A whole studio full of free stuff
This was taken from a Soundclick.com post by a guy called Smurf43
Hello Folks, here I am going to list a compleat studio setup that is totally FREE, and that anyone can set up and use with relative ease. I have had this setup running on a P3 700 with 640mb memory and it did fine. I made my first CD, Middle Of The Storm, and half of my 2nd one, Scattered Showers, with this setup. (you can check them out by following the link in my sig).
This setup has been put together and tested over a 2 year period by myself and a few other artist on the Kristal forum. And sorry all you Apple folks, the software is PC only. So here we go..... The Kristal Audio Engine. A free and easy to use piece of software. Will record up to 16track's, has ASIO support, and you can use VST effects along with the good ones that are built in. And it has great support thru the forum, just like this site!
These 3 VST effects are the ones I use 99% of the time with Kristal, and I think they are must haves!
Kjaerhus Audio Classic Series
Digital Fish Phones (look to the left, the Fish Fillets rock!)
GlaceVerb, the best reverb I have found.
The following are a couple Audio Editors that I have used....
Tiny Wave Editor and Sound Engine Free
These don't have all the bells and whistles that Audacity has, but they import the files right back into Kristal, which means you don't have to line the tracks back up! A
nd this is a way cool plugin called VB Strip Tool. Striptool is a virtual channel strip offering various types of digital audio processing. This is a compleat channel that has a parametric EQ, compressor, and it sounds great.
Next is mine, and a few others, number one choice for a drum machine, and it is called Leaf Drums 2.33. When you add the ns_kit7free sounds to it you have the most realistic sounding free drum machine that you will find anywhere, and better than some you would pay for!
I have also used Hotstepper and HammerHead with great results. Don't think that these are "rap-dance" drum machines. Even tho they come with those sounds you can swap them out. All 3 work fine, and are free.
By using all of the software listed above with the Kristal Audio Engine you can have a compleat 16 track home recording setup, with some nice sounding drums, for FREE! The rest are some links to other VST effects that work well with Kristal. The links might be outdated, I didn't check them all. But the 3 listed above will give you most everything you need to make some good recordings!
A list of VST's.... http://www2.kvr-vst.com/
Freeverb2, and others. http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~thman/VST/vst-eff2.htm
MDA VST Plugins. The Combo one is nice. http://www.maxim.abel.co.uk/vst/
Check out r8Brain. It does a good job of converting 48bit files to 44.1. http://www.voxengo.com/downloads/
Some Wave Editors and Sample Tools http://www.soundalot.com/freeware/wave/wave-b.html
Luxonix, a free multi effect (sounds good on guitar). http://www.luxonix.com/
A nice reverb that works well for back up vocals. http://www.anwida.com/dxrevlight.asp A BIG list of plugins. http://www.kvraudio.com/allpluginsononepage.php
Another cool site http://www.vstcentral.com/
And here is a multi track that is free at the moment, but it will be a pay for when it gets out of Beta, called Reaper. It is a big step up from Kristal, has unlimited inserts, can use VST and DX effects along with VSTi's instruments. The development on this is unbelieable
Hello Folks, here I am going to list a compleat studio setup that is totally FREE, and that anyone can set up and use with relative ease. I have had this setup running on a P3 700 with 640mb memory and it did fine. I made my first CD, Middle Of The Storm, and half of my 2nd one, Scattered Showers, with this setup. (you can check them out by following the link in my sig).
This setup has been put together and tested over a 2 year period by myself and a few other artist on the Kristal forum. And sorry all you Apple folks, the software is PC only. So here we go..... The Kristal Audio Engine. A free and easy to use piece of software. Will record up to 16track's, has ASIO support, and you can use VST effects along with the good ones that are built in. And it has great support thru the forum, just like this site!
These 3 VST effects are the ones I use 99% of the time with Kristal, and I think they are must haves!
Kjaerhus Audio Classic Series
Digital Fish Phones (look to the left, the Fish Fillets rock!)
GlaceVerb, the best reverb I have found.
The following are a couple Audio Editors that I have used....
Tiny Wave Editor and Sound Engine Free
These don't have all the bells and whistles that Audacity has, but they import the files right back into Kristal, which means you don't have to line the tracks back up! A
nd this is a way cool plugin called VB Strip Tool. Striptool is a virtual channel strip offering various types of digital audio processing. This is a compleat channel that has a parametric EQ, compressor, and it sounds great.
Next is mine, and a few others, number one choice for a drum machine, and it is called Leaf Drums 2.33. When you add the ns_kit7free sounds to it you have the most realistic sounding free drum machine that you will find anywhere, and better than some you would pay for!
I have also used Hotstepper and HammerHead with great results. Don't think that these are "rap-dance" drum machines. Even tho they come with those sounds you can swap them out. All 3 work fine, and are free.
By using all of the software listed above with the Kristal Audio Engine you can have a compleat 16 track home recording setup, with some nice sounding drums, for FREE! The rest are some links to other VST effects that work well with Kristal. The links might be outdated, I didn't check them all. But the 3 listed above will give you most everything you need to make some good recordings!
A list of VST's.... http://www2.kvr-vst.com/
Freeverb2, and others. http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~thman/VST/vst-eff2.htm
MDA VST Plugins. The Combo one is nice. http://www.maxim.abel.co.uk/vst/
Check out r8Brain. It does a good job of converting 48bit files to 44.1. http://www.voxengo.com/downloads/
Some Wave Editors and Sample Tools http://www.soundalot.com/freeware/wave/wave-b.html
Luxonix, a free multi effect (sounds good on guitar). http://www.luxonix.com/
A nice reverb that works well for back up vocals. http://www.anwida.com/dxrevlight.asp A BIG list of plugins. http://www.kvraudio.com/allpluginsononepage.php
Another cool site http://www.vstcentral.com/
And here is a multi track that is free at the moment, but it will be a pay for when it gets out of Beta, called Reaper. It is a big step up from Kristal, has unlimited inserts, can use VST and DX effects along with VSTi's instruments. The development on this is unbelieable
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