Experimental audio software, VSTs etc

[Augustine Leudar]

Let's copmpile a list of our favourite audio software and VSTs. Here's some of mine :

GRM tools
Spear (time stretching)
Turnado
Valhalla echo
KTgranulator
MaxMsp
Paul stretch

[noiseninja]

My single most favorite VST effect properly, that I don't just use for my experimental drone/ambient/noise project, but also a lot for a bit of more regular songs, is the free NastyDLA, sort of advanced tape-esque echo machine.

So good I can't believe it is all for free.

Can be downloaded here: www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=974



Maybe not explicitly experimental, but no doubt the best echo/delay effect in my opinion, and can get pretty far out if you add some automation of the parameters, primarily the time parameters for the two delays and the feedback control, which I guess really would go for most echo/delay effect, this one just sounds particular damn good just about however you use it. 

[Augustine Leudar]

Brilliant tx Ninja.
These are some I've been getting into :

output.com/products/portal

The theres vst for free which is great. I am quite partial to kt granulator though I make a lot of stuff in max msp

[tvmcc]

This list is dated, and sure many know of these by now:

Glitching:
VST
Stutter Edit - The 1st version is really neat. One of the best things about stutter edit is using it as an instrument. I think the 1st version may be free nowadays, but it use to be pricey!

Stutter Edit 2 - So many improvements on the 1st edition that it is mindblowing! Hours of chopping, cutting, splicing, reediting, and setting up devices to either be automated or automating a mix cleverly done in one vst! So many things you can do with this, that it becomes hard to sit here, and not go play with it!

Effectrix and Turnado - are also pretty fun vst plugs for getting some easy glitch effects applied to a source as well. Effectrix has a grid that allows you to draw things in which can be fun. While Turnado has a director mode that allows you to set up parameters based on the dialed in settings of each of the 8 macros you setup.

VST-i

Icarus2 - is a high end synth workstation, with built-in glitch sequencer. It uses the basic modern glitchy, pitchstop, trancegate or stuttering effects. And allows users to work within something like 8 parameters within any of those to modify the sound you are creating.


Modular:
Perfect Circuit Glitch Series Core System
MiniBrute2
Clouds (mutable instruments)
Lyra

EDIT:Oops think this was ment to only be about softare/computer related stuff, right?

[aureliaspacedragon]

Vital

It's a free wavetable synth, and it has, all the vital features.