8Hz Productions

AB Music

AB Music is composed of Andrew and Beverley Broughton, who live in Hastings on the south coast of England.

Andrew is a professional computer programmer and I.T. trainer, with a background in meteorology, mathematics, general science, and music.

Beverley is a musician and theatre stage manager. She is particularly interested in using computers to bring music to a wider audience, especially disabled people.

They have released DoReMe Music, a simple composition program for Windows, and have plans to develop more.

Ableton

Founded in 1999, Ableton develops cutting edge music software with a unique look and feel. Its popular flagship product, Ableton Live, originally released in 2001, provides an end-to-end creative environment for musicians, covering song creation, recording and live performance. An additional product, Operator, facilitates the creation of complex sounds to be used within Live.

Ableton is based in Berlin, Germany.

Access Music

Germany-based Access Music first built a reputation as hardware synthesizer makers, and then moved into the virtual synth world with plugin versions of its popular synths.

Introduced in 1997, the virtual analog Virus was received favorably by both the international music press and players. Powered by fat sounding oscillators, extremely flexible analog sounding filters and a wide range of features, the Virus fit a need in a market interested in new analog synths. Versions now exist in software form for TC Powercore and Digidesign Protools systems.

Acon AS

Adobe

Adobe's extensive line of multimedia software includes products such as Adobe Audition (formerly sold as Cool Edit Pro) and Adobe Premier with powerful audio capabilities.

AIPL

Akai

AKoff Sound Labs

Analog X

Andreas Flucke
Andreas Flucke develops the AFDeClick Windows software for removing clicks from audio files.

Andy Bridle

AndyWare

Antares

Founded in 1990 by Dr. Harold (Andy) Hildebrand, Antares Audio Technologies develops DSP-based audio hardware and software products. Products include pitch correction software and hardware, vocal processing software, effects plugins, and an innovative synth that can be controlled by voice.

Apple

Apple's music software offerings include the inviting yet powerful Garageband software bundled in its iLife creative package, as well as industrial strength audio programs acquired through Logic Audio.

Applian Technologies

Applian Technologies is a privately held company based in San Anselmo, CA. Their Replay Radio, Replay Music and Replay Video Suite products allow streaming online media to be recorded onto a PC.

Applied Acoustics Systems

Arboretum Systems
Arboretum Systems manufactures, distributes and licenses audio software solutions for music recording, film/video post-production, multimedia, broadcast and audio restoration to professional and consumer markets on a world-wide basis. Arboretum's speciality is innovative signal processing and sound shaping technologies, emphasizing real-time operation, gestural control and unique interface design.

Founded in 1993 and incorporated in 1994, Arboretum Systems is a privately-held firm based in Pacifica, California.

Arturia

Located in Grenoble, France, ARTURIA was founded in 1999 by Frédéric Brun and Gilles Pommereuil, both INPG-qualified engineers. ARTURIA develops and markets several software synthesizers, including emulations of vintage analog synths, as well as a recording and production program.

ashampoo

AT&T

Audio Mulch

Ross Bencina's Audiomulch is a Windows platform shareware ""music studio"" or Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) which supports VST plugins.

Audiofile Engineering

Audiofile Engineering releases audio processing and sample management software for the Macintosh platform.

AudioNerdz

AudioNerdz is a group of four students from the Netherlands. Their initial product is the Delay Lama, a VST instrument, offering both vocal synthesis and a real-time animated 3D interface. Its advanced monophonic vocal synthesis engine enables your computer to sound just like an Eastern monk, with real-time, high resolution control over the vowel sound. What's more, the plug-in window displays a 3D animation of a singing monk, that reacts directly to your input.

AudioRamp.com

AudioSoft

AVANTRIX

BBDSP - The "Bent Fork" Project

The Bent Fork project (also known as the BlackBall Digital Sound Processor or BBDSP) is a set of digital sound processing tools designed to assist in implementing musical instrument tuning software.

These tools are useful for determining the 'dominant' frequency of an audio signal, specific tone generation, and simple beat generation.

Operating system and programming language specific components are available. These include a win32 COM server, a 'C++' interface, a 'C' interface, and a JAVA package.

Some of the components are available for limited personal use. Most of the components are available with redistribution and OEM licensing agreements.

BBE

Located in Huntington Beach, California, BBE Sound, Inc. has been providing music professionals and consumers with leading edge sound improvement technology since 1985. Its software footprint includes a plugin version of its popular Sonic Maximizer product in VST and Direct X formats.

Beatnik

Best Service

Best Service is a Munich based company that distributes loop and sample CDs, plugins and audio software.

BIAS

Bias offers three families of products for the Macintosh: BIAS Peak, the industry standard stereo audio editing, processing, and mastering application for the Macintosh; SoundSoap, a popular noise reduction and audio restoration program; and Deck, a Mac-based multitrack digital audio workstation.

Big Tick Audio Software

Big Tick Audio Software creates a range of virtual synthesizers and effects plug ins.

Blaze Audio
Blaze Audio offers consumer audio software and hardware to the general public. Drawing on the expertise of their parent company, Singing Electrons Inc., they provide high quality, easy-to-use, affordable software such as wave editors, rippers, realtime equalizers, voice effects software, and more.

Bonneville

Brainspawn

brainspawn develops live performance software, including the forte™ live perfromance workstation and various plugins. brainspawn products are Windows-based.

Bram Bos

Broken Gadget

Brokengadget offers a series of free Windows VST plugins.

