Best vsts on Reddit

268 reviews from r/FL_Studio, r/trapproduction, r/musicproduction and 31 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)"
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"Serum. It‘s always serum"
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"I would go with some major VSts players, i.e Serum, Pigments, Vital, Massive, Diva."
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"I always liked serum and analog lab, both great vsts."
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"Instruments: serum and diva."
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"Serum and vital (or even just vital honestly) give more than enough versatility for hyperpop."
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"Serum."
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"I’d learn basic sound design for leads n plucks tho or get serum banks"
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"Serum + eq (fab filter pro q3) and distortion (decapitator, trash 2, saturn 2) will give you all the best tools to make kicks."
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"Many producer prefer to make their kicks in serum anyways, so just get Serum..."
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#2

Vital

4.8
(27)
"Is very powerful, almost top of the line, and has a free version."
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"Vital."
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"Can’t go wrong with vital 🤷‍♂️"
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"Synth: Vital or Pigments."
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"Vital, is free"
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"Vital and Surge will get you started and keep you busy a long time."
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"If you don’t use Vital you need to! It can do an incredible amount."
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"Vital is the best free one."
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"Probably vital"
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"Vital (Free)"
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#3

Omnisphere

4.7
(10)
"Last time I checked it's expensive. But if you can afford it, it's worth it."
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"There is only one answer to this question… Omnisphere."
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"Vsts: Omnisphere, Nexus, Xpand, Prophet, DX1, CZ."
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"Omnisphere."
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"Yamaoka used mainly Omnisphere for pads, check out Akai Distorted Reality and Bizarre Guitar"
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"Maybe omnisphere"
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"Omnisphere but mainly for their texture stuff."
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"Omnisphere."
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"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Analog Lab V"
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#4

Kontakt

4.4
(8)
"Kontakt"
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"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
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"Kontakt, Best Service Engine"
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"You’re gonna want something from Kontakt, and they ain’t cheap."
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"Kontakt but only if you are willing to buy libraries or get it some other way"
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"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Analog Lab V"
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"Kontakt"
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#5

Spectrasonics

5.0
(7)
"Spectrasonics Trillian."
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"Trilian is the best hands down."
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"Key scape is the one."
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"I love keyscape, and the J3P0 expansion pack has some really great presets."
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"Spectrasonics Keyscape"
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"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
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"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Keyscape, Fabfilter and Soundtoys plugins"
#6

PhasePlant

4.8
(6)
"PhasePlant"
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"Phaseplant/Multipass/Snapheap."
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"PhasePlant, if you know what you’re doing."
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"Vital, Synplant 2, Harmor, Xpand!2, Quanta2, Phaseplant."
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"Sound design? Phaseplant or Serum."
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#7

Valhalla

4.8
(6)
"All Valhalla plugins! (Free ones available)."
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"Best free ones: emergence, paulXstretch, valhalla supermassive"
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"A very '},{"
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"I abuse the shit out of Valhalla Supermassive."
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"And valhalla."
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"I’d suggest Valhalla supermassive honestly."
#8

Spitfire LABS

4.5
(6)
"Labs was a life saver."
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"Spitfire labs is also one of my favourite free plugins and has a great recorded piano sound."
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"Spitfire Labs has some great free packs."
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"Get spitfire labs, the Kontakt Player with free libraries, bbc orchestra anything free really."
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"Spitfire LABS."
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"Spitfire LABS Decent Sampler/Pianobook."
#9

Soundtoys

5.0
(5)
"Several Soundtoys plugins"
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"Soundtoys plugins, little alter boy, analog lab, pigments, random, synplant"
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"Soundtoys !"
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"Run everything thru soundtoys decapitator."
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"Definitely anything by soundtoys."
#10

Fabfilter

5.0
(5)
"All the fabfilter stuff is great if you have $."
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"Anything by fabfilter."
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"Fabfilter plugins i cant think about anything bad about their plugins"
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"Imho FabFilter, Serum, Valhalla Reverb, Redline reverb, Sound Toys suite, Endless Smile"
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"Probably fab filter and serum"
#11

Superior Drummer 3

5.0
(4)
"My goal is getting Superior Drums 3"
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"SD3 is the leader but it is really"
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"Superior drummer 3 is the straight king."
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"If money's not an issue, Superior Drummer 3 is the best VST as it gives you full control over the samples."
#12

DIVA

4.5
(4)
"Instruments: serum and diva."
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"I have Diva and V-Collection and they're both excellent."
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"Diva vst, infiltrator/shaper box on bass lines or drum patterns for variation."
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"DIVA, spire, serum, pigments are all great synths too."
#13

Purity

4.5
(4)
"Purity, zenology and serum are my personal go to plugins for that style"
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"I've been using Purity for a lot of R&B."
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"I’ve been using purity for those Detroit basses."
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"Purity"
#14

