Recommend some FREE plug in downloads?

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Recommend some FREE plug in downloads?

Post by DeadlyKungFu » Sun May 21, 2006 2:23 am

Hey party people-
Can anyone recommend some free quality plug-ins? Just wondering what people are digging. I'm on PC but post Mac stuff too, no matter.

Did anything come of the 'My first step sequencer' project? Did anyone ever find a free one?

Thanks.

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Post by quandry » Sun May 21, 2006 2:36 am

www.smartelectronix.com

supatrigga, livecut, supaphaser, many more...

beyond smartelectronix, also search for WTF and filterbank vst, both free and fun

metal mickey is another favorite

also the glitch vst can be fun

dfx buffer override is fun

cyanide 2 and definitely fuzzplus2 are great distortion plugins

most of these are my freaky plugins that do abnormal stuff, no compressors, eqs, or reverbs here--Live's suit me pretty well. I have most of these on my master out, as well as on the snare track and sometimes on instrument tracks (filterbank vst and fuzzplus2 are great on lots of stuff).

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Post by j0shu@ » Sun May 21, 2006 2:53 am

http://tweakbench.com has lots of goodies

mellotron, chaos pad like, NES emus, granularities, etc...

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Post by forge » Sun May 21, 2006 3:32 am

the most used I have are glitch and livecut,

or best free ones I've got but only use sometimes are Evol, Motion2.8, Polyiblit, superwave P8, and synth1

I just downloaded Kickmaker which someone around here created (was it sqook?) havent had a chance to try it yet but I really like the sound of it

also Adonis has been raving about Claw which I also d/led but havent tried yet

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Post by fraq » Sun May 21, 2006 3:47 am

King Dubby tape delay. I love it. Audio Unit only, I think...
http://www.lowcoders.net/kd.html

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Post by FaX-01 » Sun May 21, 2006 4:14 am

1.Makjen's - Chimera http://www.majken.se/vst/index.asp?Page=chimera.asp


2.CableGuys - Curve
http://www.cableguys.de/plugins.html


3.Voltkitchen - Minimogue Luxus & Arppe 2600Va
http://glenstegner.com/softsynths.html


4.Ugo - Motion / Rez / Texture / String Theory
http://www.cortidesign.com/ugo/


5.DTblkFX - FFT effects and more wrapped in one (pretty insane sonic
mangler BTW)
http://www.rekkerd.org/dtblkfx/



6.IOPOLONG - Slifty / Splonki / Sloper / FlitchSplifter / Resolator
http://andreas.smartelectronix.com/index.php?nav=1


7.Glaceverb - Dasample (good experimental reverb unit)
http://www.dasample.com/index.php?show=glaceverb


8.Luxonix LFX1310 MultiFX unti - same FX as in Ravity R and Ravity S FREE.
http://www.luxonix.com/home/en/products.html?id=lfx1310


9.RGC Audio - Triangle II
http://www.rgcaudio.com/triangle_II.htm


10.TweakBench - too much to list here ....
http://www.tweakbench.com/


11.KarmaFX modular synth / effects device bundle
http://www.karmafx.dk/



Should keep you busy for a while.
Highly recommend all of the above myself. :wink:
My aren't the wings of butterflies beautiful and do they not make wonderful perturbations.....

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Post by forge » Sun May 21, 2006 6:25 am

FaX-01 wrote:
3.Voltkitchen - Minimogue Luxus & Arppe 2600Va
http://glenstegner.com/softsynths.html
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oops - probably the main one of the synths I forgot to mention is the arppe 2600va - havent got a bloody clue how to use it, but it sounds great just from the presets

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Post by polyslax » Sun May 21, 2006 8:10 am

Not sure how up to date this is, but here are some links I keep handy:

All freeware OSX VSTs :
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=479837
(check all categories in first post, problems there refer to the VST-RTAS wrapper, not the VSTs themselves - so follow all links)

Freeware Audio Units :
http://www.sfrecording.com/plugins.htm

other freeware Audio Units not covered in above link :
http://www.apulsoft.ch/freeports/index.php