Button Production

Cakewalk
Founded in 1987 and based in Cambridge, Mass., Cakewalk is an international, industry-leading provider of software for music and sound creation. The company's award-winning products are used worldwide by professional and home users, for applications including audio CD production, film/TV soundtracks, live stage sound, computer games, multimedia applications, and Internet delivery.

Camel Audio

Camel Audio creates audio plugins in vst, vsti, audio units and RTAS versions. Their products include CamelPhat, CamelSpace and synthesizer Cameleon 5000.

Climax Software Solutions

Clone Ensemble

Clone Ensemble offers a variety of freeware and low cost shareware DirectX and VST plugins, including synths and effects processors.

CM Labs

Based in Nashville, Tennessee, CM Labs manufacturers control sufraces that interact with all major Digital Audio Workstations.

Code/Aero Technologies

Code/Aero Technologies (formerly known as Helpsoft) has been creating software since 1989. They are one of the world's premier providers of software for music and movie collections (used by DJs, radio stations and record stores all around the world).

CreamWare

DADEV

DADEV creates tools and materials for the Synthedit community and also for the general DSP developer. They focus on how to re-create the analog sound with a digital implementation, and from this base to propose modular building blocks, ready to use to enhance and recreate the magic and warmth of the analog world.

DigiDesign

Founded in Silicon Valley in the mid-80s, Digidesign pioneered digital audio, manufacturing both dedicated digital workstations and highly regarded software. Although other manufacturers have developed competing digital audio solutions, Digidesign continues to dominate the professional high end of the space. A division of Avid Technologies since 1995, Digidesign acquired M-Audio in 2004, extending its presence in the home and smaller studio markets.

Digital Black

Digital Black produces the Raven eDrum, a Windows based stand alone soft synth designed to serve as a substitute or enhancement to drum kit, working with electronic drum triggers.

DigitByte Studio
DigitByte Studio, also operating as 008Soft.com, is a team dedicated to audio/video processing software development for the Windows platform.

DigMedia
DigMediaTM, Inc. is a San Diego-based company (with offices in Edinburgh, Scotland) developing scalable solutions for consumer electronics hardware and Web-based media delivery. The company's software division offers end-to-end platforms for businesses requiring the power and flexibility of a dedicated computer infrastructure to create new online opportunities. DigMedia's hardware products feature revolutionary designs in Web appliances and portable digital music players that allow the consumer to move from CD to digital music without a computer.

Founded in 1998, DigMedia, Inc. is the collaborative effort of former Intel, Memory Corporation and Datrontech executives. They currently have strategic alliances with Intel, MySap, InterTrust and Loudeye.

DPTOP Computing
DPTOP Computing offers a range of audio and video utilities and conversion tools.

Dr. Sync

DSound

Based in the Czech Republic, DSound has been working in digital audio software since 1998. Their specialization is digital signal processing, development of new algorithms with aplication on software and hardware platforms (DirectX, VST PC/Mac, DSP). They offer a series of plug in effects processors.

E-Soft

Emagic

Emedia

Formed in 1994 by Adrian Burton, formerly a manager at Microsoft Multimedia Publishing, eMedia is now the world’s leading publisher of guitar instruction software. eMedia's flagship titles are the best-selling Guitar Method Vol. 1 guitar instruction software, and the follow-up Intermediate Guitar Method, available in Windows and Macintosh versions. German and French versions of Guitar Method Vol. 1 are also available. eMedia’s Bass Method, is the first comprehensive multimedia bass tutorial. eMedia also produces Guitar Songs, which teaches classic guitar hits, Blues Guitar Legends, which teaches original blues songs and may also be enjoyed as an audio CD, and the Guitar Toolbox accessory package. eMedia’s new Piano and Keyboard Method is the first complete multimedia piano and keyboard instructional title.

Emu

The synthesizer maker, now a subsidiary of sound card giant Creative Technology Ltd. of Singapore, now includes the Proteus virtual synth, sample collections and other software products among its offerings. A leading developer of digital audio products which utilize digital sampling and digital signal processing (DSP) technology to serve musicians and audio professionals, E-mu designs, manufactures and markets professional digital sampling systems, digital sample playback devices, and sample-based synthesizers which make use of proprietary E-MU and Ensoniq VLSI/Chip technology and advanced software algorithms. It is based in Scotts Valley, California.

Epinoisis

Ericsson

Eventide

Founded in New York City in 1971, Eventide is a leading developer and manufacturer of digital audio signal processing for recording, broadcast and live performance, as well as avionics instrumentation, and digital communication products for public safety. Headquartered in Little Ferry, NJ, Eventide created the very first Harmonizer® brand processor in 1975. Eventide now offers many of its hardware digital effects as plug in software.

F.A. Soft

F@actory 42
F@ctory 42 was created in July 1998 to provide royalty free sample loops for use in programs such as Mixman, Dance EJ and Acid. Sample loops are created in house by F@ctory 42 using both software synthesizers and real musical instruments.

While creating these loops, F@ctory 42 discovered a lack of editing software for beat based WAV’s and their first software product, Beat Me, was born. Look out for more Software from F@ctory 42 in the future.

FabFilter Software Instruments

FabFilter Software Instruments was founded in 2002 by Frederik Slijkerman MSc and Floris Klinkert MSc. Both being professional software engineers as well as musicians and studio engineers, they decided to create their own software instruments to meet their own exacting standards. FabFilter will expand their range of plug-ins in the future, supporting both Windows and OS X platforms, providing the best possible sound quality and filter designs.

