If like me you like to move your songs about or share a project with other musicians then you will know that finding good server space to store those files can be hit or miss. Not anymore. This site is ideal and you start with 2Gb free which you can extend to 8GB through referals. You can also pay to increase to 100GB. Sign up here

This is a good cause and a good sampler for the price. Even if you don't use the software you still get lots of great sample kits donated to the project. I put it in the free section because the programmer isn't making a bean out of it.

ballistic is a 15 slot drum sample player designed to get you making beats quickly without a million parameters to adjust. All controls are on one screen and the essentials are built in, but with one stereo output per slot, you can add more effects per slot in your hosts mixer. This keeps CPU low and workflow efficient

Simple but effective, it boasts flexible midi triggers, sample audition, sample tuning, 4 choke groups, mute/solo options, sample reverse, sample normalisation, a lofi option and several kits of samples donated by many generous sample providers such as Loopmasters, Zero-G, Digital-Redux, Goldbaby, Soniccouture, Groove Criminals, Real Music Media, Ronnie @ Rekkerd, sink, polyslax and bedroom producers

Even better, all proceeds of sales of ballistic ($10) will be donated to Cancer Research UK, helping them in their aim of beating cancer.

www.ambiloop.com

This is a nice little standalone application that plays loops. Imagine having eight decks playing at the same time and being able to edit each one live. Its free so why not have a play.

Zulu is a program which lets you mix music live using your PC.

This virtual DJ software is designed to be a very easy and intuitive to use. Within minutes you will be able to load audio files and broadcast live while applying effects. But if you take time to explore the other features you will find many powerful tools designed with the professional DJ in mind.

If you like the software please make a donation to the author at www.nch.com.au/dj/index.html

http://www.nch.com.au/dj/zulusetup.exe

Stuck in a hotel, no gear with you but still have that urge to create music? Check this out Techno dude...

http://www.hobnox.com/audiotool.1046.en.html?

Produce your own electronic music with the Hobnox Audiotool. All in your browser.

Live recording of your tracks is finally possible. Choose your set-up, add, remove and arrange the devices you need and record your track to the ‚myFiles’ section of your Hobnox account. From there, publish and share. The first step towards timeline & sequencer, saving arrangments & remixing tracks is done! All you need is a browser and the latest flash plugin.

Get this while you can.

Hard & Bouncy Volume One is The Serious Sounds Network's first royalty free sample pack. This collection is aimed at music producers producing any genre Hard and or Bouncy such as Nu NRG, Makina, Bounce, Hard NRG, Hardcore, Hard House, Scouse, Hard Trance, Happycore or Hardstyle to name a few. This pack is also also suitable for many more styles.

The Audio Pack contains over 500 high quality royalty free audio samples in a simple and clearly arranged structure over 21 folders (excluding sub-folders). The samples are in wav format so both PC and Mac users likewise can benefit from this collection. Wav format also means that the high quality audio samples can be used within any studio/sequencer DAW or Tracker such as Acid Pro, Cubase [Halion], Reason, FL Studio (Fruityloops), Logic [EXS], Ableton, Pro Tools, Med Tracker etc. Inside this collection you will find many elements provided that make up a tune such as Hihats, Cymbals, FX, Acid, Donks, Hoovers, Claps, Snares, Stabs, Synths and more.

Fancy a free sampler and 2GB of samples? Check this out.
INDEPENDENCE is the ultimate yellow tools software sampler. It combines the technologies of Virtual Instruments, premium sound libraries and workstation workflow in one single creative software solution.


www.yellowtools.us

Are you using a vst plugin that is causing problems? Do you need to know if it's introducing latency? Do you have duplicates? This could be the solution for you.

Read on.

Synth programmer BearNaomh is now offering a couple of free banks of patches for Rob Papen BLUE Synthesizer. These banks are taken from Chapters 1 and 2 of his "Book Of Sequences Pro Chapters 1-2-3-4-5" commercial collection of sequences for Rob Papen BLUE. As usual, you can download these banks from the "Free Sound Packs" section that can be found on the Products page, here is the URL:

http://www.equinoxsounds.com/products.htm

http://www.gradywerks.com/mpg64/

The MPG64-A (Midi Pattern Generator 64 Alpha) is a 64 step midi sequencer designed to run on Windows XP. In addition to playing midi notes, the MPG64-A is capable of simultaneously recording the resulting audio, creating loopable WAV files that can be used in any audio application. The 64 step pattern data can also be exported to a midi file. The MPG64-A features a row of parameter knobs which can control the duration and velocity of each note, and can also be used to set values for two continuous controllers.

If you are interested in producing your own radio station then check out this Open Source software.

http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/

Rivendell is a complete radio broadcast automation solution, with facilities for the acquisition, management, scheduling and playout of audio content. It has all of the features one would expect in a modern, fully-fledged radio automation system, including support for both PCM and MPEG audio encoding, full voicetracking and log customization as well as support for a wide variety of third party software and hardware. As a robust, functionally complete digital audio system for broadcast radio applications, Rivendell uses industry standard components like the GNU/Linux Operating System, the AudioScience HPI Driver Architecture and the MySQL Database Engine.

AirRack is a live environment for those who make sound effects for TV program and other live performance. Ideal for creating podcast performances.

AirRack provide you the following racks:

Amplifier: the component to connect with the audio interface.
Mixer: route other devices to the amplifier.
Effects: dual effects which load VST effect plug-ins.
VSTi: allow you to give real-time performance.
MP3 player: play MP3 audio file.
CD player: play the CD track with your CD-ROM.
Loop player: play an audio file as a loop.
Sound FX: a simple sampler to trigger sound effects.
Graphic EQ: 31 band graphic EQ.
You can control the AirRack with your MIDI controller and your computer keyboard.

