What are your three favourite free VSTs?

[MrFigg]

There's so many free VSTs out there I though I'd ask and see what people here have for favourites.
My three in no particular order are:

Musical Entropy Guitar Gadgets
TAL Dub
Distorque Azurite x64

[riemac]

My top 3 free VSTs:

1.) PG-8X (by far the best free VST for me, even the Roland Cloud VST's are not any better than this)
2.) TAL-Chorus-LX (there are choruses with more parameters, but there is no better sounding Chorus)
3.) OrilRiver Reverb (to good to be free and light on cpu)
.....
TyrellN6 would be in my top 3 if it wasn't so heavy on the CPU

[MrFigg]

3.) OrilRiver Reverb (to good to be free and light on cpu)

Thanks for that one man. Had no idea. Just tried it on my guitar. Very nice.

[dvdrtldg]

Instruments:

Viking VK-1 synth
All the Reaktor freebies
All the SpitfireAudio freebies

FX:

TDR Kotelnikov compressor
Infected Mushroom Wider
Sennheiser AMBEO Orbit

Honourable mentions:

Ignite Amps PTEq-X
iZotope Vinyl
Xenakios PaulStretch
Klanghelm MJUC Jr
Klevgrand FreeAMP
Melda Productions MRingModulator

[NekujaK]

When Reason first supported VSTs, I turned into a VST binge-aholic, and accumulated a ton of free VSTs. I tried to grab the better stuff and not just indiscriminantly get everything. As time went on, I gravitated to paid plugins and the freebies were gradually replaced by quality commercial VSTs. But there are a few freebies that "made the cut" and frequently still find their way into my rack:

EFFECTS:
- Voxengo SPAN
- Alex Hilton A1 StereoControl
- Dragonfly Hall and Room Reverbs
- WaveArts Tube Saturator Vintage
- Youlean Loudness Meter
- TB Pro Audio ISOL8
- Musical Entropy Guitar Gadgets

INSTRUMENTS
- 99Sounds Clap Machine
- Spitfire LABS monthly freebies
- Plogue Alter/Ego
- Steinberg Model E

[gdm41]

I like this drumkit Plug-in:
https://www.powerdrumkit.com/

Nice sound, Single Output. Everything i need.

[RobC]

GClip, Maths.

[PhutureD]

Spec ( free ) - delay plugin
Tantra
Air Hybrid

[Kalm]

Softube Saturation Knob
Ozone Imager
Vocal Doubler

Honorary; Neutrino

[WongoTheSane]

FX:
- OrilRiver reverb
- Voxengo Span
- TDR Nova

Instruments:
- Lith
- Cheeze Machine 2
- TyrellN6

[hurricane]

PG-8X: https://sites.google.com/site/mlvst0/

DMG Audio Track Control: https://www.dmgaudio.com/products_trackcontrol.php

OSL Chorus: https://oblivionsoundlab.com/product/osl-chorus/

[dpcoffin]

No doubt like many I've grabbed a ton of these, but have not even tried most. There's one, though, that I use ALL the time:

Melda's MConvolutionEZ

I actually own the not-free multiband Melda Convolver, but still use this much more often as it's so simple and contains all the same great IRs, and you can even point it at and import any IRs you've got anywhere on your computer. Even inside MSoundFactory, where ALL Melda plugins are available, I almost always include this in the FX rack. There's many great reverb IRs of course, but the part I always gravitate to is the collection of Sound Design IRs, which turn this into a fascinating sort of spectral EQ with many dozens of one-click variations:



As for any other free vsts, I'll offer those that come free with any issue of ComputerMusic magazine, amongst which MY most used would be Aalto, Nora, Voltage Modular, Tracktion 10, and Cream, except I liked all these so well I bought the full versions. [NOT the Amazon book auto-linked here—WTF!?!] Strangely, the full version of Cream no longer works reliably, but the CM version still does!

[MrFigg]

Spec ( free ) - delay plugin
Tantra
Air Hybrid

I don’t think Air Hybrid and Tantra are free man. Or are they?

[Boombastix]

Most free ones have an equal or better paid version. One exception though: Loopcloud.

GTune, kHs Limiter, and Ozone Imager is used regularly.

Honorable mentions: re-skinned U-He Tyrell, Zebralette, also NickCrowLab TubeDrive, Camel crusher, Xfer OTT.

[Creativemind]

The question should have been, "What are your 3 favourite synth vst's and your 3 favourite effect vst's". How can you say a compressor is comparable to a synth? 2 totally different purposes.

[MrFigg]

The question should have been, "What are your 3 favourite synth vst's and your 3 favourite effect vst's". How can you say a compressor is comparable to a synth? 2 totally different purposes.

Why? The question was what are your three favourite free VSTs? Who said a compressor is comparable to a synth? Certainly not me.

[zoidkirb]

Spec ( free ) - delay plugin
Tantra
Air Hybrid

I don’t think Air Hybrid and Tantra are free man. Or are they?

Ds Tantra is rad, but certainly not free.
Air Hybrid is close to free if you managed to grab it for $1 on one of its numerous sales

[MrFigg]

I don’t think Air Hybrid and Tantra are free man. Or are they?

Ds Tantra is rad, but certainly not free.
Air Hybrid is close to free if you managed to grab it for $1 on one of its numerous sales

Thought so

[Armoor]

- The Free Orchestra by Project SAM
- Spitfire Audio Freebies
- Tritik Krush (love this one)

[PhutureD]

Spec ( free ) - delay plugin
Tantra
Air Hybrid

I don’t think Air Hybrid and Tantra are free man. Or are they?

True , just saw VST , didnt read free! haha!!
My number one would be spec delay. Im using that one a lot now
in my experiments.

[dhruan]

Can recommend only two as I mostly deal with RE, these are pretty damn dope and quality though...

https://glitchmachines.com/products/fracture/

https://glitchmachines.com/products/hysteresis/

[Lempface]

Limiter No6
TDR Nova
Melda MLoudnessAnalyzer

These are consistently on my master chain even though I own Ozone 8.

[JdA57]

My favourite VST's:

- PG-8X
- Obxd
- dexed

and (sorry for this, because more then 3)

- Most of this amazing "fullbucket" VST's:

https://www.fullbucket.de/music/vst.html

[MrFigg]

My favourite VST's:

- PG-8X
- Obxd
- dexed

and (sorry for this, because more then 3)

- Most of this amazing "fullbucket" VST's:

https://www.fullbucket.de/music/vst.html

Ok . I guess you can be let off the hook if you tell your three favourite fullbucket VSTs. They look very interesting.

[tallguy]

iZoptope Imager
TDR Nova
Obxd