Fervent Software

Based in Taunton, England, Fervent Software rebundles Linux open source programs into Studio To Go!, a full purpose production suite program that runs as a self-booting CD on Windows platform computers.

FNProgramvare

FNProgramvare, based in Moss, Norway, makes a variety of software including software to catalog music collections.

Fostex

This manufacturer of recording and sampling hardware offers software to be used with its products, including a 6 CD-Rom collection of Drum Samples for creating drum tracks on the VF160CDR & VF80CDR

Fun Vibes

The team from Audiosoft that created the Virtuosa jukebox acquired the rights to the program and relaunched it under the Fun Vibes corporate flag.

FXpansion
FXpansion is a London, UK based start-up dedicated to the development of affordable, highly-creative effects plug-ins, synthesizers and utilities for the electronic musician and sound designer. Our line of products includes the PHAT.SYNC pattern controlled filter, MidiComb resonance processor, and the acclaimed "Amulet" VST-to-DirectX converter.

G-Force

With an emphasis on vintage synthesiser modelling, GForce Software is a collection of small, independent software developers within the virtual instrument arena. All of their virtual instruments have been individually engineered, without relying upon core code libraries, giving each its own unique characteristics and sound. GForce products are currently distributed by M-Audio.

Garritan

Based in Orcas Island, Washington, Garritan offers some of the most highly reviewed orchestral sample libraries available.

Glaresoft

Based in Tucson, Arizona, Glaresoft produces music software for the Mac platform.

Green Oak

Green Oak offers freeware plug in effects for the Mac and a freeware plug in synthesizer for the Mac or Windows, Crystal.

Hercules

Hercules, a pioneer in the graphics industry, began as a leading vendor of high-performance graphics accelerators for IBM-compatible PCs.. Today, they make a range of PC related hardware products, including the DJ Control MP3, a control surface for DJ software that connects through a USB port and mimics a dual turntable DJ setup.

HGF Synthesizer

HGF Synthesizer offers a number of virtual synths, with an emphasis on atmospheric and ambient sounds.

HiFi-Soft
HiFi-Soft offers a range of MP3 and other audio conversion and utility titles.

Hoo Technologies
Hoo Technologies is a software development team founded in 2003 that creates multimedia and network applications for home users, professionals and companies.

IK Multimedia

Image-Line

Industrial Audio Software

Industrial Audio Software is a subsidiary of Singing Electrons, Inc.( http://www.singingelectrons.com). Since 1984 Singing Electrons, Inc. has been a world leader in developing device drivers, applications, and firmware for AT&T, Disney, Dolby Labs, Lucasfilm, Motorola, NASA, Philips, QSound Labs, Samsung, Yahoo!, and a host of other companies.

Inneraktive Nettwerx

Intelligent Sounds and Music

Intelligent Sounds and Music offers VST shareware instruments and effects for Windows.

Izotope

iZotope is a research-driven audio software company based in Boston, Massachusetts, making audio processing technology, tools, and plug-ins for Mac and PC computers.

J. River

Jeff Glatt
Author of the extremely useful and entertaining MIDI Technical Fanatic's Brainwashing Center. In addition to the great web site, he's made a handful of useful little MIDI and audio utilities as well as a couple freely distibutable DLLs for MIDI software developers.

Jeff Rippe
Jeff Rippe, principal design engineer of the Rocksonics audio signal processors, has produced a line of high quality, studio grade VST Plug-ins for PC.  Some plug-ins are now offered in two versions -- GUI versions with graphical user interface, automation and other features and the original RAM and CPU "friendly" versions using the efficient host-based graphical interface .

Jonas Nordberg

Jonas Nordberg was born in 1977 in Hudiksvall, northen Sweden, but now lives in San Francisco, where he works in the video game industry. He created and distributes several free VST plug ins.

JThink

JThink Ltd. was set up to provide quality Java based software for the general public. Its products include a cross platform music cataloging program called Jaikoz.

JX Plugins

JX Plugins distributes two free VST 2.0 soft synth plugins, the JXSynth and the JX 220.

Keyfax

Founded in 1994 by Julian Colbeck, Keyfax originally produced MIDI samples, sold under the name of ""Twiddly.Bits."" While the company's range has expanded to include innovative midi controllers, custom websites for clients such as Yamaha and the Alan Parsons Project, and ringtone production, it continues to market a full line of MIDI sound libraries, covering a breadth of instruments and musical styles.

Kid Nepro

Founded in a small Brooklyn office in 1984, Kid Nepro has long offered patches to synth owners who wanted to upgrade their synths beyond the factory presets. They now offer their patches in WAV and AIFF format files for software synthesizers.

Kinema AT
Kinema AT is a new software-house specializing in audio technology. All of its developers are musicians. Current products include Chain Modulator LE.

Kjaerhus Audio

Kjaerhus Audio was founded April 1, 2003 by Torben Kjaerhus Larsen in Denmark. They create and distribute a range of free and commercial VST plug in effects processors for Windows.

Klanglabs
Based in Caracas, Venezuela, Klanglabs makes and markets a variety of VST and VSTi plug ins.

Korg

Long famous for its keyboards and other physical instruments, Korg entered the software world with its release of softsynth versions of vintage Korg products such as the MS-20 and Polysix analog synthesizers and the WAVESTATION advanced vector synthesizer.

