Alternatives to Kontakt

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    Ableton Live
    Live organizes multiple passes of an audio or MIDI performance into individual takes. Pick the best moments of each performance and combine them to create your perfect take. Or approach sound design in a new way by splicing together random samples from your library. Link two or more tracks to edit their content simultaneously. This makes editing multi-tracked instruments or performances with multiple musicians easy and fast whilst keeping everything in time across tracks. This feature also works for MIDI tracks. Plug in your MPE-capable controller and immediately add bends, slides and pressure for each individual note in a chord. Add subtle expression variations, morph between chords and create evolving sonic textures. MPE stands for MIDI Polyphonic Expression. This way of using MIDI allows MPE-capable devices to control multiple parameters of every note in real-time for more expressive instrumental performances.
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    Roland Cloud
    Roland Cloud is an evolving cloud-based suite of software synthesizers, drum machines, and sampled instruments for modern creators. Harness the vast power of the ZEN-Core Synthesis System and dive deep into the world of custom sound design with ZENOLOGY Pro. For nearly fifty years, Roland has delivered memorable, genre-defining sounds. And a big part of that sonic footprint is our unique approach to effects processing. The swirling JUNO chorus, feedback-drenched tape echo, and other sounds have left their mark on countless tracks over the decades, and with ZENOLOGY FX, you can now add that flavor to any keyboard sound or instrument track right inside your DAW. With over 90 processors to choose from, there's a wealth of ways to make your synth sounds come alive. Add delays to arps, larger-than-life modulation effects to chord progressions, and twist and distort basses and lead tones that leap from the speakers.
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    Pro Tools
    Your talent and artistry know no bounds. Take your sound further with software and hardware that let you focus on what you do best. Meet Pro Tools. Get everything you need to make beats, write songs, record vocals and instruments, and mix studio-quality music that’s ready to be heard across the world’s most popular streaming platforms. Pro Tools makes music creation fast and fluid, providing the GRAMMY® winning DAW toolset and plugins the pros use to create your favorite songs and albums. Build up songs quickly and create more realistic-sounding tracks with easy-to-use MIDI tools. Add loops that auto-conform to your session tempo. And freely create and experiment without stopping playback. Share ideas and work on projects with anyone, anywhere, with Cloud Collaboration. And take your music to any producer or studio around the world, as the Pro Tools session format is the industry’s universal language.
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    Reason

    Reason

    Reason Studios

    Reason is a powerful collection of fantastic instruments, synthesizers and effects for you to create endless amazing sounds and music. Use it as a plugin with your favorite DAW or produce music in Reason standalone. Sound Packs are like musical building blocks that just sound perfect together. Sound Packs are filled with Reason patches (aka presets) that are powerful combinations of various Reason devices, made by world-class sound designers. With new Sound Packs every week, you’ve always got somewhere to turn for some inspiration.
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    Bitwig Studio
    Bitwig Studio inspires you to take greater control of your music, giving you access to every aspect of your production. Streamline your creative process and quickly evolve your ideas into complete songs, tracks, and compositions. Record and arrange, improvise and perform, or do it all at once. Linear and non-linear workflows for sound design, recording, live performance, and beyond. Enjoy over 10 GB (and counting) of world-class sound content from Bitwig and selected partners. The modulation system in Bitwig Studio allows you to use Macro controls, Note Expressions, LFOs, and Envelopes to modulate any device, VST plug-in, or hardware parameter. With 30+ modulators (and counting) the potential for creative expression is endless.
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    Soundminer

    Soundminer

    Avosound

    Contemporary media production demands efficient and intuitive workflows. Soundminer offers powerful programs that interface with archiving and production software. The Soundminer programs offer comprehensive tools and features for the administration of audio material (both music and sound files). Even large archives are easily and efficiently administered and browsed thanks to the unified metadata structure of many sound effects and music labels. Modern workflows not only demand a dependable search engine for the archive, they also need the complete and guaranteed integration of Soundminer programs with industry-standard production systems. You can search for sound files with Soundminer and transfer them directly to your editing system. It's simple and uncomplicated. The Soundminer versions offer a multitude of features to administrate sound and music archives.
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    Cubase

    Cubase

    Steinberg Media Technologies

    Do you want to start creating your own music, bring your production up to a professional level, or streamline your workflow for short deadlines? Whatever you need, Cubase helps you to reach your full creative potential. From Hollywood blockbuster composers and Billboard Hot 100 producers right through to keen beginners, the world of music production trusts the comprehensive feature set, straightforward tools and unrivaled sound of our acclaimed music production software.
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    99Sounds

