Best best vsts on Reddit
183 reviews from r/FL_Studio, r/trapproduction, r/TechnoProduction and 15 more subreddits
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#1
Serum
5.0
(16)
"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
5.0
(13)
"+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)
"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."
"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
(8)
"Omnisphere might fit what your looking for"
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
"Omnisphere, Pigments 4 and Phase Plant."
"FYI Omnisphere is from Spectrasonics."
"Maybe you would need to check out Omnisphere."
"Omnisphere 😁😁"
"Can’t go wrong with omnisphere."
"Omni no doubt."
#5
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."
#6
Soundtoys
4.9
(7)
"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.)"
"Anything sound toys is gas. Highly recommend getting effect rack."
"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."
#7
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."
#8
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."
#9
U-He
4.8
(5)
"I highly recommend Uhe Diva."
"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."
#10
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."
#11
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."
#12
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."
#13
Analog Lab
5.0
(3)
"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"
#14
Output
5.0
(3)
"Output Thermal."
"I'm a big fan of Output Portal and Thermal for audio manipulation and crazy sound changes."
"Output Exhale."
#15
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."
#16
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."
#17
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."
#18
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."
#19
Softube
4.7
(3)
"Softube Model 84 (Juno 106)"
"Softube Model 72 (Model D)"
"Enjoy things that don't follow the usual workflow like softube parallels."
#20
Xpand2
4.3
(3)
"I would say xpand2."
"Xpand2 and Serum are dope."
"Try xpand2, definitely would have a good enough selection."
#21
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."
#22
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."
#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
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."
#26
Massive
5.0
(2)
"I like Massive by Native Instruments."
"MASSIVE, electraX, serum, gladiator, dune2, icarus, sytrus, harmor, harmless, sylenth1, omnisphere, Kontakt, nexus2, etc.."
#27
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."
#28
Trillian
5.0
(2)
"Trillian."
"+1 Trillian Bass."
#29
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."
#30
Portal
5.0
(2)
"Portal, serum, analog lab v"
"Portal is god tier."
#31
Shaperbox
5.0
(2)
"Shaperbox 3"
"Nobody is mentioning SHAPERBOX 3!!!"
#32
Pigments
5.0
(2)
"+1 for Pigments."
"Pigments is dope for ambient sounds"
#33
Spitfire
5.0
(2)
"Spitfire audio is the best."
"Spitfire is a beginning place."
#34
Diva
5.0
(2)
"I have Diva and V-Collection and they're both excellent."
"Diva."
#35
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)."
#36
TAL
5.0
(2)
"I also hold the free and commercial TAL VST's in high esteem."
"Tal-filter (free lfo-effect)."
#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
Dexed
4.5
(2)
"Dexed."
"Dexed and Tyrell by UH-E both have good analog synth (80s) presets."
#39
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"
#40
Keyscape
4.5
(2)
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
"Keyscape."
#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
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."
#44
Absynth
4.0
(2)
"I came here to recommend Absynth as well."
"My personal favorites are Absynth (Native Instruments) and Imagine (Expressive E)."
#45
Shreddage 3
5.0
(1)
"Shreddage 2 and 3 are both great."
#46
ZynAddSubFX
5.0
(1)
"Yes Zynaddsubfx is awesome! I pretty much use it on every track I make."
#47
Soraboy
5.0
(1)
"Soraboy is a great free plugin to create that chiptune stuff."
#48
K200
5.0
(1)
"K200: [http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=K200&id=2477]"
#49
efemme
5.0
(1)
"Efemme: [http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=eFemme&id=802]"
#50
Addictive Keys
5.0
(1)
"The 'grand noir' preset in the Addictive Keys VST is great for melancholy sounding joji style piano chords."
#51
Analog Obsession
5.0
(1)
"Bx_subfilter, sk10, edge, Analog Obsession's Lovend."
#52
Musical Sampling
5.0
(1)
"For fast-moving stuff I love Musical Sampling's Adventure Brass."
#53
Black Rooster Audio
5.0
(1)
"Black Rooster Audio Cypress is a great sounding plugin that emulates an Orange style amp."
#54
Moog
5.0
(1)
"Moog Mariana is great."
#55
Auddict
5.0
(1)
"I really like Master Brass: https://www.auddict.com/master-brass"
#56
Ample Sound
5.0
(1)
"Ample Sound Metal Ray 5 or Eclipse plus Ampli-Tube."
#57
RC-20
5.0
(1)
"RC-20 Retro Colour effect plugins to get old lofi sound."
#58
FM8
5.0
(1)
"FM8 is prime for creating those super grimey bass synths from scratch."
#59
Kick2
5.0
(1)
"Kick2 is great if you want to start making your own kicks."
#60
NI
4.0
(1)
"NI Symphony Series Brass. The Essentials version is also great."
#61
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"
#62
FL Studio
4.0
(1)
"Personally i love fl studios pitch shifter plugin, but obviously you need fl studio to use it.."
#63
Quikquak
4.0
(1)
"The latest one
https://www.quikquak.com/prod\_pitchwheel.html"
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