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What are the must-have free VST plugins?

Voxengo Span and MSED. Green Oaks Crystal is a fun synth.

All free plugins are shit except the ones that aren't.

crofter wrote:All free plugins are shit except the ones that aren't.

hahaha nice. Enlighten me, I'm curious as well.

try bootsie's plugins
http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/

they are awesome
cheers
milosh

best freeware softsynth ever = synth1 (pc only)
anything by TAL
stormgate
wong's w1 limiter
dblue glitch (pc only)
zebralette

err there's a few more i'm forgetting right now....lately I use stormgate a whole lot, it's great for quick intuitive gate fx.


I'm still crying because I've gone Mac-only (iMac and MacBookPro) so I can't use Synth1 anymore. sob.

-M

lahostia wrote:

crofter wrote:All free plugins are shit except the ones that aren't.

hahaha nice. Enlighten me, I'm curious as well.

Kore player
Bootsie's stuff
Tal stuff
Some good free stuff from Voxengo
The elektrostudio synths
Antress plugins
Angular momentum plugins.

http://www.jeroenbreebaart.com/

The ferox plug is great

My No.1 free plugin is the excellent Synth1 Nord lead emulation. v1.07 is ultra stable - I can't vouch for the more recent updates yet, as I'm still to really use them in anger.

Voxengo Span was a rather pleasant surprise, one of the better frequency analyzers I've come across and very low on cpu usage. I like it more than Live's native spectrum too. 4.5/5

I use it on OSX.

Mexoscope is also pretty good. 3.5/5.

Green Oak Crystal is my favourite freeware synth.
Bootsy/Variety Of Sound - Density mkII, Ferric
DaSample - Glaceverb
Flux - StereoTools and Bitter
Sonalksis - Free G
Digitalfishphones - spitfish, blockfish, dominion, endorphin, etc. (by Samplitude plugin writer Sascha Eversmeier who unfortunately no longer supports these, but they are still damned good).
Voxengo - SPAN, R8Brain Free (excellent sample rate converter pc only at the moment), Boogex, Old Skool Delay, Stereo Touch, etc.
Jeroen BreebartPC-2 compressor, barricade, ferox
Kjaerhus Classic plugins - delay, chorus, compressor, limiter, filter, EQ
audio damage - roughrider free
Minimogue VA http://www.home.no/gunnare/

and lots more which I have forgotten.

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php? ... st+top+ten

This forum is so predictable.

Ah come on Dave - just ONE link.

This question has been asked and answered at least 726 times in the 4 yrs I've been on the forum

Haha ok, thats the truth.

i think my fave freebie is Sam's VOPM but its more about really cheap sounding FM stuff. very evocative of soundblaster cards, sega genesis, and late 80's arcade games.