    99Sounds

    99Sounds

    99Sounds is an indie sound design label launched by Bedroom Producers Blog in 2014. Our mission is to provide free sound effects and sample libraries of commercial quality, at no charge. All of our products will always be 100% royalty-free and offered as such for both commercial and non-commercial use. Subscribe to 99Sounds and get a notification whenever we release a new freebie. 99 Sound Effects is a free collection of cinematic impacts, braams, earth-shattering subs, and other modern sound effects. Free drum samples are crafted from scratch using various analog and digital sound sources. Premium drum sample collection. The sounds hosted on 99Sounds are completely royalty-free. You can use them for music and video production, game development, and any similar creative projects. Our sounds may not be redistributed or resold as part of another sound library or virtual instrument. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
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    Splice Studio
    Automatically back up every version of your project, without using up hard drive space. It’s secure, reliable, and free. Work with other artists on the same project files. See the changes they make when they make them. Experiment without consequences. Splice remembers. Go back in time at any time. Drum grooves, vocal phrases, strings, kicks, foley, synths, and more. Find samples, MIDI, and presets from any style and instrument imaginable. Get fresh, original, and exclusive releases daily from top artists, producers, and sound designers across genres. There are no hidden costs associated with Rent-to-Own. No fine print, either. Pause or cancel your plan at any time. Pay off the full balance whenever you want. Unlike pirated software, Rent-to-Own gives you access to bug-free VSTs, upgrades, and full tech support.
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    Reaper

    Reaper

    Cockos

    REAPER's full, flexible feature set and renowned stability have found a home wherever digital audio is used: commercial and home studios, broadcast, location recording, education, science and research, sound design, game development, and more. REAPER's full, flexible feature set and renowned stability have found a home wherever digital audio is used: commercial and home studios, broadcast, location recording, education, science and research, sound design, game development, and more. From mission-critical professional environments to students' laptops, there is a single version of REAPER, fully featured with no artificial limitations. You can evaluate REAPER in full for 60 days. A REAPER license is affordably priced and DRM-free.
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    HOFA SYSTEM
    It’s time to create your own channel strips & FX. HOFA SYSTEM offers you 32 high-end plugins, that you can use in your DAW or connect them with each other in the revolutionary SYSTEM environment. For mixing, mastering and sound design. With premium dynamics, EQs, reverbs, FX, modulation and saturation effects and utilities. Intuitive and fast workflow for multiband, mid/side, parallel and dual mono routings. All plugins can be used as inserts and within HOFA SYSTEM. Buy now and get 3 upcoming plugins for free! It has never been easier or faster to change the signal flow of your plugin chain. You can use multiband, mid/side, parallel and dual mono tools anywhere, just drag and drop the plugins around. You want to use an equalizer only on the side signal? Or saturate the signal above 200 Hz? No problem, SYSTEM can do that in no time. More than 300 carefully selected presets not only provide you with a starting point for your own creations, they also sound great!
    Starting Price: $169.90 one-time payment
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    Blindfold EQ

    Blindfold EQ

    AudioThing

    Blindfold EQ, a plugin designed for you to mix with your ears. Blindfold EQ is a freeware EQ plugin inspired by a quote by Matt Wallace from the book Recording Unhinged by Sylvia Massy. It has 4 bands (LowShelf, LowMid, HighMid, HighShelf), but each knob is blind. There are no indicators or numbers to show frequency values, gain values or Q values. Multi-band resonant filter, lightweight on CPU, preset system with randomizer. Blindfold EQ is a freeware plugin. Just put your email address in the form to get your download links. No connection required to activate. We offer a wide range of audio plugins, including vintage tape and valve emulations, analog tape echos, analog drum machine emulations, complex convolution processing effects, and more. We are committed to developing professional yet affordable products for every kind of composer, producer and sound designer.
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    Audacity

    Audacity

    Audacity

    Free, open source, cross-platform audio software. Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed by a group of volunteers as open source. Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from other media. Import, edit, and combine sound files. Export your recordings in many different file formats, including multiple files at once. Supports 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit. Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering. Support for LADSPA, LV2, Nyquist, VST and Audio Unit effect plug-ins. Nyquist effects can be easily modified in a text editor – or you can even write your own plug-in. Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete. Also unlimited sequential Undo (and Redo) in the session to go back any number of steps. Real-time preview of LADSPA, LV2, VST and Audio Unit (macOS) effects. Plug-in Manager handles plug-in installation.
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    TX16Wx Software Sampler

