Best vsts on Reddit

219 reviews from r/FL_Studio, r/trapproduction, r/DungeonSynth and 15 more subreddits

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#1

Serum

4.7
(19)
"Serum. It‘s always serum"
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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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"Serum"
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"Serum powerful vst, lot of good quality stock presets."
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"Serum."
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"Serum."
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"Serum."
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"Serum."
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"Serum and Vital."
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#2

Vital

4.9
(10)
"Is very powerful, almost top of the line, and has a free version."
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"Vital is the best free one."
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"Vital (Free)"
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"Vital, Synplant 2, Harmor, Xpand!2, Quanta2, Phaseplant."
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"Serum and Vital."
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"Vital."
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"Vital vital vital best free"
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"Surge, Vital, and Monolit are free and they’re all great."
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"A free synth is VITAL."
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"Vital aint too bad for a free plugin imo"
#3

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."
#4

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."
#5

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"
#6

PhasePlant

5.0
(4)
"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."
#7

Omnisphere

4.3
(4)
"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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#8

Kontakt

4.3
(3)
"Kontakt"
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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"
#9

Shreddage

4.0
(3)
"Shreddage has some nice kontakt libraries, shreddage stratus is free."
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"Other ones like rouge or jupiter are around 100 something $ so pretty affordable and very decent sounding."
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"Other ones like rouge or jupiter are around 100 something $ so pretty affordable and very decent sounding."
#10

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."
#11

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."
#12

Freakshow Industries

5.0
(2)
"Everything Freakshow Industries."
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"Freakshow industries, their FXs are just so good."
#13

Current

5.0
(2)
"Current or Pigments are probably gonna be your best options."
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"The Minimal Audio new synth "Current"."
#14

SurgeXT

5.0
(2)
"SurgeXT."
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"SurgeXT. Sounds brilliant, free and open source."
#15

Portal

5.0
(2)
"Portal."
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"Portal is god tier"
#16

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."
#17

Krush

5.0
(2)
"Nice bitcrusher"
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"Krush (Free)"
#18

Superior Drummer 3

5.0
(2)
"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."
#19

Soundtoys Decapitator

5.0
(2)
"Distortion Decapitator"
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"SoundToys decapitator"
#20

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."
#21

Shaperbox

4.5
(2)
"Also shaper boxer."
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"Shaperbox."
#22

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)."
#23

Pigments

4.5
(2)
"Pigments."
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"Pigments. Analog Lab along with the Arturia Collection."
#24

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."
#25

DIVA

4.5
(2)
"I have Diva and V-Collection and they're both excellent."
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"DIVA, spire, serum, pigments are all great synths too."
#26

Purity

4.5
(2)
"Purity, zenology and serum are my personal go to plugins for that style"
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"Purity"
#27

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."
#28

Analog Lab V

4.0
(2)
"Analog lab v."
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"Kontakt, Omnisphere, Analog Lab V"
#29

Nexus

4.0
(2)
"Nexus."
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"Could be done in Nexus (a lot of similar presets) or Serum easily."
#30

Arturia

5.0
(1)
"Arturia packs."
#31

Surge

5.0
(1)
"Surge, Vital, and Monolit are free and they’re all great. Surge is my favourite."
#32

Monolit

5.0
(1)
"Surge, Vital, and Monolit are free and they’re all great."
#33

Novum

5.0
(1)
"Novum is nuts, so many wonderful ways to evolve the sound through various modulations."
#34

Drift

5.0
(1)
"IMO Drift is now the best vintage analog-like Ableton synth."
#35

Anemond

5.0
(1)
"Will turn anything into a lush atmospheric pad."
#36

NI Reaktor

5.0
(1)
"NI Reaktor takes the cake."
#37

Valhalla Freq Echo

5.0
(1)
"Valhalla Freq Echo (free)"
#38

Midilab jc303

5.0
(1)
"My favourite free 303 plugin"
#39

Noise Engineering Virt Vereor

5.0
(1)
"Some of my personal favourites... Noise Engineering: Virt Vereor, Sinc Vereor, Ruina"
#40

