Comments on: Free Synthesizer VST Plugins

By: John Lavery

John Lavery — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 22:51:21 +0000

In reply to ablaut.

Full bucket’s Mono/fury,,
Great homage to Korg,
Fantastic synth.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 15:55:23 +0000

So far as I can tell, there is no free “Zebralette”. It says “free” on the download link, but all it seems to offer is the Zebra 2, which is of course a paid product. And there is nothing whatever on the written instructions about “Zebralette”. This is annoying, to say the least.

By: Paree Katti

Paree Katti — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 15:51:27 +0000

I’d like to point out the ObXd is no longer free for commercial use if you download from discodsp. The original 2Dat version is still free and Distrho ports has a working linux version and it still can be compiled from source, however the non commercial use applies to discodsp version. I feel like you should mention it since the terms were changed recently and many don’t know.

By: Jared Jennings

Jared Jennings — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 08:32:32 +0000

let me start with dexed. a great synth a great sound. when you find all the extra sound patches online it is more than you can go through anytime soon. I use it with reverb (usually the abelton one), plus waves RBASS, which gives synths a great depth and weight to them. there are some wonderful sounds on that that are a real game changer. I don’t mess with settings, give me presets all day.
which leads me to……
SURGE,
that thing is absolutely no joke! I can’t say enough great things about it. the PRESETS are so many I don’t think I will go through them all anytime soon. just amazing depth of sound and on this one I will tweak a knob or two, but usually just try out presets and if I find one I like I dwell on that one for the day. same thing, waves RBASS for bottom end umph and reverb (the galactic reverb is awesome, got it on sale. the decay time is 35,000 which is super long but you can still keep clarity of sound with all that reverb which is amazing)
I love both of those a lot. surge is really something special. along with valhalla supermassive, they deserve awards or something.

By: bmovie

bmovie — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 21:34:44 +0000

Just a warning that in the last couple of years, OB-Xd went from being completely freeware to a “free for non commercial use” model. Since 99% of all the other free virtual synths that I’m aware of don’t have that limitation, I wouldn’t consider it a free synth anymore… :(

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:43:44 +0000

In reply to Yousif. Hi Yousif, thanks for sharing your thoughts. And you are right, Oatmeal is old, but it's a great synthesizer. Thanks for the reminder. I will add it to the list.

By: Yousif

Yousif — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 01:00:26 +0000

Fuzzpilz Oatmeal is the most underrated synth ever. it is so good despite its slight inconsistencies. to me it is defintely top 4 after surge, vital and zebralette.

By: chess

chess — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 14:31:58 +0000

In reply to Tomislav Zlatic. Can I run SuperWave products on Mac OSX? Unfortunately no, all our products are for PC only and run on the Microsoft Windows operating system.

By: Numanoid

Numanoid — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 18:00:16 +0000

Life has seldom been so good for skint bedroom producers :-) Anybody can make a noise without spending any money on software

By: headnoizze

headnoizze — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:04:37 +0000

thanks a lot ! <3
but i have a problem with Vital that can't switch the presets.

By: Jeffrey Price

Jeffrey Price — Tue, 04 May 2021 01:18:56 +0000

In reply to Tom. The article says that Synth1 has hundreds of presets...I have 16,000 presets for Synth1! There is even a Synth1 Librarian to sort and manage all the presets.

By: BE VERY WARY OF GARY

BE VERY WARY OF GARY — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:48:54 +0000

In reply to Marc Croxx. Like all Top Ten lists, this one is absolute fact and scientifically proven.