The Free
Toolkit
Welcome to MSVM. To get you started, we've assembled 97 programs, plugins and libraries, curated by your teachers.
- Stack
- 97 tools / 17 sections
- Place
- Catalyst · Berlin
- Fields
- music · sound · image · space

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First Boot
3 itemsthe three to install before week one.
Reaper, Tuned
5 itemsreaper is bare on purpose. these turn it into yours.
Synthesis
10 itemssound built from nothing — gentle to bottomless.
Samplers & Instruments
12 itemsplayers for your own recordings, plus ready-made libraries.
Raw Material
4 itemsrecorded sound to cut up and treat.
Tone & Colour
17 itemsshape and dirty a sound.
Space & Motion
7 itemsdepth, distance and movement.
Pitch & Voice
3 itemsfor the voice, and for pitch itself.
The Experimental Wing
8 itemsspectral, granular, gleefully broken.
Machine Listening
3 itemsneural tools that learn a sound and transform it.
Patching & Systems
6 itemsbuild devices, or leave the daw behind.
Game Engines
3 itemsgame engines as a medium for sound and image.
Score & Notation
2 itemswhen the music needs to be written down.
Metering & Truth
4 itemswhat's really going on in your mix.
Picture & Capture
2 itemsthe picture side — here when a project needs it.
Plumbing
5 itemsunglamorous tools that make the day work.
Oblique Inspiration
3 itemsfor the moment you are stuck.
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