Unplugred Prisma

5.0
(1)
"Unplugred: Prisma, Plastic Funeral, Pisstortion"
#41

Full Bucket Music Ny

5.0
(1)
"Full Bucket Music: Ny, Fury-800, FB-7999"
#42

Spitfire Audio BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover

5.0
(1)
#43

TAL Noisemaker

5.0
(1)
#44

SQ8L

5.0
(1)
#45

DSK

5.0
(1)
"Dsk just has those delicious lo fi sounds."
#46

FLEX

5.0
(1)
"FLEX has some free guitar packs :) "
#47

Arturia Prophet VS

5.0
(1)
"Arturia makes an emulation of the Prophet VS."
#48

Kilohearts

5.0
(1)
"I vouch for kilohearts, especially the transient shaper."
#49

Playbox

5.0
(1)
"Playbox is a sampler with multiple fx."
#50

Cube by Lunacy Audio

5.0
(1)
"Cube by Lunacy Audio is excellent."
#51

Metallurgy Doom

5.0
(1)
"Metallurgy Doom has everything you need."
#52

Guitar Rig

5.0
(1)
"Guitar Rig has good fuzz pedal and Orange Amp emulations."
#53

Neural DSP gojira

5.0
(1)
"The neural DSP gojira one has everything you could want."
#54

Otto Audio II II II II

5.0
(1)
"If you want an absolutely bonkers amount of variety in sound."
#55

STL Amphub

5.0
(1)
"STL Amphub also has multiple amps that can do the job."
#56

Addictive Keys

5.0
(1)
"Addictive keys?"
#57

Kontakt Libraries

5.0
(1)
"Kontakt Libraries are the way to go if you’re willing to spend some money."
#58

Ivy Audio Piano in 162

5.0
(1)
"I've enjoyed using the free Ivy Audio Piano in 162."
#59

Valhalla Reverb

5.0
(1)
"Imho FabFilter, Serum, Valhalla Reverb, Redline reverb, Sound Toys suite, Endless Smile"
#60

Sound Toys suite

5.0
(1)
"Imho FabFilter, Serum, Valhalla Reverb, Redline reverb, Sound Toys suite, Endless Smile"
#61

Snap Heap

5.0
(1)
"Kilo Hearts "Phase Plant" along with Snap Heap and Multipass."
#62

Multipass

5.0
(1)
"Kilo Hearts "Phase Plant" along with Snap Heap and Multipass."
#63

Valhalla Supermassive

5.0
(1)
"Valhalla Supermassive WHY TF IS THIS FREE?!?!?"
#64

UVI Falcon

5.0
(1)
"Paid: UVI Falcon (my personal favorite)"
#65

Phase Plant

5.0
(1)
"Phase Plant."
#66

Komplete Ultimate Collection

5.0
(1)
"Komplete Ultimate Collection."
#67

Fabfilter suite

5.0
(1)
"Fabfilter suite."
#68

FabFilter Q

5.0
(1)
"FabFilter Q."
#69

FabFilter C

5.0
(1)
"FabFilter C."
#70

FabFilter Saturn

5.0
(1)
"FabFilter Saturn."
#71

Sound Toys

5.0
(1)
"Anything sound toys is gas."
#72

Valhalla

5.0
(1)
"And valhalla."
#73

Komplete

5.0
(1)
"Komplete is always a great value too."
#74

U-HE collection

5.0
(1)
"U-HE collection (Diva, Hive, Bazille, Zebra)."
#75

Surge XT

5.0
(1)
"Instruments: surge xt, arturia (minimoog, jun6, jup8, cmi v, wurli), labs, kontakt"
#76

Analog Obsession CHANNEV

5.0
(1)
"I am loving Analog Obsessions CHANNEV"
#77

FabFilter One

5.0
(1)
"If you have the fab filter pack, check out it's synth called 'One'."
#78

