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Download of the Month: Blue Cat Audio Freeware  Jul 1, 2007, 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   Jun 1, 2007, 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  May 1, 2007, By Len Sasso Lowender ($49) is a subharmonic synthesizer designed for bass enhancement....

Download of the Month: FreeG  Apr 1, 2007, 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  Mar 1, 2007, 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  Feb 1, 2007, 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  Jan 1, 2007, 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  Nov 1, 2006, 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  Sep 1, 2006, 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  Aug 1, 2006, 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  Jul 1, 2006, 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  Jun 1, 2006, 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  May 1, 2006, 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  Apr 1, 2006, 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  Mar 1, 2006, 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,...

Download of the Month: Heizenbox  Feb 1, 2006, By Len Sasso HEIZENBOX (MAC/WIN) Heizenbox ($59) is a real-time granular processing VST plug-in for Mac OS X and Windows XP. The key description is real time: every...

Downloads of the Month: Bizune and Mantragora  Jan 1, 2006, By Len Sasso It's always nice when music drives product development rather than the other way around. Musician and software developer Zeus Issariotis designed synthesizers...

Download of the Month: Quad Zamp 1.0  Dec 1, 2005, By Len Sasso Quad Zamp 1.0 (Win) Quad Zamp 1.0 (freeware) from Canadian software developer Les Productions Zvon (www.lesproductionszvon.com) is a sample player with...

Download of the Month: Krakli Software Yava2  Nov 1, 2005, By Len Sasso KRAKLI SOFTWARE YAVA2 (WIN) Yava2 ($24.95), from Krakli Software (www.krakli.co.uk) is an analog-modeled subtractive-synthesis VST plug-in with an array...

Download of the Month: MonsterBag  Oct 1, 2005, By Len Sasso MonsterBag ($45), from Tobybear Productions (www.tobybear.de) is a collection of 14 VST effects plug-ins for Windows. Despite their Japanese-gumball-machine...

Download of the Month: PeterTools LiveSet  Sep 1, 2005, By Len Sasso PeterTools LiveSet (Win) LiveSet 1.0 ($129) from PeterTools (www.petertools.com) is a MIDI-processing program designed primarily for use with Propellerhead...

Download of the Month: Musolomo  Aug 1, 2005, By Len Sasso Musolomo (free) is an Audio Units plug-in that, in the words of its developer, is designed to get you away from the computer screen and back to playing....

Download of the Month: MusiGenesis  Jul 1, 2005, By Len Sasso MUSIGENESIS (WIN) If you've got a PC, stop reading and go get this download. MusiGenesis ($19.95) by Kenneth Adams is an algorithmic music generator that's...

Download of the Month: TimeToyPro 2.0  Jun 1, 2005, By Len Sasso TimeToyPro 2.0 (Mac, $17) is a standalone time-stretching application created with Max/MSP and based on granular DSP technology. Author Marcel Wierckx...

Downloads of the Month: HarpTime Pro and MicroRock  May 1, 2005, By Len Sasso HarpTime Pro (Mac/Win, $59.90), HarpTime Fun (Mac/Win, $29.90), and MicroRock Pro (Mac/Win, $46.90) from LiqihSynth (http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com)...

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