25 FREE VST Plugins - The BEST Free Plugins I've EVER Used for Music Production

on this channel i have reviewed hundreds of free vst plugins however there are very very few plugins that i actually keep on my computer and use them in my own productions so in this video i'm going to show you the 25 best free vst plugins i have ever used kicking it off with the ample bass p2 lite this is a free bass guitar plugin so i'm going to play it and as you can see an amazing guitar [Music] if i'm doing like a funky track or whatever i'm going for this is such a cool plug-in to mess around with i can also do it here i can adjust the tuning as well so it's a very very versatile free plug-in in addition i have tabs so i can play this [Music] i don't know tabs just being transparent on camera but i can easily adjust some of these if i want to and then obviously just going back to the main source i can adjust all these parameters here an extremely versatile bass plug-in number two is the abstract vox this is a really cool plugin when you first load it up as you can see click here to start i'm gonna go to factory and similar to when you have like a percussion setting on a keyboard where c is a kick c sharp is a snare d is a hi-hat or whatever it is same idea where if i play it now it's all different vocal or vox samples [Applause] [Music] right really really cool then when i click the individual box which i suggest you do so like if i'm doing box 38 and i'll see i've been i've heard of most of these but not all these i can now adjust it by pitch so [Music] and there's a bunch of genres too everything from rock to pop to hip hop to some electronic to some that are more ambient some even trippy like that one a little trippy this is alter ego this is honestly probably the coolest freebsd plugin i've ever used a lot of times people ask me like hey mark you reviewed hundreds of free plug-ins if you have to pick one only one which one would you say is the best and it'd be tough to pick exactly one but alter ego might be that one just because this is such an amazing plug-in where i can type in any lyrics that i want and it will sing it back to me so select your alter ego your altar select your altar i can do chords and what's cool is the more you use this plug-in the more you can get used to playing it and not only creating your own lyrics but your own vocal melody so i could do [Music] like [Music] in addition i have two different packs of bones and mary or a bunch of weird ones i can do so [Music] some of them very trippy as you can see that one's super trippy i do like the choir under bones and then we have the diva and then under mary orrick i can do the dramatic for example there we go in addition i have all these different sets in terms of controls for the voice the stack the setup modulations that i can do mixing and then also just the about me page and then i can just a lot of things here too this plug-in is one of those plugins that just blows my mind as to how is this plug-in free next we have cloud room this is super cool because there's a ton of piano plugins out there especially free ones there's a bunch of free orchestral plugins out there but to find a steel tongue drum plug-in especially one with this impressive gui and this impressive sound quality is just unreal so i'm just going to play it really really cool i have these four different settings right here as you can see so i can adjust them within the mix and then in addition i have a 5-band eq a compressor a stereo delay and reverb so it's amazing that if you don't have any of these effects in your daw you can quickly do it here i have two different settings i've sustained and then i have mute so countries are more like a pluck [Music] turn reverb off actually so you can hear this dry and the delay as well let me turn that off so you can hear dry [Music] and as you can see here with the gui depending on what note i hit shows it here so if i do this i can click around now we have the bbc symphony orchestra this is another one similar to alter ego where i just don't know how this is free this is hands on the best free orchestra period just going to play [Music] we have the violins loaded up and this is almost like a romper plug-in too so the way it's processed which is amazing is as you can see either the full-on orchestra so i can click i can do violins i can do shelley i can do oboz and when i play it you'll notice it's also kind of pre-mixed in a sense or if i play violins one you notice there's more emphasis on the left if i do chili more emphasis on the right so if i'm writing a full on orchestral arrangement it's already pre kind of mixed in a sense as you can see it's similar to this if i do a tenor or bass drum bone let's do that you know all the way on the right and then if i do horns more on the left so it's really cool in terms of the way that's already done but then the sound quality for each one of these is the best i mean honestly i mean whether it's flutes elbows [Music] clarinets and then i have different articulation settings here so if i go to violins and here are all the instruments that we have just scrolling through them quick it's truly a super versatile plug-in with everything you need for anything or cash drill next is the camel crusher this is an amazing bit crusher slash distortion style plug-in so i have this one sample or preset i guess loaded up in serum this is my main one that i use any single time i'm comparing different effects or free effects vsd plugins so it's going to turn it on so you can already tell there's a lot to this plugin you have distortion filter compressor and the master and i have a few different