Nexus

4.0
(4)
"If you're not good at sound design then i'd recommend a rompler like nexus."
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"Loaded with great pads you'll need."
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"Nexus."
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"Could be done in Nexus (a lot of similar presets) or Serum easily."
#15

Synth1

5.0
(3)
"I mostly use Synth1 and Sonatina."
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"Here are my favorite free VSTs: - Synth1"
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"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."
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"I also recommend VALHALA SUPERMASIVE."
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"Valhalla Supermassive WHY TF IS THIS FREE?!?!?"
#17

Surge XT

5.0
(3)
"Best free ones: surge xt (my fav) and sytrus"
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"SurgeXT is great. It's free (both standalone and for FL studio)..."
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"Instruments: surge xt, arturia (minimoog, jun6, jup8, cmi v, wurli), labs, kontakt"
#18

Pigments

4.7
(3)
"Pigments."
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"Pigments."
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"Pigments. Analog Lab along with the Arturia Collection."
#19

Shaperbox

4.7
(3)
"Also shaper boxer."
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"Shaperbox & soothe"
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"Shaperbox."
#20

XLN Audio

4.7
(3)
"Superior drummer 3 and Addictive Drums"
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"For many years I play with addicted drums and also got some new kit for it on black Friday."
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"They have a Funk drum kit. And a Soul & RnB drum kit that might fill those."
#21

Arturia

4.7
(3)
"One of my fave VSTs is the Arturia Analog Lab."
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"Abalog Lab > Serum if you’re making any hip hop that isn’t like Yeat beats an"
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"It’s a bit pricey, but is definitely worth it."
#22

FLEX

4.3
(3)
"FLEX has some free guitar packs :) "
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"Flex"
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"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!"
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"The physical modeling instruments in Ableton like Tension or Collision are good for some unique sounds."
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"Operator is amazing for making synths, sampler is good for 808s."
#24

Analog Lab V

4.0
(3)
"Analog Lab V."
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"Analog lab v."
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"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Analog Lab V"
#25

Xpand2

4.0
(3)
"Xpand!2 and vital too, xpand in particular has a huge collection of great presets."
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"Xpand 2 and xenology are gonna give u any sound ever."
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"Xpand2 and Serum are dope."
#26

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"
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"Try the free version of Analog Lab"
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"Analog Lab along with the Arturia Collection."
#27

SurgeXT

5.0
(2)
"SurgeXT."
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"SurgeXT. Sounds brilliant, free and open source."
#28

Dexed

5.0
(2)
"If you just want something free for now, check out Dexed."
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"I use Dexed and SQ8L all the time."
#29

Pianoteq

5.0
(2)
"Pianoteq for sure."
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"Pianoteq and Keyscape are two solid choices."
#30

Soundtoys Decapitator

5.0
(2)
"Distortion Decapitator"
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"SoundToys decapitator"
#31

Superior Drummer

5.0
(2)
"If you want to get into the weeds then SD3 is by far the best on the market IMO."
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"Superior drummer is so amazing. It’s like an entire drum library and mini daw inside your daw."
#32

Shaperbox 3

5.0
(2)
"Shaperbox 3"
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"Shaperbox 3 will allow you to sync the flange pretty much any way you want for timed flanging effects."
#33

Krush

5.0
(2)
"Nice bitcrusher"
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"Krush (Free)"
#34

Portal

5.0
(2)
"Portal."
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"Portal is god tier"
#35

Serato Sample

5.0
(2)
"It makes chopping beats, pitching them, changing speed, etc, super easy."
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"The stem separation is pretty handy."
#36

Freakshow Industries

5.0
(2)
"Everything Freakshow Industries."
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"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"
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"Kilo Hearts "Phase Plant" along with Snap Heap and Multipass."
#38

Current

5.0
(2)
"Current or Pigments are probably gonna be your best options."
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"The Minimal Audio new synth "Current"."
#39

Soundpaint

4.5
(2)
"I'm such a huge fan of Soundpaint as an alternative to Kontact"
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"There are some really good and inexpensive ones you can buy from Soundpaint"
#40

Synplant 2

4.5
(2)
"Synplant 2 is pretty much unstoppable rn imo.. took over as my primary from serum"
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"Vital, Synplant 2, Harmor, Xpand!2, Quanta2, Phaseplant."
#41

DSK

4.5
(2)
"Dsk just has those delicious lo fi sounds."
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"The DSK stuff has that old digital sample style sound."
#42

SQ8L

4.5
(2)
"I like SQ8L and Vital sounds."
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#43

LABS

4.5
(2)
"LABS."
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"LABS is a great free sample library with all kinds of instruments."
#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.)"
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"Trent said he used Trash 2 on With Teeth and Year Zero."
#45