Line 6

Line 6 offers plugin effects to use within Digidesign ProTools, as well as software that expands the capability of its hardware products.

LinPlug

Based in Berlin, Germany, LinPlug claims roots dating back to a 1985 era sequencer for the Sinclair Spectrum computer. Today, the company offers a range of virtual synthesizers in AU and VST plug in formats for Mac and Windows.

Livelab

Livelab.dk delivers innovative software instruments for the stage and the studio. Its products include LiveSlice, a VSTi beat slicer, and Tablet 2 Midi, a product which allows you to use your tablet / digitizer as a MIDI controller.

M-Audio

M-Audio, a part of Avid Technology, Inc., is a leading provider of creative tools for today’s electronic musicians and audio professionals. Founded in 1988, M-Audio now has independent offices in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France and Japan, as well as independent distribution in most of the rest of the world. In addition to manufacturing its own product lines like the popular Delta™ audio cards, Studiophile reference monitors and USB MIDI controllers, M-Audio also wholly owns Evolution Electronics, LTD., and distributes other best-of-class products such as Ableton Live, Wizoo virtual instruments, Glaresoft iDrum, Way Out Ware TimewARP 2600, iZotope processing solutions and GForce virtual vintage instruments.

Mackie

Well known for its mixers and other recording and sound reinforcement products, Mackie now offers Traktion music production software as well as a host of plugins for its d8b digital mixer.

MAGIX

Manifold Labs

Founded in 2001 and based in Little Ferry, NJ, Manifold Labs’ roster includes audio industry veterans, Joe Waltz (Plugzilla’s inventor), Tony Agnello (designer of the original Eventide Harmonizers® and co-founder of Ariel Corporation) and Marc Lindahl (co-founder of Sonorus) and senior engineers from Ariel, Don Elwell, and Jim Sienicki. Its first product, Plugzilla, is a 2U rackmountable standalone host for VST plugins. Plugzilla runs up to eight plug ins simultaneously.

Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU)

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) is a leading developer of music software and audio recording technology for personal computers. MOTU was founded in 1980 and has been developing music software since 1984. Inspired by the Macintosh when it first appeared, engineers at MOTU developed one of the Macintosh's first music programs ever, Performer®, a MIDI sequencer, which began shipping in 1985. MOTU now produces a full line of music and audio recording software and hardware products for Macintosh and Windows, including the popular 828mkII FireWire audio interface, Digital Performer audio sequencing software and MachFive universal sampler plug-in.

MDA-VST

MDA-VST offers a wide variety of free synthesizers and effects plug ins.

Merging Technologies

Merging Technologies is a Switzerland based manufacturer of digital audio workstations and control surfaces.

Microsoft

MidiTec
MidiTec was founded in 1994 and has been working on making EarMaster the best ear training tool since then. Their main goals are to make EarMaster easy to use, challenging for both beginners and experienced musicians and fun.

miniMusic
miniMusic is a division of The 5th Wall(TM), a publishing company co-founded in 1991 by Chad Mealey, the designer of the miniMusic software. Now operating in San Francisco, miniMusic's goal is to provide portable music tools for composition, education, performance, and entertainment so that musical ideas can be explored anywhere and anytime, giving individuals the freedom of musical expression on their own terms. Chad Mealey studied music composition at San Francisco State University and Mesa College in San Diego. His computer background includes work at the Salk Institute, The Laurence Livermore National Laboratory, and Biosphere 2 in Arizona.

Minnetonka

MPCsounds

MPCsounds develops Hip Hop sounds for the MPC 3000, MPC 2000, MPC 2000xl, MPC 4000 and MPC 1000.

Muon Software
Muon Software was started in 1998, producing freeware plugins for the "Buzz" tracker program. In the typical, time-honoured tradition of high-tech company start-ups it began as a "garage business". From those small beginnings Muon has circulated tens of thousands of copies of its Buzz products.

Spring 2000 will see the Muon leave the garage behind, with a stunning range of new products for the amateur and semi-professional musician based on VST2 technology.

Muse Research

Developed and markets Receptor, a rack mount stand alone sound and effects module that hosts and runs standard VST instruments and effects. Receptor frees your digital audio workstation from the overhead of running plugins, and allows easier use of plug ins in stage and traditional recording environments.

Music Lab Software

Incorporated in 2000, Music Lab Software offers plug-ins including RealGuitar, Rhythm'n'Chords, SlicyDrummer and Fill-in Drummer, as well as MIDIoverLAN CP - a MIDI networking solution for any Windows XP/Mac OSX based multi-computer setup.

MusicMatch, Inc.
MusicMatch, Inc. was incorporated in February of 1997 to develop solutions that turn PCs into personal jukeboxes and provide a way for people to take more control over how they find and listen to their music. MusicMatch solutions are focused on open digital music standards and emphasize the MP3 digital music format. The company introduced the world's first "personal jukebox" software program, "MusicMatch Jukebox," in May of 1998.

Musitek

Musitek Corporation develops and publishes music scanning and notation software. The company was founded in May 1991 by Christopher Newell of Ojai, California. A two-year research effort lead to the development and release in August of 1993 of MIDISCAN for Windows, the world's first commercial music-scanning software. In 1995, Musitek focused on integrating its music-scanning technology with computer-based music scoring, engraving and MIDI sequencing. This effort lead to the release of SmartScore for Windows and Macintosh in 1996. Where MIDISCAN was essentially "Scan-and-Play", SmartScore has evolved to become a tool for transcribing, part extraction / merging as well as playback and reprinting of optically captured sheet music and MIDI files, MIDI recording and MIDI sequencing. MIDISCAN has since been discontinued by Musitek. Musitek products are represented through a network of distributors and dealers worldwide.

