Get yer google ready!
Free stuff:
Free: Looper: Elottronix XL.
http://www.uv.es/~ruizcan/p_vst.htm
Brilliant stuff. That expensive psp one only does two bars of looping, the elottronix can do a whole bunch. Good stuff.
Free: mangler: dfx bufferOverride.
http://www.smartelectronix.com/~destroyfx/
Another goodie. It does lfo-driven bitcrushing, buffer underruns and crunchy chorus-ey sounds. Must have for digital-headz
Free: Granular delay: KT Granulator.
http://koen.smartelectronix.com/
" Basic" granular. Good for general delay weirdness, but not Granulab-hotness
Free: Playback phreaking: Supatrigga.
http://bram.smartelectronix.com/
THE best realtime loop-eater. but use it sparingly, cuz we geeks can hear it through 36 layers of overdubs.
Free: Reverser: Reversinator.
http://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs/reversinator.htm
A bit redundant, since supatrigga also does this. But this is nice and simple. Works realtime.
Free: Delay: Bionic Delay.
http://www.interruptor.ch/vst_overview.shtml
The best free delay unit around, imho. Modelled on the 'tape delay' in Logic, which isn't a bad place to start.
Free: waveshaper/distortion: Cyanide2
http://bram.smartelectronix.com/
The best free distortion around.
Free: Modulation fx: Kjaerhus classic series.
Bread and butter effects. Very nice in the sync department.
Free: multi-FX: Luxonix 1310
http://www.luxonix.com/home/en/products.html?id=lfx1310
Bread and butter, again, but offers some surprisingly useful fx.
Free: Recorder: Silverspike tapeIt! 1
http://www.silverspike.com/tapeit.html
Use it on individual tracks or to record your master, whatever. Might be useful whilst djing, i don't know.
Pay stuff:
Pay: Mastering: PSP vintagewarmer
http://www.pspaudioware.com/plugins/vintage.html
All the psp plugs are excellent, but this one is just a little bit better, imo. I use it on absolutely everything.
Pay: Mangling: GRM tools Classic.
http://www.grmtools.org/
They just sound better, and do freakier stuff than the rest.
-- There you have it, my absolute favourites. I think i may have left some out, though!?!?
Happy hunting!
Andreas
PS: On a send, try putting a simple delay followed by an autofilter with a wide, slow stereo sweeping filter and a high feedback setting.
