Favorite Free AU and VST Plugins

Spaceship Delay by Musical Entropy (@KVRAudio Product Listing): Spaceship Delay is a delay audio effect featuring classic modern and vintage sounding delays, with the following features: Three delay modes: single, ping pong and dual / stereo....

which I find sounds a bit more dirty and vintage with the right settings.

And talking about dirty delays, I totally love this one

igorski.nl

igorski.nl - Regrader - degenerative delay processor

Regrader - degenerative delay processor, project by Igor Zinken.

Probably because it somehow reminds me of the delay mode on the OTO Biscuit.

Surge was recently open sourced, and it’s really a nice, cross-platform (yeah, linux too!), fully featured synth plugin, with some pretty advanced features. Highly recommend to check it out, if you’re looking for that kind of thing:
https://surge-synthesizer.github.io

rknLA · 2019-09-27T10:15:42.697Z

Izotope is offereing Ozone 8 Elements for “free” this week - it costs only your email address

https://www.izotope.com/en/products/ozone.html

smutek · 2019-09-28T16:34:44.774Z

Crazy Ivan will always have a special place in my heart.

http://bram.smartelectronix.com/plugins.php?id=7

renegog · 2020-06-14T01:13:21.242Z

Reviving this thread to give a major shout out to Felt Instrument’s Wolno (piano sampled to tape played back half speed) and Valhalla DSPs Supermassive (reverb/delay goodness) — I believe these have been mentioned elsewhere but for completeness thought they should be here too

Okay, now I’m off to make an album using these two : )

smutek · 2020-06-14T04:14:25.106Z

How about Helm, by Matt Tytel?

Helm

Helm - Free Synth by Matt Tytel

Helm is a free, cross-platform, polyphonic synthesizer with a powerful modulation system. Helm runs on GNU/Linux, Mac, and Windows as a standalone program or as a LV2/VST/VST3/AU plugin.

smutek · 2020-06-14T04:15:36.549Z

thanks very much!!

OhWell · 2020-06-14T14:24:41.196Z

Supermassive is so absurdly good it felt like it belonged in the favorite plugins, worth buying thread!

def-bln · 2020-06-14T15:06:57.658Z

Supermassive is so nice

pleasure_lily · 2020-06-14T19:31:51.428Z

can’t recommend enough walno + supermassive. two very powerful tools. walno sounds wonderful thrown into supermassive!

ntrier · 2020-06-15T01:31:21.924Z

Yes! Helm makes sound design very easy!

cclcng · 2021-01-29T23:02:49.055Z

Well, I had heard of Ajax Cecilia a long while ago , before I had started my long romance with FFT processing … and I finally have gotten the gumption to install it and honestly it looks freakin amazing… but … you have to install a bunch resources I order for it to work … and … I am pretty dense / stupid from a programmer standpoint. I taught myself how to make music on fruity loops at 12 , but that helps me nothing with this crazy python pip etc stuff … I’ve been trying to figure it out and searching like “pyo installation for newbs windows” etc… so, enough pathetic Boolean … does anyone know a good resource for wrapping ones head around this ? Like a forum or a discord or something ? Maybe I should try Facebook ??? I have tried and gotten to the first step of installing the package manager … but it’s not reliable at all and half of the strings I try get errored . I really need like , a baby-hand holding through this … not really sure what but i can do …

Any help would be so great

Thank you!!!

-c

Xylr · 2021-01-29T23:11:08.805Z

Hmmmmm… I don’t recall having to jump through any hoops when installing Cecilia? Are you using a mac or a pc? I’m using a Mac and if I remember correctly all I did was download the dmg and install. It’s possible that I’m wrong I guess, but I also would have probably given up if it seemed difficult to get it installed.

cclcng · 2021-01-29T23:21:07.652Z

I’m using windows 10 pc… and I istalled the frontend I guess is it but I need
PYO, NUMPY, and some other things… which I guess you’re supposed to install from python Which I have absolutely no experience with

Am I missing something ???