets distributed across 5 main instrument categories. All the samples were slightly…
Available until April 2, 2023 coreFX VolumeFormer A pump effect without complicated sidechain routing that is created by rhythmically reducing and increasing the volume. The shape of the envelope, i.e., decrease and increase, as well as the modulation frequency, e.g., to match the beat, can be freely adjusted. This creates…
This collection of carefully crafted samples is perfect for adding a touch of vintage warmth to your productions. Featuring a variety of classic drum machine sounds, including punchy kicks, crisp snares, and crunchy hi-hats, this library is perfect for creating laid-back hip-hop beats, lo-fi pop tracks, weird techno, or anything…
Metromania Lite is the free version of Retromania, the virtual instrument filled with inspiring sounds for creating 80s Pop and Synthpop music. The only difference between the two versions is the number of presets. The free Lite version has 12 presets compared to the 125 found in the commercial version….
RetroVerse Lite is a FREE virtual instrument plugin featuring the beautiful sound of 80s Pop music, a genre that made an amazing comeback in this decade. Enter the 80s Pop universe filled with memorable rhythms, catchy synths and SciFi pads – a world full of joy, melodicity, love, and optimism. RetroVerse…
Bonnie is a slot driven drum sampler with lightning speed drum-kits loading and fast one stage control, fitted for live usage, with better control, both mp3 and wav. format support, fast workflow and only 0.5 sec. loading times for new core kit. The sampler: Bonnie uses 10 (.wav, mp3) file sample slots…
International Joke Day 2022 No more worrying about IF your music sounds trash, now it definitely does. You’re welcome. It is a bin (trashcan for our US friends). Impulse responses from multiple microphones in multiple positions. Make your tracks sound like they are inside a bin. The Reverb/Amplifier you never…
Momentum is a free plugin from Big Fish Audio that unlocks the potential of your loops and samples with the next generation of sound sculpting tools. LOOPS WITHOUT LIMITATIONS Momentum is the next generation of KLI. This plugin is a powerful loop transformation platform that allows you to slice, stretch,…
DrumVault is a free drum virtual instrument plugin for DAWs on Windows and macOS. This drum machine features a 4X2 pad configuration and brings various drum sounds, percussions, and instrument/vocal hits for many musical genres. DrumVault is easy to use and intuitive with global controls such as volume, lowpass filter…
808XD is a free and quite simple virtual instrument ROMpler (sample-based) featuring a variety of dirty, deep & hard-hitting bass presets. The plugin comes with a total of 31 808 bass presets including saturated, distorted, modulated, experimental, and clean versions. As for the interface, there are included modulation & distortion…
XORbot is a fairly simple noisebox synthesizer using logical operations to generate sounds. There is no MIDI key tracking, though there is a gate and volume envelope that can be enabled and triggered by MIDI notes. Parameter guide ————— OSCILLATORS XORbot has two oscillators, one of which is essentially used only as…
Darksichord 3 Lite is a Harpsichord virtual instrument plugin for DAWs and other plugin hosts on Windows and macOS. Darksichord 3 Lite is sourced from the 3 sound layers that made up the original version, but now comes with different textures and nuances for a much darker sound and more character. The…
A free special edition of Gala, based on our clients requests. Gala represents an improved physical modeling code of a virtual analog oscillator with an incredible depth and generates 28 instruments ensemble emulation divided into 7 genres, each with it’s own size and color. Gala XL instruments: 4 pop strings…
“Every profound spirit needs a mask.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Jeder tiefgründige Geist braucht eine Maske.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
FOUNDATION: SAXOPHONE delivers 10+ multi-sampled saxophone Ableton instrument racks designed for a wide range of genres, from Cinematic and Jazz music to House, Pop and virtually any genre you can think of. Most racks include staccato, sustain and vibrato articulations and key switches (macro-controls) that allow you to quickly transition…
It’s an analog, 20 note polyphonic, square wave synthesizer based on the 555 timer chip. The enclosure and keys are 3D-printed, its models were programmed in OpenSCAD, and its PCB was designed in Kicad. A little history The monophonic (one note at a time) OKAY synths I made a couple years ago also used the…
The Heleus Cluster is a cluster of more than thirty known systems on the outer edge of the Andromeda Galaxy. Heleus was chosen as a target by the Andromeda Initiative after long-range observations indicated an unusually large number of habitable planets (Golden Worlds).