Mystik Media

Mystik Media offers a range of video and audio software products, including audio editors and audio convertors.

NAMM
NAMM's mission is to "unify, lead and strengthen the global music products industry and to increase active participation in music making." This mission is supported by over 7,000 music products retailers, manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and publishers located in the United States and in more than 100 other countries.

NAMM provides a variety of benefits to its members. These include educational training, books, products, and videos (through NAMM University) and programs to increase the public's awareness of the benefits of music education and training (such as New Horizons Band and Weekend Warriors). NAMM also provides group discount rates for Visa/Mastercard (provided by outside sources), along with workers' compensation insurance, small business insurance, medical insurance, etc. (through their Membership Services department). They're also "information central" - if you're looking for a special product or brand, they can help you find it.

Their trade shows are one of the most visible member benefits that they offer (the Los Angeles convention is the 27th largest trade show in the country). During their January, 1999 trade show in Los Angeles, they helped facilitate almost 60,000 registered attendees and over 1,200 exhibitors.

Native Instruments

NCH Swift Sound
Australian based maker of business audio recording and editing software, with an emphasis an voice recording and dictation.

NDC Plugs

Programmer Niall Moody offers for free download a variety of interesting and sometimes offbeat plug ins for Mac and Windows.

Nemesys Music Technology
Founded in 1996, NemeSys Music Technology, Inc. is dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art for desktop music production. Having created pioneering DSP products for OEMs such as Conexant, Packard Bell, Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation, their engineers have literally helped to shape the PC-audio lansdcape.

NextUp Technologies

NextUp Technologies focuses on talking software (also known as text to voice software) and they market a series of programs for the PC and portable platforms.

Nomad Factory

In 2001, engineer & producer Bernie Torelli, while looking for plug-ins that emulated the sound of old tube hardware, decided to develop his own. Focusing on experience acquired through over 25 years of analog engineering, Bernie started developing products reminiscent of 60’s and 70’s technology, which he called the Blue Tubes plug in bundle. As an engineer at Track Star Studios in San Diego, California, Bernie quickly replaced the studio’s standard plug ins with his own. After being asked by studio clients if these products were available on the market, in mid-2002 Nomad Factory became an official company selling plug ins for Mac and Windows platforms on the internet. Nomad Factory products are now available in stores worldwide.

Nugen Audio
NuGen Audio develops VST effects programs for the Windows platform, including products that convert stereo signals to mono and mono to stereo.

Odo Synths
Odo Synths offers a variety of free VST plug in synths.

Ohmforce

Ohm Force is a privately owned company in Paris, France, that makes plug in effects and instruments.

Ots Labs

Located on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, Ots Labs designs and develops audio software, including several products aimed atg DJs. Many of their products are available in free as well as more powerful paid versions.

Peace Love Productions

Founded in 2000 by Jason Donnelly (aka Dj Puzzle) and Bernard Turek, Peace Love Productions is a Chicago based production team that specializes in sound design, music production, and graphic design. They have released more than 20 CD releases of loops for cutting edge electronic club music.

PG Music

Polyhedric Software

Post Musical Instruments

Based in Amsterdam, Post Musical Instruments specializes in high quality sampling libraries for Gigasampler, Kontakt, EXS24, HALion and Akai/Kurzweil samplers, with a focus on organs, harpsichords and pianos. The company was founded by sampling specialist Michiel post and started in the 90's producing the collection of church organ samples called Post Organ Toolkit. Other titles include Post Harpsichords, Post Piano Suite, Post Theatre Organs, Post Positive Organ, Post Harpsichords, Post Estonia Concert Grand, Post Virginal and Post Pianoforte, Post Historic Keyboards, PMI Baroque Organ. Recent releases include The EMPEROR and The OLD LADY, Grandioso Bosendorfer 290 and Grandioso Steinway D which offer several gigabytes of recordings of both the Bosendorfer 290 and Steinway D grand pianos. Post Musical Instruments also designed and developed Post Piano. This digital piano is the first musical instrument on the market to use disk streaming technology for the playback of samples. It plays full length, full-decay digital recordings, direct from hard disk.

Princeton Digital

Princeton Digital markets hardware and plug in (VST and Pro Tools) effects processors, including versions of classic units such as the Eventide 2016 and the Ursa Major SST-282.

Prodyon

Prodyon creates a range of soft synths.

Professional Sound Projects

Programmable Analysis Software

Propellerheads Software

PSPaudioware

Based in Poland, PSPaudioware is a developer of audio effect and processor plug-ins for use in nearly any audio software. Their plug ins are used for mixing and mastering audio.

QDesign

Rayzoon Technologies
Founded by Ralph Zeuner in 2001, Rayzoon Technologies develops software to simulate certain aspects of human musicians in order to simplify and accelerate song composition and arrangement. The goal was not to develop accompaniment software similar to that found in portable keyboards but to devise rule-based systems that would react to MIDI or audio input autonomously but still allow the user to customize the response in many ways even down to hand-editing certain parts.With the proliferation of the VSTi standard, Rayzoon was able to design a plugin concept that would serve as a synthesizer, arranger, sub-host and effect all in one, integrating into many hosts..

