- The place to find VST or other plug-ins is kvr-vst.
- Much useful computer music related info is
available at harmony-central.
- HitSquad,
the
shareware
music
machine,
is
a
handy
resource
to
music
software
and
hardware.
- MacMusic.org.
 Don't Crack is an official dealer
of ours, has alot of audio and music software for sale and they work
directly with developers to get you excellent prices. - Both ZZounds
and Musicians Friend
carry a huge assortment of Musical supplies and equipment.
- Inexpensive reconditioned Macs can be found in
the Apple store here.
The
inventory
may
change
frequently
though.
- ECost
sometimes has some good deals.
- A guide to everything compatible with the OS X
plug-in standard: Audio Units.
- A fairly exhaustive list of freeware/shareware
AudioUnit (AU) and VST plug-ins can be found here and here.
- FXpansion
has a cool little synth plug-in named Orca.
- An Incredible wealth of professional quality
plug-ins can be had for free from apulsoft.
Including a chorus, reverb, scope, thick sounding synthesizer name
daHornet, Clav synth, EQ, compressor, phaser and more.
- Togu Audio
Line has a bunch of cool plugs including TAL-Dub, a cool little
delay, and their hugely phat Noisemaker and
U-NO-60
synthesizers are great.
- U-he makes Triple Cheese. The most
delicious free pizza.
- GreenOak
has some very useful VST plug-ins and amazingly they are free!
- Smartelectronix
destroyfx has many excellent and free Audio Units.
- Creed
has some excellent plug-ins and a very useful MIDI Keyboard
for those who must use QWERTY.
- SilverSpike
has a very cool early reflection plug named RoomMachine
844 and digital amp tube plug-in named RubyTube
as well as some inexpensive high quality plugs.
- If you want to control resonant filters after
Apple's DLS synthesizer, check these excellent plug-ins out: Ohm
Force's Frohmage
and Prosoniq's NorthPole.
- alphakanal
Multimedia has a cool free synthesizer named automat.
- reFX had a
cool free synth called the claw. Here is their download page.
- PSP
has a free VU
Metering and a free PianoVerb
plug-in.
- PowerFX
has a free version of their Miracle Drum Loops tempo matching plug-in.
They also have a commerical
sample-loop-preview-before-you-purchase-online-plug-in called
Soundshuttle.
- Izotope
has a lo-fi record simulator for adding noise named Vinyl.
- Camel Audio has a free version of their
flagship synthesizer, Alchemy.
- Luxonix
makes a killer free AU and VST multi-effects plug-in named LFX-1310.
- Samplebase
makes a sampler Satellite free that allows one to add on reasonable
priced sound blocks at any time.
- Ultimate
Sound
Bank used to have a product named Ultra Focus that contained
a vast diversity of musically phat synthesizer sounds and was also very
processor efficient.
- Native
Instruments makes some amazing sounding plug-ins including AbSynth 5, Reaktor, and Battery.
- Toontrack
makes a realistic sounding drum plug-in, named Superior.
The
sound
library
is
huge
so
reserve
room
on
your
hard
disk.
- M-Audio has
a
lot
of
PCI
Cards.
The
delta
series
work
quite
well.
They
also
have
numerous
other
firewire
and
USB
interfaces.
- Echo
Digital Audio has the Gina and the Layla. Both excellent PCI cards
but require Metro 6.2.5 or greater to record in stereo properly.
- Phonic
makes some incredible fireWire
mixers that have been tested and work quite well allowing you to
stream up to 18 channels of 24bit 96kHZ audio.
- Frontier
Design makes Tranzport,
an excellent cordless DAW remote control that works seamlessly with
Metro.
- A fantastic synth plug-in made by Audjoo.com named Helix is no longer
free but still sounds great.
- A very nice sounding Grand Piano modeling
plug-in that does not use samples, thus uses very little disk space, is
Pianoteq.
- FXpansion
makes some quality drum sample/drum machine plug-ins, namely GURU and BFD. They are
also very responsive to customer bug reports and feature requests.
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- Tone2 makes
several cool synths and effects including ElectraX
and Gladiator.
They
also
have
a
plug-in
named
Filterbank3
which has some crazy wild filters.
- SonicCharge has released a radically new
interface with its synth 'Synplant'.
While
capable
of
producing
a
varied
array
of
sounds,
Synplant
uses
a
metaphor
based
on
life
for
editing
which
is
both
fun
and
visually
rewarding.
- UVISoundSource
has a powerful free program UVI Workstation that is easily upgradable
through payware sound cards and sound packs.
- Applied
Acoustic
Systems have some great cross platform synths and
instrument models, including Tassman,
Ultra
Analog, Strum,
Lounge
Lizard and more.
- NUSofting
has many very good and low priced plug-ins for Macs including
Instrument modeling synths such as Modelonia, MicroRock Pro and more.
- Lennardigital
makes an incredibly thick and versatile synth named Sylenth1, currently
VST only.
- Genuine
Soundware has a couple of good modeling/sampled synths: Mr.Ray Mark
II and Key
Performer.
- Stillwell
Audio makes several nice plug-ins including a synth, Schwa Olga and
a virtual analog effects package Schwa Oligarc,. It's about the sound.
