Do you use freeware? I realize people are reluctant to share project files but what about tools used? Please, share the name of the freeware VST plugins you used for your song's sound. Link to your song would also be appreciated. Thanks.
So to get things started:
Although I have downloaded and installed the "Podium Free" DAW a long time ago, it's only about 3 days since I started exploring and using it. And I am impressed by it and very grateful. So in the name of gratefulness, I am mentioning Zynewave's "Podium Free" DAW as an example of great(est) freeware.
I will probably post more freeware used for other future remixes of my songs.
But, for now, these are the other A-okay freeware VST plugins that I used to remix one of my songs:
4Front Technologies - Bass Module
4Front Technologies - Piano Module
AcmeBarGig - Dig 2.0 Suite
Ample Sound - Ample Guitar M II Lite
DSK Music - ElectriK GuitarZ
Fretted Synth Audio - Free Amp 3
Full Bucket Music - Deputy Mark II
Gregjazz - Suburban Guitarist
Ignite Amps - Nadir
Kjaerhaus - Classic Master Limiter
Mokafix - NoAmp!
Necromare Music - Open Electric Guitar
One Small Clue - Grace Sampler
LePou Plugins - HyBrit FullStack
Rumpelrausch Taips - Crazy Diamonds
Safwan Matni - Safwan Strings
SimulAanalog Guitar Suite - Marshall JCM900
bigcat Instruments - Karoryfer Cute Emily Dirty Guitar
https://soundcloud.com/harryupbabble/fg-remix-4
For Freeware's Sake
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- KVRAF
- 7001 posts since 20 Mar, 2012 from Babbleon
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- KVRAF
- 4589 posts since 7 Jun, 2012 from Warsaw
Wait, don't we have 1001 threads like that already? In this forum in particular: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1
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Tricky-Loops wrote: (...)someone like Armin van Buuren who claims to make a track in half an hour and all his songs sound somewhat boring(...)
Tricky-Loops wrote: (...)someone like Armin van Buuren who claims to make a track in half an hour and all his songs sound somewhat boring(...)
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- KVRAF
- 5710 posts since 24 May, 2004 from []1
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- KVRian
- 730 posts since 17 Sep, 2007 from Planet Thanet
^ like it 
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- KVRist
- 322 posts since 1 Oct, 2010
Seems to me anyway that the OP may be looking along the lines of; here's a song and here's the VSTs I used in it, not just another list a bunch of freeware. Is that right OP?
John
"B4serenity"
"B4serenity"
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 7001 posts since 20 Mar, 2012 from Babbleon
Pretty much that. But freeware only.b4serenity wrote:Seems to me anyway that the OP may be looking along the lines of; here's a song and here's the VSTs I used in it, not just another list a bunch of freeware. Is that right OP?
There's a KVR freeware thread that is titled "Old Free VSTi Gems From The Past" and it's 835 pages now. So, I presumed lots of people are downloading freeware stuff and my guess was that some of the downloaders are also actually using those freeware for their songs.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 7001 posts since 20 Mar, 2012 from Babbleon
Whatever happened to the ones that make music using only freeware?
Come out, come out, all ye money-challenged tight-wad make-doers.
Since my type don't have the budget (because I/we would rather play much and work less?)
to buy plugins I/we can't/won't "elevate" ourselves to "one who make music with payware".
So, as a challenge... how about you "I-can-afford-all-these-plugins" GASheads come down
to the freeware level and convert your past creations using only freeware DAW and plugins?
It would be interesting what freeware plugins and what free DAW will be used/chosen.
And also it would be interesting to hear freeware-only re/creations.
It would be better than saying
"I recommend these freeware, they are great, but I don't want to show you what I did with them".
Come on eh, you could drop dead mysteriously in an elevator tomorrow like Prince did and if no
one even got to hear your attempt at doing something like Little Red Corvette, or whatever,
using only freeware, then wouldn't that be tragic? What if it's really "good"?
Okay, okay, that could be considered fascist, limiting things to freeware, but I was just trying
to see what freeware will be used if one could only use freeware and nothing else.
It's a request, not a demand.
I'm desperate. That's all. I'm data mining. Statistics hunting. Awareness wanting.
Anyway, I went to visit the Bedroom Producers website to see what "top" freeware I should download.
Because what choice is there? Just hope they really are "top" and "best" and just test them, I guess.
But here is my 5th remix version of my Freckled Girl song using only "top" and "best" freeware.
Older versions of this song are not so good according to the majority that have heard those versions
but a few have indicated that they like it (by way of thumbs-up at YouTube)
and that's good enough for me to justify creating this newer and hopefully better version.