Der Heleus-Cluster ist ein Sternenhaufen mit mehr als dreißig bekannten Systemen am äußeren Rand der Andromeda-Galaxie. Heleus wurde von der Andromeda-Initiative als Ziel ausgewählt, nachdem Langstreckenbeobachtungen auf eine ungewöhnlich große Anzahl bewohnbarer Planeten (Goldene Welten) hingedeutet hatten.
Mel-Lofi is a free virtual instrument plugin (ROMpler) for digital audio workstations on Windows and macOS. This virtual instrument is based on the Mellotron samples recorded by KVR member Taijiguy and brings a total of 23 presets distributed across 5 main instrument categories. All the samples were slightly edited and looped…
#MonsterPianoVST is a Free Piano VST with various Preset, including Grand Piano, Baby Grand, and Upright Piano. It covers multi-tone characters, suitable for Pop to Rock, Jazz, Classical, and everything in between. The size of the sampling is small but still fun to play (I hope so). The great thing…
Vangelis, the Greek composer and musician whose synth-driven work brought huge drama to film soundtracks including Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, has died aged 79. His representatives said he died in hospital in France where he was being treated.
Born Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou in 1943, Vangelis won an Oscar for his 1981 Chariots of Fire soundtrack. Its uplifting piano motif became world-renowned, and reached No 1 in the US charts, as did the accompanying soundtrack album.
Mostly self-taught in music, Vangelis grew up in Athens and formed his first band in 1963, called the Forminx, playing the pop music of the time: uptempo rock’n’roll, sweeping ballads and Beatles cover versions, with Vangelis supplying organ lines.
They split in 1966, and Vangelis became a writer and producer for hire, working for other musicians and contributing scores for Greek films. Two years later, he struck out for Paris to further his career, where he formed the prog rock quartet Aphrodite’s Child with Greek expats, including Demis Roussos. Their single Rain and Tears was a hit across Europe, topping the French, Belgian and Italian charts and reaching the UK Top 30
After they split – Vangelis deeming the world of commercial pop “very boring” – he returned to scoring film and TV. Turning down an invitation to replace Rick Wakeman on keyboards in Yes, he moved to London and signed a solo deal with RCA Records: his LPs Heaven and Hell (1975) and Albedo 0.39 (1976) each reached the UK Top 40, and the former was used to soundtrack Carl Sagan’s popular TV series Cosmos. The connection with Yes was finally completed later in the decade, when he teamed with the band’s Jon Anderson for the duo Jon and Vangelis, whose debut album went Top 5.
Vangelis had continued his film score work throughout the 1970s, but it was in the 80s that this reached its commercial heights. Chariots of Fire became inextricable from Vangelis’s timeless theme, and the music became synonymous with slow-motion sporting montages. “My music does not try to evoke emotions like joy, love, or pain from the audience. It just goes with the image, because I work in the moment,” he later explained.
His score to Blade Runner is equally celebrated for its evocation of a sinister future version of Los Angeles, where “replicants” and humans live awkwardly alongside one another, through the use of long, malevolent synth notes; saxophones and lush ambient passages enhance the film’s romantic and poignant moments. “It has turned out to be a very prophetic film – we’re living in a kind of Blade Runner world now,” he said in 2005.
Later in the decade he scored the Palme d’Or-winning Costa-Gavras political drama Missing, starring Jack Lemmon; the Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins drama The Bounty, and the Mickey Rourke-starring Francesco. He worked again with the Blade Runner director, Ridley Scott, on 1992 film 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and elsewhere during the 90s, soundtracked Roman Polanski’s Bitter Moon and documentaries by Jacques Cousteau.