Liquidclear VST Plug-ins
by Liquidclear | last update: 22 feb 2011
Liquidclear has released a number of VST effect and instrument plug-ins for Windows.
Since the original website is no longer available you can now download Tremoloid, Rectiplyer, Klapp One, Transilient, and Flux Interrupter from rekkerd.org.
More information: Liquidclear VST Plug-ins
NCL EQ / NCL Phase EQ / NCL Basic Soft Clipper
NCL EQ is a freeware 10 band parametric equalizer VST plug-in for Windows PC.
It was designed to be clean, precise and to minimise digital artifacts such as frequency warping. Uses include mixing, tracking, and mastering.
NCL Phase EQ is a high quality six band stereo equalizer which allows simultaneous left/right and mid/side processing.
Phase EQ has been designed to be both powerful and flexible yet easy to use. Controls and parameters have been set up to steer users in the right direction without being restrictive in function.
NCL Basic Soft Clipper is a free soft clipper effect plug-in with Brickwall Limiter and HQ (oversampling).
More information and download links: NCL EQ / NCL Phase EQ / NCL Basic Soft Clipper
Fretted Synth
Fretted Synth Audio has released numerous free plug-ins in the last several years. Guitar amp sims, virtual synthesizers, audio triggered plug-ins, sample players, and lots more.
Since Joseph currently doesn’t have a website to host his work you can now download his plug-ins from rekkerd.org.
More information: Fretted Synth
Lost Technology
Lost Technology is a free VST plug-in that transforms sounds by taking them apart and then putting them together in a different way.
The Analyzer components split the input signals into amplitude, frequency and waveform (harmonic content) sub-signals. The Modulator components combine sub-signals (and audio signals) in various ways. The Synthesizer components merge one sub-signal of each type into a new audio signal.
More information: Lost Technology
DSK VSTi
DSK has released several freeware instruments created with SynthEdit and SynthMaker, including various romplers (Synthopia 2, ElectriK GuitarZ, Virtuoso, Brass, Strings, DrumZ Series plug-ins, Asian DreamZ, etc.) and synths (Darkness Theory, OranZe, SixSenZe, etc.)
For more information and links to download these and more DSK plug-ins visit this page.
ARPocalypse
ARPocalypse is an 8 step rhythmic pattern generator VST effect for Windows PC.
Simply put it takes chords of up to six notes and plays them in a predefined sequence in sync with your sequencer.
Check here for more info and a link to download ARPocalypse.
Ronald Passion effect plug-ins
Ronald is offering various freeware VST effect plug-ins.
- Crunch Passion, a dual guitar preamp (Clean & Crunch)
- Slap Passion, a tube bass preamp.
- Equalizer Passion, a virtual analog equalizer effect.
- Digital Parametric Equalizer, a digital equalizer effect.
- Blue Channel, a digital tube channel plug-in.
- Massive Passive EQ, a mastering equalizer.
- Master EQ, a tube equalizer for mastering.
- Bad Vox, a tube equalizer effect for vocals.
- Silver Magnum & White Magnum, two analog valve custom parametric equalizer effects.
More info and download links here.
Osiris Cymbiant
Cymbiant is a wonderful 8 voice polyphonic analog emulation by Osiris (James Jones).
This synth features 2 Morphable Oscillators, and is capable of fat SuperSaw sounds. More info here.
Nix plugs
Nick has created several freeware plug-ins with SynthMaker.
- 4 Kicks, bass drum synthesizer instrument.
- ECHOecho, basic delay effect plug-in.
- Entrancer, virtual instrument particularly suited to emulate the TB 303.
- freQ, Q8 paragraphic (hybrid) equalizer effect.
- Sync, a looping and recording tool.
- Mono2Stereo, utility to route channels.
- Wave Mechanic, a multi-effect with a full-featured filter section.
- Shifter, a realtime pitch shifter.
- Tripper, a monophonic filter envelope for audio.
- Dream Sequence, a simple sequencer.
- 2SYN, a pitch to midi plug-in.
All of these plug-ins can be downloaded from the Nix plugs page.
DtBlkFx
DtBlkFx is a Fast-Fourier-Transform (FFT) based multi effect plug-in.
Terry West
Terry West has released some freeware VST effect plugins. (Downloads include mono and stereo versions)
Update: Terry now has a website up with all his plug-ins, so check that for to be sure to have the latest versions. I will try to mirror them here.
For more information about Terry West plug-ins you can check these posts.
O’Malley Sound
O’Malley Sound released 5 VSTi plugins a few years ago: 2 subtractive, 1 FM, 1 SF2 player, and 1 helicopter synth.
More info and links to download the O’Malley Sound plugins here.
GenMce
Kip Chatterson has created a generic midi controller to Mackie control emulator.
Let your midi controller act like a Mackie Control Universal for near mouse free surface control of your DAW software.
Note: GenMce now has a dedicated website here.
Float Crush
Float Crush is a new type of bitcrusher exploiting the nature of the floating point unit.
It offers something the regular bitcrusher can’t; a dual flavor distortion.
ROM-500 and Unify
Marcus Clef released 2 plug-ins in august 2006. The original download locations are not available anymore, so you can now get them from rekkerd.org.
- ROM-500 is a SF2 player that uses MIDI files to play custom loops.
- Unify is a hardknee compressor including a 6 bands post-compression coloration tool which acts like an EQ but on fixed frequencies with limited gain range.
Makunouchi Bento plug-ins
These (and more) Makunouchi Bento plug-ins are also available from their website, so check that place as well.
Maple and Brown-Sugar skin for Oatmeal
Grymmjack created a wonderful skin for Fuzzpilz’ Oatmeal. Originally starting out in a “Maple and Brown-Sugar” color scheme, there are now a whole bunch of skins available.
If you still want other colors you can download the Photoshop source files and create your own skin!
The skins and source files can be found here.
Thaw VST v0.1
Thaw is a VST plug-in for the creation and manipulation of static and drone sounds using the phase vocoder.
Thaw was created as part of a Masters in Music Technology academic project.
Sweetboy VST
Sweetboy’s VST plug-ins are available in a total of 6 downloads:
- SH-1 – Graphic EQ, Delay, LFO Multi, Reverb, PhaseShifter, Chorus (Chorus/Flanger), Filter (Lo-Hi Pass Filter).
- Glacier (LinEQ020) – Linear Phase EQ.
- RDR – Refined Digital Resolution (dither).
- S and S VSTFX Pack – SampleSlider, StereoStretcher, SFilter, SDynamics, SonicChorus, SLFO.
- T-SLEDGE – Multi-band compressor for mastering.
- Volcano – Peak limiter and level maximizer.
Little critters (v0.22)
Little critters is a VSTi that has eight different sounds of insects, which can be mixed and manipulated.
Creepy!
FoolPlugMini
FoolPlugMini is a VSTi that can resemble the sound of blowing on bottles.
