None of these plugins have any special features that the stock FL plugins don't have, but their well-designed minimalist UIs make them very fast and efficient to use.ġ9 - D16 Frontier : Analog limiter + soft clipper that automatically adjusts gain. Make sure to put it in stereo mode.ġ8 - Kilohearts Free Toolbox : Contains 6 simple yet useful plugins - a 3-band EQ, a delay, a chorus, a gain control, a stereo control/correlometer, and a limiter. For when ordinary distortion just isn't rough enough.ġ7 - Pitchproof : Pitch shifter/harmonizer. Poor man's Kickstart/LFOTool.ġ6 - Ignite Emissary : Harsh, dirty guitar amp simulation. Great for modifying drums, plucks, and everything else with a transient.ġ5 - TAL-Filter-2 : Draw your own LFO to control filter cutoff or volume. And it's not just the basic stuff, this pack includes a pitch correction plugin, a frequency shifter, a comb filter, a ring modulator, and a bunch of other cool stuff.ġ4 - Transpire by Sonic Anomaly : A very capable transient processor, simple to learn and use with a sleek GUI. Great for processing samples and denoising recordings.ġ3 - the Melda Production FreeFX bundle : A bundle of free plugins with a ton of really good effects. Simulates playing stuff on an old record, and has a bunch of settings to adjust the character of the simulated wear and tear.ġ2 - Voice of Snow : Lets you independently control the volume of the noise and tonal elements of a sound. ![]() Great for checking mixes, and can be used alongside Parametric EQ 2 for more precise EQing.ġ1 - Izotope Vinyl : The essential lofi plugin. Good for everything from bass design to mastering.ĩ - Saturation Knob : Super simple 1-knob saturator, great for adding a little bit (or a lot) of analog warmth/grit to sounds.ġ0 - SPAN : Really good spectrum analyzer. Can make things loud and warm, or harsh, dirty, and distorted - without destroying the base sound. Simply draw your own LFO shape, set the length and mix level, and you have all the pan automations you could ever need.Ĩ - NC-17 : Soft clipper/ Chebyshev filter plugin. The usual quantization and sample rate reduction, as well as distortion, a filter, and an assignable LFO.ħ - PanCake : Super customizable auto-panning plugin. More versatile and customizable than sausage fattener too.Ħ - Krush by Tritik : Basically the best bitcrusher you can get, full stop. Only two knobs: one is automated to trigger the effect, the other controls the length.ĥ - CamelCrusher : A compression/distortion plugin perfect for fattening up basses. It's up there alongside Gross Beat and Halftime as one of the best ways to add weird time-based effects.Ĥ - dblue.TapeStop : Simulates the downward pitch slide and volume reduction caused by stopping a tape player. Has a stereo visualizer, and only two controls - Width, which increases or reduces a sound's existing stereo width, and Stereoize, which adds mono-compatible stereo width to sounds using a stereo-phase-inverted delay.ģ - dblue.Glitch : A step-sequenced glitch plugin. It's a big part of the "EDM sound", put it on anything from basses to leads to make them sound tight, bright, and compressed.Ģ - Ozone Imager : A stereo imager that is actually good. If you use the Yamaha Grand Piano preset, this is probably the best-sounding free piano plugin you can get.ħ - BlueARP : Not an instrument, but a midi arpeggiator.ġ - OTT : A multiband compressor based on a well-known Ableton multiband compressor preset of the same name. Sounds good with saturation.Ħ - Keyzone Classic : Piano plugin. Use these alongside LABS and you'll be all set for making orchestral music.ĥ - Ample Bass P Lite : Free bass guitar plugin. Perfect for orchestral sounds, or other recorded instruments that are hard to find for free.Ĥ - DSK's assorted instrument plugins, such as Dynamic Guitars, Brass, Overture, and Strings aren't on the same level as $500 Kontakt libraries but they sound fairly good with the right processing. And you can also get the free Synth1 librarian add-on to manage your 25,000 presets.ģ - Spitfire LABS : A host for several free instrument libraries, with new ones added on a regular basis. Its greatest advantage is its presets - there's a free bank with 25,000 of them. You can get sounds out of this thing that'd be impossible with really any other plugin, but it's also a very capable general-purpose subtractive synthesizer.Ģ - Synth1 : An analog emulation synth based on the Nord Lead 2 (popular hardware synth from the 90s). Its biggest advantages are its 3 assignable LFOs and envelopes, its step sequencer, and its keytracked comb filter. ![]() Hope it helps someone!ġ - Helm : A very visually-oriented and user-friendly subtractive synth. ![]() ![]() Some of these are pretty well known, others less so, but I personally use/have used every plugin on this list and I can vouch for their quality. I think it's about time I gave this its own post. I made this list a long time ago, and I comment it whenever I see a post asking for free plugin suggestions.
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