Best best vsts on Reddit
197 reviews from r/FL_Studio, r/trapproduction, r/musicproduction and 21 more subreddits
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#1
Serum
4.9
(17)
"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. Serum is my go to for absolutely everything."
"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."
#2
Vital
4.9
(14)
"+1 for Vital"
"Vital, phase plant, surge xt."
"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."
#3
Arturia
4.6
(10)
"I love Auturia Effects Bundle. Comes with everything you to juice things up."
"Arturia V collection has them all plus more."
"Arturia V collection 9 if you can stretch to the price."
"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."
"I would rather get Arturia V Collection X over Omnisphere."
"Combined with Arturia's Coldfire distortion."
"U-He Diva, Arturia Analog Labs and Serum."
"That and the Arturia Collection."
#4
Omnisphere
5.0
(9)
"Omnisphere might fit what your looking for"
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
"Omnisphere, Pigments 4 and Phase Plant."
"Nesty has referenced Omnisphere in fairly recent YouTube videos."
"FYI Omnisphere is from Spectrasonics."
"Maybe you would need to check out Omnisphere."
"Omnisphere 😁😁"
"Can’t go wrong with omnisphere."
"Omni no doubt."
#5
TAL
4.9
(8)
"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!"
"1 tal 2 roland 3 diva 4 cherryaudio imho"
"This? https://tal-software.com/products/tal-u-no-62"
"Tal-filter (free lfo-effect)."
"I really like the TAL 101."
"I personally recommend TAL Noisemaker and MinimogueVA."
#6
FabFilter
4.9
(7)
"Fabfilter twin 2"
"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
Kontakt
4.8
(6)
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
"Kontakt"
"Kontakt got the best sampled bells."
"Kontakt!"
"Kontakt > Omnisphere (as of late imo)."
"Kontakt, Nexus, Effectrix, Xpand2, ElectraX i got some sauce if you can trade."
#8
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."
#9
Nexus
4.2
(6)
"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, serum, electrax."
"Nexus, Serum n omni if u can find it lol."
"Kygo uses Nexus a lot, he also uses sylenth."
"Nexus is most known for great hip hop sounds."
#10
Purity
4.6
(5)
"I've been using Purity for a lot of R&B."
"Purity, nexus, serum, triton"
"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."
#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
Soundtoys
5.0
(4)
"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."
"Can't go wrong with soundtoys."
#13
Valhalla
5.0
(4)
"Compressor Lots of choices but I'll roll with the MJUC reverb Valhalla vintage verb"
"Upvote for Valhalla Supermassive."
"Valhalla - all their free stuff."
"Valhalla has a couple free FX plug-ins (supermassive and freq shifter) that sound pretty nice."
#14
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."
#15
Spitfire Audio
5.0
(3)
"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."
#16
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."
#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
Electra X
4.7
(3)
"Electra x is goated if you're making synthy trap."
"Electra X!!! The fx are incredibly dope."
"Electra X, even stock FLEX isnt bad."
#19
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."
#20
Xpand2
4.3
(3)
"I would say xpand2."
"Xpand2 and Serum are dope."
"Try xpand2, definitely would have a good enough selection."
#21
Dexed
4.3
(3)
"Dexed."
"Dexed and Tyrell by UH-E both have good analog synth (80s) presets."
"Dexed is a good vst for the synths."
#22
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."
#23
Shaperbox
5.0
(2)
"Shaperbox 3"
"Nobody is mentioning SHAPERBOX 3!!!"
#24
Portal
5.0
(2)
"Portal, serum, analog lab v"
"Portal is god tier."
#25
Massive
5.0
(2)
"I like Massive by Native Instruments."
"MASSIVE, electraX, serum, gladiator, dune2, icarus, sytrus, harmor, harmless, sylenth1, omnisphere, Kontakt, nexus2, etc.."
#26
Pigments
5.0
(2)
"+1 for Pigments."
"Pigments is dope for ambient sounds"
#27
Diva
5.0
(2)
"I have Diva and V-Collection and they're both excellent."
"Diva."
#28
Komplete
5.0
(2)
"Komplete, U-HE collection (Diva, Hive, Bazille, Zebra), Serum, Pigments... but also Ozone, Nectar and Neutron."
"Komplete will give you everything you need to create music."
#29
Spitfire
5.0
(2)
"Spitfire audio is the best."
"Spitfire is a beginning place."
#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
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."
#32
Tyrell
5.0
(2)
"Tyrell N6, Ob-XD."
"Tyrell is a good, multipurpose free synth."