It's fun doing it and I wanted to.
Anyhoo, it's almost a duplicate of the Soundcloud 4th remix version above
except that I used these additional freeware plugins:
Nameless Developer? - DrumGizmo
slim slow slider - C3 Multi Band Compressor
Voxengo - Boogex
Come out, come out, all ye money-challenged tight-wad make-doers.
Since my type don't have the budget (because I/we would rather play much and work less?)
to buy plugins I/we can't/won't "elevate" ourselves to "one who make music with payware".
So, as a challenge... how about you "I-can-afford-all-these-plugins" GASheads come down
to the freeware level and convert your past creations using only freeware DAW and plugins?
It would be interesting what freeware plugins and what free DAW will be used/chosen.
And also it would be interesting to hear freeware-only re/creations.
It would be better than saying
"I recommend these freeware, they are great, but I don't want to show you what I did with them".
Come on eh, you could drop dead mysteriously in an elevator tomorrow like Prince did and if no
one even got to hear your attempt at doing something like Little Red Corvette, or whatever,
using only freeware, then wouldn't that be tragic? What if it's really "good"?
Okay, okay, that could be considered fascist, limiting things to freeware, but I was just trying
to see what freeware will be used if one could only use freeware and nothing else.
It's a request, not a demand.
I'm desperate. That's all. I'm data mining. Statistics hunting. Awareness wanting.
Anyway, I went to visit the Bedroom Producers website to see what "top" freeware I should download.
Because what choice is there? Just hope they really are "top" and "best" and just test them, I guess.
But here is my 5th remix version of my Freckled Girl song using only "top" and "best" freeware.
Older versions of this song are not so good according to the majority that have heard those versions
but a few have indicated that they like it (by way of thumbs-up at YouTube)
and that's good enough for me to justify creating this newer and hopefully better version.
It's fun doing it and I wanted to.
Anyhoo, it's almost a duplicate of the Soundcloud 4th remix version above
except that I used these additional freeware plugins:
Nameless Developer? - DrumGizmo
slim slow slider - C3 Multi Band Compressor
Voxengo - Boogex
ah böwakawa poussé poussé
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- KVRAF
- 7883 posts since 20 Jan, 2008
We saved up and bought payware.
Recently I got a new computer. Brand new shiney dell desktop with the latest i7 processor and all the works. I got it as Vista was no longer supported by MS and I didn't want to pay for the Upgrade to windows 10 on an antiquated machine.
When I got the new computer my plugins folder weighed heavy on my mind. Sure I've got bazillions of bytes storage on the new computer with tons of ram. I just don't like wading through all the junk.
What you may like as a plugin may not be what I like. I've read several reviews of both freeware and payware plugins with very positive responses that after listening and trying for myself I was rather disappointed. Mostly it was the freeware I'd be disappointed with though a few payware libraries / synths also let me down. The thing is on an odd night I'd forget which ones I'd tried in the past and redownload them again.
Because I use my computer for everything including work I need everything on it. Spending hours upon hours just for work which requires well over 300 titles Was a drain on my time. I'e found that I can find more usable plugins faster by simply sticking to payware. And as a result I'm playing the sounds more then simply testing them to see if they are what I want and how they'll fit into the mix.
Recently I got a new computer. Brand new shiney dell desktop with the latest i7 processor and all the works. I got it as Vista was no longer supported by MS and I didn't want to pay for the Upgrade to windows 10 on an antiquated machine.
When I got the new computer my plugins folder weighed heavy on my mind. Sure I've got bazillions of bytes storage on the new computer with tons of ram. I just don't like wading through all the junk.
What you may like as a plugin may not be what I like. I've read several reviews of both freeware and payware plugins with very positive responses that after listening and trying for myself I was rather disappointed. Mostly it was the freeware I'd be disappointed with though a few payware libraries / synths also let me down. The thing is on an odd night I'd forget which ones I'd tried in the past and redownload them again.
Because I use my computer for everything including work I need everything on it. Spending hours upon hours just for work which requires well over 300 titles Was a drain on my time. I'e found that I can find more usable plugins faster by simply sticking to payware. And as a result I'm playing the sounds more then simply testing them to see if they are what I want and how they'll fit into the mix.
Dell Vostro i9 64GB Ram Windows 11 Pro, Cubase, Bitwig, Mixcraft Guitar Pod Go, Linntrument Nektar P1, Novation Launchpad
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 7001 posts since 20 Mar, 2012 from Babbleon
That's probably true. But I'n just saying that although it's possible that
reviewers of such and such freeware from such and such websites have actually
"tested" (some probably haven't) the freeware plugins... someone who used the
freeware plugins in music-applied situations like song creation,
soundtrack creation, tune creation, jam session, etc. would/should be a better
demonstrator than just someone who just "tested" them super-briefly.