- db
audioware has some very cool effect plugins including their modular
effect building system Quantum FX,
some nice guitar amp models, sidechain compressor, sidechain compressor
gate and more.
- Samplebase
makes Satellite pro; a sampler that allows you to add on reasonable
priced sound blocks at any time.
- XLN Audio makes
Addictive Drums.
A
very
complete
and
easy
to
use
plug-in.
Check
this
one
out.
- Spectrasonics
has the ultimate drum machine groove construction plug-in Stylus
RMX.
- Synapse
audio has an excellent bundle deal called Synth Pack Pro which
includes Hydra, a
multi-model synthesizer, designed for use in all genres of electronic
music, Scorpion,
a
virtual
analog
synthesizer,
Poly-850,
and
Plucked
String.
Note
also that the demos of these plugins currently have very few
restrictions and are quite usable.
- KResearch
has a very interesting reverb-like plug-in named KR-Space.
- Antares
has several plug-ins including Auto-Tune 5,
the
ultimate
pitch
correction
plug-in.
- U-he makes some
amazing synthesizers and effects including Filterscape, Zebra 2, and More Feedback Machine 2. Synth
aficionados must check this one out.
- Nomad Factory
has many very cool plug-ins, including the Analog Signature Pack , now
available for mastering on Intel Mac computers as well as Power PC's.
- WaveArts
makes a very nice EQ, Finalizer,
a
sweet
MultiDynamics
and a Reverb
plug-in to name just a few.
- FabFilter
Software Instruments has released a fabulous compressor plug-in
named Pro-C,
a delay plug-in Timeless and
a powerful filter plug-in Simplon. They
also produce FabFilter
Twin, a versatile, easy to use powerful synthesizer and Volcano, a
filter plug-in.
- Izotope
will slice up your audio with the great Phatmatik Pro
(formerly by Glaresoft ).
They also have a very clean Drum machine plug-in iDrum,a very
nice mastering plug-in named Ozone 4, a
guitar speaker and cab modeler named Trash and a
morphing EQ named Spectron.
- Sonic
Charge makes a very unique and cool VST drum machine plug-in named
µTONiC.
- The very nice SFX Machine RT houses quite a few
audio effects in a single plug-in.
- Camel Audio has an additive synthesizer with
morphing and resynthesis abilities named Cameleon 5000.
This synth is very versatile.
- Korg, makers
of incredible hardware synthesizers, now have available the analog
legacy collection, consisting of software versions of the MS-20 and
Polysix analog synthesizers, and the WAVESTATION . They also have the digital
legacy
collection which contains a software version of the classic
Korg M1 and WAVESTATION synthesizers. The M1 soft-synth surpasses the
original in many ways. Both packages contain very powerful soft-synths.
- PSP
has a many incredible plug-ins including Nitro (the
ultimate multimode filter plugin!), Lexicon emulations, EQ's, mixing,
mastering and more.They also have a killer limiter plug-in named Xenon.
- Synful has
the most realistic orchestral instruments in their Synful Orchestra
product that are not samples and it is available as a free trial.
- Cakewalk
has two soft-synths plug-ins for, get this, Macintosh computers. Dimension
Pro is a nice all around sound generating/sampling soft synth and Rapture is a
wavetable synthesizer with advanced sound manipulation capabilities,
well suited for electronica-related music styles.
- IK
Multimedia makes an excellent sampler plug-in.... SampleTank II. They also make a
fantastic mastering suite: T-RackS. IK
Multimedia also makes an unbelievable Amp
Simulator plug-in named Amplitube
3.
- Audio
Damage has some unique and innovative plug-ins.
- Synthogy
makes a great grand piano simulation plug-in named Ivory.
- MHC
has some nice spacey plug-ins and synthesizers including the very fine
sounding Ambient
Keys.
- Swar
Systems makes SwarPlug,
which
contains
49
virtual
Indian
instruments
in
VSTi/AU
technology.
There
is
also
a
Librarian
to
browse
and
select
among
a
collection
of
over 1000 MIDI loops from the Indian classical and folkloric
repertoire.
- The new spelling of the word "Phat" must of
come from listening to Arturia's Moog Modular
synthesizer emulation.
- reFX has
some really cool synths including Vanguard, and
Virtual E-Guitar + FX + AMP + Cabinet + FX synth; Slayer 2, both
released as Universal Binaries (UB).
- Sugar
Bytes has some very good sounding plug-ins including a synthesizer
named Unique.
- Native
Instruments makes an incredible sample playback editing system with
a vast array of capability named Kontakt.
They
have
other
amazing
sounding
plug-ins
including
but
not
limited
to
Vokator
and
Reaktor
5.
- VSamp is a
good low cost sampler for your basic sample playback needs.
- An extrememly versatile virtual instrument
plug-in by Vember Audio is named
Surge. Definitely worth checking this one out.
- Melda production has a huge assortment of
very good plug-ins available here.
- The most complete set of Soundfonts available
can be downloaded for free from SF2Midi.
- Hammersound
has a lot of excellent Soundfonts.
- Many links to Soundfonts can be found here.
- A sfArk converter that decompresses Soundfonts
is now available for Mac OS X. Find it here.
- Some nice and large Soundfonts can be
found here.
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