presets here so i'm just going to kind of click around and play them so it completely distorts and does all this unique crazy stuff to the sound so especially if you're doing any dubstep music or left field base like say like res or blank or uh 1788l that kind of style of music now we have the diablo light this one mainly is two knobs but don't let the simplicity fool you this is an amazing drum enhancer plug-in similar to camera crusher where you take a sample and you can do a bunch of stuff to it but with this one it's amazing especially for kicks or snares any super punchy hit that you want but you can also use it for vocals for synthesizers you know so showing you it i'm going to play this kick sample right now if i want to use this plug-in as you can see a very very cool guitar like so i can add punch and then i can add a clip softer hard of course so i can do this you can instantly add some umph into any element in your track and this plug-in uses amazing algorithms to make it way more punchy and way more intense so let's say if i want to do this to a snare for example because i'm doing like a heavy heavy dubstep song i'm just gonna do this as well so right now turning this on everything maxed out next is dsk saxophones being honest this has two different saxophone settings you have soprano and tenor i personally just use a soprano i actually don't like the tenor setting just being transparent on camera but playing it amazing sax quality i'll turn up with the reverb [Music] and i'll show you the tenor as well i'm just not the big fan of this tenor sound this is m voice one this plugin is unreal because what you can do is type in any lyrics that you want and it will sing it back to you so it's like a text-to-speech plugin but you can also create as you can see vocal melodies for your lyrics you have two different voices you have lucy and jay so let's make some lyrics so i typed in these lyrics i walked down the street i walked down the street okay but what's cool about this is you can now create vocal melodies so let's say i'm doing this in c minor i'll just do this right real quick and then let's add this in here and let's go back down to the c so it sounds like this now i walk down the street i can even add more weird things so let's see i can do this and then let's do this and then let's maybe make this here i walk down the street when you're adding some more notes sometimes it adds in this like la la la afterwards it's kind of cool that will create its own little extra melody on top of it so i can do this i walk down the street la la la la and i can customize this as much as i want so i want to do this because i want to do something like along these lines i'll delete some of this and then say you want to go something like that i walk down the street i um like that i walk down the street i can do this for j or a guy as well now so i'm just gonna make another one so we're let's say an f here so i might switch up the vocal melody a little bit so i'll just do here kind of do so much what i did before so let's do this right i walk down the street and i can customize it as much as i want next up we have the ethereal wins harp 2. this is amazing because i feel like finding like i said before an orchestral previously plug-in it's pretty common but finding a harp super difficult so if you want to harp in my traction i've used this plugin in a lot of my songs add some reverb on that as well [Music] the iota mini this is a super underrated plug-in that's especially good for trap music or anything hip-hop related as well but you can use it for so many different genres so so what's cool about it's like a romper plug-in for trap and hip-hop music but again you can use this for so many genres so as you can see we have 808 basses bells guitars keys pads pluck synths and then trap drum kit so then i'm showing you some bells [Music] it's an amazing plugin for any type of [Music] music i want some tropical vibes in there i'm gonna do some keys [Music] and show me some pads for example and then plucks [Music] then synthesizers and then now we have trap drum kit so the gui instantly changes showing you a couple different ones so what's amazing about this plug-in is you could easily make an entire song using only the iota mini next up we have the izotope vinyl this is a really really cool vinyl distortion plug-in that can do a lot of different things especially if you think oh i just want the vinyl sound or some final scratching or dust in your track this can go way more in depth than just that so i'm assure you so we have a few different settings here so mechanical noise then i have where this i actually need a sample so i'll grab um let's go back to here i guess maybe some vocals space bass i want to use that right face face so i have space and then where so it's a lot more subtle right then i have electrical noise dust turn up the amount all right then we have scratching which i'm not gonna lie doesn't sound too pleasant and then we have warp depth so base base bass bass bass and so we'll go be you kind of bring it down right also the sample's a little bit short input gain output gain then we have the year and the rpm so it's kind of cool if i do this for example just showing you like in just a year which is really cool and then the warp model depending on what i'm going for the key zone classic this is easily one of my most used piano plugins because one you have a bunch of features here as you can already see and then two i have five different styles of piano so playing the main one we have the key zone piano the yamaha grand [Music] the steinway the basic electric piano [Music] and then lastly the