We polled over 16,500 members of our Audio Plugin Deals and Freebies Facebook group to see what they thought the best freebies of this year were. Anyone could add a product and vote for as many as they liked. The only rules were that the plugins were new this year, they are still free, and they will remain free indefinitely. Note that some entries from the original list have been removed as they didn’t fit the criteria.
Here are the top 20 results, starting with the number one position.
Spitfire LABS Series – An ever-expanding collection of virtual instruments. LABS itself is a free plugin and Spitfire releases new instruments for it, for free, every month… and they’re great!
RS-W2395C from Fuse Audio Labs – The W2395c is a classic Baxandall EQ combined with a powerful and beautifully sounding mid-band. As solitary or complementing equalizer with that special something, its particular tone and slightly interactive bands let your tracks stand out big time.
TAL Reverb 4 from TAL Software – A high-quality plate reverb with a vintage 80’s character.
Convology XT from Impulse Record – This free vintage verb plugin download, comes in VST, AU, and AAX and features a sampling of files contained in the Convology XT Library.
Tape Cassette from Caelum Audio – Tape Cassette is an easy to use audio plugin that gives your music warmth, noise and character.
Acon Digital VerberateBasic2 – The free Verbarate Basic is based on Verberate 2 and offers the same highly praised audio quality. The plug-in offers four high quality presets from Verberate 2 that showcase the quality and versatility of the algorithm.
Kee Bass from Martinic– Bring some groovy, bassy vibes back from the ‘60s and straight into your music with our faithful emulation of one of the first monophonic string bass simulators, the Rheem Kee Bass.
Coral Baxter EQ from Acustica Audio – The free Baxter, like the commercial version, features AI-based presets created by experienced engineers who have worked on this product.
The free Orchestra from ProjectSAM – A series of 12 free instruments for Kontakt (now works with the FREE Kontakt player, but WAV files are also included).
Rare from Analog Obsession – An analog-modeled EQ “Rare” signature for low end from past.
XPressor from e-phonic – XPressor is a high-quality saturation and dynamics processor. It’s capable of making your drums, vocals and instruments stand out in a mix. From subtile warm saturation to overdrive, XPressor adds that extra touch.
Push from Sampleson – Push is a subtractive synth with a huge amount of randomness. Parametrized with a sound-design logic to get the most of the results to be usable as a patch.
FBVC Vocoder from Full Bucket Music – The Full Bucket Vocoder FBVC is a software plug-in for Microsoft Windows (VST) and Apple macOS (VST/AU) simulating the classic KORG VC-10 Vocoder from 1978.
Crunck V2 Guitar Amplifier from Nembrini Audio – The Crunck V2 Guitar Amplifier is one channel FREE plugin designed for a wide range of music genres.
SQ8ROM from SampleScience – SQ8ROM is a sampled version of SQ8L, a VST plugin based on the sound and synthesizer architecture of the Ensoniq SQ80. SQ8ROM comes with 50 sounds, the remaining sounds are available as free expansions for a total of 168 sounds.
Yala from Analog Obsession – Famous Vari-Mu Limiting Amplifier. Level vocals and basses especially but it’s good for all purposes.
Dyno from Airwindows – Dyno is a lot like Mojo, but for intensity instead of loudness.
Panagement2 from Auburn Sounds – Panagement is the spatialization laboratory that has found its way to thousands of studios around the world. Panagement gives you raw power over your stereo tracks. Panagement FREE gets everything except the Delay and PGMT-400 chip.
“On The House” Kontakt instruments from 8dio – Currently six free instruments. (Pick from the options in the ‘On The House’ dropdown menu.)
Plasticity Filter by Bom Shanka Machines – plasticityFilter is a dual-mode filter offering a simplified interface to its high and low pass filters or a more complex mode of operation allowing complete independent control.
Top 10 Free VST Plugins (2019) In the jungle of free VST plugins, there are many gold nuggets to be found, if you know where to look. Some of the free plugins out there hold such a class that they could easily go for several hundred bucks.
Download free VST plugins, free synth VST, autotune VST, Drum sound VST, choir VST, Orchestra VST, and much more free VST plugins. Great place to download free VST plugins for music production, updated each week with new VST plugins check back frequently.
Jun 03, 2019 This free VST plugins roundup features a rare piano emulation, a unique tonal shaper, a midi randomizer, a distortion effect, and a virtual analog synth. Free VST Plugins. Each month we search the web for some of the music industry’s most essential freeware instrument and effect plugins.
CONVOLOGY XT – Free Convultion VST Plugin Convology XT Plugin is another freeware release of 2019 coming from Impulse Record. It is a free zero latency convulsion reverb plugin available for Windows and MAC in VST, AU, and AAX plugin.
Jan 03, 2019 There are free VST plugins available and paid VST plugins, if they are free they are named as freeware. VST is an additional function to a DAW, see it as an app you can install on your phone. With that application, you have more functions within the same phone.
So there you go… twenty freebies (more, really, as some are multiple plugins) that have impressed our community this year. We hope you enjoy them too!
Best Free Vst Instruments 2019
Here is a link to the original poll.
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Rast Sound releases Organ Tones for Kontakt as a free holiday gift24th December 2020
Rast Sound has released Organ Tones, offering five playable organ presets from classic pipe to popular music tones. This library is available for free as a holiday gift.
Features:
- 250 MB unzipped for Kontakt & WAV. - 5 unique organ presets. - Playable solo instruments for Kontakt (full ver. 5.8+).
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Reflekt Audio releases free Holiday plugin 24th December 2020
Reflekt Audio has released free Holiday VST for producers and creatives across the globe with special help from our children, wives, and parents.
The holiday season is all about family and giving back.
