• Top Ten Vst Plugins 2017 Version
• Top Ten Vst Plugins

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The world of free VST plugins is huge and can be a bit overwhelming. You can download and install them all, but which ones are really worth downloading?

I have used many free plugins over the past years and decided to post my personal favorites. They are in a random order so make sure you check them all.

TDR Nova

TDR Nova: Free EQ VST

TDR Nova is a parallel dynamic equalizer with an easy to use interface. The analyzer shows you exactly what your changes are doing. Besides the 4 bands it also has a low pass filter, a high pass filter and you can apply compression on each band separately or on the total output.

Tokyo Dawn Records also provides a paid version called the Gentleman’s Edition with more bands and more options. The free version already offers a lot and is definitely a must have. Amp plugin vst.

A1StereoControl

The A1StereoControl plugin allows you to expand or limit the stereo width of your single mixer channels or the master output. The plugin has a clear and clean interface so even starting producers can work with this plugin with ease.

The Safe Bass mode deserves a special notification. In this mode all the bass frequencies below an adjustable frequency are set to mono. This makes it an ideal plugin for mastering tracks that you want to use in clubs.

Brainworx Cleansweep V2

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Brainworx Cleansweep v2 Free Filter VST

The Cleansweep V2 of Brainworx is a nice plugin to clean up your mix. Every song needs its filters and the Cleansweep is one of the best free filter plugins out there. It allows you to set the knobs exactly how you want with your mouse wheel or you can just type in the exact value you want.

So, if you are looking for a great and free filter plugin, search no more.

Flux BitterSweet V3

Transient designers are very commonly used plugins for drums. The BitterSweet V3 plugin of Flux is one of the best free transient designers you will find. To amplify the transients amplitude turn the big knob to bitter. If you want to decrease the transients amplitude simply turn it to the sweet side.

The plugin has three different processing modes.

* Main: using a regular stereo signal scheme for the processing.

* Center: processing the Mid channel only, very efficient for snare and kick drums.

* Stereo: processing the Side channel only, very efficient for panned rhythmic/transient instruments.

Sonimus SonEQ

Sonimus Free EQ VST

The Sonimus SonEQ is the second EQ of this list. This one is a three band EQ, low mid and high. And it has a high pass and low pass filter. It also has a pre-amp section with a bass booster.

The input, output and drive knobs give you some nice saturation control. A higher level of the input control provides more saturation while the output control can be used to compensate the output level.

Izotope Vinyl

There are many vinyl type plugins but iZotope’s Vinyl is my favorite. It can give your tracks that vinyl feel you are looking for. Especially useful if you want to create some old school Hip Hop tracks.

Download this free plugin and play with the slides and knobs to see what kind of feel you can create for your track. You will not be disappointed!

Illformed TapeStop

Illformed Tapestop Free VST

Illformed is providing their older plugins as a package for free. This package includes Glitch 1.3, Crusher, Stretch and TapeStop. TapeStop being my favorite one.

This plugin gives you a tape stop effect to apply on a single source or the master output. You can adjust the stopping speed with the slowdown knob and when the trigger knob gets above 0.50 it will trigger the tape stop. A nice plugin to have some fun with and to generate some crazy sounds!

Ohm Force Frohmage

Ohm Force’s Frohmage is not just a lowpass filter. It combines filtering with some other great features like distortion and delay. This way you can make some amazing filter sweeps but also heavily distort the sounds. Applying delay on each band will give you the opportunity to create some unique phaser effects.

Download this plugin at the Ohm Force website to see what it can do for your productions.

Camel Audio CamelCrusher

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Camel Audio CamelCrusher Free Filter VST

One of the best free plugins is the Camel Audio CamelCrusher. It provides three easy to use effects that can be blended together to suit your desires. The distortion has two types that can be mixed together. The filter is a warm souding lowpass filter and the compressor lets you phatten your sounds with just one knob.

If you download this plugin there are presets included but you can also adjust the settings yourself or simply hit the randomize button.

Sanford Reverb

Of course the list is not complete without a reverb plugin. And this is easily one of the best free plugins you can find, the Sanford Reverb. It is out there since 2009, but free since 2015.

This plugin comes with great presets but feel free to play with the knobs for some amazing results. When I started using this plugin I especially loved the early reflections and freeze mode. With these two features you can create your own unique reverbs for all kinds of purposes and genres. Definitely check out the website of Leslie Sanford for this plugin.

Note: This reverb plugin is also featured in our list of 5 best free reverb plugins!

Gear/Software

There are an insane amount of VST plugins out there – so many that it can be very hard to sift through them all to find just a few that truly offer what you’re looking for. You can find plenty of free ones, and some of them will actually turn out to be great (something I’ll cover in a later article), but sometimes you just need the quality and assurance you know you’re going to get with a purchased product; that’s when it’s time to start thinking of looking for premium plugins.

The truth is there are lots of awesome ones to check out, and it’s easy to get confused as to which ones are best suited for you. What you want to do – aside from downloading the demos and giving them a try on your own, of course – is research as much as you can, read plenty of reviews on each plugin that interests you, and go on YouTube to watch videos of the plugins in action, until you figure out exactly what you need.

To narrow it down for you a bit, here’s my top 10 premium plugins you should look into.

10. LFOTool – This one is great for less experienced producers who want an easy-to-use plugin to help them work on bass wobble for dubstep and drumnbass. It shows you how you’re changing the sound waves through a very straightforward interface and will help you get the hang of basic sample-tweaking features like tremolo, noise gate, and side chain compression. You can change the LFO wobble by BPM, and it has a swing feature to give your synths a bangin’ groove. It also comes with lots of presets, so you’ll be able to see the different types of sounds it’s capable of producing, giving you plenty of foundations for you to start from.

