Sound Synthesis for the Free World

The unfortunate reality for people who work with sound and in sound adjacent disciplines is that most of the full-featured software and hardware in this area is both absurdly costly for the budding individual creative and closed source for developers and hobby tinkerers.

Absurd prices for plugins — Bonkers pricing for industry standard plugins. A trivial matter for industry giants but a big deal for those just starting out.

This really sucks for several reasons:

It deters talented up and coming creators from producing amazing works of art and
It deters talented developers with a passion for sound synthesis from helping to produce amazing software and hardware, and
It deters a more collaborative environment that boosts productivity on both ends of the sound synthesis stick

The sound synthesis stick — A biblically accurate depiction of the sound synthesis stick

The ethos behind the work done at BRLD is to produce high-quality tools, patches, and sounds for all musicians that are truly free.

Monetarily, BRLD operates on a pay what you want model for both patches, software, and hardware design. You can send as much or as little as you want. All funds are used to help sustain the BRLD project.
Developmentally, BRLD is dedicated to providing all the source code and designs associated with the products we release under a permissive BSD license. We believe that derivative works (even those that are closed) are a step forward for the community.
In terms of accessibility, we put a special focus on making our products as user-oriented as possible.

This helps our community 3-fold, bolstering both individual creativity/learning for the developer/designer, while enabling more creators to do what they do best.

We envision a world where the free audio mindset is the meta. Check out our work done at BRLD if this is a world you’d like to be a part of.