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Bass Music Resources
Tools for bass music producers: plugins, Ableton racks and Max for Live devices, reviewed and curated by Loop Cult.
NeuralNote is a free, open-source audio to MIDI plugin, and version 2 is a big step up. Instead of transcribing one instrument at a time, it can take a full mix and give you separate MIDI parts for each instrument,…
KS Ghostform is a free drone synth from Kreativ Sound, built for evolving strings, slow harmonic movement and textured ambient beds. The idea is to start from a stable sound and push it into something more animated, uncertain or spacious.…
Orra Key is a free key detection plugin from Orra Audio. Put it on a sample or loop and it tells you the key within a few seconds. Then it goes a step further: it shows the chords of that…
Torn is a free blown speaker distortion plugin from Odd Duck Audio. Instead of clean saturation, it imitates a speaker that has been pushed too far: torn, rattling and a little unpredictable. The developer sums it up as a speaker…
Orra Tone Zone Pro is a tonal balance plugin from Orra Audio. It compares your mix or master with target curves taken from real releases, then corrects the difference with six EQ bands, dynamic EQ and parallel saturation. It is…
Gluon is a free bus compressor from nClear. Its distinctive feature is Gluon Map: a shared view for adjusting multiple instances without opening every compressor window in your session. Get Gluon from nClear One view of several buses Map shows…
SideKick by Sonic Academy combines volume shaping, spectral ducking and sidechain ring modulation. It is a paid plugin with a 14-day free trial, giving you a way to compare different approaches to kick-and-bass interaction in your own session. Try SideKick…
LUNA Free is Universal Audio’s free DAW for macOS and Windows. You do not need an Apollo or Volt interface to use it, and the free version includes unlimited tracks and finished exports without a watermark. Get LUNA Free from…
Alive is a free, open-source Windows application for cataloguing Ableton Live projects, plugins and samples. It reads Live sets so you can inspect a project’s contents before opening it in Ableton. Get Alive on GitHub More than a folder full…
Ultiverb by Libelula Audio is a free algorithmic reverb with five space types, multiband decay and sidechain ducking. It gives you ways to shape both the tone of a reverb tail and how it responds to the source. Currently available…
ECHO LAYER by RiverFlux Audio is a delay plugin with four independent layers. Each can target a frequency range and work with tonal or transient content, giving you different ways to shape the repeats. It is available on a pay-what-you-want…
BIT LAYER by RiverFlux Audio is a $0+ bitcrushing effect with eight independent layers. Its frequency targeting and tonal/transient modes let you approach the sustained body of a sound differently from its sharp attacks. Get BIT LAYER from RiverFlux Audio…