That's why @reflektaudio and @takibrano created the free Holiday VST for producers and creatives across the globe with special help from our children, wives, and parents.
Each of the 55 sounds & instruments inside this carefully curated selection of playable round robin one shots and fully-mapped playable samples holds enough Holiday spirit to create magic in your DAW even after the Holidays.
Our love for production shines bright and we hope to spread some joy with this plugin.
Don't be a hohoho.
Give the gift of free playable Holiday sounds for yourself and a friend by sharing the link to this page.
Also one last thing before you go. When you download this plugin Taki and I have included our version of the 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas' melody in MIDI format for you. =).
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Solcito Musica releases free Arido 3.33 VSTi and free SuperSonico 7.45 VSTi 23rd December 2020
Solcito Musica has released Arido 3.33 VSTi and SuperSonico 7.45 VSTi full versions for free.
What's new in Arido v3.33:
First full free version. Improved stability due to new version of the developer software. Solved issues with certain presets.
What's new in SuperSonico v7.45:
First Full Free version. Added Moog filter. Now the Filter gain depends on resonance to avoid volume excess. Optimized the internal series/parallel connections of Filters. Improved the Filter selectors, now eat less CPU. Optimized the Pulse generator of Oscillator. Simplified the internal structure, improved the width control curve. Greater maximum length in Envelope steps. Improved the Pitch Bend. Improved the curve of manual rate control of LFO. Added an optional Edit Label in LFO to set the local tempo manually. Added Phaser FX. Solved undesired deactivation of FX when changing presets or when setting certain controls. Optimization of rate range of FX. Now the FX rate has exclusive values for Echo, different than FX rate values of other FX. Improved load time. Ager indication up to 2021. Presets of earlier version can be loaded but not full compatible.
Until now, Solcito Musica released Stand Alone versions for Free and VSTis for Donationware. Now both Arido and SuperSonico VSTis are downloadable in Full Free VSTi versions in 32-bit and 64-bit. No more Stand Alone versions.The donation is important but not an obligation.
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NoiseAsh updates free Sweetcase Electric Piano to v1.3.2 22nd December 2020
NoiseAsh has updated Sweetcase EP (a free plugin) to version 1.3.2.
Sweetcase is a virtual instrument plug-in that takes your electric piano parts very easy level and realistic right in your computer, with warm and professional sound quality.
Core Specifications:
- Warm, realistic and extremely customisable professional vintage electric piano sound with nice special 3D GUI. - Like most of NoiseAsh Audio products, this is a Ready to mix instrument. That means your e-piano tracks won't need to be tweaked hard for modern analog vibe. All samples were recorded, mixed / mastered through classic analog gears such as tape saturator, tube eq and compressors. - Many round robins and different velocity layers for realistic sound. - Bass Boost, Bell, Modulation (Pan, Tremolo and Pitch). - Sustain Level & Hold Time Envelope controls. - Algorithmic Reverb, Phase Modulation, Sleek Parametric Eq. - Friend of CPU. - Resizable GUI.
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Sample Logic releases Taste the Fury free Kontakt instrument21st December 2020
Sample Logic has released Taste the Fury, a free Kontakt instrument library featuring a Taiko drum ensemble instrument from the full Drum Fury percussion library.
Sample Logic invites you to experience the potential of DRUM FURY with a free single Taiko Drum Ensemble instrument straight out of the apocalyptic collections of drums found in DRUM FURY. If you like this first taste, then just wait until you can feast on all the fury of the full DRUM FURY library, an extensive 11 GB collection of over 100 apocalyptic KONTAKT drum instruments. This is epic cinematic percussion at its finest, featuring multi-sampled performances that have been captured and programmed to perfection. A world of percussion awaits you!
Full retail version of Kontakt, version 5.8.1 or higher (Will not work in the free Kontakt Player!)
Mac OS X 10.11, i5, 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended) Windows 7, 8, 10, Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended) 62 MB free disk space for TASTE THE FURY sample content COMPATIBILITY (Mac 64-bit only; Windows 32/64-bit) Stand-alone, VST, (AU) Audio Units, AAX
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Klevgränd gives away a new virtual instrument - Santa Guiro21st December 2020
The annual Christmas gift from Klevgränd is now available for download on their web page.
Guiro is a free giveaway from Klevgrand. In short, it is a Guiro that you can play using the modulation wheel on your MIDI controller. If you've always wanted to play in a Latin band and don't have a Guiro (but a mod wheel on your MIDI controller), this is definitely worth checking out! Totally free, if you have a Klevgrand account (which is also free).
Usage
To play the Guiro, hold down a MIDI note to set the stick down. Then use the modulation wheel (control change #1) to start scraping. Cha-cha-cha!
To get your copy, simply login to your Klevgrand account (or create a free account). When logged in, Guiro will be available as an ”exclusive member content” in the user area. Merry Christmas!
Guiro is available as an AU/VST/AAX plugin for macOS & Windows.
Enjoy!
Requires macOS 10.9 or later, Windows 7 (SP1) or later, running a AU, VST or AAX compatible 64-bit host. Also requires a MIDI controller with Modulation wheel (or capable of sending MIDI CC #1)
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Full Bucket Music updates free ModulAir synth to v1.2.0 19th December 2020
Full Bucket Music has released ModulAir synth version 1.2.0 for Windows (VST) and Mac (VST/AU).
Changes since v1.1.0:
- Four new modules (Sample Player, Keyed Gate/Modulation/Signal). - Noise wave for oscillators. - User-defined Startup bank. - Added 'MIDI Thru' and 'Ignore Program Change' options. - Many internal improvements and fixes.
ModulAir is a modular polyphonic software synthesizer for Microsoft Windows (VST) and Apple macOS (VST/AU) written in native C++ code for high performance and low CPU consumption.
