Best best vsts on Reddit

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#1

Serum

5.0
(16)
"Paid: Serum, Jst Sub Destroyer. Free: Vital (you should really check this one out)"
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"Serum"
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"Serum powerful vst, lot of good quality stock presets."
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"Serum, sylenth, nexus"
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"Serum, Omnisphere, nexus."
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"S E R U M"
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"Serum. Serum is my go to for absolutely everything."
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"Serum, it has a lot of good presets."
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"Serum. There’s presets available for pretty much every genre."
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"Sylenth and Serum are lightweight and get the job done for all necessary sounds."
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#2

Vital

5.0
(13)
"+1 for Vital"
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"Vital, phase plant, surge xt."
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"Vital is the best if you know what the knobs and shapes mean."
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"Serum, vital, and surge xt for heavy sound-design."
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"Vital (Free)"
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"Also ofcourse vital since it's way too powerful for a free synth"
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"Serum and Vital. Those two are the ones I use the most."
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"Serum. Though Vital is just as good."
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"Vital aint too bad for a free plugin imo"
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"Vital. Basically Serum (one of the most popular paid synths), but better."
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#3

Arturia

4.7
(12)
"I love Auturia Effects Bundle. Comes with everything you to juice things up."
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"Arturia (minimoog, jun6, jup8, cmi v, wurli)"
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"Analog Lab along with the Arturia Collection."
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"Arturia V collection has them all plus more."
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"Arturia V collection 9 if you can stretch to the price."
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"Pigments is good."
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"The synth I would recommend at the moment is Arturia Pigments."
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"I started using Arturia Efx Fragments as a send for drums."
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"I would rather get Arturia V Collection X over Omnisphere."
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"Combined with Arturia's Coldfire distortion."
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#4

Omnisphere

5.0
(9)
"Omnisphere might fit what your looking for"
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"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
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"Omnisphere, Pigments 4 and Phase Plant."
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"Nesty has referenced Omnisphere in fairly recent YouTube videos."
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"FYI Omnisphere is from Spectrasonics."
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"Maybe you would need to check out Omnisphere."
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"Omnisphere 😁😁"
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"Can’t go wrong with omnisphere."
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"Omni no doubt."
#5

Soundtoys

4.9
(7)
"Trash 2, Echoboy, Decapitator, Filterfreak, Moog synths."
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"1. Trash 2 - (with multi band functionality for saturation, compression, distortion and more this plugin is 100% worth the price.)"
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"Anything sound toys is gas. Highly recommend getting effect rack."
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"Definitely anything by soundtoys."
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"Crystallizer by sound toys is pretty unique."
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"Can't go wrong with soundtoys."
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"Aswell even Soundtoys Echoboy you can use for interesting audio changes with some FX."
#6

Unfiltered Audio

5.0
(6)
"Unfiltered audio silo, triad and spec ops are pretty bonkers."
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"Unfiltered audio silo, triad and spec ops are pretty bonkers."
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"Unfiltered audio silo, triad and spec ops are pretty bonkers."
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"I really like stuff from Unfiltered Audio like Sandman Pro and Fault!"
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"I really like stuff from Unfiltered Audio like Sandman Pro and Fault!"
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"SpecOps by Unfiltered audio - quite interesting FX processor."
#7

TAL

4.8
(6)
"I also hold the free and commercial TAL VST's in high esteem."
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"My personal recommendations would be The TAL Juno clone, Sylenth1, and/or Serum."
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"I just got the TAL Juno and TB-101 emulations and they are awesome!"
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"1 tal 2 roland 3 diva 4 cherryaudio imho"
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"Tal-filter (free lfo-effect)."
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"I personally recommend TAL Noisemaker and MinimogueVA."
#8

Valhalla

5.0
(5)
"Compressor Lots of choices but I'll roll with the MJUC reverb Valhalla vintage verb"
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"Upvote for Valhalla Supermassive."
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"I find using any default vst even FL Keys and putting down some notes in a chord like an arpeggio, then putting Valhalla Shimmer on it, can create some great pads."
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"Valhalla - all their free stuff."
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"Valhalla has a couple free FX plug-ins (supermassive and freq shifter) that sound pretty nice."
#9

Kontakt

4.8
(5)
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
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"Kontakt"
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"Kontakt!"
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"Kontakt > Omnisphere (as of late imo)."
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"Kontakt, Nexus, Effectrix, Xpand2, ElectraX i got some sauce if you can trade."
#10

FabFilter

4.8
(5)
"Fabfilter twin 2"
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"Anything by fabfilter and valhalla, serum, vital, khs bundle, DST is kinda trendy rn for me"
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"Imho FabFilter, Serum, Valhalla Reverb."
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"Probably fab filter and serum."
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"Another vst I use a lot is Twin 2 by Fab Filter."
#11

U-He

4.8
(5)
"U-he’s free plugins from their website and from Computer Music magazine are professional-tier products and sound incredible."
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"I highly recommend Uhe Diva."
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"U-HE collection (Diva, Hive, Bazille, Zebra)"
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"U-He Diva, Arturia Analog Labs and Serum."
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"U-he's Diva is probably the best virtual analog soft synth out there."
#12

Purity

4.6
(5)
"I've been using Purity for a lot of R&B."
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"Purity, nexus, serum, triton"
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"Purity and xpand2 gonna be all you need man."
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"I’ve been using purity for those Detroit basses."
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"Purity, zenology and serum are my personal go to plugins for that style."
#13

Analog Lab

5.0
(4)
"Analog Lab, hands down."
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"For synth sounds analog lab is great and if you want to make your own sounds serum or vital."
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"Analog lab"
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"Analog lab v is sooo good."
#14

Output

5.0
(4)
"Output Thermal."
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"I'm a big fan of Output Portal and Thermal for audio manipulation and crazy sound changes."
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"I'm a big fan of Output Portal and Thermal for audio manipulation and crazy sound changes."
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"Output Exhale."
#15

Surge XT

5.0
(3)
"Best free ones: surge xt (my fav) and sytrus."
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"Instruments: surge xt, arturia (minimoog, jun6, jup8, cmi v, wurli), labs, kontakt"
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"SurgeXT. Sounds brilliant, free and open source."
#16

Spitfire Audio

5.0
(3)
"Spitfire audio’s LABS is super high quality, definitely recommended."
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"Spitfire is the company, Labs is the name of the vst"
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"The Spitfire Labs is great for Joji style lofi music."
#17

Freakshow Industries

5.0
(3)
"Weird one, but I really like Dumpster Fire from Freakshow Industries"
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"Freakshow industries, their FXs are just so good."
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"Everything from Freakshow Industries is pretty wild."
#18

Kilohearts

4.7
(3)
"Kilohearts phaseplant is probably the most capable synth on the market"
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"Kilo Hearts 'Phase Plant' along with Snap Heap and Multipass."
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"If you are a fan of serum, check out kilohearts phase plant."
#19

Tyrell

4.7
(3)
"Tyrell N6, Ob-XD."
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"Tyrell is a good, multipurpose free synth."
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"Dexed and Tyrell by UH-E both have good analog synth (80s) presets."
#20

Softube

4.7
(3)
"Softube Model 72 (Model D)"
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"Softube Model 84 (Juno 106)"
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"Enjoy things that don't follow the usual workflow like softube parallels."
#21

Nexus

4.3
(3)
"I’ve been going crazy with Nexus recently."
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"If you're not good at sound design then i'd recommend a rompler like nexus"
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"Nexus is most known for great hip hop sounds."
#22

Xpand2

4.3
(3)
"I would say xpand2."
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"Xpand2 and Serum are dope."
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"Try xpand2, definitely would have a good enough selection."
#23

Sonic Charge

4.3
(3)
"Sonic Charge - Synplant. You can get some pretty fucked up sounds from that thing."
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"Sonic Charge PerMut8."
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"I also like Echobode from Sonic Charge."
#24

Sylenth1

3.7
(3)
"Sylenth1 is a great VST."
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"Sylenth and Serum are lightweight and get the job done for all necessary sounds."
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"Don't get Sylenth1 on God it's horrible."
#25

Crystal

5.0
(2)
"Crystal: [http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/dnld2.html]"
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"Especially Crystal with its 'preset breeding' is pretty useful for finding cool sounds."
#26

Spitfire

5.0
(2)
"Spitfire audio is the best."
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"Spitfire is a beginning place."
#27

Pigments

5.0
(2)
"+1 for Pigments."
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"Pigments is dope for ambient sounds"
#28

Massive

5.0
(2)
"I like Massive by Native Instruments."
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"MASSIVE, electraX, serum, gladiator, dune2, icarus, sytrus, harmor, harmless, sylenth1, omnisphere, Kontakt, nexus2, etc.."
#29

Diva

5.0
(2)
"I have Diva and V-Collection and they're both excellent."
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"Diva."
#30

Shaperbox

5.0
(2)
"Shaperbox 3"
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"Nobody is mentioning SHAPERBOX 3!!!"
#31

Portal

5.0
(2)
"Portal, serum, analog lab v"
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"Portal is god tier."
#32

Super Audio Cart

5.0
(2)
"Yes you could check out the Super Audio Cart vst."
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"Super Audio Cart! It was designed with the idea of retro game sounds."
#33

Trillian

5.0
(2)
"Trillian."
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"+1 Trillian Bass."
#34

Dexed

4.5
(2)
"Dexed."
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"Dexed and Tyrell by UH-E both have good analog synth (80s) presets."
#35

Pitch Shifter

4.5
(2)
"PITCH SHIFTER is an amazing plugin bro I have several presets I made myself with it too; anywhere from transforming vocals to simply changing pitches and modulation."
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"I use it on instruments more than vocals. works really well on the right type if sound"
#36

Spire

4.5
(2)
"Spire"
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"Spire."
#37

Keyscape

4.5
(2)
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
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"Keyscape."
#38

Xpand!2

4.5
(2)
"Xpand!2 is on sale rn at pluginboutique."
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"Xpand2 , Zenology , Spire , Sylenth , Electrax , Kontakt , Arcade"
#39

CamelCrusher

4.5
(2)
"CamelCrusher (Free)"
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"CamelCrusher (Martin Garrix uses it so I got it and its pretty nice for saturating and distorting stuff)."
#40

CineBrass

4.5
(2)
"In terms of orchestral composition, nobody really uses anything listed already except for Cinebrass."
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"Cinebrass Core and Cinebrass Pro are a few years old at this point, but still pretty great."
#41

Rob Papen

4.5
(2)
"Rob Papen’a Subboom is faaaaantastic."
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"I use Rob Papen’s Subboombass. I have no complaints"
#42

Absynth

4.0
(2)
"I came here to recommend Absynth as well."
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"My personal favorites are Absynth (Native Instruments) and Imagine (Expressive E)."
#43

Ableton

4.0
(2)
"Grain Delay on Ableton, completely underrated."
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"If you use Ableton, Operator is an amazingly powerful synth."
#44

Glitchmachines

4.0
(2)
"Glitchmachines Fracture and Hysteresis."
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"Glitchmachines Fracture and Hysteresis."
#45

Moog

5.0
(1)
"Moog Mariana is great."
#46

Auddict

5.0
(1)
"I really like Master Brass: https://www.auddict.com/master-brass"
#47

Soraboy

5.0
(1)
"Soraboy is a great free plugin to create that chiptune stuff."
#48

Ample Sound

5.0
(1)
"Ample Sound Metal Ray 5 or Eclipse plus Ampli-Tube."
#49

RC-20

5.0
(1)
"RC-20 Retro Colour effect plugins to get old lofi sound."
#50

Black Rooster Audio

5.0
(1)
"Black Rooster Audio Cypress is a great sounding plugin that emulates an Orange style amp."
#51

Electra

5.0
(1)
"Electra 2 is definitely the best along with the GOATs Nexus and Omni."
#52

Shreddage 3

5.0
(1)
"Shreddage 2 and 3 are both great."
#53

Sonatina

4.0
(1)
"Sonatina makes some ok freebies for orchestral sounds."
#54

Phaseplant

4.0
(1)
"If i had to choose one vst for all around use for Basslines, Sub, Midbass etc alone i would go with Phaseplant"
#55

KVXI

4.0
(1)
"Get good analog lab V basses. I use the free kvxi kits and there's some good basses in there"
#56

FL Studio

4.0
(1)
"Personally i love fl studios pitch shifter plugin, but obviously you need fl studio to use it.."
#57

NI

4.0
(1)
"NI Symphony Series Brass. The Essentials version is also great."
#58

Quikquak

4.0
(1)
"The latest one https://www.quikquak.com/prod\_pitchwheel.html"

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