The plugin has a huge range of useable sounds. It is a synth capable of a wide variety of sounds from great bass tones to pads and lead synth. You can read our in-depth guide about Xfer Serum! Next up I have put together a number of fantastic bundles to download, which include a huge array of sounds and all the best free VST instruments has brought us. This is an incredible set of free VST instrument plugins and sounds from our friends based out of Berlin, Germany.
This bundle is available totally for free. It includes three virtual instruments with over sounds to choose from. Komplete Players features everything from free piano, vintage Rhodes, Organ, Strings and some awesome inspiring sounds from Reaktor 6. A version of Guitar Rig is also included which has a great AMP model and some really nice effects, delays, reverbs and modulation. Many engineers use guitar effects on a bus channel for vocals or drums. If you had to download one bundle, this would be the one I would recommend.
Sampletank is another awesome bundle of high quality sounds for you to use entirely free. This is another great VST that is a must-have. They have sampled 38 of the most desirable synths. This version includes 50 presets which all use different sample sets. The sounds of this analogue style synth are incredible from great Minimoog to Jupiter sounds.
The possibilities are endless with this Synth as you can layer up to 4 presets on top of each other to create a new sound and then alter the sound with a huge range of effects inside the instrument. This is, in my opinion, one of the best free live drum VST plugins you can get. Steven Slate has created a name for himself producing some of the best live kits with world-class engineers like Chris Lord Alge.
You only get one kit but you can tune it differently and use all the features of the SSD5. This would be a great option if you are working on music for a film score or TV series. The quality of the recordings in these sample libraries is simply fantastic and has been used by many top composers. This service includes over 40, audio recordings, which includes everything from orchestral music to world music instruments and rock sounds. Over the years, Roland has created some of the greatest synths and drum machines known to mankind.
They have influenced modern music culture and inspired so many top artists and producers, especially in early Hip Hop. I think the updates and the overall quality of sound that Native provide is incredible.
Their FL Studio plugin expansion pack is especially neat. These are great tools for cutting out unwanted frequencies in a boxy sounding acoustic guitar track or levelling out the volume of a vocal recording with a high-quality compressor plugin. Most of them are emulations or inspired by top mixing consoles or outboard gear you would find in some of the best recording studios from around the world. This plugin can be used on anything from heavy drum breaks to soft acoustic guitar tracks.
It is also one of the best free VST Plugins for vocals. This is another free product from ikmultimedia, this time in a 6 band EQ from T Racks. Ceil is based on a heavily modified British channel strip that we sampled at the end of , during one of our official workshops held at a studio near the lake of Como.
This is a free plugin, but only until 14th February So if you are reading this in time, sign up for an account to grab this channel strip for free. Great sounding plugin it includes dynamics, EQ and gate. Sounds great on drums! Smack labs also do two other plugins inspired by the series British console.
This is a great sounding compressor taking huge influence from LA 2A compressor. If you are looking to add character and saturation to drum tracks, this compressor will do the trick. You can use this lots of different ways, from really driving the input to get an over-driven sound to using it on a bus for some parallel compression. This compressor is one of the most versatile compressors on the list. You can use them on drum tracks to get a really aggressive sound or on a vocal track and even on a master bus for a mix.
It can also work as a great free vocal mastering VST plugins. This is a must-have in my opinion. You need to sign up for an Ilok 2 account but its worth it. The first is Guitar Rig Free which I mentioned earlier. It can be downloaded separately and the full version has been used by top recording bands such as Nine Inch Nails.
They are making some fantastic products for guitarists and bassists, from amp simulations to great sounding distortion pedals. They offer a free version of Amplitube 4 which has 4 amp models and lots of effects. This is a convolution reverb that can compete with some of the best reverbs in the market.
It sounds great on strings and lovely using it on an upright piano that worked really well. The interface is on the clunky side. But a little patience can be rewarding. Lokomotiv is an analog retro synthesizer that is impressive from the first launch. Its austere interface is surprisingly responsive and sounds immediately great. This one sports a subdued color palette with beefy growls, preset chords and brass sounds.
A bit of crackling when parameters are modified, but worth the time to download for sure. These are very, very simple sampled instruments with just a handful of controls and they sound really, really good. So far the collection includes:. This is one my of favorite choices. The interface is accessible, clean and to the point and thick, beefy sounds are possible from the get-go. Really nice! The synth also includes a small effect section with a reverb, chorus and a simple bit crusher effect.
A display shows the knob and slider values. This allows more control over the synth. A ring modulator and a syncable triangle are also part of this synth. Its improved amplitude ADSR is very suitable for slow pads and for really fast envelopes. Thump is a unique audio processor that allows you to synthesize low-frequency audio to add low end to a track or generate another sound entirely.
Thump looks at the pitch and dynamics of its audio input and uses this information to control its oscillators. You can add low end to drums, augment a bass or even create synthetic drones.
Thump is ideal for beefing up a kick drum, adding low end to percussive tracks, recreating classic drum synth sounds and more.
The effect of Thump is similar to generating a sine wave or other waveform on a gated track that is side-chained to a transient on another track such as a kick. But Thump allows more control, two oscillators that can be changed on the fly and more pitch specific envelope control. If you like kicks that are thick as hell and challenge the range of human hearing, you will like Thump a lot.
NOTE: the instrument requires a transient input to be activated so you would use it like an insert rather than a standalone synth. These elements can be modulated by a common LFO and one of two envelopes. While these instruments may not be the best things in life — they are free. And it has been my experience that there is something to be learned from every piece of software, as there is from all types of music.
Experimentation and exploration yield untold rewards for the adventurous, and freeware is a great place to start your journey or a means to unshackle yourself, at least temporarily, from the financial constraints that plague us all.
Check out my other articles, reviews, interviews and my video tutorial series, Synthesis available exclusively on The Pro Audio Files. Follow me on Twitter: PMantione Instagram: philipmantione. Free stuff is not al. When installed, Audio Units plug-ins appear as individual components in the Library folders on your Mac:.
TyrellN6 by u-he Virtual analog with classic architecture, plus extras. Two oscillators, noise, ring modulator. Two LFOs with eight waveforms that are host-syncable. Audio source mixer with authentic overdrive and filter feedback. Twin filter related to Diva early model. Unison with up to eight voices. Small modulation matrix with depth modulation from a second source. Chorus effect with three modes.
Skinnable UI. Over factory presets. Wood Drum — Flexible wooden drum model synthesizes natural and synthetic timbres from log drums to toms. Hi-Hat — Six oscillators closed and open hi-hat generator with a noise source and dual resonant filters. Crystal Synth by Green Oak This is one is a bit frustrating and takes a while to get anything remotely usable. Lokomotiv Lokomotiv is an analog retro synthesizer that is impressive from the first launch.
Oscillator : Mathematically generated high definition Oscillator without using wavetable or interpolation. Silky smooth 9X detuned sawtooth wave. Pulse wave with self PWM. Shape morphing sub-oscillator.
