Free VST - FerricTDS - Tape Dynamics Simulator - Variety Of Sound

FerricTDS - Tape Dynamics Simulator was the Winner of the KVR Developer Challenge 2009.
Inspired by the smooth dynamic shaping capabilities of some high-end reel-to-reel tape recorders, FerricTDS - Tape Dynamics Simulator simulates three of the most distinctive and much appreciated sonic effects generated by these devices:

• Dynamics: gently shaping the overall dynamic response.
• Saturation: adding extra harmonic-related content.
• Limiting: controlling peak performance.

Functions at a glance:

• Performs gentle audio dynamic treatments.
• Masters difficult to handle audio material.
• Adds extra harmonics and saturation effects.
• Controls outgoing audio peaks.

Developer: Variety Of Sound

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Free VST - Audio Assault - Defacer VST Plugin

Defacer is a free zero latency VST plug-in featuring two channels of audio mangling tools.

Each channel features:

• Deface Randomly rearranges samples in 2,4,8,16,32,64 or 128 sample blocks.
• LP Pre-Deface, Pre-Distortion lowpass filter.
• Distort Soft Clipping/Distortion.
• Rectify Rectifies the signal.
• Mix Mix the Original Signal.

Defacer can do many strange things, like making a guitar lead sound like a dirty synth, or strange vocal effects.

Developer: http://audio-assault.com/

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Free VST - Native Instrments free KONTAKT 5 PLAYER

KONTAKT 5 PLAYER + KONTAKT FACTORY SELECTION is the free sample player based on award-winning KONTAKT technology. Expanding the capabilities of its successful predecessor, the free KONTAKT 5 PLAYER allows for innovative, highly playable instruments leaving technological and musical limitations behind. Due to Kontakt Script Processing you get unprecedented functionality and musicality.

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Free VST - GTG 13 - GTG Synths

Features:

• Two oscillators.
• Three LFOs.
• Four Filter modes.
• Oscillator sync.
• Stereo Chorus with adjustable amount and rate.
• 8 voice polyphonic.
• MIDI Automation.
• 16 Presets.

Developer: GTG Synths

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Free VST - TubeOhm - M-Phasewave

TubeOhm has released M-Phasewave, a free fully working monophonic phase distortion synthesizer VST instrument plug-in for Windows.

M-Phasewave comes with 64 sounds, two arps and an effects section with chorus, delay and reverb.

A second soundbank with 128 new sounds for Phasewave (the polyphonic commercial version of this synth) is also available now.

Developer: TubeOhm Instruments

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Free VST - TesslaPRO mkII - Variety Of Sound

TesslaPRO mkII is a transient aware signal saturator.

It offers:

• Transformer style signal saturation.
• Smooth transient polishing and increased RMS leveling.
• Transient aware signal saturation.
• Switchable sub-bass enhancements.
• Subtle and nice audio coloration enhancements.

Controls:

• Bass: increase or decrease the bass response.
• Drive: alters the gain amount of the signal into the processor.
• Boost: adds further 12dB gain.
• Transients: turning clockwise lets transients pass through.
• Power: plug-in on/off.
• Out: output level.

Specification:

• SSE and Assembler optimized sound engine.
• Minimum latency processing.
• Harmonic enhancements with low artifacts (aliasing).
• Plug-in integration is done with Synthmaker software - performance crucial parts are written in assembler.

Developer: Variety Of Sound

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Free VST - X-cita - Elogoxa

Analog style exciter for mastering purposes, inspired on the BBE Maximizer models.

• Warm sound and very simple to use, this exciter can be very useful to add some subtle brightness in the high frequencies, and make the lows more dense. It has been conceived to be used mainly on the mastering stage, but it's also useful for individual tracks.
• Independent controls for Low and High frequencies, bypass and global Volume Out.
• Completely automatable via MIDI CC (Controls 20,21,22,23,24).
• Moderate CPU use (-8% Athlon XP 2400+).
• Includes 6 presets.

Developer: Elogoxa

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Free VST - Sinnah - NUSofting

 

The Synth

"Sinnah the sinner, is its sin to be free, or is its sin to sound so lush?"

Sinnah is a synth based on a single complex oscillator that includes five waveshapes with increasing spectral complexity, harmonics level for all waveshapes, noise level, and a delay matrix.