    TX16Wx Software Sampler

    TX16Wx Software Sampler

    TX16Wx Software Sampler is a plug-in for the creative musician, inspired and modeled after the best hardware samplers with all the ease and new exiting features of modern software. Two LFO:s, two envelopes and three-step sequencers per voice. Modulation matrix connects any modulator or MIDI/automation source to any sound element. Two-level modulation with base and additional controller. Tempo and voice synchronization of LFO and step sequencers. Selectable velocity and mapping curves with user-editable shape. Quick browsing of sample libraries with preview playback and non-destructive loading of sound elements. Set up bookmarks and search paths to quickly find and reference source material. Reads WAV, AIFF, Ogg, FLAC and Yamaha waves. Drag & drop copy/paste between programs and groups. Revolutionary sample matrix lets you trigger samples in two dimensions based on any modulator or external source. MIDI key based, round-robin, random or modulator-based group triggering.
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    Krotos Weaponiser
    Stun your audience with unique sound effects. Create original sound effects in a matter of seconds. Weaponiser is a powerful sound design sampler that lets you design, customize, and perform a huge range of sound effects quickly, all from within one plugin. Create assets and fully-fledged sounds quickly and effortlessly with a drag-and-drop, multi-sample interface. Hundreds of presets and thousands of assets, with the ability to easily import your own sounds. Four powerful sample engines that can trigger up to 80 audio files in countless variations. Plus, with three built-in synthesis engines also included, the sound design possibilities are truly endless. Trigger your sounds with MIDI for speed and precision. Perfect for spotting pictures as well as designing sounds. Choose from a diverse range of included sound libraries, all of which are easily accessible through the built-in browser. Incorporate them into your design via simple drag-and-drop functionality.
    Starting Price: $199 one-time payment
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    Kithara

    Kithara

    Native Instruments

    An eclectic collection of guitars and plucked string instruments from across the world. Shape and layer up to four different instruments at once for immersive and evolving soundscapes. Craft organic granular textures with the fragments engine. From classical, flamenco, and steel guitars to the balalaika, cuatro, and ronroco, enter a world of cinematic guitars with Kithara. Each instrument is recorded in stunning detail, creatively performed, and transformed with rich sound design. From e-bow pads to granular mandolin soundscapes and rhythmic tremolos, Kithara blends raw, organic tones with modern possibilities, letting you craft everything from delicate plucks to sweeping textures. Kithara’s four-layer engine offers deep control of over 350 sound sources. The attack layer delivers crisp plucks and short elements like a marcato, while the sustain layers introduce depth with textural loops, strummed beds, e-bow drones, and pads.
    Starting Price: $199 one-time payment
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    Tonsturm

    Tonsturm

    Tonsturm

    Tonsturm is a software company specializing in sound design tools and effects, primarily for professionals working in film, video games, and music production. Their products, such as TRAVELER, Whoosh, and DopplerPRO, are known for precisely modeling acoustic phenomena like the Doppler effect and providing tools for creating dynamic audio effects such as whooshes and pass-by sounds. Tonsturm's software offers features like real-time control, advanced sample playback engines, and extensive presets, making it ideal for creating immersive and realistic sound environments. The software supports various formats like VST, AAX, and AU, ensuring compatibility across platforms like Windows and macOS​.
    Starting Price: $99 one-time payment
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    KOMPLETE

    KOMPLETE

    Native Instruments

    Flagship synths, immersive platforms, unique sampled instruments, and sounds for any genre, production, or performance. KOMPLETE 13 packs the very best Native has to offer into a do-it-all production toolkit that includes brand-new GUITAR RIG 6 PRO, SUPER 8, NOIRE, and much more. From beats, to screen scores, to conjuring underground sounds – KOMPLETE 13 is curated for genre-bending versatility and endless inspiration, whatever you create. Get it all for less with a huge saving on the combined cost of each product in KOMPLETE 13. Revamped, redesigned, and reimagined with new amps, effects, and ways to sculpt your sound. An eight-voice, modern take on vintage polysynthesis. Warm tones and a wide sweet spot. The signature sound of Nils Frahm’s evocative concert grand, captured at its home in Berlin’s Funkhaus complex.
    Starting Price: $599 one-time payment
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    iZotope

    iZotope

    iZotope

    At iZotope, we’re obsessed with great sound. Our intelligent audio technology helps musicians, music producers, and audio post engineers focus on their craft rather than the tech behind it. We design award-winning software, plug-ins, hardware, and mobile apps powered by the highest quality audio processing, machine learning, and strikingly intuitive interfaces. In media production environments, where budgets are tight and timelines are even tighter, sound is often forced to take a backseat to picture. From flawed location sound to prohibitively expensive ADR to loudness requirements in final delivery, sound quality is compromised too often. iZotope products distinguish themselves by solving seemingly unsolvable audio challenges like these and doing so in a way that’s proven to save both time and money.
    Starting Price: $19.99 per month
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    DaVinci Resolve

