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Top 10 Simple But Amazing Plugins 2019
Soundtoys has a solid reputation for delivering high-quality plugins, and their delay effects raise the bar for all of their competitors. The Soundtoys Echoboy takes all of the greatest delay sounds from literally decades of musical history and packages them in one awesome plugin. While every individual producer has a unique workflow and creative process, here are 10 of the best plugins for music producers of all genres. Also, don’t forget to check out our Plugins & Sample Pack Charts where we list the best alternatives in each category. Best VST Plugins for 2020: FabFilter Pro-Q 3.
Simplicity is the mother of virtuosity and sometimes less IS more. That is the case when it comes to audio plugins. We all love them and we all need them but sometimes their GUIs and options are too much to comprehend. This is why we scouted for some of the simplest yet amazing plugins that will give you great results!
- VST (Virtual Studio Technology) is a software plug-in format developed by Steinberg. These plug-ins generally come in one of three types: instruments, audio processors, or midi processors. They are among the most ubiquitous plug-in formats, and are what most people refer to when the term “software plug-in” is discussed.
- Cannabis Vocoder. Cannabis vocoder is a funny plugin which can completely change the sound of your vocal track. The mono version is an effect plugin, meaning it's not a vst instruments. Using the effect on the vocal track the software automatically tracks the tune of the vocal track, and calculates the pitch of the changed sound as well.
1. Soundtoys – Little Plate
Three knobs and a switch are the only controls you have here and my god, the results are amazing. One of the most affordable and rich sounding plates out there. Inspired by the original EMT 140 plate reverb, Soundtoys have captured the gorgeous sound and vibe of this studio classic and turned it into a fun and musically inspiring plug-in.
2. Brainworx – bx_subfilter
If you need some much-desired low-end thump in your bass or drums, this is a good place to start. Four knobs for controlling low end, tight punch and gain in & out and a resonance switch will give you a massive weight to your tracks. Oh, and IT’S FREE!/best-free-vst-synths-2019.html.
3. FabFilter – Micro
FabFilter Micro offers a single filter which is smooth and creamy, yet easily turns into raw saturation and self-oscillation when tweaked using the interactive filter display. It features low-pass and high-pass shapes and an envelope follower to modulate the cut-off frequency.
With the individual Input Gain and Output Gain parameters you can fully control the saturation of the internal filter making FabFilter Micro not only ideally suited for basic filtering tasks but also capable of beautiful distortion and analog saturation effects. It also features a midi learn option so you can control it via knobs and faders on your midi controller.
4. Waves – Greg Wells Signature Series
These are one-knob wonders and very useful when you want to send your work-in-progress demos to producers and directors without the hassle of mixing them first.
There are four plugins in this collection: MixCentric, VoiceCentric, ToneCentric and PianoCentric. ToneCentric focuses on giving you a nice analogue touch to your tracks and buses as if they were recorded on a tape machine and the other three are rather self-explanatory. A very useful set of plugins.
5. Sonnox – Vox Doubler
Vox Doubler is actually a set of two separate plugins that focus on the two most common vocal doubling workflows. Doubling vocals is a really effective way of adding more contrast and width to your vocal tracks. Widen and Thicken are the two plugins in this set and both of them feature a few controls which will give you immediate results.
Thicken is great for emulating double tracking of the vocal and creating a stereo group of voices whilst Widen is great for widening a mono signal by generating two new mono sources, panning them hard left and right of the original mono signal. Although meant for vocals, these work great on guitars as well.
6. SoundToys – Devil-Loc
Two knobs, one big drum sound! This is a level destroyer with a vintage vibe at its core. You can place it on a drum kit or percussion loop and listen to Devil-Loc inflate the room ambience, pumping excitement into an otherwise weak rhythm track. Push it to its limits to create extreme gating effects where loud hits crush the signal to silence and the output blooms into a fuzzy mess. I dare you to place it on your drum bus, instant Nine Inch Nails!
7. iZotope – Neutrino
This is a great little plugin by the awesome engineers at iZotope and what it does is it concentrates on sound specters of voice, drums, bass and guitar (or instrument) by doing spectral shaping. It’s totally free and you have four buttons and two knobs to tweak in order to get your sound.
8. Plugin Alliance – SPL De-Verb Plus
This is a little plugin that should be in your mixing arsenal because it can really be helpful when you get a recording with baked-in reverb that gives you a hard time at processing the actual signal. With it, all reverb events can be reduced regardless of their signal level. Decay curves of any sound event can be reduced very simply with just the turn of a single knob.
De-Verb Plus also offers an output gain control that allows compensation for level changes after processing the signal. This combined with the onboard peak limiter and dry/wet control ensure a simple and safe adjustment of levels while avoiding internal clipping and shaping the decay characteristics of your sound.
9. Klangheim – DC1A
Two knobs are all it takes for you to get a nice compressed sound. DC1A looks like a one trick pony but don’t be fooled by the lack of additional controls. You may be surprised about how many different materials this little thing works. DC1A has a few tricks up it’s sleeve: negative (over) compression, parallel (New York style) compression, option to compress the left and right channels independently (via the DUAL MONO switch), peak and RMS compression (RELAXED switch on) and DEEP activate a high pass filter to reduce pumping on bass heavy material. It’s free, so give it a shot!
