Best vsts on Reddit
274 reviews from r/FL_Studio, r/musicproduction, r/trapproduction and 34 more subreddits
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#1
Serum
4.8
(34)
"Paid: Serum, Jst Sub Destroyer. Free: Vital (you should really check this one out)"
"Serum. It‘s always serum"
"I would go with some major VSts players, i.e Serum, Pigments, Vital, Massive, Diva."
"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."
"I’d learn basic sound design for leads n plucks tho or get serum banks"
"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..."
#2
Vital
4.8
(29)
"+1 for Vital"
"Vital, phase plant, surge xt."
"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."
#3
Omnisphere
4.6
(11)
"Last time I checked it's expensive. But if you can afford it, it's worth it."
"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 might fit what your looking for."
"Omnisphere but mainly for their texture stuff."
"Omnisphere."
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Analog Lab V"
#4
Kontakt
4.3
(10)
"Kontakt"
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
"Kontakt, Best Service Engine"
"Someone else mentioned kontakt libraries can work too."
"Kontakt has some excellent libraries of real instruments with a great interface for phrasing."
"You’re gonna want something from Kontakt, and they ain’t cheap."
"Kontakt but only if you are willing to buy libraries or get it some other way"
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Analog Lab V"
"Kontakt"
#5
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"
#6
PhasePlant
4.8
(6)
"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
Valhalla
4.8
(6)
"All Valhalla plugins! (Free ones available)."
"Best free ones: emergence, paulXstretch, valhalla supermassive"
"A very '},{"
"I abuse the shit out of Valhalla Supermassive."
"And valhalla."
"I’d suggest Valhalla supermassive honestly."
#8
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."
#9
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"
#10
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."
#11
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."
#12
Purity
4.5
(4)
"Purity, zenology and serum are my personal go to plugins for that style"
"I've been using Purity for a lot of R&B."
"I’ve been using purity for those Detroit basses."
"Purity"
#13
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."
#14
Nexus
4.0
(4)
"If you're not good at sound design then i'd recommend a rompler like nexus."
"Loaded with great pads you'll need."
"Nexus."
"Could be done in Nexus (a lot of similar presets) or Serum easily."
#15
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."
#16
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?!?!?"
#17
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"
#18
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."
#19
Pigments
4.7
(3)
"Pigments."
"Pigments."
"Pigments. Analog Lab along with the Arturia Collection."
#20
Shaperbox
4.7
(3)
"Also shaper boxer."
"Shaperbox & soothe"
"Shaperbox."
#21
Korg
4.7
(3)
"Korg M1 or Wavestation"
"Korg M1 or Wavestation"
"Something like a romper I.e. korg triton or m1 vsts should would work well."
#22
FLEX
4.3
(3)
"FLEX has some free guitar packs :) "
"Flex"
"Harmour comes with FL same with FLEX check them both out.
Vital is free."
#23
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."
#24
Analog Lab V
4.0
(3)
"Analog Lab V."
"Analog lab v."
"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Analog Lab V"
#25
Analog Lab
4.0
(3)
"I used analog lab every time i want a key or synth you gotta look at the 3rd party libraries too"
"Try the free version of Analog Lab"
"Analog Lab along with the Arturia Collection."
#26
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."
#27
Plogue
4.0
(3)
"Plogue has a few Chiptune Synths"
"Plogue chipsouds."
#28
SurgeXT
5.0
(2)
"SurgeXT."
"SurgeXT. Sounds brilliant, free and open source."
#29
Dexed
5.0
(2)
"If you just want something free for now, check out Dexed."
"I use Dexed and SQ8L all the time."
#30
Krush
5.0
(2)
"Nice bitcrusher"
"Krush (Free)"
#31
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."
#32
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."
#33
Soundtoys Decapitator
5.0
(2)
"Distortion Decapitator"
"SoundToys decapitator"
#34
Portal
5.0
(2)
"Portal."
"Portal is god tier"
#35
Serato Sample
5.0
(2)
"It makes chopping beats, pitching them, changing speed, etc, super easy."
"The stem separation is pretty handy."
#36
Freakshow Industries
5.0
(2)
"Everything Freakshow Industries."
"Freakshow industries, their FXs are just so good."
#37
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."
#38
Pianoteq
5.0
(2)
"Pianoteq for sure."
"Pianoteq and Keyscape are two solid choices."
#39
Current
5.0
(2)
"Current or Pigments are probably gonna be your best options."
"The Minimal Audio new synth "Current"."
#40
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"
#41
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."
#42
DSK
4.5
(2)
"Dsk just has those delicious lo fi sounds."
"The DSK stuff has that old digital sample style sound."
#43
SQ8L
4.5
(2)
"I like SQ8L and Vital sounds."
#44
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"
#45
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."
#46
LABS
4.5
(2)
"LABS."
"LABS is a great free sample library with all kinds of instruments."
#47
CamelCrusher
4.5
(2)
"CamelCrusher (Free)"
"CamelCrusher (Martin Garrix uses it so I got it and its pretty nice for saturating and distorting stuff)."
