Free original music, made on one computer at home
What you will find here
- Eleven finished pieces of music, free to download and use
- How they were made, on one computer, with software that costs nothing
- The honest problem with doing it this way, and what got thrown out
Every piece of music on this page was made on one graphics card in a spare room, using software that costs nothing, on a computer with no connection to anybody else's service. No account, no email address, no sign up. Take them.
A guide that tells you something is possible is worth less than the thing itself. So here is the thing itself.
These are original instrumental tracks. Nothing here samples anybody else's recording, there is no record label involved, and there is no permission to chase. If you want music for a video, a stream, a game or a podcast, help yourself.
The whole method is written up, step by step, in the guide about building a music studio out of free software. The idea is that you go and build your own rather than borrowing ours.
The honest problem, because there always is one
The kind of program that makes this music still fumbles. Every so often it lays a thin piercing tone across a track, up at the very top of what people can hear. It is the sort of thing you do not notice on laptop speakers and absolutely do notice in headphones.
Those takes were thrown away rather than patched up, which is why considerably more music was made than is posted here. It also has its own taste and will drift towards whatever it likes best unless you write the description yourself, so getting a real range of styles takes effort.
It would be easy to post everything and let you find the bad one. Throwing away work that is nearly good enough is the boring part of the job, and it is the part that decides whether the rest can be trusted.
The tracks
All free to download and to use. Nothing loads until you press play, so opening this page costs you nothing.
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Shibuya Static
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Floodlights
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Basement Hours
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Long Way Down
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Teeth
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Dust and Tape
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Undertow
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Night Shift
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Concrete
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Glass Weather
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Cold Open
If you want to make your own
Everything used here is free, and none of it needs an internet connection once it is set up. The full method, including the mistakes, is in the guide about building a music studio out of free software.
This page in the original Kyber Cypher voice: KYBERAMP