rhodes piano you download one piano plug and you get five amazing pianos or five different programs and all these amazing settings to customize it the cashmere essentials kick is a really really cool free plug-in that's almost a mini subset of the big plug-in or the cashmere essentials vst the cashmere released and this one is similar to the diablo one that i showed you by cymatix where you can customize a lot of drum samples what i like about this one is with the diablo one it's meant just to put some more oomph into that kick drum or into any sample that you're using it for with the cashmere centrist kick as you can see i have eight different parameters that i can use to adjust any kick so just playing it all right use that same one so turning on now you can see the wave like so or the frequency here so as you can see now i have eight different ways to customize this so showing you i've sub now i've mid then i have air so it seems more on the high end i'll make this about 100 again and then excuse transients then i have tape pressure compression and then width which i don't know why to use with just being honest it's kind of a weird one to have but [Music] spitfire audio labs this is making massive waves when it comes to free vst plug-ins think of this similar to contact where you download the main program which is spitfire audio labs but then you can download all these different packs or instrument packs or sample packs to put into it so this i have load up right now is the trumpet field let's do like the nice and steady preset and these all have amazing sound quality so now i'll show you the other ones that i have so i have choir [Music] reminds me so much of halo so as you can see it's more of like a long almost i'm saying i guess ambi it could work ambient south choir where it's not this vocal one shot like oh it's more of a subtle and then lastly i have the deal slimmer there's a bunch of fan once they have these are just the main packs i decided to download [Music] show you the different presets as well [Music] what's amazing like i said about the spitfire audio labs is you down this completely for free and all these packs are also free as well and they have a ton on their site and they're always adding as well more onto the site so you have so much depth and possibility within this plug-in the mt power jump kit 2 is an amazing free plug-in for a bunch of different reasons now first off i love the sound quality so i'm just going to play [Music] in addition you may notice that there is some stereo width so [Music] right more on the right side on the left side so when i go to mixer these are already pre-mixed and adjusted and that's amazing because let's say you're like mark i'm sorry i don't really understand mixing yet i don't even know what you're talking about you don't have to worry about it because this plug-in has already kind of pre-mixed all the different elements so we're making drum samples or drum grooves you don't really have to worry about any mixing or anything like that so i'm gonna go back to the main jump kit the one thing i will say i think the snare when i've used this is a little bit high i think i would do this just being honest just subtly yeah a little bit better unless you want the snare to be super punchy but i feel like compared to dubstep where i want the snare to punch through the mix almost aggressively if i'm using this plugin typically the snares wants to be more balanced i think in the mix [Music] and then in addition you now have grooves so this is amazing too let's say i'm gonna go to intro i'm gonna go to the first one right and i can play him [Music] so now i'm adding in fills here and i can now drop grooves here so i can [Music] right put this in afterwards i mean it makes it it takes two seconds as you saw and i'm not a percussionist i'm gonna be honest it takes two seconds to drag and drop listen to all these unique grooves here as you can see and then some fills on top of the grooves and make all these amazing drum melodies next up we have the powerful pendulate this is just a super unique synthesizer and there's a ton of free synthesizers out there but there's nothing like this one because it has these unique settings in the background as you can see with chaos and mount chaos shape and as they say on their site this is basically a chaotic synthesizer so playing it [Music] so any type of weird experimental especially based music this is your go-to plug-in so i'll just show you some of the presets so as you can see the gui is super unique too and all these kind of odd settings that it has which makes it a fun plug and mess around because as you can see i have chaos amount chaos shape and also use some routing too but and then i can do this [Music] the wave folder the symmetry and then i can also route this however i want we were just looking at a super bass heavy experimental style synth now going to the complete opposite spectrum of music we have serenity which is a meditative slash new age or soundscape style plugin and what i love about this plugin is the fact that there's so many free like i said so many free piano plugins out there so many free synthesizers and i love plugins that are just super unique in what they make and this is perfect for any type of meditative songs you have three different paths a texture and then six different sound effects or ambiances so i'll start with those so showing you i have grasshoppers and i can adjust the level here and the panning so you can do right or left right birds some white noise or wind rain ocean waves and then like water i guess the best way to board that and then we have the pad so i'm to play