#48
Arturia V Collection
4.5
(2)
"Arturia V collection has them all plus more."
"Lots of spacey sounds, evolving pads etc."
#49
Spire
4.5
(2)
"Use spire, serum, electra, frank dukes the prince."
"DIVA, spire, serum, pigments are all great synths too."
#50
Synplant
4.5
(2)
"Synplant, Microtonic, Keyscape, Vcv Rack Pro"
"Synplant and synplant 2."
#51
EVI-NER
4.0
(2)
"Evi-ner is cheap and perfect."
"EVI-NER is cheap and designed for EWI and works really really well."
#52
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."
#53
Sylenth1
4.0
(2)
"Sylenth1."
"Sylenth1 (Avicii is my biggest inspiration, so this one)."
#54
Ugritone
4.0
(2)
"If you are looking for Drums, check Ugritone."
"Just be quick, they're shutting down."
#55
Harmor
4.0
(2)
"Utilize Harmor or Vital. Possibilities are endless."
"Vital, Synplant 2, Harmor, Xpand!2, Quanta2, Phaseplant."
#56
Sylenth
4.0
(2)
"Sylenth is versatile and easy to create 1960s sounds through to the present."
"Sylenth."
#57
jbridge
4.0
(2)
"My suggestion figure out if TBridge still works, if not pay the small fee for JBridge."
"Pay for jbridge."
#58
Zenology
4.0
(2)
"Best priced ones: zenology, nexus, xpand"
"Zenology probably."
#59
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."
#60
Dili
4.0
(2)
"That's the diliie bass vst"
"Dili base vst. Reggaton bass vst"
#61
Massive
3.5
(2)
"Massive."
"Massive has some cool presets if you get it on sale it’s like 30 bucks."
#62
Arturia Synths
5.0
(1)
"Get arturia synths"
#63
Paulstretch
5.0
(1)
"Paulstretch (free) is amazing for what it does, it's really a must have in your arsenal."
#64
Goodhertz
5.0
(1)
"Offers tons of trippy processing to make your tone sound like distorted mp3s."
#65
Paul Stretch
5.0
(1)
"Paul Stretch. its free"
#66
Sugar Bytes
5.0
(1)
"My personal favorite is Obscurium."
#67
Glitch
5.0
(1)
"Glitch, stutter edit and breaktweaker do wonders for wild fx modulation."
#68
Waveshaper
5.0
(1)
"Waveshaper. Fr."
#69
Ivory
5.0
(1)
"Ivory or Alicia Keyes or Galaxy"
#70
Sonosaurus
5.0
(1)
"PaulXStretch is designed for radical transformation of sounds."
#71
HZE
5.0
(1)
"Check out HZE’s Pedals. They’re plugins modeled after guitar pedals."
#72
Native Instruments
4.0
(1)
"Native instruments has good stuff. Can be kinda pricey tho."
#73
Trilian
4.0
(1)
"Trilian"
#74
Gforce
4.0
(1)
"The Oberheims have a depth of sound for dark moody pads."
#75
EZ Bass
4.0
(1)
"EZ bass is the fastest and easiest but modo bass comes with a ton of basses and features."
#76
HG Fortune
4.0
(1)
"All HG Fortune VST2 synths."
#77
Getgood Drums
4.0
(1)
"EZX Pop Punk is great. Check out Getgood Drums' One Kit Wonder: Pop Punk."
#78
Rob Papen
4.0
(1)
"I don’t know about best, but I use Rob Papen’s Subboombass. I have no complaints"
#79
MPC
4.0
(1)
"They sell the keys instrument pack (stage piano/ep/organ) for $199 that would get you where you want to go."
#80
Cymatics
4.0
(1)
"I think cymatics has some good free ones."
#81
Autogun
4.0
(1)
"Autogun and GMS"
#82
Logic
4.0
(1)
"I like Logics bass amp."
#83
Gallien Krueger
4.0
(1)
"I find myself using PA gallien Kruger a lot."
#84
KVXI
4.0
(1)
"Get good analog lab V basses. I use the free kvxi kits and there's some good basses in there"
#85
Spitfire
4.0
(1)
"Spitfire labs has some good ones too but it can get quite pricey."
#86
MeldaProduction
4.0
(1)
"I personally use Melda Morph and it’s limitless."
#87
GetGoodDrums
4.0
(1)
"Save 60 bucks and get the OKW from getgooddrums."
#88
Eventide
4.0
(1)
"Eventide precision time align."
#89
MPC-Samples
4.0
(1)
"MPC-samples have both organ and piano expansions which are very good value."
#90
Steinberg
4.0
(1)
"Groove Agent 5 by Steinberg includes a variety of acoustic and electronic kits with genre-specific grooves."
#91
Waves
4.0
(1)
"Expand2."
#92
Toontrack
4.0
(1)
"I'm sure EZDrummer has plenty of appropriate kits as well."
#93
Fine Classics
4.0
(1)
"Check out Dynamic Drums by fine classics."
#94
Neural DSP
4.0
(1)
"You can check out NeuralDSP parallax"
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