    DaVinci Resolve

    Blackmagic Design

    DaVinci Resolve 16 is the world’s only solution that combines professional 8K editing, color correction, visual effects and audio post production all in one software tool! You can instantly move between editing, color, effects, and audio with a single click. DaVinci Resolve Studio is also the only solution designed for multi user collaboration so editors, assistants, colorists, VFX artists and sound designers can all work live on the same project at the same time! Whether you’re an individual artist, or part of a large collaborative team, it’s easy to see why DaVinci Resolve is the standard for high end post production and finishing on more Hollywood feature films, television shows and commercials than any other software. DaVinci Resolve 16 features a revolutionary new cut page specifically designed for editors that need to work quickly and on tight deadlines! The new DaVinci Neural Engine uses machine learning to enable powerful new features such as facial recognition.
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    Apple MainStage
    Sound as great on stage as you do in the studio. Turn your Mac into a live rig. Transform your keyboard, guitar, or vocal performance with an enormous collection of plug-ins and sounds. And give your audience a show they’ll never forget. MainStage has something for every kind of performer. You can use all your favorite instrument and effect plug-ins from Logic Pro. Simplify setup and teardown. Sound as big as you want with backing tracks. And use all your favorite hardware controllers. Take your performance beyond what you can actually perform. The Arpeggiator features note-based remote controls and flexible latch modes. And Chord Trigger allows you to press a single note and have it trigger an entire complex chord. Use Retro Synth to re-create your favorite electronic sounds from the ’70s and ’80s with an intuitive set of controls. Or bring the authentic sounds of a Hammond B3 organ, Hohner Clavinet D6, or Fender Rhodes or Wurlitzer electric pianos on stage.
    Starting Price: $29.99
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    AudioThing

    AudioThing

    AudioThing

    AudioThing is an audio software company focused on audio plugins (VST2, VST3, AU, AAX). We are committed to developing professional yet affordable products for every kind of composer, producer and sound designer. We offer a wide range of audio plugins, including vintage tape and valve emulations, analog tape echos, analog drum machine emulations, complex convolution processing effects, and more. Our copy protection is simple and user-friendly, no iLok, no dongles, no internet required. To activate a plugin you can choose between online and offline authorization. Create an account, log in through the plugin to activate, or download your license file for offline activation. Motor is a plugin effect that uses side-chaining to combine signals in new and interesting ways. Put in any two signals and they will dance around each other like courting birds drunk on fermented cherries.
    Starting Price: $35 one-time payment
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    PreSonus Studio One

    PreSonus Studio One

    PreSonus Audio Electronics

    Record, produce, mix, master, and perform all from a single, intuitive application. Designed with ease of use at its core, Studio One® 5 is your creative partner from studio to stage. The Start Page provides what you need to begin your creative process, including a dashboard with all your songs, projects, and shows, plus a personalized user profile that allows you to add custom metadata to all your creations. Test out remix ideas or just capture a synth riff without affecting your arrangement or creating a new session. Patterns reinvent step sequencing, letting you effortlessly create drums, basslines, and synth leads using variable sequence lengths, unlimited variations, and more. Edit multitrack drums blazingly fast thanks to advanced transient detection, slicing, and time-stretching.
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    Spitfire Audio

    Spitfire Audio

    Spitfire Audio

    We work with the world’s best composers, producers, engineers and studios to create detailed, sophisticated and realistic recordings of instruments. Our virtual instruments and sample libraries enable you to perform and compose within your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), offering you thousands of sounds at your fingertips for endless inspiration. Create an account with us to download our libraries directly to your computer. A great starting point is our LABS programme, an infinite series of software instruments, made by musicians in London for anyone anywhere. Free to install and easy to use, these plugins work directly within your DAW. We have started releasing a new series of instant and affordable cinematic writing tools, Originals. The samples have been simplified and presented in our free, easy-to-use plugin. Clutter-free and focused, it features sliders for expression and dynamics, and a digital mod wheel that can be easily customised to your personal workflow.
    Starting Price: $29 one-time payment
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    Syntronik

    Syntronik

    Ik Multimedia

    Syntronik is a cutting-edge virtual synthesizer that raises the bar in sound quality and flexibility thanks to the most advanced sampling techniques combined with a new hybrid sample and modeling synthesis engine. Syntronik includes 17 amazing Synths, available as a collection or separately, with over 2,000 preset sounds covering a wide selection from 38 of the most iconic to ultra-rare and painstakingly multi-sampled vintage synthesizers. Syntronik’s synthesis engine goes well beyond traditional sampling thanks to a brand new analog modeled filter section created with the utmost expertise from IK, the pioneer in virtual circuit modeling. This is coupled with exclusive DRIFT™ technology to accurately reproduce the behavior of oscillators from real hardware synths. All of this combined with an effects section that is unrivaled in the world of virtual instruments along with advanced features like 4-part Multis, splits and arpeggiators make Syntronik the ultimate source of inspiration.
    Starting Price: $299.99 one-time payment
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    Reaktor

