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Humble Bundle are running another bundle of interest to game developers, the Mega Sound Designer Loop Crate Vol 3, which features the excellent Mixcraft DAW (which we reviewed here way back when Vol 1 was released). As you may notice from being volume 3 all of the software from this …
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, specifically musicians, in the form of the Music Creators Unlimited Sounds, Loops & Instruments bundle. This is a collection of sales, loops, instruments and effects to create music, including 3 VSTs. The Contents of the bundle include: 1$ Tier …
GodotSfxr is a new plugin released for the Godot game engine. This is a port of the long running sfxr audio tool to run inside the Godot game engine. sfxr is used to quickly and easily create a wide variety of 8bit-esque sound effects using a series of parameters and …
Surge XT is a free and open source synthesizer that started life as a commercial synth from Vember Audio. Surge is available for Mac, Windows and Linux and is implemented as a VST3 module as well as an AU on Mac platforms. The 1.0 version of Surge was recently released, …
FamiStudio is a cross platform, free and open source application for creating old school Nintendo NES / Famicom style soundtracks. We first looked at FamiStudio back in 2020 but since then there have been several new features added including support for Android devices (where it is a free download). The …
AIVA is an AI powered tool for Windows, Mac and Web that makes music creation incredibly easy. You can start from a predefined style such as Jazz, Sea Shanty, Fantasy, Old School Rap or more, or you can upload inspirations in MP3 or MIDI formats that will be used as …
Soundly is an interesting application for Windows and Mac that can perhaps best be described as Quixel Bridge/Megascans (which Epic Games acquired and made free for UE developers), but for audio files. On the backend there is a subscription service with access to thousands of sound effects, while the front …
ChipTone is a cross platform (Windows, Mac and HTML5) completely free sound effect generator. It is inspired by bfxr which in turn was inspired by sfxr although ChipTone has a much nicer user interface. There are a series of sound generators for common game sounds such as jumping, getting hit, …
Midinous is an interesting audio tool for creating MIDI sequences that launched today on Steam. Midinous enables you to create songs easily by creating a sequence of notes on a grid, which can either be played using the built-in synth or as a MIDI control device for your DAW of …
After being in development since 2011, Bespoke is a new open source modular DAW or Digital Audio Workstation, that takes a different approach to music creation. Bespoke is available for download for Windows, Mac and Linux and the source code is hosted on GitHub under the GPL v3 open source …