9. Robotronic – This is a great vocoder plugin with a stylish, simplistic interface. There are so many good ones out there, but this is the one I’ve used the most; if you’re looking for a straightforward vocoder with great sound quality and plenty of features, this one is worth looking into. Make a track with it in your DAW of choice, record a basic vocal bit straight into it and make it into anything you can imagine. A lot of fun to play with.

8. RayBlaster – This is a great softsynth that facilitates the creation of innovative textures. It comes with over 500 different sounds on its own, and you can also load in your own samples to work with those as well. Many of the sounds it comes with are great, but what makes RayBlaster stand out are the ways it lets you tweak those sounds to come up with some very odd and intriguing creations that will definitely inspire you. It’s lower on the list because there are much better softsynths out there, but the unique sound manipulation RayBlaster offers is undeniably cool.

7. Enzyme – This is a recent discovery for me but I think it’s really interesting. It’s also pretty complicated, but if you’re the type that enjoys pressing all the buttons and tweaking all the knobs to see what kinds of sounds you’re able to generate, this plugin will likely be a lot of fun for you. It’s capable of making some extremely weird sounds, due to the complex ways it allows you to manipulate samples, but that’s the fun of it – you’ll be making noise unlike anything you’ve heard before, and it will really get your creative juices flowing as you imagine what kinds of tracks these sounds would complement best. Definitely worth a look for more experimental producers.

6. Waves – Like Izotope, I’m listing the name of the company because they have so many plugins to check out, and they’re all really useful and renowned. Waves offers a lot of audio cleanup plugins, also like Izotope, but they also have innovative originals like an analog tape simulator (the J37 Tape – recreating the recording quality that legendary bands like the Beatles used) a powerful maximizer, a bass optimizer, and mono-to-stereo emulation, just to name a few. Waves is a company that’s great at what they do, and any plugin you get from them is guaranteed to improve the sound of your mixes.

5. Izotope – I’m listing the name of the company itself here because they have a variety of plugins available, all of which are worth looking into. Izotope specializes mostly in plugins that will help you with the mixing and mastering aspect of music production, and they’re absolute masters of this aspect. Whether you need audio analysis, sound quality enhancement or vocal production effects, Izotope’s got you covered. An extremely effective and useful plugin they offer is RX, which will help you clean up recordings with a lot of ambient noise – so if you’re recording vocals or any physical instruments in a room that has some echo or sounds from outside trickling in, RX can help you get rid of that noise. That’s just one of the many plugins Izotope offers, and looking at the rest of their stuff is highly recommended.

4. Alchemy – I haven’t used Alchemy as much as I would like to, but from what I’ve experienced thus far, it’s a great tool for creating innovative tones and textures, and all the samples that come with it are all of excellent quality. There’s everything from more organic instruments to straight up alien-sounding pads that will help you create some incredibly strange and beautiful instrumentation for your beats. Camel Audio has several other plugins you can take a look at, but Alchemy is by far their crowning achievement. They offer 28 different sound libraries you can purchase too, covering a wide range of genres and moods. It’s a bit pricy, but it’s well worth it, you’ll be spending hours on end experimenting with it.

3. Addictive Drums – I don’t know a whole lot about drum plugins, in all honesty, but I do know that this one is held in very high regard within the music production world, and with just cause; Addictive Drums offers some of the cleanest and sharpest drum sounds available. It’s been used in music for TV, video games, and plenty of songs on the radio and in the clubs, because there’s really just nothing else like it. Recently they released version 2 of their amazing software, and it’s absolutely worth every penny. Not only does it have an extremely helpful and easy-to-follow interface, they offer all kinds of sample packs for tons of different styles of music, so you can get just the right drum sound for whatever you’re recording. Electronic music producers love this thing, but also, if you’re a lone guitarist or a band that doesn’t have a drummer, this plugin is so effective that if you use it in your recordings and don’t tell anyone that it’s not a real drummer playing, they would never know. If you’re in the market for the best drum plugin around, look no further than Addictive Drums.

2. Absynth – This is a VERY close runner-up to the #1 spot. Absynth is one of my all-time favorite plugins. Are you tired of the same kinds of samples that every softsynth seems to have? Are you looking for something powerful enough to help you generate all sorts of refreshing and bizarre sounds that will bring your tracks into all-new territory? This is the plugin for you, then; Absynth isn’t just for sequencing synth loops, it’s a tool for very effective and versatile sound design. You can make textures with this plugin that you just can’t get anywhere else. Not only that, but the newest version comes with around 2,100 presets, which is way more than enough for you to get an idea of what it’s capable of. Absynth 5 has a new feature called Sound Mutator which lets you apply specific adjectives in the form of tags from a list in order to transform any sound into exactly what you’re looking for.

1. Massive – This is just an all-around monster of a plugin. You really can’t go wrong with Massive; it has so many presets, so many parameters you can tweak to make your own unique sounds, great quality, and is overall just a joy to work with. When it comes to softsynths, as far as I’m concerned, this is the top of the line. Anything from fat, warm bass throbs to soaring, sparkling synth leads, you can make it all with Massive. I almost don’t even know where to begin explaining all of the features it has, there are just so many worth mentioning – the most important thing to know is that whether you’re an experienced producer or a beginner, this will be one of the most important digital tools you could possibly add to your arsenal. It comes with so many presets, and producers are coming out with their own preset packs regularly (like this one by Gigi Barocco I reviewed not long ago), so you’ll never stop finding new sounds to work with. Native Instruments really knows what they’re doing when it comes to beat-making, and Massive is a great investment to help you develop your sound and style in completely new ways.

I hope I’ve provided enough information to help you get started, and I hope some of these pique your interest and end up helping you grow as a producer and make some great new tracks.

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