If you want to make music on a computer but don’t want to spend any money, free music software is the way to go. Whether you own a PC, a Mac, or an iPad/iPhone, there’s loads of great software out ...

For computer musicians, a good synth plugin is likely to be the beating heart of any software-based studio setup. A quality virtual synthesizer is right up there with a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) ...

Steinberg, the Hamburg-based software manufacturer and developer of music production software such as Cubase, has released two of its most important audio interfaces under freely usable licenses. The ...

Wavosaur is an impressive programming feat, with full support for VSTfx and ASIO. This full-featured audio editing (sans FX) program is a tiny, ultra-efficient, and free package. A portable, ...

Audio processing and synthesis plugins are always a lively topic for musicians. Many contemporary music-makers rely completely upon their plugin collection for all their sound sources and processing ...

Released a few years back, Codec is a free plugin from developer Lese that uses internet compression algorithms to give sounds a distinctive lo-fi character. Lese has just updated Codec to version 2.0 ...