Oversampled - Jul 10 2024
Top FREE COOLEST Plug-ins for 2024 (shouldn’t be free)
We browsed the whole internet and found the most unique, useful, and most importantly, FREE plugins. We've tested more than a hundred of them and picked out only the ones that are unique, useful, and produce high-quality sound. We've skipped all the plugins that were boring, poorly designed, and sounded low quality, focusing only on those with a premium feel.
Watch this video to see the tools in action:
1. Ghost Radio by Quilcom
About: This plugin sounds like it's straight from a horror movie. It allows you to play your sounds as if they're coming out of a mysterious ghost radio.
music-society.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Quilcom-GHOST-RADIO-v1.005.zip
2. The Meyer Choir by Somerville Sounds
About: This is the most natural and alive sounding choir instrument we've ever encountered. It's been sang by the Meyer family, by Jon, Sandy, Austin & Luke.
somervillesounds.com/meyer_choir
3. Pitchmunk by Vox Samples
About: Pitchmunk is a pitch & formant shifter with a high quality pitch module. You can pitch shift your sounds or you can shift the whole song to spark some new ideas. Formant module works nicely on vocals, but it's not limited to that usage.
voxsamples.com/products/free-pitchmunk-pitch-shifter-plugin
4. Visco by Forever 89
About: This is a very unique sound morphing & altering tool that lets you combine 2 sounds together, alter them with built in parameters & shift them using a weird blob.
forever89.studio (scroll down to download, install & use it, donation is optional)
5. The Masker by Cinemystics
About: This plugin lets you carve the space for sound A with sound's B frequencies allowing you to stop these sounds from colliding with each other.
www.lim.di.unimi.it/download/vst/themasker/TheMasker.zip
6. Sonobus by Sonosaurus
About: Sonobus lets you stream it's incomming signal to another instance of Sonobus allowing you to playback sounds on your phone or on another machine without a need for exporting & transfering.
sonobus.net
7. Transpire by Sonic Anomaly
About: Transpire is a transient shaper that allows you to control the transients (make them snappier or softer) & tails (make them snappier or squashed) of your sounds. What differentiates
web.archive.org/web/20190926213601/http://www.sonic.supermaailma.net/plugins
8. S Doubler by Solider Sound
About: S Doubler is a plugin that multiplies your sound creating a wide chorus-like effect. What makes it unique is its unique sound.
solidersound.com
9. Refire by Outobugi
About: This is a knock-off of a KNOCK (get it ?) plugin by DECAP. It's mainly used to process drums, it adds punch, heaviness, can lengthen lows, add clarity & eventualy clip the sounds using a clipper. It's a all-in-one tool for processing weak sounding drums, although that's not its limit.
www.kvraudio.com/product/refire-by-outobugi
10. Prism by Tokyo Dawn Records
About: Prism by TDR is a spectrum analyzer with beautiful graphics. It lets you preview and enjoy the looks of your sounds or a song, allowing you to analyze multiple sound parameters.
www.tokyodawn.net/tdr-prism
11. Ozone 11 Equalizer by Native Instruments
About: A decent alternative for your stock EQ. A proper looking GUI can influence your EQing process and this EQ looks pretty nice. Professional look will make your EQing an enjoyable experience.
www.native-instruments.com/en/products/izotope/ozone-11-eq
12. ZL Equalizer by ZL Audio
About: A free dynamic EQ with 16 bands (TDR Nova has 4). This type of EQ allows you to control the frequencies dynamically based on their input volume letting you compress frequencies only when they reach a certain threshold level instead of continuously decreasing their volume.
github.com/ZL-Audio/ZLEqualizer/releases/tag/0.3.1
You need FREE sounds for these plugins:
You need some sounds to put the plugins on! Some of our free (but premium) tools that people find the most useful are: