Best vsts on Reddit
241 reviews from r/FL_Studio, r/musicproduction, r/trapproduction and 30 more subreddits
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#1
Serum
4.8
(30)
"Serum. It‘s always serum"
"I always liked serum and analog lab, both great vsts."
"Instruments: serum and diva."
"Serum and vital (or even just vital honestly) give more than enough versatility for hyperpop."
"Serum + eq (fab filter pro q3) and distortion (decapitator, trash 2, saturn 2) will give you all the best tools to make kicks."
"Many producer prefer to make their kicks in serum anyways, so just get Serum..."
"Serum"
"Serum or vital."
"Serum"
"Serum powerful vst, lot of good quality stock presets."
#2
Vital
4.8
(24)
"Is very powerful, almost top of the line, and has a free version."
"Vital."
"Can’t go wrong with vital 🤷♂️"
"Synth: Vital or Pigments."
"Vital, is free"
"Vital and Surge will get you started and keep you busy a long time."
"If you don’t use Vital you need to! It can do an incredible amount."
"Vital is the best free one."
"Vital (Free)"
"Vital"
#3
Omnisphere
4.7
(9)
"There is only one answer to this question… Omnisphere."
"Vsts: Omnisphere, Nexus, Xpand, Prophet, DX1, CZ."
"Omnisphere."
"Yamaoka used mainly Omnisphere for pads, check out Akai Distorted Reality and Bizarre Guitar"
"Maybe omnisphere"
"Omnisphere but mainly for their texture stuff."
"Omnisphere."
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Analog Lab V"
#4
Spectrasonics
5.0
(6)
"Spectrasonics Trillian."
"Trilian is the best hands down."
"Key scape is the one."
"I love keyscape, and the J3P0 expansion pack has some really great presets."
"Spectrasonics Keyscape"
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
#5
Spitfire LABS
4.5
(6)
"Labs was a life saver."
"Spitfire labs is also one of my favourite free plugins and has a great recorded piano sound."
"Spitfire Labs has some great free packs."
"Get spitfire labs, the Kontakt Player with free libraries, bbc orchestra anything free really."
"Spitfire LABS."
"Spitfire LABS
Decent Sampler/Pianobook."
#6
PhasePlant
5.0
(5)
"PhasePlant"
"Phaseplant/Multipass/Snapheap."
"PhasePlant, if you know what you’re doing."
"Vital, Synplant 2, Harmor, Xpand!2, Quanta2, Phaseplant."
"Sound design? Phaseplant or Serum."
#7
Soundtoys
5.0
(5)
"Several Soundtoys plugins"
"Soundtoys plugins, little alter boy, analog lab, pigments, random, synplant"
"Soundtoys !"
"Run everything thru soundtoys decapitator."
"Definitely anything by soundtoys."
#8
Fabfilter
5.0
(5)
"All the fabfilter stuff is great if you have $."
"Anything by fabfilter."
"Fabfilter plugins i cant think about anything bad about their plugins"
"Imho FabFilter, Serum, Valhalla Reverb, Redline reverb, Sound Toys suite, Endless Smile"
"Probably fab filter and serum"
#9
Kontakt
4.6
(5)
"Kontakt"
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
"Kontakt, Best Service Engine"
"Kontakt but only if you are willing to buy libraries or get it some other way"
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Analog Lab V"
#10
Superior Drummer 3
5.0
(4)
"My goal is getting Superior Drums 3"
"SD3 is the leader but it is really"
"Superior drummer 3 is the straight king."
"If money's not an issue, Superior Drummer 3 is the best VST as it gives you full control over the samples."
#11
DIVA
4.5
(4)
"Instruments: serum and diva."
"I have Diva and V-Collection and they're both excellent."
"Diva vst, infiltrator/shaper box on bass lines or drum patterns for variation."
"DIVA, spire, serum, pigments are all great synths too."
#12
Synth1
5.0
(3)
"I mostly use Synth1 and Sonatina."
"Here are my favorite free VSTs: - Synth1"
"Synth1 is amazing imo. It's free and there's good banks for it."
#13
Valhalla Supermassive
5.0
(3)
"Grab Valhalla Supermassive and PaulxStretch and you have all the ambient for free you can handle."
"I also recommend VALHALA SUPERMASIVE."
"Valhalla Supermassive WHY TF IS THIS FREE?!?!?"
#14
Surge XT
5.0
(3)
"Best free ones: surge xt (my fav) and sytrus"
"SurgeXT is great. It's free (both standalone and for FL studio)..."
"Instruments: surge xt, arturia (minimoog, jun6, jup8, cmi v, wurli), labs, kontakt"
#15
Shaperbox
4.7
(3)
"Also shaper boxer."
"Shaperbox & soothe"
"Shaperbox."
#16
XLN Audio
4.7
(3)
"Superior drummer 3 and Addictive Drums"
"For many years I play with addicted drums and also got some new kit for it on black Friday."
"They have a Funk drum kit. And a Soul & RnB drum kit that might fill those."
#17
Purity
4.7
(3)
"Purity, zenology and serum are my personal go to plugins for that style"
"I've been using Purity for a lot of R&B."
"Purity"
#18
Pigments
4.7
(3)
"Pigments."
"Pigments."
"Pigments. Analog Lab along with the Arturia Collection."
#19
Native Instruments
4.7
(3)
"If I had to choose 1 Noire."
"Kontakts Noire Piano is great."
"Native instruments has good stuff. Can be kinda pricey tho."
#20
Ableton
4.3
(3)
"If you’re in Ableton, especially as a beginner, the stock options will have you set up nice!"
"The physical modeling instruments in Ableton like Tension or Collision are good for some unique sounds."
"Operator is amazing for making synths, sampler is good for 808s."
#21
Analog Lab V
4.0
(3)
"Analog Lab V."
"Analog lab v."
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Analog Lab V"
#22
Xpand2
4.0
(3)
"Xpand!2 and vital too, xpand in particular has a huge collection of great presets."
"Xpand 2 and xenology are gonna give u any sound ever."
"Xpand2 and Serum are dope."
#23
Arturia
5.0
(2)
"One of my fave VSTs is the Arturia Analog Lab."
"Abalog Lab > Serum if you’re making any hip hop that isn’t like Yeat beats an"
#24
Portal
5.0
(2)
"Portal."
"Portal is god tier"
#25
SurgeXT
5.0
(2)
"SurgeXT."
"SurgeXT. Sounds brilliant, free and open source."
#26
Freakshow Industries
5.0
(2)
"Everything Freakshow Industries."
"Freakshow industries, their FXs are just so good."
#27
Dexed
5.0
(2)
"If you just want something free for now, check out Dexed."
"I use Dexed and SQ8L all the time."
#28
Superior Drummer
5.0
(2)
"If you want to get into the weeds then SD3 is by far the best on the market IMO."
"Superior drummer is so amazing. It’s like an entire drum library and mini daw inside your daw."
#29
Soundtoys Decapitator
5.0
(2)
"Distortion Decapitator"
"SoundToys decapitator"
#30
Shaperbox 3
5.0
(2)
"Shaperbox 3"
"Shaperbox 3 will allow you to sync the flange pretty much any way you want for timed flanging effects."
#31
Kilohearts Phase Plant
5.0
(2)
"Kilohearts phaseplant is probably the most capable synth on the market"
"Kilo Hearts "Phase Plant" along with Snap Heap and Multipass."
#32
Current
5.0
(2)
"Current or Pigments are probably gonna be your best options."
"The Minimal Audio new synth "Current"."
#33
Krush
5.0
(2)
"Nice bitcrusher"
"Krush (Free)"
#34
Pianoteq
5.0
(2)
"Pianoteq for sure."
"Pianoteq and Keyscape are two solid choices."
#35
Serato Sample
5.0
(2)
"It makes chopping beats, pitching them, changing speed, etc, super easy."
"The stem separation is pretty handy."
#36
CamelCrusher
4.5
(2)
"CamelCrusher (Free)"
"CamelCrusher (Martin Garrix uses it so I got it and its pretty nice for saturating and distorting stuff)."
#37
FLEX
4.5
(2)
"FLEX has some free guitar packs :) "
"Harmour comes with FL same with FLEX check them both out.
Vital is free."
#38
LABS
4.5
(2)
"LABS."
"LABS is a great free sample library with all kinds of instruments."
#39
Synplant 2
4.5
(2)
"Synplant 2 is pretty much unstoppable rn imo.. took over as my primary from serum"
"Vital, Synplant 2, Harmor, Xpand!2, Quanta2, Phaseplant."
#40
Spire
4.5
(2)
"Use spire, serum, electra, frank dukes the prince."
"DIVA, spire, serum, pigments are all great synths too."
#41
Arturia V Collection
4.5
(2)
"Arturia V collection has them all plus more."
"Lots of spacey sounds, evolving pads etc."
#42
DSK
4.5
(2)
"Dsk just has those delicious lo fi sounds."
"The DSK stuff has that old digital sample style sound."
#43
Soundpaint
4.5
(2)
"I'm such a huge fan of Soundpaint as an alternative to Kontact"
"There are some really good and inexpensive ones you can buy from Soundpaint"
#44
Trash 2
4.5
(2)
"Trash 2 - (with multi band functionality for saturation, compression, distortion and more this plugin is 100% worth the price.)"
"Trent said he used Trash 2 on With Teeth and Year Zero."
#45
Synplant
4.5
(2)
"Synplant, Microtonic, Keyscape, Vcv Rack Pro"
"Synplant and synplant 2."
#46
SQ8L
4.5
(2)
"I like SQ8L and Vital sounds."
#47
Toontrack
4.5
(2)
"Superior drummer 3 and Addictive Drums"
"I'm sure EZDrummer has plenty of appropriate kits as well."
#48
Sylenth1
4.0
(2)
"Sylenth1."
"Sylenth1 (Avicii is my biggest inspiration, so this one)."
#49
Analog Obsession
4.0
(2)
"Analog obsession for compressors."
"Analog obsession, and look to mixbox by IK multimedia they have a free version with eight free plug-ins."
#50
Nexus
4.0
(2)
"Nexus."
"Could be done in Nexus (a lot of similar presets) or Serum easily."
#51
jbridge
4.0
(2)
"My suggestion figure out if TBridge still works, if not pay the small fee for JBridge."
"Pay for jbridge."
#52
Zenology
4.0
(2)
"Best priced ones: zenology, nexus, xpand"
"Zenology probably."
#53
Steven Slate Drums
4.0
(2)
"Steven Slate, ML Sound Lab, DrumGizmo"
"Slate has a trial of like three kits that’s what I started with and liked it."
#54
EVI-NER
4.0
(2)
"Evi-ner is cheap and perfect."
"EVI-NER is cheap and designed for EWI and works really really well."
#55
Steven Slate
4.0
(2)
"If you want one you can process yourself with individual channels for each drum Steven Slate Drums free edition."
"Steven Slate, MT Power. Krimh is good from what I hear but no personal experience, yet."
#56
Garritan
5.0
(1)
"Garritan Cfx Concert Grand"
#57
Paul Stretch
5.0
(1)
"Paul Stretch. its free"
#58
UVI
5.0
(1)
"Uvi Keysuite"
#59
Modartt
5.0
(1)
"Modartt Pianoteq"
#60
VI Labs
5.0
(1)
"VI Labs Ravenscroft 275"
#61
Spitfire Audio
5.0
(1)
"Spitfire Originals"
#62
Bitwig Studio
4.0
(1)
"Yabridge is what you need."
#63
yabridge
4.0
(1)
"Check out yabridge too"
#64
Harmour
4.0
(1)
"Harmour comes with FL same with FLEX check them both out.
Vital is free."
#65
Modeler
4.0
(1)
"Modeler does plucks, reeds and flutes really well."
#66
Impact Soundworks
4.0
(1)
"Have you tried Shreddage 3 Precision FREE? I often prefer it to Modo"
#67
Kuassa
4.0
(1)
"I have Kuassa's AmplifikationClarent (VST3) which is an Orange amp/ cab simulator."
#68
BFD
4.0
(1)
"BFD3 is on sale for 40 and all their packs are $30 right now."
#69
Scratchpad
4.0
(1)
"Scratchpad is pretty dope for ambient style noise and it’s completely free"
#70
Pepto Audio
4.0
(1)
"Black Metal Keys"
#71
Audiority
4.0
(1)
"Audiority has a CE-2."
#72
Motorola
4.0
(1)
"All of The Usual Suspects Motorola dsp free vsts."
#73
Monster
4.0
(1)
"Monster drums is decent and they just released an updated version with more kits."
#74
Fine Classics
4.0
(1)
"Check out Dynamic Drums by fine classics."
#75
Waves
4.0
(1)
"Expand2."
#76
Trilian
4.0
(1)
"Trilian"
#77
Dili
4.0
(1)
"That's the diliie bass vst"
#78
Steinberg
4.0
(1)
"Groove Agent 5 by Steinberg includes a variety of acoustic and electronic kits with genre-specific grooves."
#79
MPC-Samples
4.0
(1)
"MPC-samples have both organ and piano expansions which are very good value."
#80
GGD
4.0
(1)
"IMO, GGD stuff is good but you’ll end up sounding like everyone else out there."
#81
Keyzone
4.0
(1)
"Keyzone classic."
#82
MeldaProduction
4.0
(1)
"I personally use Melda Morph and it’s limitless."
#83
Roland
4.0
(1)
"I had the Roland cloud stuff for awhile and it’s p good."
#84
Spitfire
4.0
(1)
"If it's strings you're after then try the Spitfire set."
#85
Addictive Drums
4.0
(1)
"Addictive drums has great metal stuff."
#86
SynthMaster
4.0
(1)
"Good free vst with good sounds is synthmaster"
#87
Nexus 2
4.0
(1)
"Go to rutracker and download nexus 2 and serum"
#88
Pianobook
4.0
(1)
"Decent sampler and all the collection of instruments on Pianobook"
#89
STL
4.0
(1)
"STL has some good bass profiles"
#90
Amplitude
4.0
(1)
"I've been using Amplitude. I find the Orange AD200 and Fender Bassman 300 amp/cab vst's work pretty well"
#91
Unfiltered Audio
4.0
(1)
"Unfiltered Audio plugins all have a few unique twists on the usual effects."
#92
MODO Drum CS
4.0
(1)
"MODO Drum CS - it's the free version of the MODO Drum."
#93
GetGoodDrums
4.0
(1)
"Save 60 bucks and get the OKW from getgooddrums."
#94
Klirrton
3.0
(1)
"Klirrton Grindstein, bit pricey but you can find it through alternative methods at a great discount."
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