That's right NI Reaktor's stepbrother Sync Modular is now free. I've overlooked the news, it became free quite a time ago, but never the less I support that kind of steps. I remember I asked NI to make Reaktor 2.3 free ages ago. Now it feels like they should make free Reaktor 5

A couple of rocking music software pieces just became freeware. Buzz inspired multi-platform modular tracker and Image to Sound FFT synthesizer. Both from the same developer.

SunVox is a small, fast and powerful music sequencer with modular synthesizers. It is a tool for those people who want to compose music anywhere. SunVox available for desktop PC (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X), pocket computers (Windows Mobile, PalmOS, iPhone) and netbooks.

VirtualANS (ANS – the abbreviation for "Alexandr Nicolaevitch Skryabin", the great Russian composer) is the software analogue of the first Russian synthesizer in which the unique optical method of synthesis, developed by a scientist E. Mursin in the years 1937-1957, is used.

VirtualANS is a tool for creating unique fantastic sounds. You can convert JPG-images to the sound and and vice versa. There are different tools for visual transformations, three methods of synthesis during convertation (FFT and ADDITIVE) and possibility generate multichannel sounds (mono, stereo, 6 channels).

Plus there is a multi-plutform game and some additional interesting stuff on the site!

And the coolest thing about that we’ve got a couple of new plugs and one of them is absolutely rocks:

ReaJS

• Realtime user-editable effect processor
• 64-bit internal audio processing, MIDI support, full PDC support, multichannel I/O support, graphics display support.
• Hundreds of included effects, including: delays, compressors, limiters, convolution, distortion, spectral noise editors, analyzers, loop samplers, creative effects.
• Create new effects from scratch, or modify existing effects to meet your needs
• JS editor and debugger included, opens automatically when you edit a plug-in

It’s worth a look because the stuff is free at the moment!

Hey!

AudioTag.info – Online music recognition project. The database isn’t the biggest one yet, but the whole conception is great. The internet and sample libraries are full of empty-tag material, and tools like that gives a good perspective to get the thruth back.

Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch - Quite simple and free way to create great textrures from samples and music. Just take your favourite tune full of fat sounds and slow down it up to millions (!) times. Gives some really awesome results in seconds!

Let me step away from Reaktor for a moment and put out a couple of general thoughts. Since my early ages I was quite a computer-geek person. I started to harvest my first programming skills with BASIC on my first ZX-Spectrum 48k machine. It was something like 13-14 years ago, I was truly shocked that you get a programming language a moment after you turn the computer’s power on. It was so simple to begin. I was a 11 years boy, I didn’t have a clue about a programming theory or even English language. But I did see a flashing [K] cursor and 40-keys keyboard. And I had one of most powerful tools to get a result – “method of a scientific guess”, in other words I’ve just tried all of the commands and operands combinations to comprehend Basic, my first programming language The key of my success on learning BASIC is ZX-Spectrum’s usability: 1. BASIC “flashed” in ROM (Read Only Memory, no need to load anything); 2. Few commands per key (no need to type commands letter by letter). So, these simple tricks of sir Clive Sinclair have created my ideology and vectored my biography path.

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