pad one it's a really cool texture behind this one then we have pad two [Music] and then pad three and then lastly the texture so now turn them all off i'll just you know let's do this so if i'm making some meditative style songs or let's say i just want some unique start to my track and i'm even doing a tropical house song and i just want a cool little almost ambient start before it kind of builds up i can do something like this let's turn on right some ocean waves add in something like that right there's some white noise too now i have this serpo is a really really cool rompler style plugin where if i click this as you can see we have a bunch of samples now i'm not gonna lie some of them are really not that good some of them are super unique and that's what i like about this plug-in is kind of random so if i do trumpet i don't like that sound quality at all just being honest but some of the other ones for example the uh the harmonica [Music] it's a little bit cheesy but it's a cool sound i like the sound texture of that it reminds me a lot because you ever played simcity 3000 that kind of i don't know old-school jazzy cynthia jazzy style songs but now i can go to the vocals especially this is actually my favorite part of serpo is these serialanka vocals and the marissa vocals are playing them [Music] and let's go to marissa [Music] i like the kind of robotic element near the end of that financial drum and that one's all right like i said some of these are really really good some of these are bit mac very fat base upright base organ dart then we have vibes put this back to zero and then suit electric guitar not the best right so some of these you have to mess around some of them are like i said are really good some of them are bad but i love the fact that you can download this one plug and have all these right at your disposal when i first got the valhalla super massive i messed around this one forever super cool so i have this dresser plug-in pulled up again like i used before so now let's turn this on so this is an amazing blend of a reaver plug-in and a delay plug-in and almost like a weird pitch shifter style plug-in so let's use some of these weird presets and i've a bunch of modes here too but let's do some like weird ones [Music] can you do some really weird stuff let's do like a let's do a flanger there then we can do reverbs let's do like a medium one start let's do massive let's do dark matter sounds cool repeating echoes with huge reverb oh don't hear that one um all these are like have very unique names too oh that's kind of weird kind of like takes a while very you know long attack but it's cool that you start with one simple sound and what this like you can do with it in terms of manipulating it and messing around with it and just adjusting it however you want is amazing i am still in shock that contact player is still free in case you haven't used contact i've mentioned it before and it's time about spitfire audio labs it's a legendary plug-in and this is completely free when you download just contact player and you can import various different instrument packs into this so as you can see the main three it comes with is kinetic treats contact factory selection and the play series selection so i'll just play some of these right so let's do this again all free kind of weird and chippy and then i have the factory selection so i can do one of these i'll just do jazz organ [Music] and let's do one from the play series selection i'll do ethereal earth sounds kind of cool [Music] and then lastly i'll show you the project sam free orchestra this is the only instrument pack i've downloaded so far within contact as you can see these three come with it so this is the project sam free orchestra it's an unreal free almost cinematic i'll say cinematics orchestra set amazing sound quality for all these samples and there's a bunch of unique kind of sounds in this one so just showing you it [Music] it was cool it also has some like weird almost scary sounds [Music] like if i was doing like a movie score or something like that this would be my go-to weird drone style stuff like some weird ambiance especially for anything horror this would be really cool to use next we have the la petite excite this is a free exciter plug-in and being honest this is really the only free exciter plug-in i've ever used it works very very well it's really one-of-a-kind in my opinion so i'm gonna turn it off i'm gonna play this vocal sample i need you the most and this is amazing especially for vocals if i want to do some excitement and i will say be very careful when turning up all the parameters on this because it's a very sensitive plug-in but show me the high need you the most like say you want to boost the high end i need you the most and then fcv if i'm gonna do a little compression on that one i do the mode right so i'll show you especially with an eq i think it's a good way to see this and again this is amazing let's see if i want to do any type of excitement within any element in my track again particularly i use this a lot for vocals so need you a lot more high end and then the cd helps compress you the most i just want to add a little bit more excitement than i have low as well but i don't really use low being honest usually more for the high end but need you the mo need you the most so you can hear a little bit more low end but again this one's mainly for just the high end sometimes i only do a little bit just a little smudge to add a little more high end into my vocals next is the ozone imager i'm gonna use the same exact sample so the knee to the mode and as you can see this plug-in is very good for