    Reaktor

    Native Instruments

    Experiment with rack-style modular patching using blocks. Discover 70+ included instruments plus thousands of sounds in the user library. Reaktor 6 is the ultimate creative toolkit for deep sound exploration, featuring cutting-edge DSP and high-fidelity sound. Reaktor is the beating heart that gives life to synths like Native’s Razor and Monark, as well as third-party releases from Twisted Tools, Tim Exile, Blinksonic, and many more. It’s a sandbox for sound creation – a limitless platform for experimenting and diving into new sound directions. Simply put, Reaktor lets you build instruments to replicate the sounds in your head – in a way that existing instruments can’t. Reaktor's trademark sound quality is unmistakable. From anti-aliased oscillators and ZDF (zero delay feedback) filters to granular synthesis engines, a team of leading developers builds every component in Reaktor from the core level up.
    Starting Price: $199 one-time payment
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    Logic Pro
    Logic Pro turns your Mac into a professional recording studio able to handle even the most demanding projects. Capture your compositions and performances — from tracking a live band to a solo software-instrument session — and flow them into your songs. Create and improvise in a whole new way with Live Loops. Control music-making sessions from your iPad or iPhone with Logic Remote. Transform sounds into instruments with Sampler and Quick Sampler. Quickly build drum beats and melodic patterns with Step Sequencer. Live Loops is a dynamic way to create and arrange music in real time. Kick off your composition by adding loops, samples, or your recorded performances into a grid of cells. Trigger different cells to play with your ideas without worrying about a timeline or arrangement. Once you find combinations that work well together you can create song sections, then move everything into the Tracks area to continue production and finish your song.
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    LUNA

    LUNA

    Universal Audio

    Designed for seamless integration with Apollo audio interfaces, LUNA is our free Mac‑based recording application that lets you do music recording, audio editing, composition, sound design, and more, all in real time, and with big analog studio sound. Far beyond plug‑ins, LUNA extensions are built into the fabric of LUNA's mixer, giving you authentic analog sounds without having to manage multiple plug‑in windows. Create with precisely emulated analog summing from legendary Neve and API consoles. These optional LUNA Extensions will transform a clean, sterile mix to sound as if it was mixed on a classic analog desk. Get the punch and rich textures of magnetic tape on any audio or instrument track, as well as your master fader and buses, with optional Studer A800 and Ampex ATR-102 LUNA Extensions. You can also sculpt warm analog tape tones with the included Oxide Tape Machine Extension.
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    OptimizerAI

    OptimizerAI

    OptimizerAI

    Sounds for creators, game developers, artists, video makers. Experience the best AI Sound FX generator. We're working at the forefront of technology, doing our own foundational AI research to make all kinds of content more vibrant. OptimizerAI is a sound effects AI research and application company with a mission to make all content more immersive. With our state-of-the-art technology, we are driving the audio industry. At OptimizerAI, users can create their imagined sound effects. These sound effects are used in various industries such as film, animation, advertising, and games. We envision a world where sound is generated through various modalities, not just text. We will continue to advance until everyone can fully integrate their creativity into sound design.
    Starting Price: $3 per month
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    Notetracks

    Notetracks

    Notetracks

    Share projects and invite collaborators easily from anywhere in the world to chime in and get on the same wavelength. Utilize precise comments, replies, and tags pinned to the timeline to make communicating simple and fun. Share tracks with clients and collaborators in a professional environment. Powerful playback features help showcase work in the best light. Use one platform to capture your notes, conversations, and media files. Get to done with fewer revisions. Understand what shots and transitions are working and which ones need attention. Address editing notes from stakeholders to finish picture perfect video and film projects. Get song feedback pinned to tracks section by section. Make tweaks so productions sound alive when they’re released. Communicate ideas on drafts, save time on edits and deliver amazing episodes.
    Starting Price: $9 per month
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    Krotos Dehumaniser 2
    Dehumaniser 2 gives sound designers the tools to process countless vocal scenarios from within one plugin. No need for additional software. Dehumaniser 2 is a powerful vocal processor for designing complex vocal sound effects and processing dialogue. Create creatures, monsters, and robots easily and quickly with Dehumaniser 2’s intuitive and modular workflow. Customize and combine effects modules for unlimited creative possibilities, or get started straight away with 100 ready-to-go presets. Dehumaniser 2 is the all-in-one solution that puts vital vocal sound design features at your fingertips, making it the ideal plugin for use in film, TV, video games, live performance, and more. This versatile vocal processor eliminates the difficulty of setting up complex processing chains and allows designers to jump right into their creative work. Use Dehumaniser 2 to sound design voice processing that reacts to the dynamics of the incoming signal.
    Starting Price: $399 one-time payment
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    Caelum Audio

    Caelum Audio

    Caelum Audio

    Plugins, samples and free stuff. Distortions and effects for making big sounds. Premium pack containing crunchy summertime cassette stems. Multi-FX tape plugin with a huge amount of custom control. RMS compressor plugin with a bold and aggressive sound. Peak compressor plugin with a transparent and elegant sound. Premium 808 sample pack. Premium organic sample pack from the British countryside. Synchronized amp and filter custom envelope. Improved and rebuilt plugin that recreates the classic sound of tape cassettes. Even more synth loops, MIDI and WAVs are provided. More sounds from the human body, dry and processed WAVs. Finger cracking samples, dry and processed WAVs. Please ensure your DAW can load VST3 format plugins and is set up to see the containing directory. If you used the installer's default location this should be fine. Ensure that VST3 is turned on in your DAW.
    Starting Price: $16.47 one-time payment
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    AudioDirector