Download - http://forum.midifan.com/down/mx/airrack.exe
English Manual - http://www.maizesoft.cn/airrack/download/manuale.pdf

Kristal Audio Engine is a powerful multi-track recorder, audio sequencer and mixer - ideal for anyone wanting to get started with recording, mixing and mastering digital audio.
It is designed as a modular system. The main application provides a mixing console, while the audio sequencer, live audio input and so on are loaded as separate PlugIns.

Kristal Audio Engine is FREEWARE for personal, educational and non-commercial use. Download - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php

http://www.mixmeister.com/download_freestuff.html

This handy free tool from MixMeister will analyse all the tracks and acapellas that you have and work out the bpm for you. You can then order them and see which will fit together without too much stretching. Check out their other products.

Able MP3 OGG to WAV converter is a Windows software for converting MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files to WAV format. (suitable for burning to CD)
Just drag your files, hit convert and you are done.
If you need to fill your CD optimally, you'll make use of sorting and total size display function.

Features:
converts both MP3 and OGG Vorbis files
supports drag&drop for adding files
displays total disk space needed so that you could fill your CD optimally
sorting by name or length to further assist in preparing your files for CD burning
nice interface
easy to use
it's free!

http://www.guitar.sk/mp3_ogg_converter.htm

InTune is free software !!!

Audiosoft presents professional audio editor - InTune.

InTune is designed for sound analysis and editing in terms of pitch, dynamics, timing and noise. The main purpose of the program is correction of freshly recorded musical material, particularly vocal, woodwind or brass instrument recordings, which are highly susceptible to impurity in tune. Apart from that, InTune can be used to remove noise, edit dynamics and timing or analyse the frequency spectrum of any sound file.

Quartz AudioMaster Freeware, as its name suggests, is FREE ! It's the best way to try the Quartz Audio Family software concept. It includes the minimum, but yet powerful, features to start things for real and possibly share projects with people who own one of the Quartz AudioMaster commercial version. Quartz AudioMaster Freeware will allow you to record, edit, mix, share and deliver your productions driving a fully integrated 4 tracks digital mixer, recorder, sound and time line editor in perfect synch with a 16 tracks MIDI sequencer.

http://www.digitalsoundplanet.com/SoftwareHouse/Products/Audio_Master/Freeware/freeware.phtml

Seems to be missing a dll which you can get here and copy into the windows folder.

http://www.dll-files.com

You need to get this one quickly as the next version is chargeable.

REAPER is a powerful but sensible Windows application designed for the recording, arrangement, editing, mixing and rendering of audio. REAPER provides a flexible but easy to use interface that is equally suited to amateurs and professionals alike.

REAPER is a small and lightweight application (the installer is less than 1 megabyte, which includes many effects and a sample project). REAPER is designed with both processing and user interaction speed in mind.

http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php

Been doing a check on the internet to find free software for you guys to play with over christmas. Came across a great looking tracker called Skale. Has anyone had any experience of it. If it sounds as good as it looks then it will be brilliant. I have downloaded but haven't had a chance to play yet.

download here - http://www.skale.org/

This is a legitimate download from Propellorhead, all you have to do is register on site. 500MB download so you will need a fast link and I suggest a download manager.

http://www.rebirthmuseum.com/

IntelliScore is a WAV to MIDI, MP3 to MIDI, CD to MIDI converter for live performance, making MID files, transcribing music, and finding chord names from polyphonic WAVE and MP3 files. Includes multiple MID track capabilities and expression capture. Free download at http://www.intelliscore.net

Paax is a VSTi (Virtual Instrument) sampler with the functionality of many fancy software and hardware samplers, yet quite easy to use! Some of its features are in the full body of this article.

If you are involve in live work then you may find this open source tool quite handy. Control all you show sound effects from one panel.

If your looking for a free guitar amplifier then you can't go far wrong with this one from Voxengo.

Download Boogex here

You know I'm always banging on about soundfonts, you can get quality sounds for free if you just take the time to learn a few simple things. SFZ player (see below) will play files that have an SF2 extension. You can get these from SF2MIDI (see below). Usually these files are compressed so you will need the two programs below to uncompress them. It won't work just by changing the extension name.

SFPack
Most soundfonts are compressed with SFark but some are still done with SFpack. This package will help you to uncompress them back to SF2 files.
Download SFpack

SF Ark
Use this to decompress SFark files back to SF2 format used in soundfont players.
Download SFark

SFZ soundfont player (VST - Free)
This is a great little free VST player for soundfont files.
Download SFZ Player

Best site for free soundfonts
This is the best site for free soundfont files.
SF2 Midi.COM

Check out this great sampler. You can get a free version on the site that allows 2-note polyphony and 2 instances but still extremely usable.

Download Here

This is a great little free effect, run a drum beat through it in your fx mixer and then just start touching the pad. You get some weird and wonderful stuff out of it.

Download here

Official Blurb

Memory is an effect which allows you to sample and remix your beats or other material on the fly. It works by allowing you to loop the input it recieves and also change the length of the loop. To use the Memory, it's best to set it up as an inline effect (or as a 100% wet send). Just start playing some input into it and click on the pad. The pad allows you to control the length of the loop and also the cutoff of a filter on the loop. Pad motions are sent as automated parameters, so you can record those parameters in your track as you would record knob tweaks on any synth. Memory can also be triggered via MIDI notes if your host supports sending notes to effects. The usable MIDI range starts around C2 or C3. Each semitone above that represents a different loop value.