I am willing to be disappointed by freeware but they can't all be disappointments.
Like, it might be true that one may not like the freeware-musically-applied example(s)
that someone has created as a whole but maybe one might like what has been done to,
the bass track, for example, with that certain freeware plugin. And what I don't like
others might, an inverse but kind of the same as what you said? No?
Speaking of "what has been done to"... what do YouTube and Soundcloud do to sound files?
Those files sound noticeably different on my computer. Lead guitar was weird.
Among other things. Overall sound is Less full? They clip it?
Anyhoo, but the problem with saving up is that to save up...
lots of time has to be spent building that saving by way of working at a job,
unless one is Prince William, that is. Okay that might be wrong to use
Prince William as an example because who knows...
maybe it's actually super-sucky to have that life and all that whatever.
Back to a point, at one point I was working seven days a week one summer and
buying stuff was nothing but at some point I thought
"Damn, it took me an hour working at the zoo (example) to buy that
sets of bass and guitar strings (example) and with this sinus problem (example) it was torture".
Subsequently I thought "In order to work (which I hate, who doesn't? a Clydesdale?) less...
I just have to spend less money. Although music-making is important to me I decided
I gotta emulate them Buddhist doods a little bit and work less and be sparse (partially).
You said you also use freeware in your creations along with payware?
I am interested in knowing what freeware you used because like I said...
I prefer examples from creators more so than from casual reviewers.
You could just indicate something like
"I used payware on the rest of the tracks but I used freeware on the bass track".
Oh wait that won't work.
What if you used a thousand-dollar-but-worth-it-pluginX on the master track?
Yup, it's gotta be all freeware on all tracks, using a freeware DAW.
It's like yeah you got that fat Les Paul sound but I can do that same melody
with my cheap ukelele and I only care about the melody and lyrics.
Money or no money, melody is primary? Ukelele = freeware.
And melody doesn't have to be melody. What's everyone's primary?
You mentioned "drain of time". In my case, and may be in other's cases...
I think that rather than testing the remaining 10,000
or so plugins in my "untested" freeware plugin or whatever huge amount other's is...
I thought "Hey maybe test those ones used by other creators first".
Might be a good way to get around a type of "drain of time".
Okay, pardon the longer than long post. This one was kind of importantER to me.
Grammar be damned, I say.
In summary... freeware and laziness, for life. Maybe.
reviewers of such and such freeware from such and such websites have actually
"tested" (some probably haven't) the freeware plugins... someone who used the
freeware plugins in music-applied situations like song creation,
soundtrack creation, tune creation, jam session, etc. would/should be a better
demonstrator than just someone who just "tested" them super-briefly.
I am willing to be disappointed by freeware but they can't all be disappointments.
Like, it might be true that one may not like the freeware-musically-applied example(s)
that someone has created as a whole but maybe one might like what has been done to,
the bass track, for example, with that certain freeware plugin. And what I don't like
others might, an inverse but kind of the same as what you said? No?
Speaking of "what has been done to"... what do YouTube and Soundcloud do to sound files?
Those files sound noticeably different on my computer. Lead guitar was weird.
Among other things. Overall sound is Less full? They clip it?
Anyhoo, but the problem with saving up is that to save up...
lots of time has to be spent building that saving by way of working at a job,
unless one is Prince William, that is. Okay that might be wrong to use
Prince William as an example because who knows...
maybe it's actually super-sucky to have that life and all that whatever.
Back to a point, at one point I was working seven days a week one summer and
buying stuff was nothing but at some point I thought
"Damn, it took me an hour working at the zoo (example) to buy that
sets of bass and guitar strings (example) and with this sinus problem (example) it was torture".
Subsequently I thought "In order to work (which I hate, who doesn't? a Clydesdale?) less...
I just have to spend less money. Although music-making is important to me I decided
I gotta emulate them Buddhist doods a little bit and work less and be sparse (partially).
You said you also use freeware in your creations along with payware?
I am interested in knowing what freeware you used because like I said...
I prefer examples from creators more so than from casual reviewers.
You could just indicate something like
"I used payware on the rest of the tracks but I used freeware on the bass track".
Oh wait that won't work.
What if you used a thousand-dollar-but-worth-it-pluginX on the master track?
Yup, it's gotta be all freeware on all tracks, using a freeware DAW.