Remote Solution
Remote Solution is the US based Marketing and Sales Organization for HanGo Electronics Ltd, a leading manufacturer of high volume hand-held remote control and multimedia devices, with manufacturing sites in Korea.

Rocktave

Rocktave is a music and audio production enterprise from South Africa currently focused on making software synthesizers, samplers and sequencers. Rocktave was first known as XS which started in 2000.

RT soft

Samsung

schuzzphut
scuzzphut offers a variety of free vst plugins for download, including the eponymous scuzzphut plugin.

Seer Systems
Seer Systems is recognized as the leader in software synthesizers for the PC, with its SurReal and Reality 1.5 software. In addition, with SeerMusic, composers and musicians have a new, powerful tool for making music available on the Internet with no audio compression and multitrack capabilities. Although Reality may be the first time many have heard of Seer Systems, this is actually the company's third generation synthesizer.

Founded in 1992 to develop host-based audio for the then state-of-the-art 486 processor computers, Seer Systems designed its first software synthesizer for Intel. This product was then licensed for use on many commercially available soundcards. Seer's second generation product allowed Creative Labs to turn the AWE32 into the AWE64, adding 32 more voices. The AWE64 became the top selling voice card of all time. So even before Reality was developed, Seer Systems synthesizers had sold more software synths than anyone - literally millions - through the products of Intel and Creative Labs.

Sibelius

Headquartered in London, with subsidiaries in California and Australia, and more than 70 employees worldwide, Sibelius is a world market leader in software for writing, teaching and publishing music. With products for composition, coursework, testing, reference, playback, publishing, authoring and e-commerce, Sibelius covers virtually every aspect of music.

Silverspike

Silverspike develops real time VST audio plugins, including Reverb.it, which simulates diffuse reverberation of rooms, Silverspike R2, a room simulation and reverberation plug in, and TapeIt 2, a plugin that records audio streams to wave files in real-time. Free downloads include Ruby Tubes, a plug in that simulates tube preamps, and RoomMachine 844, a plug in that simulates room acoustics.

SimulAnalog

SimulAnalog is a research project that studies numerical and DSP techniques applied to computer music; the main branch is about the digital simulation of analog instruments and processors. They offer a free download of suite of vst plugins containing the simulation of vintage effects and amplifiers: Boss DS-1 (Distortion stompbox), Boss SD-1 (Super Overdrive stompbox), Tube Screamer (Overdrive stompbox), Oberheim PS-1 (Phaser stompbox), Univox Univibe (Modulations stompbox), Fender Twin 1969 (Guitar amplifier), Marshall JCM900 Dual Reverb (Guitar amplifier).

Smartelectronix

Smartelectronix is a group of 14 developers from around the world who develop and distribute freeware and shareware plugins. They seek to develop interesting, experimental software.

SoftPlug
SoftPlug makes VSTI plug in synths, including Adventus.

SoHa

SoHa Sound Design is a collaboration by Tucker McClure and Grant Hutchins to design innovative soft synths such as their Sonata product.

Sonic Foundry
Sonic Foundry, Inc. is a leading provider of PC-based software products that enable users to easily work with and edit digital media. The Company's products are designed to run under both the Windows and Windows NT operating systems.

Sonic Implants
The Sonic Implants Network is a group of Internet websites dedicated to bringing better quality audio to all PCs. Sonic Network, Inc. and Hruska Audio Productions run a busy recording studio in Boston, MA. where they do all their own recording, engineering and multi-media production. Sonic Network, Inc. was formed in August of 1999, by the principals of two experienced internet companies: Hruska Audio Productions and Eagle Software Corporation.

Sonic Reality
For over 10 years the team at Sonic Reality has been sampling, programming and developing sound libraries and software for sound companies, keyboard manufacturers and successful recording & performing artists. They create virtual musical instruments and production tools that can be used with today´s digital samplers and Mac/PC software samplers, sequencers and digital recorders.

Sony

Sony acquired music software company Sonic Foundry in 2003, and now offers the former Sonic Foundry titles including Acid, Sound Forge and Vegas.

Sound Burst

Established in 1997, Sound Burst has designed content libraries and software for a number of leading software and hardware houses producing premier software synthesizers, samplers and effects, including Creative Labs, Steinberg, BitHeadz, Seer Systems, and Native-Instruments. Today, they offer sound libraries, plug in virtual instruments, and plug in effects.

Sound Genetics
Situated in the southern Ontario technology triangle, Sound Genetics Inc. employs acoustic scientists and engineers to produce state-of-the-art audio fidelity enhancement applications. Over its lifespan, Sound Genetics has focused its development on a new acoustic philosophy called the Sound Genome Theory which interprets sound radically different than traditional models. Currently, Sound Genetics has released the world’s first fidelity amplifier to repair encoded music damaged by MP3, WMA, and AAC algorithms. When enabled, SX Fidelity Amplifier energizes the sound pattern by re-introducing frequencies stripped out by the encoding process. Sound Genetics has also released a lossless compression algorithm that allows further compression of MP3 files by up to 40%. Both applications are available for a trial download from their respective sites.

Soundhack

Based in La Jolla, California, Soundhack offers sophisticated commercial ""spectral shaper"" VST (Mac and Windows) plug ins for editing and processing audio files. Soundhack also offers freeware audio processing plug ins and programs for the Macintosh.

Soundlabel

Soundlabel BV, based in the Netherlands, produces professional samples and sound libraries.