a couple different reasons one i can adjust the width i can sterilize something and i have the vector scope so i actually use this one sometimes just for the vector scope because i love the visual-ness in terms of my stereo width of an element in my track i need you the most all right showing the polar level need you the most and then the lisa joust i hope i'm pronouncing that correctly need you the most so let's say if i want to add more stereo width to this vocal sample turn this up all the way need you the most and as you can see it's now bigger you do the most then if i do this or i can make it super you know narrow me do the most now as you can see with this one there's not too much to it with so i can stereoize it this is excellent unless i have something in mono and i want to put it in stereo so i'm going to turn this on i'll just max it out so if these stereo eyes turned up all the way and i'm going to go max out so let's hear it need you the most now you can clearly see there's a lot on the sides and that's just amazing with this plug-in like i said if i have something like this that actually is pretty narrow and let's say i want to be more of a full-on stair with i might turn this off all the way and then just slowly turn up the web i do the most i need you the more i need you the most that way the stereo width is now heavily increased and i can also do it the other way let's say i have an element that is too much stereo width and i want it more square in the track i can do this i need you the most and as you can see it's super narrow and has no stereo width next up is the vox and go msed this one has a special place in my heart because this is actually the first ever free vst plugin i ever downloaded and i remember being like wait a minute i can download this and it's free i don't have to spend money on it and that blew my mind that's actually what sparked this channel and this whole series of me reviewing freebsd plugins oh because this one so i'm going to play this vocal sample again need you the most and you may be warning you have a mid-side plug-in here but also it's the same thing with ozone imager now for me i actually use these sometimes together in terms of this one and the ozone imager or sometimes separately what i like about this plug-in is i can really adjust the mid and the side as you can see here very almost aggressively so i've got this do the most i can do this right and especially let's say something already has a lot of side or a lot of stereo width to it i can push this super far need you the most or the exact opposite need you the most but i can also do this with mid so i can do this need you the most right very very loud because obviously you know has a lot of mid to the sample and then this and i like that because with the ozone imager sometimes i can only adjust the width too much either way but with this plug-in i feel like i can really really push it then obviously i can add some mid pan and some side pane and then lastly the mid mute or the side mute so let's see if i'm doing some mastering on my track and it's actually very very common for mastering where what i'll do is i'll parallel process this on my master chain and i'll do one would be kind of mid and then the other one will be side i'll show you then what i'll do is i'll go to mid and i'll mute the side i'll go to side right here and i'll mute the mid so now if i sew the mid let me do the most i'm just hearing the middle and if i'm doing side right let me sew aside i'm just showing the side so that way when i'm actually mastering my tracks i can actually split up using this particular plugin the mid and the side and i can affect them however i want and then lastly but definitely not least number 25 saving the best for last is the vital plugin i still don't know how this is free not only is this hands down the best free synthesizer in terms of all the free synths that are out there but this arguably might be the best synth ever made beating out massive serum phase plan and all these other paid synth vst plugins so i'm just going to play some of these amazing presets i'm just going to show you a bunch of [Music] them [Music] this plugin is especially good for dubstep or any type of experimenter or bass music [Music] and as you can see too you can add a lot of depth into these plug-ins or enter me into this plug-in in terms of all the different macro settings that i can kind of adjust all the routing i mean the effects as well it's insane what this plug-in has again i'm just showing you a bunch of presets and then last one i'll show you again i could go on for a while that's a very long tail is the text to wave table this in itself i feel like just makes this plug-in super fun to work with because what i can do is type in anything when i go to text to wave table i just type in vine just to relive the old vine days which by the way i love that out but you don't know why they got rid of it but anyway so i can play it now [Music] i can adjust this in the lfo so i can do [Music] or i can do this way lie lie i can do chords vine vine vine i can now just the vocal order too so i'll bring this down here and then one of my favorite parts of the text to wave table function is i can do this in reverse so again i'm going to play it [Music] fine in full now i can do this bring this up here and now it's going to play it backwards and this is just one small feature in the amazingness that is the vital synth arguably the best free vst plugin ever made [Music] [Laughter] up

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Length: 36min 14sec (2174 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 24 2021