    AudioDirector

    Cyberlink

    No production is complete without sound design. Visually intuitive and stocked with tools and effects to master your production, AudioDirector is the comprehensive audio workstation for multi-tracking, mixing, editing and sound restoration. Export your entire audio project from AudioDirector directly into PowerDirector and vice versa. Your audio and video project edits synchronize perfectly between the two apps. Let powerful AI tools create the perfect recording environment, anywhere. Remove wind gusts, reverb, and echo from audio clips intelligently so dialogue and ambient sounds are clearly heard. Throw your vocals through professional tone filters – or create your own. Instantly fix pitch issues and achieve perfect intonation. Want to use a music track without the distracting vocals? Extract pristine instrumental tracks from your favorite songs. Get the most out of your mix with complete track control and comparison. Combine and apply multiple effects at the same time.
    Starting Price: $96.99
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    Magix Music Maker
    Want to fulfil your dream of being a creative music producer, even without any experience? Music Maker lets you get started right away. Simply choose sounds from a massive collection of beats, tunes and vocals at chart quality level. Combine sounds and loops per drag & drop, play a whole library of software instruments and apply professional effects. Choose sounds and loops from your favorite genre and combine them with virtual instruments on your timeline. Analog synthesizers, drums that pack real boom or elegant strings – they can all be applied with a single click. Form an entire band! Start recording your own melodies or vocals from the get-go. Just connect your MIDI keyboard, drum pad controller or microphone – that's all you need to do. Want to record a live guitar solo? No problem. You're free to customize each and every element for your groove. Create a track that's one of a kind. Drag & drop to apply professional effects to your sounds, loops, instruments and vocals.
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    nvk.tools

    nvk.tools

    nvk.tools

    Discover the fastest sound design workflow for Reaper. Generate precise doppler automation based on item peaks. Tweak times and curves for multiple items or groups. Write automation for any plug-in with custom mode. nvk.tools is a suite of Reaper scripts designed to improve the workflows of sound designers working in game audio. They are built for speed and efficiency, allowing you to focus on what matters most creating amazing sounds. The scripts on nvk.tools are entirely focused on the specific needs of game audio. They have been tested by game audio professionals around the world and have been used to ship dozens of titles. They are designed to be intuitive, efficient, and flexible enough to fit your workflow, no matter how complex it may be. The goal of nvk.tools is to help others in the game audio community by providing tools that make their lives easier. Through the use of these tools, sound designers can spend less time on tedious tasks and more time on the creative aspect.
    Starting Price: $49 one-time payment
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    Paragon

    Paragon

    NUGEN Audio

    Paragon is a true convolution reverb with the flexibility and control of a classic algorithmic reverb, giving you the sound of real spaces, now with unprecedented tweakability. Via re-synthesis, Paragon offers full control of the decay, room size and brightness of reverbs modelled on 3D recordings of real spaces - with no time-stretching, which means no artefacts - not to mention spectral analysis and precise EQ of the Impulse Responses themselves. Paragon’s reverb decay and room size can be set significantly longer, larger, shorter and smaller than that of the original IR space, without introducing ugly artefacts as a result of stretching or removing samples. Unlike a traditional convolution reverb, Paragon does not use a static Impulse Response, and this wider scope allows you to transparently transform the sound of the space.
    Starting Price: $599 one-time payment
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    SampleTron

    SampleTron

    Ik Multimedia

    SampleTron 2 combines the powerful sound engine of IK’s award-winning SampleTank 4 with our industry-leading tape modeling technology to recreate the distinctive, ultra-vibey sounds of tape-based samplers from the ‘60s and ‘70s, along with quirky early digital sample players and vocoders. This comprehensive collection features deep sampling of vintage Mellotron® and Chamberlin tapes, a collection of new acoustic “non-Tron” sounds with tape processing, and now enables you to load your own samples and create modern audiophile Tron sounds that are uniquely yours. 8GB virtual instrument collection of sought-after vintage and tape-based samplers. Over 400 tracks sampled from vintage Mellotrons, Chamberlins, Optigans and other rare pieces. Each preset can load three tracks to split, layer and solo from over 400 available. Features a collection of modern non-Tron and vintage digital sample-based instruments.
    Starting Price: $249.99 one-time payment
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    Loopcloud

