“You use too many fonts” — My college graphic design teacher, who was right Hey guys, it’s me, Phoebe [the audience cheers]. Welcome to the new plasterbrain.com for&h&hell…Read More
Many of these are arbitrarily categorized by genre. Do a Ctrl + F to find your faves. Note: These are mostly “organic” drum sounds, as I’m leaving the… Read more … Read More
Channel your inner Louis Armstrong in a safe, virtual environment. Brass band Ensemble sustains/marcatos/staccatos/scoops/falls/shakes includes a trumpet, trombone, and baritone sax enemble… Read More
Brass band Ensemble sustains/marcatos/staccatos/scoops/falls/shakes ORCHESTRAL TOOLS ROTARY includes a trumpet, trombone, and baritone sax enemble designed for big band sounds. (SINEfactory)… Read More
I don’t have a witty introduction for this one. *tap dances* Choirs General choir bigcat Instruments Mihai Sorohan Vowel Choir has men and women singing 5 basic vowels… Read mor… Read More
Virtual! Flutes! Woodwinds section Ensemble sustains/staccatos Red Room Audio Palette – Primary Colors features these articulations with various dynamics, though the sound is heavier o… Read More
No virtual instrument collection is complete without a symphonic string section crammed onto your hard drive. Do the free offerings measure up to expensive, feature-packed commercial string… Read More
Between audio effects, sample libraries, and MIDI controls, there are a whole lot of aspects of digital music to get familiar with. Let’s go over some of the… Read more ☞… Read More
Acoustic guitars Bass Guitar Audio Ollie The E-String offers some bowed articulations and unusual hits on a Takamine G Series. Classical guitar Pettinhouse ClassicFREE has sustains with a&he&hell…Read More
Pianos! Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em! But did you know there’s another way? That’s right. You can replace them with robots. [@TODO the 6 ty… Read More
What's a Kontakt library vs just an instrument, and which ones can you use in the free Kontakt Player? Find out in this helpful comparison post. Read more ☞
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Hello RSS readers! I am currently publishing some posts so they'll be ready when my new site layout launches. You won't be able to access them just yet. Please stay tuned! I will publish a p… Read More
Learn the difference between legato, staccato, marcato, spiccato, and also all the strictly virtual instrument-based terms that computer people made up! Read more ☞
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The internet is a treasure trove of free virtual bells, wine glasses, kalimbas and hapi drums. Compared to all those other, uppity instruments, what with their finicky “legatos”… Read More
Instrument links on this blog use tags to indicate the plug-in’s available format(s) and any special download requirements (e.g. newsletter sign-ups, download managers, etc.). This way… Read More
Instrument links on this blog use keywords to indicate plug-in format and special download requirements (shopping carts, download managers, etc.). This way, you can go for only the… R… Read More
Instrument links on this blog use tags to indicate the plug-in’s available format(s) and any special download requirements (e.g. newsletter sign-ups, download managers, etc.). This way… Read More
Are you just learning to write music and looking for free resources? A professional composer tired of exchanging currency for goods? I have good news! Read more ☞
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“Why do you have so many virtual piano libraries?!” This is a question I commonly get from like, the one friend I rant to about plugins. Unfortunately, everything you’ve he… Read More
“Why do you have so many virtual piano libraries?!” This is a question I commonly get from like, the one friend I rant to about plugins. Unfortunately, everything… Read mo… Read More
Suddenly, I had a vivid flashback of what happened -- she's at home one night, looking out the open front door, as her boyfriend and his boss stop in the driveway and get out of the car. Her… Read More
Members were pitted against each other in fun little team games. Depending on how well you did personally, you got a certain color robe, red, green, or white.
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God trapped us in a mansion. He would let us go if we could hide an object somewhere he would never find it. I knew he’d be able to find it no matter where I hid it in the mansion,&hel&hell…Read More
I was at a reunion with various girl friends from elementary and middle school. It wasn’t a sleepover, but it definitely had that kind of energy. It took place at a more open-floor ver… Read More
Arimnaes: Ok who here has a crush on me (Like five of us raise our hands) Arimnaes: Ok thank you all but unfortunately no one will be going home with me today Me: what about next season Arim… Read More
Jhin had to give me a surgery while trying to ignore his erection and Surgeon Shen was just like, “Jesus Christ, could you please try to act like a professional?”