Arturia V Collection

4.5
(2)
"Arturia V collection has them all plus more."
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"Lots of spacey sounds, evolving pads etc."
#46

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)."
#47

Synplant

4.5
(2)
"Synplant, Microtonic, Keyscape, Vcv Rack Pro"
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"Synplant and synplant 2."
#48

Spire

4.5
(2)
"Use spire, serum, electra, frank dukes the prince."
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"DIVA, spire, serum, pigments are all great synths too."
#49

Native Instruments

4.5
(2)
"NI Noire is my overall favorite."
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"Native instruments has good stuff. Can be kinda pricey tho."
#50

EVI-NER

4.0
(2)
"Evi-ner is cheap and perfect."
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"EVI-NER is cheap and designed for EWI and works really really well."
#51

Ugritone

4.0
(2)
"If you are looking for Drums, check Ugritone."
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"Just be quick, they're shutting down."
#52

Plogue

4.0
(2)
"Plogue chipsouds."
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#53

Analog Obsession

4.0
(2)
"Analog obsession for compressors."
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"Analog obsession, and look to mixbox by IK multimedia they have a free version with eight free plug-ins."
#54

Sylenth1

4.0
(2)
"Sylenth1."
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"Sylenth1 (Avicii is my biggest inspiration, so this one)."
#55

Harmor

4.0
(2)
"Utilize Harmor or Vital. Possibilities are endless."
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"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."
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"Sylenth."
#57

jbridge

4.0
(2)
"My suggestion figure out if TBridge still works, if not pay the small fee for JBridge."
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"Pay for jbridge."
#58

Zenology

4.0
(2)
"Best priced ones: zenology, nexus, xpand"
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"Zenology probably."
#59

Steven Slate Drums

4.0
(2)
"Steven Slate, ML Sound Lab, DrumGizmo"
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"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"
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"Dili base vst. Reggaton bass vst"
#61

Massive

3.5
(2)
"Massive."
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"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

Paul Stretch

5.0
(1)
"Paul Stretch. its free"
#65

Emergence Audio

5.0
(1)
"Infinite Upright by Emergence Audio is pretty fire."
#66

LA-2A Compressor

4.0
(1)
"LA 2A COMPRESSOR FOR FREE ON PLUGIN BOUTIQUE"
#67

Plugins4Free

4.0
(1)
"Lots of possibilities"
#68

Slate + Ash

4.0
(1)
"A really cool looper/granular plugin that lets you input your own sounds source."
#69

Shaper Box

4.0
(1)
"For effects I really like Shaper Box."
#70

Harmour

4.0
(1)
"Harmour comes with FL same with FLEX check them both out. Vital is free."
#71

Scratchpad

4.0
(1)
"Scratchpad is pretty dope for ambient style noise and it’s completely free"
#72

Aberrant DSP

4.0
(1)
"Their Lofi Oddity is also cool and free."
#73

Trilian

4.0
(1)
"Trilian"
#74

Dune

4.0
(1)
"Finding its wavetables and getting a wavetable vst with an import function like Dune 2 might be useful."
#75

Chroma

4.0
(1)
"Chroma, PitchMap."
#76

Cymatics

4.0
(1)
"I think cymatics has some good free ones."
#77

EZ Bass

4.0
(1)
"EZ bass is the fastest and easiest but modo bass comes with a ton of basses and features."
#78

Electra

4.0
(1)
"Look dude what want is either a moog bass or the anabaz preset in Electra2."
#79

FG

4.0
(1)
"On fl studio i use FG 1982 in the bass section of sawer"
#80

Rift

4.0
(1)
"Rift, Morph EQ."
#81

Gforce

4.0
(1)
"The Oberheims have a depth of sound for dark moody pads."
#82

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."
#83

HG Fortune

4.0
(1)
"All HG Fortune VST2 synths."
#84

Harmony Bloom

4.0
(1)
"Harmony Bloom is good too."
#85

KVXI

4.0
(1)
"Get good analog lab V basses. I use the free kvxi kits and there's some good basses in there"
#86

Steven Slate

4.0
(1)
"If you want one you can process yourself with individual channels for each drum Steven Slate Drums free edition."
#87

Fine Classics

4.0
(1)
"Check out Dynamic Drums by fine classics."
#88

Monster

4.0
(1)
"Monster drums is decent and they just released an updated version with more kits."
#89

Motorola

4.0
(1)
"All of The Usual Suspects Motorola dsp free vsts."
#90

Audiority

4.0
(1)
"Audiority has a CE-2."
#91

Pepto Audio

4.0
(1)
"Black Metal Keys"
#92

BFD

4.0
(1)
"BFD3 is on sale for 40 and all their packs are $30 right now."
#93

Toontrack

4.0
(1)
"I'm sure EZDrummer has plenty of appropriate kits as well."

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