The Heavenly Prophecy presents 200 extraordinary sounds for your Arturia Prophet V. This soundset takes the Prophet 5 and the Prophet VS to new extremes!

The Heavenly Prophecy is focused on delivering inspiring up-to-date sounds with the special Prophet flavor. The crystal leads will shine, the stab sounds will drill holes in your heart, and the fabulous mystic pads will make you cry. This is our prophecy!

A demo bank with 20 free presets is available for instant download.

Give it a go, as well as the others, for each bank you can download sample sounds…

Very similar to FL studio and Fruity Loops, LMMS is a very nice solution for those who can’t afford a full package but still want quality software to make their music at home:

What is LMMS?
LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

Features:

• Song-Editor for composing songs
• A Beat+Bassline-Editor for creating beats and basslines
• An easy-to-use Piano-Roll for editing patterns and melodies
• An FX mixer with 64 FX channels and arbitrary number of effects allow unlimited mixing possibilities
• Many powerful instrument and effect-plugins out of the box
• Full user-defined track-based automation and computer-controlled automation sources
• Compatible with many standards such as SoundFont2, VST(i), LADSPA, GUS Patches, and full MIDI support
• Import of MIDI and FLP (Fruityloops® Project) files

Come on and Download it to make some Ambient music this week-end !

The HobNox AudioTool, it is a flash re-creation mini studio of  some of the best synths from Roland : TB303, TR808 and TR909, with effects, tools …etc.

Absolute great stuff to be tested, played and have fun !

The HobNox AudioTool.

Soundsnap is the best platform to find and share free sound effects and loops- legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD’s.

The website interface is very clear, and you can listen to loops and sounds before downloading them. The sounds are available in mp3, wav and aiff formats.

Very nice stuff for musicians here !

Bloom is part a composition, part a software and part artwork. You can play and interact with it to create endless ambient music as well as its visual effects.

Bloom is available on iTunes.

• 3 advanced OSC whit 53 waveforms
• octave and pan selector
• Amp. envelope and micro-detuner
• 3 HP/LP advanced pole Filter
• 3 LFO whit output routing
• Midi automation
• Velocity response

Listen to the sound samples, download it and give it a try !

It’s a sample player, but also a Synth with all the options to change any loop or sound into some very nice soundscapes !

Give it a try, the complete package comes will a lot !

That makes a good 41 audio plugins / applications to download and test.

The winner is Xoxos for his “Sounds of Nature” a collection of VSTi for emulating common natural sounds (wind, rain, thunder, songbirds and insects), a very good one for your Ambient tracks.

I specificaly recommend you:

• The Odisea (2 Osc, 5 waveforms, Octave select and micro-detuner, Amp. envelope, Filter, easy programming, Midi automation, Preset selector)
• The DreamZ (Experimental additive synths, LFO (osc controlled), 3 LFO assignables to cutoff, resonance, pan, sync…)

A few hours of playing and testing ahead !

The installer is buggy, it kinda launches two instance, one for VST and one for standalone, but for whatever reason, on my WinXP it never worked. I’ve been obliged to use my brain (for an install on Sunday morning that’s no good) and let him finished first the 1st step, then cancel the 2nd one. Then launch it again, and do the opposite, cancel the 1st one and run the 2nd. I finally end up with a correct standalone application, that’s the one tested here, didn’t try the plug in version.

There is no Midi learn, and to play live with the beast you need to go through a really ugly Midi setup to be done by hand…

The sounds looks, argh, sorry, sound cool, but when I tried to edit and modify some, to play with those buttons and parameters, well it just stop playing ! In fact, while you’re turning a knob with your mouse, the sound stops until you’ve finished and then you can play it again. Really bad for sound editing, no live results. I don’t know if it’s the same as a VST, didn’t try.

That was enough for me, I’ve removed it. Go and try it yourself, as you might find that those reasons are not critical to you, and also could have a total different experience.