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Creating Music: Free Multitracking Software
Audacity is a great little software program that primarily operates as an editing program.
But delve under the hood for a second and you’ll find a multitrack recordig system.
Doesn’t support midi but hey it’s free.
It looks a lot like a basic version of Cool Edit the pre-Audition mulltitracking software.
Does take a lot of setting up, ie the vst needs and extra component installing as does VST support and LADSPA plugins.
They’re all available from the Audacity site anyway.
Download for free Audacity
MU.LAB
MU.LAB comes in 2 flavors: MU.LAB Free and MU.LAB Unlimited.
MU.LAB Free (which is free to everyone!) has a 6 track limit, can only mixdown in 16 Bit and only supports 1 mono out for ReWired devices. But be sure: a creative soul can do A LOT with that!
MU.LAB Unlimited on the other hand can do unlimited tracks, can also mixdown in 32 Bit for more extensive musical productions, and supports all available audio outputs for ReWired devices!
Reaper
The daddy of shareware music creation software, no limits uncrippled and probably the bargain software that pretty much sells itself.
It’s in this list because of it’s rare state of treating it’s users and potential customers as adults.
You get to try it out in full for an unlimited period, it’s then down to your conscience wether or not to buy it.
Brilliant software which is constantly updated and has a very loyal and helpful following who frequent the forums.
Lot’s of musicians these days are making the transition over to reaper and for good reason.
Great sound card and midi support, VST and VSTi supported also.
It’s a breeze to set up and use. Honestly if you’ve used this kind of software before you’ll love it.
And as a bonus there is reamote an add on that allows you to connect to a nother laptop via lan to share processing power, your fx and reaper have to installed on the second machine though.
Add to that rewire and you can’t go wrong.
Try it out and then if you dig it, buy it. It’s only fair.
Download for free here
Reaper 3.0 Released
A new version of Reaper has been released, on the 22nd of may Cockus finally released the 3.0 version.
And it looks great…
‘Changes: A HUGE upgrade!
- Automation lanes
- Nested track folders
- Multiple tabbed projects
- Multichannel (greater than stereo) media support, including MOGG
- FX parameter controls on track and mixer control panels
- Customize toolbar icons and actions
- Programmable MIDI joystick/game controller support
- Inline MIDI editing
- Edit multiple MIDI items in one editor
- Sync MIDI editor to arrange view, including looped items
- Export project MIDI, with tempo map support
- MIDI event filter
- Track MIDI controls (manage bank/program changes, sysex, automate CC)
- MIDI hardware timing improvements
- Full sysex support
- All-native graphics rendering engine (better appearance and performance)
- Memory use improvements
- Soft controller takeover, including FX parameters
- MORE! Too much to list here!
If after 30 days you decide that REAPER is not for you, simply delete it.
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Free VST Plugins
- Range of free audio plugins – Compressor, Delay, Chorus and more…
- Host of great free plugins – needs a bit of a search – but worth it.
VST Compressors – Free to Whoah There
Free:
Kjaerhaus Audio: Classic Compressor, link
Classic Compressor is a classic analog style VST Compressor Plugin with a lot of warmth and punch. Special designed to use on individual Instruments and Vocal, but also useable on your final mixes.
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1. Split your vocal track into two sub-groups or tracks, depending on your software. Insert a Classic Compressor on both, loading one with the factory preset “Vocal” and the other with “Vocal Definition”. Boost 100Hz and 10kHz about 10dB shelving on the second group or track. Now mix the two together for a very fat and energetic vocal track.
2. Use our Classic Limiter right after the Classic Compressor to catch the peaks during mix down.
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Endorphin – dual-band stereo compressor – link
Two independent frequency bands (low and high frequency processing)
Switchable stereo or M/S mode operation.
Two basic compressor designs:
1. modern vca mode with soft-knee characteristics and manual time constants. This mode provides an instant response behaviour and deep compression, using a feed-forward circuit.
2. Vintage-style opto (photo resistor) mode, modelled after ancient opto-electrical compressors. The time constants stay manually set, but they are also affected by the signal’s energy. This mode has the typical opto-style ‘overshoot’ on quick transients, this is one of the most gentle compressors you may find. Classical feed-back detector circuit.
Adjustable high-level output stage with analog-style saturation.
While you at digitalfishphones.com check out their fish fillets package
This great package contains – (Blockfish) Compressor, (Spitfish) De Esser and (Floorfish) a Gate/Expander Device.
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Budget:
Voxengo’s range of VST fx are really worth a look at an affordable price,
Prices range from $49.95 for The Crunchessor
- $69.95 for Elephant
- $89.95 for Marquis
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PSPaudioware:
is a collection of five high-resolution, high quality audio processors designed to improve the quality of your digital audio tracks and mixes (VST and RTAS for Windows; AudioUnit, VST and RTAS for MacOSX UniversalBinary). These processors were not modeled on specific hardware analog processors, but rather on the sound and features of many analog circuits, with the goal of designing processors that can assist you in taming the sterility and harshness that often plagues digitally recorded audio. Don’t let the name of this bundle fool you – while we worked hard to develop a plug-in pack that would help your mixes shine, these plug-ins are high enough quality to be at home in mastering or live tracking situations as well. All plug-ins utilize 64-bit double precision floating point algorithms throughout their entire signal path and support sample rates of up to 192kHz. The kit consists of: PSP MixBass2, PSP MixTreble2. PSP MixSaturator2, PSP MixPressor2 and PSP MixGate2
Check Out Mixpack2 – Priced at $199 it’s well worth a looksy
Kristal – 16 Track Multi Recorder
Taken form their website:
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 Plug-Ins.
KRISTAL Audio Engine is free for personal, educational and non-commercial use.
For commercial use we offer the following licensing options: 
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| License type | Price/User | |
| KRISTAL single-user license | 24.90 EUR | Buy now! |
| KRISTAL multi-user license (5 users ++) | 19.90 EUR | Buy now! |
| KRISTAL multi-user license (10 users ++) | 14.90 EUR | Buy now! |
- We grant a trial period of 30 days. Please try before you buy!
- Simply download the KRISTAL installer and legitimate it for commercial use by paying the license fee.
- You will receive a personalized License Key via E-mail.