The Kjaerhus Gold and Mastering Series are well known for their excelent, well designed sound and mastering vst plugin device lines. The Kjaerhus Classic line of audio effects is probably the best that you will find for free. These nine units rival many of the better and much more expensive VST signal processing effects on [...]

Theres been a lot of attention at Togeo Studios over the new free Ableton Live packs, but that doesnt mean the music creating and production have been put on the backburner. There are actually two new free albums coming this month to be made available as downloads from our Togeo Music label. Both are being released under licensing from the Creative Commons and [...]

More free Ableton Live packs are coming soon to Togeo Studios. This week we have the SST GENs B1 pack ready to go and there are more on the way. The B1 pack has 500 new simpler instruments to create even more textured evolving soundscapes with Ableton Live. SST GENS are perfect for electronic, idm, techno and ambient music production. We also have some new

Glitch is one of the more interesting free VST effect plugins available. Glitch from DBlue (Kieran Foster) is a good multi-effect processor with some unique features. DBlue Glitch is a multi effect sequencer. The incoming audio gets divided into individual steps of various lengths. A variety of effects can then be applied and mixed into those segments and the sequence looped.

Vibrations, is the entry by director and animator David J. Nolan to the Red Bull film contest at Filmaka. The video features the 24/7 Family breakdancers and music by Tobias Peterson (Sum-1). The audio track, I Play Music, used in the Vibrations video was produced by Tobias several years ago as PsychoSID on Acid Planet, before he switched to the Sum-1 monicker.

This video show the Aurora usb midi controller, DJ mixer running on open source software. You can build the device yourself or if your not into tinkering, just buy it. The controller itself is quite nicely assembled and visually appealing with the leds pulsating from the backlighting of the device.

Ableton releases a maintenance update for their Live 7 sequencing and recording software. Version 7.0.10 fixes several problems with the Live program, some of which were causing the program to crash. Included in this update were the following bugfixes: [...]

Mixxx is a free digital DJ mixing platform. Its open source software, a complete package with features for both amateur and profesional DJs alike. Fully featured with vinyl and MIDI control, can use multiple soundcards. The software is constantly being improved and updated. It was written by and for DJs with features constantly being improved based on users input.