It's like yeah you got that fat Les Paul sound but I can do that same melody
with my cheap ukelele and I only care about the melody and lyrics.
Money or no money, melody is primary? Ukelele = freeware.
And melody doesn't have to be melody. What's everyone's primary?
You mentioned "drain of time". In my case, and may be in other's cases...
I think that rather than testing the remaining 10,000
or so plugins in my "untested" freeware plugin or whatever huge amount other's is...
I thought "Hey maybe test those ones used by other creators first".
Might be a good way to get around a type of "drain of time".
Okay, pardon the longer than long post. This one was kind of importantER to me.
Grammar be damned, I say.
In summary... freeware and laziness, for life. Maybe.
ah böwakawa poussé poussé
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- KVRist
- 36 posts since 27 Apr, 2016
Not bad at all, with a bit more work (more velocity variations on the piano would make it more natural) and some secret weapons (TALChorus 
). Electric guitars are always hard to emulate, but with what you had you did a good job.
). Electric guitars are always hard to emulate, but with what you had you did a good job.-
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 7001 posts since 20 Mar, 2012 from Babbleon
Oh hey thanks very much. About the making more natural via velocity variationMonade_Sounds wrote:Not bad at all, with a bit more work (more velocity variations on the piano would make it more natural) and some secret weapons (TALChorus
comment... I'm going to for sure keep that in mind for future remixes.
TALChorus. Yeah I have that in my "untested" VST plugins folder along with probably
the entire TAL freeware plugins.
You created music that has the TALChorus in it? If yes, it would be great to hear that.
But if your creation is hybrid (freeware + payware) you could upload that in the form of two files?
One file could be the full mix. The other file could be the track that uses freeware
as long as the master track's payware plugins are disabled, if any.
Come on doods, pleeeeeeeease, let's hear them freeware in action.
ah böwakawa poussé poussé
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 7001 posts since 20 Mar, 2012 from Babbleon
Since I don't like directly editing my posts I have to edit my "That's probably true..." post with this new post:
13th line from the top, change "Lead guitar was weird." to "Lead guitar was weird on both the YouTube and Soundcloud ones."
6th line from the bottom, change the "freeware plugin" to "freeware plugins folder".
Also, I should not have said that melodies and lyrics are everything.
Of course, the final mixed sound also matters, even if only freeware is used.
Obviously, that's the whole point of this thread: sound using freeware.
13th line from the top, change "Lead guitar was weird." to "Lead guitar was weird on both the YouTube and Soundcloud ones."
6th line from the bottom, change the "freeware plugin" to "freeware plugins folder".
Also, I should not have said that melodies and lyrics are everything.
Of course, the final mixed sound also matters, even if only freeware is used.
Obviously, that's the whole point of this thread: sound using freeware.
ah böwakawa poussé poussé
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- KVRAF
- 25849 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 7001 posts since 20 Mar, 2012 from Babbleon
Funny. Thanks but I already do have that in my untested-plugins folder.
If it's free, and doesn't require registration, then I probably have it.
I've been accumulating freeware for maybe 5-7 years now and I have about over 10.000 of them.
The problem now is which ones do I use for my remixes of my songs and tunes. Hard to choose.
So so so many.
I was hoping people would post their creations that uses freeware and I can test those and maybe
put them to use. But I guess people are "Why should I?" or "I only use payware". Or what else?
Let's see. Uh hey Numanoid you got a tune of yours somewhere that uses that Dirty Harry synth?
Why not upload it if it does exist? For freeware's sake. Or any other reason.
Anyways, here are some that I found via Google using these 4 search words: "made with freeware" vst.
These seems to be made by the same person from the VST Planet website.
YouTube must be full of these kinds of videos except that unlike this person's videos
they don't mention what freeware they used? Maybe I just have to search harder.
If it's free, and doesn't require registration, then I probably have it.
I've been accumulating freeware for maybe 5-7 years now and I have about over 10.000 of them.
The problem now is which ones do I use for my remixes of my songs and tunes. Hard to choose.
So so so many.
I was hoping people would post their creations that uses freeware and I can test those and maybe
put them to use. But I guess people are "Why should I?" or "I only use payware". Or what else?
Let's see. Uh hey Numanoid you got a tune of yours somewhere that uses that Dirty Harry synth?
Why not upload it if it does exist? For freeware's sake. Or any other reason.
Anyways, here are some that I found via Google using these 4 search words: "made with freeware" vst.
These seems to be made by the same person from the VST Planet website.
YouTube must be full of these kinds of videos except that unlike this person's videos
they don't mention what freeware they used? Maybe I just have to search harder.
ah böwakawa poussé poussé