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VST Discussion

A topic by Sirion created Mar 04, 2023 Views: 787 Replies: 15
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Hi All,

Currently, I'm using LMMS to make my music. While LMMS does come with it's own presets, I'm looking to expand my library of VST's. I was hoping someone my might have suggestions where I can find good quality VST's. If anyone has insight, I'd love to hear from you.

Hey! Are you looking for free, or paid VSTs? 

I am. I want to expand my library.

To clarify free, but depending on the quality, I might be interested in some paid as well.

Best free stuff is probably from Spitfire Audio if you want sounds.
SSD5 is a nice realistic drumkit VST.
Valhalla Supermassive is one of the best reverb plugins even though it's also free.
High quality free synths include Vital, Surge, and Pendulate.

Awesome, I'll be sure to check those out. Thank you for the info.

https://www.fullbucket.de/music/vst.html makes some awesome free synth emulaions, https://www.patreon.com/analogobsession makes hardware mixing emulations.  You don't have to be a patreon to get his plugins either, he offers them free to everyone.

Thanks! 

I'll check that out.  This is all still very new and I have a lot to learn on all fronts.

I appreciate the info!

If you're still looking for VST's here are a few resources that are geared towards chip tunes, since that seems to be what you're interested in making. If you're looking for a one stop shop solution not just for chip music Native Instruments Komplete Start (which is free) should cover most of your needs .
Chip Music (Free) - https://woolyss.com/chipmusic-plugins.php
Chip Music (Paid) - https://www.plogue.com/index.html
Production Suite (Free) - https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-start/

I'm going to take a look at these. Thank you!

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It depends on how far your are into your music-production journey, but for a few power tools:

  • Cardinal (free)
  • PlugData (free)
  • Chow BYOD (free)
  • Vital (free)
  • Surge (free)
  • UVI Falcon
  • Voltage Modular (has a free tier, and an active Humble Bundle upgrade for $1 as I type this)
  • Redux (of Renoise 'fame')
  • BYOME (UA / Plugin Alliance)
  • TRIAD (UA / Plugin Alliance)
  • Pretty much any of Glitchmachine's plugins (they usually go on sale for about $10 a pop)
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Hi! As Slimepunk said it depends of how far you are willing to go.

For free there's a piano from soundpaint and a couple of free instruments too...

You have to install the sampler first and then the download manager.

https://soundpaint.com/collections/free-instruments

Spitfire Audio has LABS also have a great sounding collection of free instruments.

https://labs.spitfireaudio.com/?sortBy=prod_products_labs_popular

It'll be awesome if you tell what kind of music are you producing because libraries and VST's are not the same if you make survival horror music, orchestral or chiptune. 

Cheers!

I've loved spitfire. I've been using it recently. I've been working on music for video games. I like retro games so chiptune would be great, but I've been doing a blend of retro with some modern instruments in it. Just experimenting and having fun with it. 🙂

I also loved spitfire. For me  it sounds great.

In case of chiptune there are free options if you make music on windows.

https://hiphopmakers.com/best-free-chiptune-vst-plugins

Some kontakt libraries also for chiptune:

https://impactsoundworks.com/product/insidious/

https://impactsoundworks.com/product/super-audio-boy/

https://impactsoundworks.com/product/super-audio-cart/

And also plogue has really great VST's (paid)

https://www.plogue.com/

An alternative with plogue VST sforzando (free) is download soundfonts for using it into the soundfont sampler. But take care of some copyright issues.

https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts?formats=sf2&tags=chiptune