The delay matrix can have various configurations, from a "triple chorus" per voice to highly randomized resonators, or tuned relatively to the note played.

The delay matrix can also do multiple slapback echoes.

The feedback control of the matrix can go from zero to extremely saturated and it's modulated by its own envelope.

The output of each voice is stereo via the delay matrix, which features a stereo spread knob.

The main analogue modelled ADSR envelope is loopable: two, three or continuous repeats.

The envelope can modulate the waveshape selection and the harmonics level.

The synth also features a subtractive stereo filter to carve the spectrum of the sound, somehow like an equalizer, with three filters: high pass, low pass and band reject (notch) .

The band reject filter also features gain and bandwidth controls.

Moreover a useful simple reverb is included.

The oscillator is antialiased and can play eight voices or mono, and features octave and fine pitch controls.

The GUI is fully drawn by vectors and resizeable, featuring an oscilloscope and peak meters. And eight colour schemes are available to fit your mood and taste.

An extended ToolTip display provides information for each control at mouseover.
So you don't need to read a lengthy manual to learn what a knob or a slider is for.

The preset system is crossplatform, the files use the YAML format so they are very easy to read and edit if needed. Moreover, the preset names can support the complete international character set.

Sinnah is a VA synth plugin, but instead of the standard subtractive resonant filter it uses a resonant delay network.

Hard to describe its sound by words, despite the few controls the array of possible sounds is wide and wild

Developer: NUSofting

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Free VST - Atonoise II - HG Fortune

Atonoise 2 is an atonal synthesizer designed for SciFi and others alike sounds.

Atonoise 2 is a widely enhanced version of prior Atonoise and is basically built around the modified Mystify processors of the Avatar ST VSTi Synth. Thus it can mangle up sounds to a great extend beyond recognition. It can be used on virtually any kind of sounds like vocals, drumloops, tracks and is even suited for deep sample processing if very few til no modulation is involved. For a more easy access and to give you some ideas of the capabilities a small set of internal samples (including vocals, drumloops & track excerpts) is used for the internal preset bank.
 

• Pro Version 2C (True Stereo version).
• 2 x Stereo Mystify with three selctable types (Brite, Soft, Dark).
• 1 x Stereo Filter with 2 types (LP, HP).
• 1 x bpm synced Stereo Delay.
• 6 x LFO, 1 x Duo LFO, 1 x S&H.
• 1 x Gator for gating modulations.
• 1 semi parametric 3Band Stereo EQ, 1 small Reverb for adding some nice flavour.
• plus dll Pro Version 1C (Mono til output Pan) lighter on CPU than True Stereo version.

Developer: HG Fortune
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Free VST - Murali Ethnic Wind -Samcycle

Murali Ethnic Wind

Features:

Many new additions include:
Many new instruments to select
Autobend section
Wheel breath control
Aftertouch breath control
Filter Velocity section for realistic dynamics and frequency responce
Improved Tone section

Developer: samcycle
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Free VST - SampleTank Custom Shop - IK Multimedia

SampleTank Custom Shop is a free version of SampleTank 3 that gives you access to over 19 GB of sounds, over 14,000 samples, over 1,200 MIDI patterns, 3,700 loops and over 570 instruments, plus 30 free instruments and 10 Custom Shop gear credits. With SampleTank Custom Shop, you can now experience the full power of SampleTank for free.

SampleTank Custom Shop gives you the freedom to experiment with a fully functional curated library of 30 high-quality instruments that illustrate SampleTank 3's broad sonic versatility. You can play, use and edit with all the functionality of the world's best selling sound and groove workstation.
But what sets SampleTank Custom Shop apart is that now you have the ability to purchase and play the complete expanding collection of add-on instruments for SampleTank 3. You can now purchase and play add-on collections like the new Alan Parsons Grand Piano, American Acoustic Guitar, Neil Peart Drums, Billy Cobham Drums, Future Synths and more from the convenience of a standalone application or DAW plug-in, and you can do it starting as low as $29.99.

With SampleTank 3 Custom Shop, you get 30 instruments right from the get go. These include extremely nuanced high-end instruments like Grand Piano 1 SE, a very accurate representation of one of the best German-made concert grands of all time. You can get extremely experimental with all of these included instruments — SampleTank 3 Custom Shop lets you get wild and creative with its 3 sample engines, 55 high-quality effects, 16 channel mixer and other advanced features. Want to apply these effects to downloaded SampleTank 3 Instruments? Simply upgrade to SampleTank 3 or SampleTank 3 SE.