    Loopcloud

    Loopcloud

    Samples are a source of inspiration. It’s what you do with them that matters. Loopcloud allows you to shape millions of royalty-free samples to your sound. Spend less time searching and more time creating. Loopcloud’s ever‑expanding catalogue is the largest and most diverse sample library in the world, covering every genre you can imagine. Quickly find the sound you need with AI‑powered harmonic and rhythmic sound matching, similar sound recommendations and adjustable audio search filters. Make every sample your own with our game‑changing software. The intuitive technology allows you to push sounds to their limits, molding them seamlessly to your style. Creating unique textures and track‑ready loops in an instant. Loopcloud’s library gives you studio secrets from the world’s hottest artists, DJs and producers. It’s time to produce with the best in the business. Experiment and play with an ever‑growing collection of instruments, designed by the industry’s biggest names.
    Starting Price: $7.99 per month
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    Cakewalk

    Cakewalk

    BandLab

    Fueled by over 30 years in the relentless pursuit of innovation, Cakewalk by BandLab is the new standard for the modern recording studio. The creative experience only Cakewalk by BandLab offers: advanced technology, effortless workflow, and an interface that amplifies inspiration. Easily compose complete songs and performances with creative songwriting tools and instruments. Capture inspired performances with pristine quality and unlimited audio and MIDI tracks. Fix mistakes, arrange parts, and manipulate pitch, time, and any other aspect of your recordings. Achieve pristine pro-studio sounds and create big, clear, dynamic mixes with advanced mixing tools. Polish your finished mixes to perfection with built-in mastering tools. Export and publish your songs directly to YouTube, SoundCloud, Facebook and more. Navigate your projects with the award-winning fully customizable Skylight Interface.
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    Miroslav Philharmonik
    Strings that soar, woodwinds that dance, brass that commands and a full symphony orchestra of sounds at your fingertips, all expertly performed with musical articulations for real music played by real musicians. From flowing legatos to animated pizzicatos, from aggressive spiccatos to elegant staccatos, from the most subtle pianissimo to the most triumphant fortissimo and more, Miroslav Philharmonik 2 is a sweeping vision from a master artist embodied in a new virtual instrument that brings the orchestra to life. It’s not enough to just have good recordings of classical instruments. For a true symphonic experience, you need instruments performed by the absolute best musicians articulated in just the right way directed by a producer and conductor who knows the fine art of making living, breathing samples. Miroslav Vitous pioneered the concept of a complete symphonic sample library for real composers, and now he has taken it to the next level.
    Starting Price: $499.99 one-time payment
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    Roland Zenbeats
    Roland Zenbeats is a music creation app that keeps you in an effortless artistic flow. Get started on any device or platform. With its collection of both modern and legendary sounds, Zenbeats brings Roland’s history of innovation into a new, accessible format. Whether you’re an emerging musician or an established producer, Zenbeats makes music creation easy. Make beats, take lessons, and sample the world around you. Wherever you are, no matter what platform or device you use, capture your creative spark with Zenbeats. ZC1 is a new plug-in synthesizer using Roland’s ZEN-Core Synthesis System. Available in Zenbeats as a free instrument, ZC1 has 60 presets and a sleek touch-based interface. Use the XY pad for Resonance and Cutoff or other parameters. Plus, unlock ZC1 to share sounds with ZENOLOGY and ZEN-Core-compatible hardware and get around 900 additional preset tones and 90 built-in MFX effects. These sounds cover a wide range from acoustic and electronic to ethnic instruments.
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    GarageBand
    GarageBand is a fully equipped music creation studio right inside your Mac — with a complete sound library that includes instruments, presets for guitar and voice, and an incredible selection of session drummers and percussionists. With Touch Bar features for MacBook Pro and an intuitive, modern design, it’s easy to learn, play, record, create, and share your hits worldwide. Now you’re ready to make music like a pro.
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    Algonaut Atlas 2
    The most creative combinations of sound and rhythm. Craft your best beats. Don't just collect sample files, find out what they're really capable of. Atlas is built to show you the right options at the right time. Quickly hear samples in context with other samples and drum patterns. All the most used features are easily visible and accessible so you can work as fast as possible. Show and hide panels to fit the task at hand. Atlas is made to work with whichever samples, MIDI, external apps, and hardware you throw at it. We play nice with everyone so there aren't limitations. No more unwieldy file lists! Let our AI find and organize all your drum sounds. Your eyes and ears can now tell you which direction to search in. Build as many different maps as you want. Atlas lets you instantly change between them. We handle all the major formats and a lot of the less common ones too, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, OGG, MP3, WMA, and more. Choose your own sounds or let Atlas quickly provide inspiration.
    Starting Price: $99 one-time payment
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    UAD Spark

    UAD Spark

    UAD Spark

    Our reverb, delay, and modulation plug‑ins are the standard by which all others are judged, giving you timeless dimension and space. Studio pros use analog mic preamps and EQs, to warm up their tracks and give them character. Explore the world's best analog brands below, exclusively on UAD. Each one has a unique personality and tone. Our compressors perfectly emulate classic studio units, giving your music a professional punch. UA's expertise in modeling, sampling, and synthesis gives our virtual instruments the realism to inspire your next masterpiece. Add punch, warmth, and cohesion with the musical, mixable sound of tape. Give your recordings the pro analog tones heard on your favorite albums, get exclusive new instruments and tools with our ever‑expanding library.
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    Mixcraft