10. Softube – Tonelux Tilt EQ
Go from shimmering bright to warm and wide with the twist of a knob. The Tonelux Tilt plugin is a fast and easy way of making a track sit better in a mix or make it sound warm or sparkly. It is very simple to use, and it will surely give your tracks their own place in your mix!
Are there any plugins that you would include in this list?
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Amongst all the emulated synths and delay plugins out there are some surprisingly strange tools you can use with your DAW software. We’ve collected 10 of the most unique VSTs we’ve found on the web, from crazy effect manipulation to singing monks these plugins should keep you entertained when you’re not making your next hit track.
If you don’t have a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) to insert plugins to we collected our ten favourite free DAWs here or if you just want to play around with them there’s a great list of VST hosts here.
Delay Lama by AudioNerdz (Windows & Mac)
You already know it’s going to be great from the name. Delay Lama gives you full control over a chanting monk (not a real one – sorry). Always wanted to hear a monk sing Chopsticks? Here’s your chance. Customisation isn’t very deep for Delay Lama but who cares when you’ve got a 3D monk singing what you play! Download windows emulator for mac.
LiveCut by MDSP Smart Electronix (Windows & Mac)
Ever wanted to get that Aphex Twin drum sound and had no bloody idea how he does it? LiveCut turns your beats into sliced up drum & bass mayhem. It works by cutting audio up into blocks based on the audio in it, rather than in equal chunks like many beat-slicers. Hear it in action in these clips.
Download LiveCut here:Windows – Mac
VST Speek by Wavosaur (Windows & Mac)
VST Speek is a text-to-speech plugin that is capable of a ridiculous variety of voices with adjustable levels for pitch, speed, mouth, and throat. Even though it sounds really weird to play with this is something that could actually fit into your mix, speech synthesis is surprisingly common in music. Combine it with LiveCut for a crazy drum & bass track.
Download VST Speek here:Windows 32 bit – Windows 64 bit – Mac 64 bit – Mac 32 bit – Mac 32 bit OS X 10.6 or 10.7
Triple Cheese by u-he (Windows & Mac)
Triple Cheese acts similarly to a lot of synthesizer plugins but unlike classic synths Triple Cheese goes through a variety of short chromatically tuned delays to create unique sounds. With a massive set of features in it’s interface and a giant host of presets this comb synthesizer should keep you busy for a few hours… or weeks.
Download Triple Cheese here: Windows – Mac
MeowSynth by Knobster (Windows)
MeowSynth is pretty self explanatory – It’s a meowing synthesizer, or meowizer… if you really want to stoop that low. MeowSynth features a number of editable parameters like chorus and vibrato so you can fine-tune your mewing to suit your taste. Really, it is as weird as it sounds. Hear for yourself.
Download MeowSynth here:Windows
Symptohm PE by Ohm Force (Windows & Mac)
Symptohm Performers Edition is a synth packed full of sounds. With over 1,200 presets there is plenty to play around with. This is less weird and more an incredible free package but I can assure you some of the presets are pretty wacky. Also you can choose between two skins: standard or amazing.
Top Ten Best Vst Plugins
Bleep by Tonebytes (Windows)
Bleep is unsurprisingly onomatopoeic in it’s name. This is a synthesizer that sounds like game systems from back in the day. Bring those nostalgic NES tunes back into your own hands. You can create music from a massive range of bleeps thanks to it’s impressive feature set. Three oscillators with 4 waveforms, Modulator Envelope Generator, Pseudo arpeggiator… You know what just hear some bleeps and bloops for yourself.
Download Bleep here: Windows
Blood Bucket by Insert Piz Here (Windows)
Insert Piz Here have a bunch of strange and interesting plugins. Easily topping that list, at least for strangeness is Blood Bucket. IPH describe it as “another pointless experiment in synthetic stupidity”, but we see it as a canvas of mad and varied sounds ready to be painted into unique tracks. Or just an excuse to make weird noises.
Download Blood Bucket here:Windows
MyKazoo by g200kg (Windows)
MyKazoo is surprisingly not a kazoo emulating synthesizer. It’s actually a VST effect which in my opinion is even more amazing. Turn your luscious vocals into raspy buzz. With two dials to alter the affect and a third to dictate the effects mix level you can transform any of your audio pieces into a refined rasp. MyKazoo works best with vocals but I’m sure you can get some cool sounds from other recorded bits.
Download MyKazoo here:Windows
Gargoyle by Krakli (Windows)
“Inspired by a request for a VST that could be used for a horror film soundtrack. This synth is dedicated to it’s namesake.” Create some spooky sounds with this plugin that some say was created by the devil himself. (Others have said it was Krakli but I’m not sure)
Download Gargoyle here:Windows
So there you have it, 10 of the most bizarre and interesting VST plugins around for free. Got any unique plugins that you love? Let us know in the comments below!