A Standalone player for SampleTank Instrument Libraries
Want the new stuff? Need new inspiration? SampleTank Custom Shop is also a standalone sound store and player for SampleTank instrument libraries. You can now purchase, download and play additional instruments from the SampleTank Custom Shop online store — a feature previously available only to SampleTank SE and Full Users. Simply click on the shopping cart icon and you'll enter a completely new world of sonic nirvana full of collections from the top engineers and sound designers. And when you download and authorize SampleTank Custom Shop, you'll get 10 Custom Shop Gear credits you can use toward the purchase of that sound library you've been lusting over.

A well-curated library
SampleTank 3 Custom Shop's library of free instruments has been carefully curated to show off the astonishing breadth of the full version. It gives you everything from lush strings to delicate woodwinds, electric guitars to buzzing synthesizers and a whole lot more.

Developer: IK Multimedia
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Free VST - SH-it Bass - VST4FREE

SH-it Bass is a sampled bass sound from the Roland SH-101 synthesizer.

25 notes were carefully tuned and recorded from 3 layers for a total of 55 samples. You can make your own sound by mixing between the main oscillator (osc 1+2 from the SH-101), the sub oscillator and the noise generator:

• Monophonic.
• 3 layers.
• 25 main osc samples.
• 25 sub osc samples.
• 5 round-robin noise samples.
• Modwheel controls the LFO.

Developer: VST4FREE

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Free VST - Ugo - Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a multi-effect that is capable of providing sounds ranging from basic, subtle, filter tweaks to twisted, complex, walls of sound that bare virtually no resemblance to the original audio.

Metallurgy is a multi-effect that is capable of providing sounds ranging from subtle filter tweaks to twisted and complex walls of sound that bear virtually no resemblance to the original audio. Metallurgy was designed with drums, bass, and synths in mind, but it works well with a wide variety of input material and is useful for many styles of music.

Debveloper: Ugo

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Free VST - Orion Sound Module - SampleScience

The idea behind the Orion Sound Module plugin is to provide a rompler based on public domain samples that can be used to create royalty-free loops. At first, I made the plugin for my own loop production but decided to share it with the world in the spirit of giving back to the community that gave me so much. The result is a 3gigs rompler full of great sounds that cover the basics: pianos, basses, percussion, world instruments, analogue synthesizers and modular synthesis. Orion Sound Module sports a simple and intuitive interface made to be easy to work with. The plugin is perfect to sketch out ideas before using bigger libraries that can tax the RAM and CPU very quickly.

The plugin includes 97 instruments to choose from.

Developer: SampleScience

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Free VST - DSK BlueZ - DSK Music

DSK BlueZ is an "Experimental Synth".
Features:

• 2 Oscillators with 134 waveforms and wavedraw option.
• Sub oscillators.
• Advanced filters.
• LFO routing to filters.
• 2 Fx (delay & chorus / flanger).
• MIDI automation.
• Preset Manager.

Developer: DSK Music
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Free VST - Noizefield - VACS

Short Description: VACS is the contraction for virtual analog club synth. It‘s a modern softsynth, based on subtractive synthesis for EDM, House, Dance, Trance, Dub, Trap and other styles of elec tronic music. VACS is split up in to various sections on two different pages. In the following are more details:

Featurelist of VACS 2:

• Three versatile Oscillators with each 64 waveforms
• FM Matrix
• Modulation Matrix
• Voices-Knob (up to eight notes polyphony)
• 32-Step Arpeggiator
• 3 Envelopes (1 Amp-Env, 2 Modulation Envs)
• 3 LFOs (with three different modulationdepth values: LFO1=soft, 2=medium, 3=strong)
• 2 Multimodefilters
• Noise Generator
• Equalizer
• Saturation Section
• StereoDelay
• Vowel Filter with XY-Morph-Pad
• Chorus
• BitCrusher
• Advanced Gate/Stepsequencer with Triggeroption
• 128 Presets

Developer:  Noizefield

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Free VST - mini DrumZ - DSK Music

 

SK mini DrumZ is a "Drum ROMpler". It includes 20 kits featuring the sounds of the following drum machines:

• Ace Tone Rhythm Ace, Kakehashi's pre-Roland sound drum machine.
• Akai XE8, the 1U rack mount unit with 16-bit drum samples.
• Akai XR10.
• Alesis HR-16, one of Alesis's first drum machines.
• Boss DR-55, first drum machine from Roland with the name Boss.
• Boss DR-220, typical mid 80's digital drum sounds.
• Fricke MSB512
• Kawai R50, 12 bit 32K sampled drums.
• Korg DDD-1, came with 18 short PCM samples.
• Korg DDM110, lo-fi and crunchy sounding.
• Mattel SynSonic, from the people who brought you Barbie.
• MXR 185, the machine where it's hard to tell rim from snare.
• Roland CR-78, the 1978 drum machine that used analog drum voices.
• Roland TR-606, originally designed to be used with the Roland TB-303.
• Roland TR-727, latin drum kit version of the TR-707.
• Roland TR-808, originally manufactured for use as a tool for studio musicians to create demos.
• Roland TR-909, partially analog, partially sample-based drum machine.
• SCI DrumTraks, Sequential's first digital drum machine.
• SCI Tom, similar to the DrumTraks but more advanced.
• Yamaha RX11, the drum machine that looks like a DX.

Developer: DSK Music

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Free VST - Altair 4 - The SciFi Sounds Lab - HG Fortune

Altair 4 - The SciFi Sounds Lab is best suited for creating soundtracks for movies or games in the genres of SciFi, Suspense, Horror, Fantasy and similar, that need special, spacey, wobbly FX sounds.

It can do more than these, e.g. bell-like stuff, and it even fits well in fairly conventional songs. Altair 4 is also an homage to the movie 'Forbidden Planet' from 1956, it being the first movie with a complete electronic soundtrack using sounds that could have been done with this plug-in.

• 2 oscillators with two sound-sources with one (B) driving the other (A) to resonate.
• Each oscillator with three mod inputs and extensive control options.
• 3 LFO: L1 (7 waves) with key restart on first key pressed, L2 (8 waves) and phase modulation.
• L3 (7 waves) with optional modulation by sub LFO.
• 2 hidden LFO: L12 = mix of L1 and L2, L13 = mix of L1 and L3.
• 1 Sample & Hold (6 modes).
• 1 VCA with AR EG (with pan for un-delayed sound at Rev section).
• 1 Main Volume with level control: fixed, Velocity, and even Aftertouch, or Wheel.
• 1 Delay (BPM-synced) and dedicated pan.
• 1 Bass Boost.
• 1 Reverb with predelay.
• 1 Hold button to hold last played key.
• 1 Joypad with 3 balls to control 6 destinations.
• 8 Voices.
• 256 Patches (2 Banks).

Developer: HG Fortune n/a

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VST Warerhouse - Violent Free Delay - Bitsonic

 

Violent delay is a simple delay plugin where you can change the delay with chorus, filter and phaser:

• Original: We can lower or add to the volume of the input.
• Wet/dry: We can change the volume with this option.
• Feedback: We can change the lenght of the feedback.
• Mid-side: At 0 state it functions as a delay mono, at maximum it functions as a ping-pong delay.
• Time: This option changes the feedback of the delay. If we want the feedback in sync with the speed this function should be at 0.
• Reverse: The delay turns around.
• Smooth: Makes the sounds of the delay more blunt. It's like an attack-value changer.
• Filter: Filtering the delay, we can cut the unnecessary deep or low sounds from the effect.
• Filter low pass: Filters the high sounds, leaves the low ones as they are. The resonance value is changeable.
• High pass: Filters low sounds. The resonance function that goes with the 2 filters can change the tune of the filters.
• Lfo: Automatized filter. It only works if the filter and filter on/off is on.
• Phaser speed: Changes the speed of the phase shift.
• Phaser gain: Changes the intensity of phase shift.
• Phaser wet/dry: Regulates the mix of the raw delay and the phaser sign.
• Chorus wet/dry: Regulates the mixing of the original and the mixed sign.
• Chorus rate: Adjusts the pitch's measure's difference.
• Chorus depth: Regulates the volume of the sound given by the value of the rate.
• Chorus delay: Changes the time of the altered sound.

Developer: Bitsonic

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Free VST - General - Safwan Matni

General is a one-preset acoustic piano module, with no controls.

Developer: Safwan Matni

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