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I was at some party with my extended family. We were eating meat pies. They asked me to grab these two little dogs that were running around and put them in the basement so they would stop bo… Read More
I don’t go crate digging for free instruments quite as often as I used to, but I still use them from time to time. Some of these are Kontakt instruments, some are VSTs, and some are so… Read More
I mostly started this blog to talk about freeware indie games, but the topic is esoteric, which presents its own challenges -- it's hard to write about and always felt out of place on a blog… Read More
TOME is an RPG which takes place within a fictional MMORPG. Based on the 2011 web series of the same name by Chris Niosi, it centers on a troupe of magical warriors, The Dandy Alliance, and… Read More
I was going with my family to a human recycling plant, a facility that handled various kinds of disposal, putting people to sleep, and the consequent grief counseling for their loved ones. A… Read More
I was making a 3D game about a flower in a field who so loved humans that she turned into one, a girl wearing a dress. One way you could play it was by going around doing quests for humans&h&hell…Read More
The Scrubbadubs were planning to overthrow some evil group. Our plan was dependent on signing up for a camp at some skeleton-only golf course-slash-weapons range and convincing everyone ther… Read More
My brother had died from a kidney stone. My parents and I were in this brightly lit attic full of paintings and things, sorting out little shrines for each of us of things each person really… Read More
While I am absolutely a member, to a certain extent and in many cases, of team "my true love can change a psychopath," my attraction towards Jhin beyond the superficial level (because, let's… Read More
Generally my music life is split between commissions and a pile of proof-of-concept tracks. Occasionally I post these to my Patreon, but for the rest of my fans (all three of you), I thought… Read More
The Talos Principle is about humanity, though it taught me more about what it's like to be a deep-learning AI, trained on several gigabytes worth of useless physics puzzles, and has given me… Read More
Today's question: "How do I take a sound I like and turn it into an instrument to use in one of those programs from the first tutorial you did? Do programs map these sound samples to differe… Read More
Going through my documents folder today, I uncovered an important digital relic: an unpublished Pokemon fanfiction read-through of a 2013 Reader x Cheren story. I hope you weren’t expe… Read More
How do you take a scene or a prompt and translate it into a musical idea? The answer is you kinda don't??? Or maybe I'm just lazy idk blogging is hard
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Have you always wanted to try writing your own music, but don't even know where to start learning more? This post has all the terminology and basics you need to start your journey into the l… Read More
Sorry, readers aged 0 to 30. This article is for old-timers only. You may have been confused by the word "Millennials" appearing in the title and URL slug, but this is not a dog bowl, this i… Read More
Kris [insert last name here] and his four best friends, Lisa, Rosa, Xavier, and Peter, are running late to their college graduation ceremony. Because none of them majored in basic street sma… Read More
Though fairly short and not particularly branch-y, Requiescence is a charming first foray into the world of BL visual novels by newcomer team Argent Games. This boys' love visual novel featu… Read More
If you're still keeping up with RPG Maker horror games in 2016 (I know I am!), then first of all the two of us need a new hobby, and second of all you've probably heard that the twinkly loli… Read More
In Welcome to the Game, you search the Deep Web for the hidden address of what is apparently the only Red Room — that is, a website where you can view and interact with a snuff film in… Read More
Finally, six years after the North American release of 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors and four years after Virtue's Last Reward made the scene — after a drought of nothing but bad news fo… Read More
Pony Island is a fairly short (~3 hours) horror puzzle game where you fight for the souls of the […]
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Let's investigate some fanmade Pokemon MMORPG's in order to find which one is the best!
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Let's investigate some fanmade Pokemon MMORPG's in order to find which one is the best!
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Nothing actually scary happens in the body of this film. Once WifeSister looks at a book cover and the point of view shot shows the doll on it with some sort of loud jarring sound, but that'… Read More
Netflix tricks unsuspecting blogger into watching bad Chinese horror film that turns out to be good Chinese horror film but only very likely on accident.
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Skip asked if switching to Mixcraft from another DAW like Ableton or FL Studio is a good idea. I have been using Mixcraft since Version 5 around 2011, and here's my verdict!
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Dude tries to make up for missing last night's date, and Vanessa gives Stanley some business advice. Meanwhile, a thief is loose on the island. Will we discover their identity before it's t… Read More
Stanley and Vanessa have been besties since fourth grade, and now they're going on their first vacation without parents EVER! Though Vanessa's hidden feelings for Stanley continue to grow, S… Read More
Putting aside the enigma of why game form is challenged while books can be books and films can be films, not everyone takes equally well to the game genre with no apparent goal but to encoun… Read More
Death in gaming is usually commonplace, and not just in explicitly violent titles like Call of Duty. Even most Nintendo protagonists send their enemies to the void. When Undertale gives us t… Read More
Basic tutorial on formatting a table using wikitext, which we'll use for building infoboxes in Wikia.
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The inhabitants of "Fran Bow's" fantastic world are as companionable as a night-time romp with your stuffed animals -- one of the game's selling points is even the "50+ interactive unique ch… Read More
The inhabitants of "Fran Bow's" fantastic world are as companionable as a night-time romp with your stuffed animals -- one of the game's selling points is even the "50+ interactive unique ch… Read More
The inhabitants of "Fran Bow's" fantastic world are as companionable as a night-time romp with your stuffed animals -- one of the game's selling points is even the "50+ interactive unique ch… Read More