Great for checking mixes, and can be used alongside Parametric EQ 2 for more precise EQing.ġ1 - Izotope Vinyl : The essential lofi plugin. Makes things loud, dirty and distorted without destroying the base sound.ĩ - Saturation Knob : Super simple 1-knob saturator, great for adding a little bit (or a lot) of analog warmth to sounds.ġ0 - SPAN : Really good spectrum analyzer. You will never need another auto panning plugin ever again.Ĩ - NC-17 : Soft clipper/ Chebyshev filter plugin. More versatile and customizable than sausage fattener too.Ħ - Krush by Tritik : Basically the best bitcrusher you can get.ħ - PanCake : Super customizable auto-panning plugin. Only two knobs, one of which is automated to trigger the effect, one of which controls the length.ĥ - CamelCrusher : A compression/distortion plugin perfect for fattening up basses. It's up there alongside Gross Beat and Halftime as one of the best ways to add weird time-based effects.Ĥ - dblue.TapeStop : Simulates the downward pitch slide and volume reduction caused by stopping a tape player. Has a stereo visualizer, and only two controls - Width, which increases or reduces a sound's existing stereo width, and Stereoize, which adds stereo width to sounds using the Haas effect.ģ - dblue.Glitch : A step-sequenced glitch plugin. It's a big part of the "EDM sound", put it on anything from basses to leads to make them sound tight and compressed.Ģ - Ozone Imager : A stereo imager that is actually good.
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If you use the Yamaha Grand Piano preset, this is the best-sounding free piano plugin you can get.ġ - OTT : A multiband compressor based on a well-known Ableton multiband compressor preset of the same name. Sounds good with saturation.Ħ - Keyzone Classic : Piano plugin. Use these alongside LABS and you'll be all set for making orchestral pieces.ĥ - Ample Bass P Lite : Free bass guitar plugin. Perfect for orchestral sounds.Ĥ - DSK's assorted instrument plugins : Dynamic Guitars, Brass, Overture, and Strings aren't on the same level as $500 Kontakt libraries, but they sound fairly good with the right processing. You can also get the free Synth1 librarian add-on to manage your 25,000 presets.ģ - Spitfire LABS : A host for several free instrument libraries. Its greatest advantage is its presets - there's a free bank with 25,000 of them. You can get sounds out of this thing that'd be impossible with really any other plugin.Ģ - Synth1 : An analog emulation synth based on the Nord Lead 2 (popular hardware synth from the 90s). Its biggest advantages are its 3 assignable LFOs and envelopes, its step sequencer, and its keytracked comb filter. Hope it helps someone!ġ - Helm : A very visually-oriented and user-friendly subtractive synth. Some of these are pretty well known, others less so, but I personally use/have used every plugin on this list and I can vouch for their quality. I think it's about time I gave this its own post.
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I made this list a long time ago, and I comment it whenever I see a post asking for free plugin suggestions.