I tested 40+ Free Plugins!
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- 1-2 Years ago I made a bunch of demos with more or less obscure free instrument plugins (and a few effects). Let's take a look back and discuss which free plugins I still have installed, which ones I upgraded to paid versions, which ones are even better than paid plugins, etc...
Basically: I'll try to give my thoughts on which free VST you should install, and which ones you can skip!
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Videos/ Plugins feautred:
• 4 FREE Virtual Instrum...
Sample Tank 4 (IK Multimedia): The free Version comes with a cool E-Bass. I used the "Compressed" preset.
Jamstix 4 (Rayzoon): I used the "Blues Drums".
4-Front R-Piano: Pretty cool Electric Piano.
AZR-3 (Rumpelrausch): Cool Drawbar Organ that uses the Sustain Pedal as the fast/ slow Switch of the rotary cabinet.
• Jam with 2 free Virtua...
SynthmasterPlayer Free (KV331 Audio):
- ORG Electrorgan
- BA Classic Goa 303
- Choir Oberheim MK
- KEYYGS1 Piano
Monster Drums (Monster DAW):
- Gassanov's Linn Kit
• Trap Beat with 3 Free ...
Iota Mini - Angelic Vibes
Drum8 - Audiolatry
Voxana - Monster Daw
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• Music with 5 FREE Virt...
MODO Drum CS (IK Multimedia): Brandnew release, a free Version of their Premium Drum Plugin.
Ample P Bass Lite (Ample Sound): The classic free Bass VST that everyone recommends!
Sweetcase Vintage Electric Piano (Noiseash): Free Electric Piano/ Rhodes
Sforzando (Plogue): this is a free Sampler that you can find many great free libraries for. I used the "Sforzatron" - A pretty cool Mellotron.
Model-E (Steinberg): A vintage, really old Synth Plugin made by the creators of VST themselves. Comes with some nice presets.
• Useful FREE Virtual In...
1 Black Noh Snare (Chokehold)
Decent sounding Acoustic Snare.
2 Toum! (Solcito Musica)
Modelled Kick/ Synthesizer, that can provide a vast variety of Kick Sounds. From obviously electronic to vintage drum synths to acoustic.
3 2-B Cymballic (Quilcom)
Synthesizer, that let's you create any cymbal sound.
4 FB-3200 (Full Bucket)
Retro Synth based on the KORG PS-3200.
5 move.ment (KIA)
Synthesizer made by a car company. The nature ambiance is also from this plugin.
6 Flextron DC14 (AXP)
One of my favourite AMP sims. It includes amp distortion, cab modelling and reverb.
• FREE VST ONLY - Cookup...
1 Monastery Grand - Melda Production (for the free MSoundFactoryPlayer)
2 Gearbox - Orchestral Tools (for the free SINE Player)
3 Animal Drums - Spitfire (from LABS Vintage Drums)
4 Dexed - Digital Suburban
5 Foundations Nylon Guitar - Heavyocity (for the free Kontakt Player)
6 Funk Bass - Audiolatry
7 Helm - Matt Tytel
• FREE Instruments you'r...
SINE Factory (Orchestral Tools): Rotary and Roads
- a collection of free sample libraries of realistic and natural sounding instruments for SINE Player (free).
Zebralette (u-he):
- free version of the popular spectral synth
Arido 3.33 (solcito musica):
- additive synth with some great presets
Guiro (klevgrand):
- very crispy sounding guiro that you can control with the mod wheel
SampleTank 4 CS (IK Multimedia):
- 4 GB of free sample libraries
Whispair (Full Bucket):
- powerful synth with many different types of presets
SyndtSphere (Klevgrand):
- "sound surfer synth" let's you intuitively find your pad sound
• What about these? - Mo...
1 AAS Player (Applied Acoustics Systems - Swatches)
2 XLN Audio - Addictive Drums 2 (Demo: fully functional, no time limit, but only comes with snare, kick, hihat and ride samples)
3 Martinic - Kee Bass
4 Martinic - Combo Model F
+ Auburn Sounds - Panagement 2
5 Martinic - Combo Model V
+ Valhalla - Supermassive
6 Xenobioz - Lynx
7 Sample Science - The Bells
8 NUSofting - Sinnah
9 Sampleson - CollaB3
fun video, for an upright bass, you can try some of the bass + piano presets in pianoteq, though it's only the first few octaves
Thanks! Gotta check out those Pianoteq sounds :o
Sforzando is in a special category. It's more like a utility which plays back soundfonts which as a technology has its own special history. It's a bit like Dexed which plays back DX7 patches. You keep it because in enables ubiquitous access to historical stuff.
Honerable mention: Decentsampler
that's a nice kind of multiselection tier list, to capture various qualities of the plugins
good stuff!
Nice! You should do one for effects next and you BETTER put OTT in the top tier 😭
OTT is probably the good but crowded marketplace tier.
Epic
Over four minutes into this video I get the impression what we can learn here is 'why use a good free plugin when you can use a paid one?" Maybe a general tendency, we prefer hunting and buying over playing? I don't understand why a crowded marketplace would be a reason to buy.
I didn't want to suggest that a crowded marketplace would have anything to do with buying. That category is meant as an explanation why I might not have installed a good free plugin, eventhough it is good. Because I might have too many (free or paid) alternatives so I tend to use others instead. And indeed I have replaced many free plugins with paid ones, I do think than can also be of value to hear for some newer producers, who are trying to figure out where the free options out there are on par with paid ones (or even better) or where they might enjoy purchasing something which might provide mote value to them than some free options. Also I was trying be transparent about "what I have installed", so in some cases even though the free software might be good, I just don't need it anymore.
Guys anybody have sf2 or dwp format sound to download?????