    Mixcraft

    Acoustica

    Created by musicians, for musicians, Mixcraft is unrivaled in the industry for its ease of use and raw power. Record and mix your tracks to perfection, in record time, with Mixcraft's incredibly intuitive interface, the lightning-fast sound engine, reality-defying pitch-shifting, and time-stretching technology, and nearly-universal support for third-party plug-ins, audio interfaces, and hardware controllers. Don't just take our word for it. There's a reason Mixcraft has been honored with so many awards from so many respected magazines, including Electronic Musician, Computer Music, MusicTech, and Keyboard Magazine. Record an unlimited number of audio and virtual instrument tracks, edit, crop, and crossfade sounds effortlessly, add tons of effects and automation, and mix and master your project to WAV, MP3, and other formats. Mixcraft's massive loop library features over 7,500 professionally-produced loops, music beds, sound effects, and percussion samples, in a massive array of genres.
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    Output Arcade
    Arcade is a sample playground with new content delivered every day and tools to transform it all so it sounds like you. It even works with your own loops. Never ending supply of new product lines and kits, and no limitations during your trial period like you’ll find in other software. Any session you’ve built will work forever. The feed is Arcade's landing page. Here you'll find the newest Arcade content, including new lines and kits. We also present you a selection of recommended Kits based on the content you commonly play. Arcade is a plugin you can use inside a DAW and also a standalone application, which can be opened like any other application on your computer. Transform loops on the fly with Output’s proprietary modifiers. Drag and drop your own samples into the instrument with auto key and tempo detection.
    Starting Price: $10 per month
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    Music Maker JAM
    With Music Maker JAM, anyone can create amazing music, and instantly release it to a community of millions. Join the music revolution now. Make it yours, you can choose from hundreds of mix packs across all genres, from hip hip to rock. Or remix the tracks of hot artists and producers to create your own take on a song. Combine studio-quality samples in our 8-track mixer, then add FX to make your own sound. You can even add your own vocals. Take your music to the next level with PRO, bringing you exclusive access to all of our best JAM features. Choose from 300+ Mix Packs with a 100k+ loops library. Become a producer who records live with a perfect mixdown on the 8-channel mixer. Access thousands of studio-quality loops; from beats and vocals to synth leads and bass lines. Compose your own unique sound by combining samples from different music genres. Remix free/premium audio loops from our store. Add vocals to your track on top of studio-quality beats.
    Starting Price: Free
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    ACID Music Studio
    Easily start your music production with loop-based creation in ACID Music Studio. Develop your own, personal style and progress within the ACID family and become one of the greats on the music scene. With no limits, you have complete creative freedom! Start with ACIDized loops, then edit and make them your own. Choose from over 2,500 loops from genres including hip hop, house and rock. Add instruments – anything from classic MPC-style beats to rich electric piano. Choose from a wide variety of sounds and even record your own singing. For the professional edge, add top quality effects and mix the levels and you're done. It's that simple and now your first song is ready for the world! You're in the ACID zone now and your inspiration takes control! Remix your songs creatively, or import your favorite tracks & add your own flavors. Remix music in your own personal style!
    Starting Price: $19.99 one-time payment
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    BandLab

    BandLab

    BandLab

    Make music anytime, anywhere. Connect with millions. Release your tracks and engage with fans, keep 100% of your earnings. Record, mix and collaborate on your music projects from start to finish with our best-in-class and 100% free mix editor. Always ready when inspiration strikes with our fully functional DAW in your pocket or via the browser. No boundaries to your creativity with unlimited multi-track projects and free cloud storage. Our game-changing technology will transform your workflow with up to 50 collaborators per project. Sound your best at all times with the world’s leading online mastering service. Designed with multi-platinum GRAMMY- winning producers and engineers. Lightning fast, no limits. Hundreds of thousands of professionally designed and curated royalty-free loops, samples and one-shots from producers all over the world. All free, no subscriptions, no credits.
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    VERSELAB

    VERSELAB

    Roland

    When inspiration strikes, VERSELAB helps you capture, refine, and finish your ideas. The fluid, hands-on workflow simplifies music-making with modern vocal recording, pattern generators, thousands of ZEN-Core sounds, mastering effects, and more. Plug-and-play integration with Roland’s Zenbeats app expands your production capabilities using your computer or mobile device. Finish complete songs with inspiring hands-on workflow. Record vocals with modern effects like auto-pitch, harmonizer, and doubler. Curated collection of over 3000 sounds for modern styles from the makers of the TR-808. 4x4 pads and TR-REC step sequencer for drums, basslines, and melodic parts. Songwriting tools and generators get you started and keep you flowing. Interface with your smartphone, tablet, or computer for easy file transfer. Plug-and-play integration with Roland Zenbeats app expands your production capabilities.