Free vst plugins

If you are anything like me, there is nothing better than goofing off with new toys. And if you love making music as much as I do, experimenting with free plugins is something you can get lost in for days!

Just make sure you don’t overdo it all at once or you might lose the plot. Remember the goal is to finish songs, not accumulate the most plugins. 

If you haven’t received it yet, the link below will give you links to over 100 of my favorite Softsynths, Drum synths and effect plugins! Make sure to bookmark this page as we will be using some of these in future tutorials. Enjoy!

Here are some links to lots of free software so that you can do pretty much anything you need to even if you don’t have a huge budget! I will continue to add more VST’s as I come across them. Enjoy!

Harmonic Mixing Software

KeyFinder (Mac/Pc) – Works much like Mixd in Key, but Free!

Recording software:

Buzz Machines(PC)

Synths:

VITAL(PC/MAC)
Surge(PC/MAC)
OBXD(PC/MAC)
Crystal(PC/MAC)
Minimogue va (PC)
Tyrell Nexus 6 (PC/Mac)
Superwave – P8(PC)
Arppe2600Va  (PC)
Daedalus  (PC)
Freehand  (PC)
Dream Machine  (PC)
Octave Shifter 2(For real time pitch shifting) (Mac)
nX-Synth 2  (PC)
DSK Tech Synth (& 48 other DSK synths)
Krakli (20 synths) (PC)
GTG 44s (& many other synths) (PC)
SubDuer  (PC)
Ilo Synth  (PC)
Phenome  (PC)
Pro52 (PC)
Oberon 8  (PC)
Acid Rack 2 (PC)
TAL – U-NO-62 (PC/MAC)
TAL – Elec7tro  (PC/Mac)
Snorgan(PC)
Whistler(PC)
Foxglove(PC)
Leto(PC)
Cadencia(PC)
Oberon Poly 4(PC)
Panzertank PM4(PC)
Satyr VST(PC)
Quantum 64 digital arcade synth(PC)
Littleduck Filter Banck(PC)
Iblit(PC)
PolyIblit(PC)
Proto psg (PC)
Plugsound VST(PC)
Morpheus(PC)
Alpha(PC/MAC)
Synth 1(PC)
VB1 bass(PC)
DSK Synth collection (PC)
Tweakbench collection (PC)
Texture(Pc)
Rez (PC)
Motion(Pc)
Strat a Various (PC)
Sonic Synth(PC/MAC)
Paul Stretch (PC/MAC)
hypermammut-0.0.1.tar.bz2(MAC)
Elektostudio Analog Pack(10 Virtual synths)
krakli-free-synths (A boat load of synths including Organ & strings
Micromoon (Minimoog emulator) (PC)
Fuzz Plus 3 (Mac/PC)

 

Organ/Elect Piano/Stings
5 free organs (PC)
String Theory (PC)
4 front E-Piano(PC)
Phibes electric organ(PC)
Genuine Soundware (PC/Mac)

Samplers:
Highlife (pc)
Sample Tank (PC/MAC)

Effects:

MDA plug in pack(PC/MAC)
IVGI – Klanghelm (Saturator & Distortion)(PC/MAC)
Shattered Glass – SGA1566 (Tube Overdrive)(PC/MAC)
Cecelia 5 (extreme stretch effect)(PC/MAC)
Audi0 Assualt – Transient shaper, Amp, Clip, Mangle (PC/MAC)
Blue Line(PC)
Mad Shifta (PC/Mac)
DX Reverb Lite(plus several other plugins) (PC)
EQ III Digidesign(MAC)
Bomb Factory pack(MAC)
WTF plug in pack(PC)
Glitch 1(PC)
Copyshop (PC/Mac)
Copyshop2 (PC/Mac)
Drumatic(PC)
Voxengo pack(PC)
BJ vst pack(PC)
TK vst pack(PC)
Tweakbench collection(PC)
TAL – Vocoder (PC/MAC)
TAL – Chorus (PC/MAC)
TAL – Bassline(PC/MAC)
TAL – DUB(PC/MAC)
TAL – Dub 2(PC/MAC)
TAL – Flanger(PC/MAC)
TAL – Phaser(PC/MAC)
TAL – Reverb 4(PC/MAC)
TAL -Bitcrusher (PC/MAC)
TAL – Ultra Simple EQ (PC/Mac)
TAL – Tube (PC/Mac)
Izotope Vinyl(PC/Mac)
Sumo
GetaBlitch  (PC/Mac)
Repeatler (PC/Mac)
Sound Magic Spectral (PC/Mac)
Artificial Double Tracking (PC/Mac)
Genius Soundware (vintage echo, reverb etc)
Fine Cut Bodies – La Petite Excite (harmonic exciter) (PC/Mac)

Curcuit Bending
Tone Bytes – Bend Box (PC)
Berrtill (PC/Mac)

 

Drums:
ERS Drums(PC)
Digidrum Pro (PC)
Drumatic 3 (pc)
Dr. Fusion (PC)

Audio editing:
Audacity (pc)

Here’s to your music making!

Jason

 

With that said, if you are benefiting from these posts, you will absolutely love my 2 bestselling books:

The Mental Game of Music Production
The Process for Electronic Music Producers

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Happy music making!
Jason