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Free Plugins

Free and legal plugins we recommend. (Click on images or description text to go to the download pages)

Free VST Effects:

Chorus

TAL-Chorus-LX plugin simulating Juno-60 chorus.

Blue cat audio chorus plugin.

Multivoice rich chorus by distorqueaudio.

Baby Audio 80’s inspired chorus.

Oblivion Sound chorus modelled after the Juno 60.

Compressor

Best freeware mastering compressor from tokyodawn.

Rich range of exciting compression colors from tokyodawn.

Compressor plugin inspired by the LA-2A.

A high-quality dynamic range compressor.

Standard compression with volume maximization.

Delay

Echo simulation from Valhalla with chorus and vibrato. 

Delay that allows echos when there is no dry signal. 

A quantizing, dual band delay by stagecraft. 

Delay with vintage distortion.

Classic echo device with tape-delay and chorus.

De-Esser

Reduces excess sibilance and other unwanted high frequency sounds.

Analog style de-essers which dynamically filters sibilance.

High frequency dynamics processor. No GUI

Basic rack style de-esser.

Distortion/Saturation

Analog circuit saturation.

Very soft and subtle or dense and dirty distortion effects.

Bit crushing and down sampling distortion.

Digital distortion plugin with rich saturation phase distortion.

Traditional Distortion/Overdrive unit.

EQ and Visualizers

A parallel dynamic equalizer.

DR VOS SlickEQ is a mixing/mastering equalizer.

Powerful 6-band equalizer.

Analog EQ with fixed half-octave bands.

SPAN is a free real-time audio spectrum analyzer.

Filtering

Modern motion filter plugin with potential for intricate rhythmic movement.

Analog filter curves that can be used on every mix channel.

Filter module with different filter types, panorama and volume modulation.

Super smooth transitions, whilst being incredibly light.

Professional filter but with extend its capabilities.

Flanger

Quintessential analog flanger.

Stereo flanger effect with its own special sound.

A stereo flanger with optional tempo-sync.

Very famous flanger effect from the 70’s and 80’s.

Plugin which produces flanger and chorus style effects.

Limiter

A studio-grade limiter plug-in.

It performs compression, limiting, soft clipping and features a five-stage signal path.

Reverb (algorithmic)

 High quality presets from Verberate.

Free algorithmic stereo reverb. 

Best suited for soft-attack sounds like vocals, piano and pad sounds.

High quality plate reverb with a vintage 80’s character.

Reverbs sound from rather edgy up to smooth with clean free reverb tails.

Emulates the physical behavior of the reverberation springs.

Reverb (convolution)

80’s and Vintage reverbs.

Authentic sound of divine reverb units.

Easy-to-use highly optimized convolution reverb.

Stereo Enhancer

Any signal that has been extended will always remain in phase with itself. 

Width control of any track, perfect for making super-wide sounds or mono-like sources.

Automating flexible pan modulations.

Transforms a monophonic track into spacious stereophonic track by Voxengo.

Continuously adjustable oscillator shapes.

Transient Shaper

Tool to shape the envelope of a signal.

Turning it to the Sweet side reduces the transients, and turning it to the Bitter side magnifies the transients.

Exquisite control over your dynamics, and particularly attacks.

Vocal Tuning

Pitch Shifting and Pitch Correction.

A freeware pitch correction effect.

Free VST pitch-correction.

Simple but great sounding automatic pitch correction.

Free VST FX Bundles:

Fully Featured bundles of plugins

15 Free VST plugins for professional music production Voxengo. Compression, saturation, eq, visualizers, audio fx and much more.

Mixing/mastering/fx bundle.

The plug-in  analyses audio and preset name and allows to create offline and online presets based on keywords.

These free effect plug-ins with minimal or no gui interface and simple controls.

Airwindows plugins are modular, graphic-less, stripped-down, VST plugins, extremely high quality but a steep learning curve.

Effects plugins with cool spectral visualizer. 

18 VST Plugins, cpu friendly, clean interfaces.

MFreeFXBundle contains a set of audio effects, which are completely free.

26 original VST audio effect plugins covering everything from essential mixing tools such as EQ and compression to creative sound shaping tools such as delay, chorus and reverb.

Free VST Instruments:

Must have:

Huge free library of diverse instruments that are meticulously sampled.

Diverse Library of 2,000 studio-quality sounds.

Bass

Recorded on a Fender Precision Bass.

Reproduces a timbre of a bass guitar.

Drums

Drum Synth Plugin by e-phonic. Synthesize your own drum samples.

The MT Power Drum Kit is a free drum sampler offering the powerful, high-quality sounds of an acoustic, realistic drum kit.

Guitar

Ample Guitar M Lite II is a sampled acoustic guitar.

3 Guitar types: Acoustic, Nylon & Steel.

Synthesizers

A spectral warping wavetable synthesizer.

Helm is a software synthesizer.

Chaotic monosynth that uses a brand new double-pendulum-oscillator to create previously unheard sounds.

Rand (formerly Push) is a generative synth sound module. It will create a new patch every single time you hit that button in the middle.

Subtractive synthesizer.

FM synthesizer.

Synthesizer DX10.

Simple 2-Oscillator Analog Synthesizer.

FM Plugin Synth.

Piano

One of the cleanest muted pianos.

Light-weight sketching piano, the VS Upright No. 1 is a clean sampling of an upright piano.

Acoustic Piano Instrument.

Clean acoustic piano.

Clean electric piano.

Reproduces a timbre of an upright home piano.

Reproduces a timbre, which is similar to DX-7 type e-piano.

Reproduces the classic sound similar to RSP73 pianos.

Samplers

Quick an easy drum sampler with 16pads.

Award-winning sound engine with 50 all-new instruments and 200 MIDI loops.

Based on the sound and synthesizer architecture of the Ensoniq SQ80.

Orchestral

High quality orchestral library created by sampling the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sign up and get it for free after 2 weeks.

3GB Sample Library with great orchestral sounds and many ways of installing them.

Well sampled realistic harp.

Free vintage tonewheel organ emulation.

Other

Cloudrum is a unique and relaxing Steel tongue drum with a range of 3 octaves.

3 Layers with 32 Choir & Pad sounds.