On this site you will find a growing list of amazing, free VST Instruments and Effects that will add extra variety to your music productions!
Gone are the days where you need huge amounts of expensive equipment and studio time. These days hobbyist and professionals alike can use their desktop machines or laptops to create music with nothing but additional pieces of software.
What a beautiful time to be alive!
"String Thing 2 is a plucked string virtual instrument with advanced controls and filtering to create a more natural tone.
Features include:
Controls over plucking.
Variable bandwidth filter.
Improved impulse, string and body model.
Simplified and improved impulse control.
Vastly improved sound quality.
Modulation (MIDI CC).
Various controls for tonal quality.
Reasonable CPU load".
“This is good for producing those rich deep basses of the 70's analogue synths, There are two saw wave oscillators and a detune control that simultaneously sharpens one oscillator and flattens the other to get a fat sound".
DVS Guitar is what the name implies a guitar vst, While it might not be the most realistic sounding plugin ever, you can get some cool results using your pitchbend.
From the developers website:
“This is based on a sampled guitar and includes Overdrive, Reverb and Flanging. It's good for leads and heavy sounds, and very realistic if your good with a pitch bend controller.”
Great sounding trance gate plugin, complete with Step sequencer, filter, delay and reverb effects.
From the maker of T-Force Alpha Plus
(Which you can check out here:
http://youtu.be/XeORGefkA6U )
From the developers website:
“T-Force Trance Gate is a Trance Gate VST-Effect for rhytmic gate effects triggered by a full envelope controlled step sequencer. With this effect you can create chopping effects to your favorite sounds. It's ideal for creating the typical rhythmic gated pad sounds commonly heard in trance music. With the envelope controlled step sequencer it's even possible to turn your pad sound into a powerful arp-like sequence.
Specifications:
on/off switchable host synced Step Sequencer with 32 individual on/off switchable steps
individual Panning for each step
individual Velocity Control for each step
1 Resonance Four Pole State Variable Filter, switchable between Low Pass, High Pass, Bandpass and switchable 12/24 dB slope, Resonance can be driven up to self oscillation.
1 on/off switchable ADSR Filter Envelope controlled by the Step Sequencer
1 ADSR Amp Envelope controlled by the Step Sequencer
BPM-Tempo possible up to 8x speed
Volume Control to adjust the volume between original sound and effected sound
Mix Control to adjust the amount between original sound and effected sound
Dual Delay, switchable between Stereo mode and Ping-pong mode (right and left channels have their own tempo settings).
Stereo Reverb
all functions fully automatable”
