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[Mr Wednesday]

Do you think it's a good idea to use free plugins??

[Winterpark]

fuck yes!

...well i use em heaps in production... it would probably depend on the individual plugin itself when playing live though...

here's a link of good free osx plugs.... love the smart electronix, digitalfish and gleetchplug stuff.... use it all the time.

Emagic ET1
http://www.emagic.de/support/download/gt.php?lang=EN

Airy -----
AirySynth, AU303, Speedster, AuStk, Voweler
http://airy.andre.online.fr/AU/index.html

alphakanal-------
buzzer
http://www.alphakanal.de:80/snipsnap/space/BuzZer

buzzer2
http://www.alphakanal.de:80/snipsnap/space/BuzZer2

digitalfishbones
http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.p ... &subItem=5

http://www.smartelectronix.com/

Crystal
http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/

Bad Cable, and Overflow
http://sounds.wa.com/software.html

Elemental Audio - Inspector - http://www.elementalaudio.com/products/ ... index.html

u-he - Rumblence:zoyd, Rumblence:pure , and More Feedback Machine - http://u-he.com/

Expertsleepers - Crossfade Loop Synth, Additive Synth, Ping-pong Delay, Phaser, Multitap Delay, Buffer Delay –
http://www.expertsleepers.co.uk/

Arne Knup - Multi Delay –
http://arne.knup.de/software/multidelay.php

Franck Stauffer - KingDubby –
http://www.lowcoders.net/

http://gleetchplug.ienproject.com/

David Stanford (just "Bacon")
http://www.davidstanford.com/david/bacon.html

JK Plugs
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/index.html (with free pluggo runtime)

Destoy FX
http://www.smartelectronix.com/~destroy ... units.html

Bitmodder
http://mirrors.atariboy.com/steve_duda/

LoopStashen
http://www.widosm.com/apps/loopstashen.html

mda : Combo, dynamics, roundpan, Talkbox
http://www.mda-vst.com/

Wavebreaker
http://www.audiofield.com/

CrayonFilter : http://www.betabugsaudio.com/plugs.html

Duck delay etc
http://www.apulsoft.ch

[rictheobscene]

There are a lot of really good freebies out there, and there are a lot of not so good freebies. It is like most anything else, you have to sift the good from the bad.

Of course, there are some plugins that cost money that are not so good either.

[AdamJay]

Do you think it's a good idea to use free plugins??

King Dubby Delay is a free tape delay AU, and its also my favorite Tape Delay plugin, free or payware.

I've found that alot of free plugins aren't free because they are of lesser quality. But instead it has to do with a developer and how much time he/she/they can put into maintaining, supporting, and updating the plugin. Now this can sometimes translate to a less stable plugin, but that is most often not the case.

Automat for example has a couple quirks, some folks wouldn't like the GUI, and there is very little documentation. However, it is FREE, uses very little CPU, and sounds PHENOMENAL! I know a couple plugins out there that are Fischer Price toddler keyboards compared to Automat, but they run $89-$149. And one main reason they cost alot is a designer was paid to make it look pretty, which does invite more people to use a plugin and eventually buy a synth plugin.

So the moral of the story is just cause its free doesn't mean it is any less useful.

Air is free and sunshine is free... i don't think they are any less important because i get a bill from the water company every month.

"every tool is a weapon, if you hold it right"

[fzero]

Do you think it's a good idea to use free plugins??

Hey, they're free! Get them, test them and if they work, use them! Simple as that.