Best best vsts on Reddit
174 reviews from r/FL_Studio, r/trapproduction, r/TechnoProduction and 13 more subreddits
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#1
Serum
5.0
(15)
"Paid: Serum, Jst Sub Destroyer. Free: Vital (you should really check this one out)"
"Serum"
"Serum powerful vst, lot of good quality stock presets."
"Serum, sylenth, nexus"
"Serum, Omnisphere, nexus."
"S E R U M"
"Serum, it has a lot of good presets."
"Serum. There’s presets available for pretty much every genre."
"Sylenth and Serum are lightweight and get the job done for all necessary sounds."
"Serum and omni"
#2
Vital
5.0
(11)
"Vital is the best if you know what the knobs and shapes mean."
"Serum, vital, and surge xt for heavy sound-design."
"Vital (Free)"
"Also ofcourse vital since it's way too powerful for a free synth"
"Serum and Vital. Those two are the ones I use the most."
"Serum. Though Vital is just as good."
"Vital aint too bad for a free plugin imo"
"Vital. Basically Serum (one of the most popular paid synths), but better."
"If you are looking for synths serum and vital are generally used across all genres."
"Vital synth."
#3
Arturia
4.7
(9)
"Arturia (minimoog, jun6, jup8, cmi v, wurli)"
"Analog Lab along with the Arturia Collection."
"Arturia V collection has them all plus more."
"Pigments is good."
"The synth I would recommend at the moment is Arturia Pigments."
"I started using Arturia Efx Fragments as a send for drums."
"Combined with Arturia's Coldfire distortion."
"U-He Diva, Arturia Analog Labs and Serum."
"That and the Arturia Collection."
#4
Omnisphere
5.0
(6)
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
"Omnisphere, Pigments 4 and Phase Plant."
"Maybe you would need to check out Omnisphere."
"Omnisphere 😁😁"
"Can’t go wrong with omnisphere."
"Omni no doubt."
#5
Unfiltered Audio
5.0
(6)
"Unfiltered audio silo, triad and spec ops are pretty bonkers."
"Unfiltered audio silo, triad and spec ops are pretty bonkers."
"Unfiltered audio silo, triad and spec ops are pretty bonkers."
"I really like stuff from Unfiltered Audio like Sandman Pro and Fault!"
"I really like stuff from Unfiltered Audio like Sandman Pro and Fault!"
"SpecOps by Unfiltered audio - quite interesting FX processor."
#6
FabFilter
4.8
(6)
"EQ Fabfilter Pro-Q3"
"If you have the fab filter pack, check out it's synth called 'One'."
"Anything by fabfilter and valhalla, serum, vital, khs bundle, DST is kinda trendy rn for me"
"Imho FabFilter, Serum, Valhalla Reverb."
"Probably fab filter and serum."
"Another vst I use a lot is Twin 2 by Fab Filter."
#7
U-He
4.8
(6)
"I highly recommend Uhe Diva."
"U-HE collection (Diva, Hive, Bazille, Zebra)"
"U-He Repro 5 (Prophet 5)"
"U-HE Hive 2 for Synth and MackEQ by Airwindows for dirty drums are some of my favorite Plugins."
"U-He Diva, Arturia Analog Labs and Serum."
"U-he's Diva is probably the best virtual analog soft synth out there."
#8
Soundtoys
4.8
(6)
"Trash 2, Echoboy, Decapitator, Filterfreak, Moog synths."
"1. Trash 2 - (with multi band functionality for saturation, compression, distortion and more this plugin is 100% worth the price.)"
"Definitely anything by soundtoys."
"Crystallizer by sound toys is pretty unique."
"Can't go wrong with soundtoys."
"Aswell even Soundtoys Echoboy you can use for interesting audio changes with some FX."
#9
Kontakt
4.8
(5)
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
"Kontakt"
"Kontakt!"
"Kontakt > Omnisphere (as of late imo)."
"Kontakt, Nexus, Effectrix, Xpand2, ElectraX i got some sauce if you can trade."
#10
TAL
4.8
(5)
"I also hold the free and commercial TAL VST's in high esteem."
"My personal recommendations would be The TAL Juno clone, Sylenth1, and/or Serum."
"I just got the TAL Juno and TB-101 emulations and they are awesome!"
"Tal-filter (free lfo-effect)."
"I personally recommend TAL Noisemaker and MinimogueVA."
#11
Analog Lab
5.0
(4)
"Analog Lab, hands down."
"For synth sounds analog lab is great and if you want to make your own sounds serum or vital."
"Analog lab"
"Analog lab v is sooo good."
#12
Spitfire Audio
5.0
(4)
"Check out Spitfire Audio."
"Spitfire audio’s LABS is super high quality, definitely recommended."
"Spitfire is the company, Labs is the name of the vst"
"The Spitfire Labs is great for Joji style lofi music."
#13
Output
5.0
(4)
"Output Thermal."
"I'm a big fan of Output Portal and Thermal for audio manipulation and crazy sound changes."
"I'm a big fan of Output Portal and Thermal for audio manipulation and crazy sound changes."
"Output Exhale."
#14
Purity
4.5
(4)
"I've been using Purity for a lot of R&B."
"Purity and xpand2 gonna be all you need man."
"I’ve been using purity for those Detroit basses."
"Purity, zenology and serum are my personal go to plugins for that style."
#15
Surge XT
5.0
(3)
"Best free ones: surge xt (my fav) and sytrus."
"Instruments: surge xt, arturia (minimoog, jun6, jup8, cmi v, wurli), labs, kontakt"
"SurgeXT. Sounds brilliant, free and open source."
#16
Valhalla
5.0
(3)
"Compressor Lots of choices but I'll roll with the MJUC reverb Valhalla vintage verb"
"Valhalla - all their free stuff."
"Valhalla has a couple free FX plug-ins (supermassive and freq shifter) that sound pretty nice."
#17
Freakshow Industries
5.0
(3)
"Weird one, but I really like Dumpster Fire from Freakshow Industries"
"Freakshow industries, their FXs are just so good."
"Everything from Freakshow Industries is pretty wild."
#18
Kilohearts
4.7
(3)
"Kilohearts phaseplant is probably the most capable synth on the market"
"Kilo Hearts 'Phase Plant' along with Snap Heap and Multipass."
"If you are a fan of serum, check out kilohearts phase plant."
#19
Tyrell
4.7
(3)
"Tyrell N6, Ob-XD."
"Tyrell is a good, multipurpose free synth."
"Dexed and Tyrell by UH-E both have good analog synth (80s) presets."
#20
Softube
4.7
(3)
"Softube Model 72 (Model D)"
"Softube Model 84 (Juno 106)"
"Enjoy things that don't follow the usual workflow like softube parallels."
#21
Xpand2
4.3
(3)
"I would say xpand2."
"Xpand2 and Serum are dope."
"Try xpand2, definitely would have a good enough selection."
#22
Nexus
4.3
(3)
"I’ve been going crazy with Nexus recently."
"If you're not good at sound design then i'd recommend a rompler like nexus"
"Nexus is most known for great hip hop sounds."
#23
Ableton
4.3
(3)
"Abletons grain delay and erosion is on another level for sound design."
"Grain Delay on Ableton, completely underrated."
"If you use Ableton, Operator is an amazingly powerful synth."
#24
Glitchmachines
4.3
(3)
"All the plugins by Glitchmachines are wild."
"Glitchmachines Fracture and Hysteresis."
"Glitchmachines Fracture and Hysteresis."
#25
Sonic Charge
4.3
(3)
"Sonic Charge - Synplant. You can get some pretty fucked up sounds from that thing."
"Sonic Charge PerMut8."
"I also like Echobode from Sonic Charge."
#26
Sylenth1
3.7
(3)
"Sylenth1 is a great VST."
"Sylenth and Serum are lightweight and get the job done for all necessary sounds."
"Don't get Sylenth1 on God it's horrible."
#27
Spitfire
5.0
(2)
"Spitfire audio is the best."
"Spitfire is a beginning place."
#28
Crystal
5.0
(2)
"Crystal: [http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/dnld2.html]"
"Especially Crystal with its 'preset breeding' is pretty useful for finding cool sounds."
#29
Massive
5.0
(2)
"I like Massive by Native Instruments."
"MASSIVE, electraX, serum, gladiator, dune2, icarus, sytrus, harmor, harmless, sylenth1, omnisphere, Kontakt, nexus2, etc.."
#30
Super Audio Cart
5.0
(2)
"Yes you could check out the Super Audio Cart vst."
"Super Audio Cart! It was designed with the idea of retro game sounds."
#31
Portal
5.0
(2)
"Portal, serum, analog lab v"
"Portal is god tier."
#32
Shaperbox
5.0
(2)
"Shaperbox 3"
"Nobody is mentioning SHAPERBOX 3!!!"
#33
Trillian
5.0
(2)
"Trillian."
"+1 Trillian Bass."
#34
Diva
5.0
(2)
"I have Diva and V-Collection and they're both excellent."
"Diva."
#35
Analog Obsession
5.0
(2)
"I am loving Analog Obsessions CHANNEV"
"Bx_subfilter, sk10, edge, Analog Obsession's Lovend."
#36
iZotope
5.0
(2)
"Izotope - imager (and vinyl I think)."
"Izotope vinyl (if you plan on doing lo-fi, you'll really want this effect-plugin)."
#37
Eventide
5.0
(2)
"I have enjoyed the heck out of Eventide and SSL plugins."
"I discovered Eventide's Blackhole recently."
#38
Keyscape
4.5
(2)
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
"Keyscape."
#39
Dexed
4.5
(2)
"Dexed."
"Dexed and Tyrell by UH-E both have good analog synth (80s) presets."
#40
CamelCrusher
4.5
(2)
"CamelCrusher (Free)"
"CamelCrusher (Martin Garrix uses it so I got it and its pretty nice for saturating and distorting stuff)."
#41
Spire
4.5
(2)
"Spire"
"Spire."
#42
Xpand!2
4.5
(2)
"Xpand!2 is on sale rn at pluginboutique."
"Xpand2 , Zenology , Spire , Sylenth , Electrax , Kontakt , Arcade"
#43
Native Instruments
4.5
(2)
"Komplete start package by native instruments (nice instrument pack)."
"Komplete Start by native instruments."
#44
CineBrass
4.5
(2)
"In terms of orchestral composition, nobody really uses anything listed already except for Cinebrass."
"Cinebrass Core and Cinebrass Pro are a few years old at this point, but still pretty great."
#45
ZynAddSubFX
5.0
(1)
"Yes Zynaddsubfx is awesome! I pretty much use it on every track I make."
#46
K200
5.0
(1)
"K200: [http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=K200&id=2477]"
#47
RC-20
5.0
(1)
"RC-20 Retro Colour effect plugins to get old lofi sound."
#48
efemme
5.0
(1)
"Efemme: [http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=eFemme&id=802]"
#49
Addictive Keys
5.0
(1)
"The 'grand noir' preset in the Addictive Keys VST is great for melancholy sounding joji style piano chords."
#50
Musical Sampling
5.0
(1)
"For fast-moving stuff I love Musical Sampling's Adventure Brass."
#51
Moog
5.0
(1)
"Moog Mariana is great."
#52
Auddict
5.0
(1)
"I really like Master Brass: https://www.auddict.com/master-brass"
#53
Sonatina
4.0
(1)
"Sonatina makes some ok freebies for orchestral sounds."
#54
KVXI
4.0
(1)
"Get good analog lab V basses. I use the free kvxi kits and there's some good basses in there"
#55
NI
4.0
(1)
"NI Symphony Series Brass. The Essentials version is also great."
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