#33
Trillian
5.0
(2)
"Trillian."
"+1 Trillian Bass."
#34
Unfiltered Audio
5.0
(2)
"I really like stuff from Unfiltered Audio like Sandman Pro and Fault!"
"I really like stuff from Unfiltered Audio like Sandman Pro and Fault!"
#35
Spire
4.5
(2)
"Spire"
"Spire."
#36
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."
"I use it on instruments more than vocals. works really well on the right type if sound"
#37
CamelCrusher
4.5
(2)
"CamelCrusher (Free)"
"CamelCrusher (Martin Garrix uses it so I got it and its pretty nice for saturating and distorting stuff)."
#38
Keyscape
4.5
(2)
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
"Keyscape."
#39
Xpand!2
4.5
(2)
"Xpand!2 is on sale rn at pluginboutique."
"Xpand2 , Zenology , Spire , Sylenth , Electrax , Kontakt , Arcade"
#40
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."
#41
Protracker
4.0
(2)
"I'd skip a VST and just download Protracker, Fasttracker, Milkytracker, OpenMPT or some other clone."
"I just use Protracker as none sound quite as good or Renoise if I can get away with more tracks."
#42
Absynth
4.0
(2)
"I came here to recommend Absynth as well."
"My personal favorites are Absynth (Native Instruments) and Imagine (Expressive E)."
#43
FM8
5.0
(1)
"FM8 is prime for creating those super grimey bass synths from scratch."
#44
Kick2
5.0
(1)
"Kick2 is great if you want to start making your own kicks."
#45
BBC
5.0
(1)
"For orchestral I would recommend BBC symphony orchestra (its like 49 euros but if you do a little survey they send you it for free) and for EDM and almost anything else vital."
#46
Plogue
5.0
(1)
"Plogue has a few Chiptune Synths"
#47
Soraboy
5.0
(1)
"Soraboy is a great free plugin to create that chiptune stuff."
#48
Audiothing
5.0
(1)
"Check out MiniBit by Audiothing. It's awesome!"
#49
Black Rooster Audio
5.0
(1)
"Black Rooster Audio Cypress is a great sounding plugin that emulates an Orange style amp."
#50
Shreddage 3
5.0
(1)
"Shreddage 2 and 3 are both great."
#51
ZynAddSubFX
5.0
(1)
"Yes Zynaddsubfx is awesome! I pretty much use it on every track I make."
#52
K200
5.0
(1)
"K200: [http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=K200&id=2477]"
#53
Dreamtonics
5.0
(1)
"I find Synthesizer V to be leagues better than Vocaloid."
#54
efemme
5.0
(1)
"Efemme: [http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=eFemme&id=802]"
#55
Addictive Keys
5.0
(1)
"The 'grand noir' preset in the Addictive Keys VST is great for melancholy sounding joji style piano chords."
#56
Musical Sampling
5.0
(1)
"For fast-moving stuff I love Musical Sampling's Adventure Brass."
#57
Moog
5.0
(1)
"Moog Mariana is great."
#58
Auddict
5.0
(1)
"I really like Master Brass: https://www.auddict.com/master-brass"
#59
Ample Sound
5.0
(1)
"Ample Sound Metal Ray 5 or Eclipse plus Ampli-Tube."
#60
inSIDious
5.0
(1)
"[inSIDious] for your 8-bit needs."
#61
RC-20
5.0
(1)
"RC-20 Retro Colour effect plugins to get old lofi sound."
#62
Electra
5.0
(1)
"Electra 2 is definitely the best along with the GOATs Nexus and Omni."
#63
Rob Papen
5.0
(1)
"Rob Papen’a Subboom is faaaaantastic."
#64
KVXI
4.0
(1)
"Get good analog lab V basses. I use the free kvxi kits and there's some good basses in there"
#65
NI
4.0
(1)
"NI Symphony Series Brass. The Essentials version is also great."
#66
Sonatina
4.0
(1)
"Sonatina makes some ok freebies for orchestral sounds."
#67
Addictive Drums
4.0
(1)
"Addictive Drums 2 is a common recommendation."
#68
FLEX
4.0
(1)
"FLEX has some good ones for free."
#69
Illformed
4.0
(1)
"Illformed glitch 2, stutter edit, graindad are a few."
#70
Slate Digital
4.0
(1)
"Slate Digital SSD5 Platinum is great for rock, punk, hardcore etc."
#71
Initial Audio
4.0
(1)
"Sektor by Initial Audio was surprisingly good."
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