Your favourite essential free VST in 2023

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Well we've had enough threads about reverb, and going through the monster thread about freebies is getting mind-blowing , so I thought I'd share my must-haves in the free vicinity

ANALOG OBSESSION - analog-flavoured EQ's and Pre-amps, just discovered the obscenely good quality of these.
CHOW TAPE - still a great sounding tape plug-in for thickening your sauce
VOXENGO BOOGEX - lots of nice free stuff from Voxengo, but I rediscovered this amp sim which is now going on my template - clean but a bit dirty
KIIVE AUDIO 'Warmy' EQ -it's niiiice
Tila2 reverb -for those boxy home-recorded DIY sounds.

What's yer absolute elite must-have essential to-die-for freebies?

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Airwindows BitShiftGain. :neutral:
<list your stupid gear here>

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Fazertone Comp 76
Fazertone Phaser 74
Fazertone Klone
THIS MUSIC HAS BEEN MIXED TO BE PLAYED LOUD SO TURN IT UP

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Fuse Audios Spring 'verb (rev-666?), has a nice boing

The Audio Damage legacy effects, some nice manglers (Automaton, Dr Device, Replicant, Ratshack reverb etc)

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TB Ferox (use it as a compressor.... :love: ) Have had it for years but now free everyone can have the, err, squishy luuurve. All the other TB v3 (now) freebies are top notch too.

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The only "free" effect I can recall receiving this year was Dawesome Love, which wasn't really a freebie, just free *with purchase*. Nonetheless, really cool freebie for me.
Logic Pro | LUNA Pro | OB-X8 | Prophet 6 | OB-6 | Rev2 | TEO-5 | Pro 3 | SE-1X | Minitaur | Deepmind 12D | Slim Phatty | TR-1000 | Analog RYTM mk2 | Digitakt 2 | TD-3 MO | TD-3 | Maschine+

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SuperMassive and Solaris for me.
Its over for Bitwig--CUBASE WON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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+1 on Audio Damage

Blue Cat:
https://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/B ... ewarePack/

u-He:
https://u-he.com/products/protoverb/

Valhalla DSP:
https://valhalladsp.com/shop/delay/valhalla-freq-echo/

https://valhalladsp.com/shop/reverb/val ... ermassive/

I'm also enjoying Dawesome Love more than I anticipated. Not free, but I don't think I would've jumped on it without it being "free with purchase". (Found a sound set that net was about $7 for Hive.)

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Klanghelm IVGI. For me, as good as True Iron for saturation. I use it in tracks as well as buses.

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NI Raum and Adam Szabo's Phazor.

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AAS Objeq Delay was *almost* free, got it in a Humble Bundle for very little.
Aegean Pitchproof (works pretty well with my bass)
Arturia Chorus JUN-6, Filter MS-20 and Rev Plate-140 (when those were free gifts)
BPB Dirty Filter
Coda Labs Szechuan Saturator
Inphonik PCM2612 Retro Decimator
NI Raum
Noise Engineering Freequel Bundle (especially Ruina)
Melda MUnison, MAnalyzer, MTuner

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foosnark wrote: Thu Nov 30, 2023 10:04 pm Arturia Chorus JUN-6
Oh, yes, I use that one too. Not technically free anymore though, as the activation is from the FX Collection 4. Got it as a freebie as well though.

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Klanghelm IVGI
Tal Reverb 4
Inphonik PCM2612 Retro Decimator
Apoogee Soft Limit
TDR Nova
Cymatics Origin
DDMF TubePreamp
Tritik Krush
aliasing plugin owner
:?

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Analog Obsession (LaLa, FetCB, Varimoon)
Variety of Sound (BootEQ, epicPlate, ThrillseekerVBL)

Those are my freeware essentials. Have some more from those devs, but those are outstanding!

Oh yeah Apogee Soft Limit is decent too! Not even mentioning Valhalla freebies - outstanding quality!

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