Sounds Logical
Sounds Logical was founded in 1996 to develop innovative audio tools for the PC platform. Our flagship product, WaveWarp is a modular audio effects processor geared to musicians, engineers, sound designers, and educators who require complete control over the effect architecture.

SoundTower

Soundtoys

Located in Burlington Vermont, SoundToys designs and markets audio FX plug-in devices.

SoundTrek

Founded in 1991 and based in Suwanee, Georgia, SoundTrek makes the JAMMER line of music composition and MIDI sequencer software for Windows. Its products are designed help users compose, record, edit and arrange music on Windows PCs.

Spectrasonics

Founded in 1994 by Los Angeles composer and producer Eric Persing, Spectrasonics develops sampled sound libraries. Previously Chief Sound Designer for Roland Corporation since 1984, Eric was already well-known in the music industry for creating many of the most popular sounds in Roland's classic instruments, including the ground breaking D-50. Submersible also offers plug in virtual instruments.

SpinAudio Software
Spin Audio Software is a company that researches, designs, develops, delivers and supports superb quality audio signal processing software for the professional and consumer audio industries.

Their products can be used in a wide range of applications from music creation to multimedia and film/video post-production.

They have brought Skins Technology, well-known in the WinAmp user world, into audio plugins market, introducing a new level of product customization, where there is no longer a fixed interface, instead users can choose product look from a set of installed skins. Skins are not only developed by Spin Audio's designers, but also by independent enthusiasts around the world which guarantees a wide range of styles presented.

Spirit Canyon Audio

Spirit Canyon Audio offers VST effects, sound libraries, and exotic software synthesis, including three impulse reponse libraries, Spectral Relativity, Kaleidoskopy and Sanitarium.

Square Circle Software

Starplugs
Starplugs creates VST effects and VSTi instruments using Synthedit.

Steinberg
Steinberg is one of the world's leading music software houses. Since the foundation of the company in 1984, Steinberg has always been on the cutting edge of the development of innovative technologies and products. Their product range matches the needs of musicians, composers and producers: from NUENDO, the 128-track post production system, through Cubase VST, one of the most popular MIDI/Audio sequencers, to the Creative Tools range, where the core technology of the larger production systems is presented in an intuitive, easy-to-use format.

Submersible Music

Submersible Music claims DrumCore™, its flagship product, is the fastest way to that perfect groove. Its proprietary drumpacks offer access to the signature beats of legendary drummers, and the Drumcore product also will help manage and search other loop libraries you choose to use.

SuperWave

SuperWave™ produces virtual analogue synthesizes that are designed for use with Digital Audio Workstations. Products include the Performer, Professional and Trance - Pro.

Swar Systems

Specializing in Indian music software, Swar Systems is based in Switzerland. Their products are designed for students of Indian melody and rhythm, as well as for East-West fusion music composers They currently support over 49 Indian instruments (Volumes North 1 & 2 + South 1) in most formats, including VST & AU plugins, Akai, Reason, SoundFonts, SampleCell, etc.. They also provide thousands of classical/folk rhythms and melodies from the subcontinent in standard MIDI format, as well as a standalone program to create custom ones.

Synapse Audio Software

Making audio software since 1998, originally under the name Sonic Syndicate, Synapse Audio Software makes the Orion music production suite and a number of plug-in synthesizers and effects.

Synthogy

Synthogy is a Massachusetts based audio software company founded by George Taylor and Joe Ierardi, former engineers of Kurzweil Music Systems. Together they bring more than 35 years of design experience in synthesizers, musical instruments, effects, and sound design to the field of Virtual Instruments. Synthogy's premier product is Ivory, Grand Piano Virtual Instrument featuring 40 Gigabytes of all new samples of Steinway D, Bosendorfer 290 and Yamaha C7 Grand Pianos.

Syntrillium

Tascam

Tascam, the professional audio division of Teac and a popular maker of recording gear, offers a line of computer interfaces for music production, as well as software products including Gigastudio.

Telos Systems

The 5th Wall

Tiny God

Programmer Russell Borogove offers a variety of effects and synthesis VST plug ins, most free but some commercial.

Toby Bear

Based in Munich, Germany, Tobias Fleischer, alias Tobybear, offers a variety of freeware, donationware and shareware VST plug ins, as well as a popular VST host, MiniHost, for Windows.

Trio Systems

Ueberschall

Based in Germany, Ueberschall offers a wide variety of sample libraries, as well as virtual instruments.

UK Music

Dr. Ulrich Klauer offers several freeware and commercial VST audio processing plug ins.

Ultimate Sound Bank

Based in France, Ultimate Sound Bank offers a range of loop libraries as well as virtual instruments.

UltraMixer

UltraMixer develops a DJ-Mixing-Software which enables users to mix digital music in various formats such as MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV or CDs in real time. Their UltraMixer product is currently available for the Linux and Windows platforms.

URS

Founded by Bobby Nathan of New York City's Unique Recording Studios, Inc., in 2003, URS is a Digidesign Third Party developer of digital equalizers that emulate analog hardware for the entire Pro Tools platform.

Vellocet

Vellocet, a team of two programmers, offers a variety of VST plug in effects as well as plug in virtual synths. They also offer VMIDIJoY, which converts a joystick into a MIDI controller.