OSX freeware Pluggos

http://www.cycling74.com/products/dlpluggo.html
Pluggo Free Runtime installer –download and install the Runtime version, not the full app demo.
Then grab free pluggos from the following developers.

http://www.music.columbia.edu/PeRColate/
The Percolate Collection

http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html
JK

http://www.wildfrontear.co.uk/plugs.html
The Lone Roger

http://www.angelfire.com/sd2/wheat/
Wheat’s collection
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Post by DJ VAKIS » Sun May 21, 2006 9:40 am

forge wrote:the most used I have are glitch and livecut,

or best free ones I've got but only use sometimes are Evol, Motion2.8, Polyiblit, superwave P8, and synth1

I just downloaded Kickmaker which someone around here created (was it sqook?) havent had a chance to try it yet but I really like the sound of it

also Adonis has been raving about Claw which I also d/led but havent tried yet
Claw is f...... good.I use all the time
http://www.myspace.com/djvakis
http://mix2r.fm/audio/user/221


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Post by hoffman2k » Sun May 21, 2006 9:58 am

oops. double post :wink:

Dontcrack is a good site :D

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Post by glu » Sun May 21, 2006 9:32 pm

quandry wrote:www.smartelectronix.com
have fun
quandry this site is awesome. thanks for the link. do you know of any specific plugs that live doesn't like, or which ones Live loves?

I am running on windows... not cool like spiderman running on windows though.
anyone here for that matter using any of these plugs with Live on a PC?
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Post by FaX-01 » Mon May 22, 2006 1:10 am

glu wrote:
quandry wrote:www.smartelectronix.com
have fun
quandry this site is awesome. thanks for the link. do you know of any specific plugs that live doesn't like, or which ones Live loves?

I am running on windows... not cool like spiderman running on windows though.
anyone here for that matter using any of these plugs with Live on a PC?

Well I put all the SMEX Iopolong links in my post and yes I use a huge number of SMEX plugs the MDSP range are very good also etc and they are all very solid in operation on PC BTW .
My aren't the wings of butterflies beautiful and do they not make wonderful perturbations.....

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Post by glu » Mon May 22, 2006 1:48 am

FaX-01 wrote:
glu wrote:
quandry wrote:www.smartelectronix.com
have fun
quandry this site is awesome. thanks for the link. do you know of any specific plugs that live doesn't like, or which ones Live loves?

I am running on windows... not cool like spiderman running on windows though.
anyone here for that matter using any of these plugs with Live on a PC?

Well I put all the SMEX Iopolong links in my post and yes I use a huge number of SMEX plugs the MDSP range are very good also etc and they are all very solid in operation on PC BTW .
hey Fax-01, thanks! I posted that before even getting to your post, then I spent an hour with your links! Thanks for the recommendations. I made a folder titled Fax01 recommendations! so I know to install those first to play with.. THanks!!!
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Post by quandry » Mon May 22, 2006 2:07 am

glu wrote:
quandry wrote:www.smartelectronix.com
have fun
quandry this site is awesome. thanks for the link. do you know of any specific plugs that live doesn't like, or which ones Live loves?

I am running on windows... not cool like spiderman running on windows though.
anyone here for that matter using any of these plugs with Live on a PC?
I'm windows pc to the core, and all smartelectronix plugs I've ever tried have worked flawlessly in Live, except livecut (which is still in beta). My favorites (in order) are livecut, supatrigger, dfx buffer override, supaphaser..scrubby and skidder can be fun too.

FORGE--have you ever had livecut cause wierd things to happen? I've put it on my master effects chain before, and assigned a few of my controller knobs to livecut, and more than once, my other master effects settings on other effect devices (knob positions, etc.) will all jump wildly to random positions and totally eff up my sound. I can't seem to figure out why livecut would do this, but I know it is livecut--I've performed scores of gigs with this same setup without livecut, and whenever I put it in and am having a fun time messing with it, this weird behavior happens, with it seemingly effecting well over then parameters on other effects in the chain, as if it were sending midi out to the other effects in the chain or something? Ever had this happen? I haven't had this problem with livecut on tracks where it is the only effect, so it seems to happen when livecut is part of an effects chain.

Ryan
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