Time to update your producer toolkit. There’s no shortage of innovative VST plugins out there right now. The hardest part is picking from the thousands of available ones. Don’t worry, we got your back. We’ve hand-picked a selection of plugins to make it easier for you. Oh, and they’re free! The theme of this selection is effects – they’ll give the extra crunch, oomph or whah.
Here are 10 free VST effects plugins that’ll add flavour to your sound: 1. Valhalla Freq Echo The Freq Echo is a frequency shifter with analog echo emulation. My personal favourite. It adds chorus, phasing and flanger effects. Go ahead and create some wild glissandos and runaway echos. It’s great for dub and psychedelic effects. Use it for beefing up basslines. If you’re a fan of electronic music pioneer you’ll love it. Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU in 32 and 64-bit, AAX 64-bit, RTAS).
Yellow Tools Culture – contains samples of percussion instruments: folk, orchestral, industrial. For each instrument used in performing all of the existing methods, with 16 dynamic levels for the left and right hands.
2. FuzzPlus3 Here’s the updated FuzzPlus distortion pedal emulation from. The central knob is the fuzz distortion.
There’s also a style low-pass filter. And you can feedback the signal for some extra juice. Amazing on synths and drums for meaty, distorted effects.
Use the presets or save your own. Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/VST3/AU 32 and 64-bit). 3. MH Thump MH Thump adds low end to your track. It recreates that nice thump you get on a vintage drum machine. It’s an audio processor that analyzes an audio input – say your drum track. Then it synthesizes a low frequency signal to add some body. There are two independent oscillators and many knobs for fine-tuned control.
Go ahead and beef up those beats! Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU/AAX 32 and 64-bit) Download it. 4. Krush Krush is a very interesting bit crusher. It creates that crunchy digital bit reduction effect. But it can also imitate a warmer analog effect with the drive and resonant filter.
If there can be such a thing: the Krush is a very elegant bit crusher. The Dry and Wet faders allow you to play with how much of original signal and the effect you want. The modulations can be free form or synced to a rate of your choice.
Save and recall presets easily. Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU/AAX 32 and 64-bit) Download it. TSC Meet the Mercuriall Tube Screamer 808 – your new overdrive effect plugin. It’s modeled after the holy grail of tube screamers: the pedal. Make your guitar sounds grungier.
Flip between the TS-808 and MOD modes with the metal switch. MOD will give you a slightly darker sound.
Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU/AAX 32 and 64-bit). 6. Pecheneg Tremolo The Pecheneg is a tremolo effect.
It gives you the power to create rhythmic modulations with your sound. The Tempo section allows you to play the frequency either by selecting a Note or a Frequency. Just like when you use, the Pecheneg Tremolo allows you to change the wave shape. This effect will improve the groove of your track. It’ll give life to your synth or bassline. Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU 32 and 64-bit) Download it. TAL Chorus -LX ‘s stereo Chorus-LX is inspired by the Roland chorus.
It’s a simple but powerful tool. It has two different modes (I and II) that you can use separately or together. Select how much of the effect you want with the Wet/Dry knob. Use it to give some grit and body to your bass or synth line. Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU/AAX 32 and 64-bit). TDR Nova The TDR Nova is a four-band dynamic Equalizer (EQ).
A true workhorse. It allows you to make a drum track crisper or boost certain frequencies as needed. Any producer needs a bread and butter EQ. This is the one. It has a built-in spectrum analyzer for precise EQing.
It’s also got a preset manager, A/B comparison, undo/redo functions and more. Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU/AAX 32 and 64-bit). Protoverb 1.0 The Protoverb 1.0 by is a different kind of. The coolest thing about the Protoverb is that you can generate random settings and save the ones you like. The spirit of this plugin is trial and error – we like that.
It encourages users to share their favourite settings from a button on the plugin. Compatible with Mac OS, Windows and Linux (VST/VST2/AU/AAX 32 and 64-bit). PanCake 2 Last but not least: the most flexible panning effect you’ll ever find.
PanCake 2 lets you manually draw the curves of your panning modulation. You can also generate one randomly. It’s easy to use and very visual.
The LFO in the PanCake 2 can be synced to your DAW. Pan your sounds sharply for dramtic effects. Pan them smoothly for subtle variations. Compatible with Mac OS or Windows (VST/AU in 32 and 64-bit). Spice up your mix A mix can go from bland to grand with the right effects. The good news is that you don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars for that. We’ve selected 10 VST effects plugin that we know you’ll love.
Grab all ten and try them out. Tell us what you think of them in the comment section! And check out other VST plugins we recommend:.