VirSyn Software Synthesizer

Based in Pfinztal, Germany, VirSyn Software Synthesizer makes a range of sophisticated plugin synthesizers for Windows and Mac computers.

virtual creations

Based in Hamburg, Germany, virtualcreations software develops scripts for web servers, free and commercial audio dsp software and virtual synthesizers. The product range includes VST audio effects/

VirtuosoWorks

Based in Greensboro, NC, VirtuosoWorks, Inc. was founded by Dr. Jack M. Jarrett, Lori Jarrett, and Rahm Sethuraman in 1998. Since 1998, VirtuosoWorks has been dedicated to creating and perfecting NOTION, a music composition program. Notion offers a proprietary notation-driven interpretive sample playback engine, using samples of the London Symphony Orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios, in up to 1000-voice polyphony. The company claims to offer a more intuitive interface for composers.

Visiosonic

Visiosonic, a Delaware Corporation operating in Clearwater, Florida since March, 1999, is a multimedia development company creating software and hardware for end users as well as for licensing to the entertainment industry. Their goal is the creation of sophisticated but easy to use professional music software. Their original product, the PCDJ Multimedia Player, has generated nearly seven million users. In addition to several software products, they offer digital audio workstations optimized for DJs.

Voxengo

Voxengo offers high quality professional audio software, crisp reverb impulses and PC VST plug-ins. Their goal is to provide robust, user-friendly and efficient solutions for sound and music production.

Voyetra Turtle Beach
In December, 1996, Voyetra Technologies merged with Turtle Beach Systems forming a new company called Voyetra Technologies Inc. (VTI). The company's title soon changed to Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. Headed by Voyetra’s founder, Carmine J. Bonanno, Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. delivers integrated professional-grade hardware and software products which meet the needs of serious musicians, audio producers, and PC audiophiles.

Since its founding in 1975, Voyetra has earned a worldwide reputation as the Multimedia Sound Specialists(tm). In addition to a full line of multimedia sound and music software titles for consumers, audio enthusiasts and professionals, Voyetra provides audio utilities, software applications, hardware drivers, as well as consulting and engineering services to more than 100 prominent multimedia manufacturing companies. Voyetra’s AudioStation® is the industry’s leading audio control software for multimedia PCs.

Turtle Beach Systems has been in the music and recording business for over a decade and established its reputation as an industry leader by being the first company to introduce a 16-bit sound card, the first to introduce wavetable synthesis on a multimedia sound card, and the first to introduce wavetable instrument recording (sampling) on a sound card. These features have now been incorporated in some way to virtually every other sound card, yet Turtle Beach still remains the leader in premium-grade PC audio hardware.

As a result of the merger, Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. can focus on the development of integrated audiophile-grade software and hardware products for creating music and audio with multimedia PCs. While some companies can deliver hardware-only or software-only products, Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. is unique in its ability to develop full-featured turn-key products that inherently require a strong bond between the hardware and software components.

Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. is a privately held, debt-free, profitable corporation operating from a 20,000 sq. ft. facility in Yonkers, NY.

Wave Arts
Wave Arts, Inc., headquartered in Arlington, Massachusetts, is a premier software developer of audio software plugins and digital signal processing technology. A privately held company, Wave Arts was founded in 1998 by Dr. Bill Gardner, a Ph.D. graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. Wave Arts licenses its software products which include: Environmental FX, Reverb & Effects Suite, WaveSurroundä and WA3D Audio to multimedia software application developers. It also licenses to manufacturers of professional mixing consoles, DVD players, MP3 players, AV receivers, digital and analog TVs, set top boxes and headphones.

Waves

Founded in 1992, Waves Ltd. is a leading developer and supplier of audio signal processing software tools to professionals who record, mix, and master music, movie soundtrack, and multimedia titles. The company offers both audio processing plug ins and hardware tools.

Weiss Engineering

Daniel Weiss founded Weiss Engineering Ltd. in 1984. The company makes high end pro audio hardware and software , principally for mastering studios.

Wildcat Canyon Software

Wizoo

Headquartered in Bremen, Germany, Wizoo has been a subsidiary of Digidesign since August 2005. Founded in 1997 by renowned author, sound designer, and studio musician Peter Gorges, it began as a company with two business directions: publishing and sound design. The publishing segment produced books on music technology and articles for leading magazines,while the sound design department released professional sample libraries, plug in effects, and virtual instruments such as The Grand, Virtual Guitarist, Xphraze, Hypersonic and Virtual Bassist.

WMA Soft
WMASoft offers MP3 software including Wave Converters, MP3 Converters, Sound Recorders, WMA Converters, CD Burners and more!

xoxos

Developer xoxos offers a range of free virtual instruments and effects plugins.

Yamaha

Yaosoft
Yaosoft Inc., founded in October 2001, focuses on the development, marketing and support of multi-media solutions on 32-bit Windows platforms. Among their products is Cool MP3 Splitter, a product for dividing a large MP3 file.

yellow tools

Based in Germany, yellow tools offers samples, virtual instruments, and software designed to bridge the gap between the two.

Zero G

Zero-G is a privately owned company, and an industry leader in the field of Soundware Development. The extensive product line published by Zero-G covers a huge variety of styles and provides Soundware in file formats that include APPLE LOOPS, ACID, AKAI, INTAKT, KOMPAKT, KONTAKT, AIFF, AUDIO, EXS24, GIGA, HALion, REX, REASON REFILL, ROLAND, SAMPLECELL, Mixman TRK, and WAV. The company works closely with a roster of over 70 professional independent music producers and releases many new sample collections each year. The company recently has partnered with Yamaha to create virtual vocalists based on Yamaha's Vocaloid technology.

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