Sinevibes Bundle

5.0
(1)
"The sinevibes and kilohearts bundles are insane price/quality"
#79

FabFilter Pro-Q3

5.0
(1)
"EQ Fabfilter Pro-Q3"
#80

Valhalla Vintage Verb

5.0
(1)
"Reverb Valhalla vintage verb"
#81

Soundtoys Echoboy

5.0
(1)
"Delay Echoboy"
#82

Arturia Omnisphere

5.0
(1)
"Synthesizers Omnisphere still"
#83

Arturia Diva

5.0
(1)
"Diva"
#84

Arturia Pigments

5.0
(1)
"Arturia Pigments"
#85

Arturia Analog Lab V

5.0
(1)
"Analog lab v if you’re into 80s synth icons"
#86

Soundpaint

5.0
(1)
"I'm such a huge fan of Soundpaint as an alternative to Kontact"
#87

Freakshow Industries Dumpster Fire

5.0
(1)
"Weird one, but I really like Dumpster Fire from Freakshow Industries"
#88

OTT

5.0
(1)
"OTT (Free)"
#89

Limiter No6

5.0
(1)
"Limiter No6 (Free)"
#90

FogPad

5.0
(1)
"FogPad (Best free reverb, change my mind)"
#91

PanCake2

5.0
(1)
"PanCake2 (Free)"
#92

MAutoPitch

5.0
(1)
"MAutoPitch (Free)"
#93

Emergence

5.0
(1)
"Emergence (Free)"
#94

Amped Stevie T

5.0
(1)
"Amped - Stevie T (Free*)"
#95

Shaperbox 3

5.0
(1)
"Shaperbox 3"
#96

MPolySaturator

5.0
(1)
"MPolySaturator"
#97

Replika XT

5.0
(1)
"Replika XT"
#98

Ozone

5.0
(1)
"Ozone"
#99

Neural DSP Tim Henson

5.0
(1)
"Neural DSP Tim Henson is atm the best amp sim for nylon guitars."
#100

Synth1

5.0
(1)
"Synth1 is amazing imo. It's free and there's good banks for it."
#101

Meowsynth

5.0
(1)
"My suggestion: Meowsynth. It’s not a powerful synth or a very good one, but it’s fun. It’s also free."
#102

Superior Drummer

5.0
(1)
"Superior drummer is so amazing. It’s like an entire drum library and mini daw inside your daw."
#103

Softube Model 72

5.0
(1)
"Softube Model 72 (Model D)"
#104

East West

4.0
(1)
"I hear voices of soul vst by east west/quantum leap is pretty good."
#105

Output

4.0
(1)
"Arcade, by output."
#106

V-Collection

4.0
(1)
"I have Diva and V-Collection and they're both excellent."
#107

jbridge

4.0
(1)
"Pay for jbridge."
#108

ZynAddSubFx

4.0
(1)
"I like some of the more weird uses of ZynAddSubFx."
#109

Korg M1

4.0
(1)
"Korg M1 and Albino 3 are fun VSTs"
#110

LABS

4.0
(1)
"LABS is a great free sample library with all kinds of instruments."
#111

Neutone

4.0
(1)
"Neutone pretty cool and free too"
#112

Halftime

4.0
(1)
"Halftime i mean its a classic at this point"
#113

Output plugins

4.0
(1)
"Output plugins thermal."
#114

Soothe2

4.0
(1)
"Soothe2 An AI-Powered mastering v."
#115

Xenoverb

4.0
(1)
"Xenoverb."
#116

Phoenixverb

4.0
(1)
"Phoenixverb."
#117

u-he Tyrell N6

4.0
(1)
"I like the u-he stuff for playability esp the tyrell n6."
#118

Analog Obsession

4.0
(1)
"Analog obsession for compressors."
#119

Tokyo Dawn

4.0
(1)
"Tokyo dawn for eq."
#120

Sausage Fattener

4.0
(1)
"SAUSAGE FATTENER (everyone has it so I must have it too hahah)."
#121

Sylenth1

4.0
(1)
"Sylenth1 (Avicii is my biggest inspiration, so this one)."
#122

Analog Lab

4.0
(1)
"Analog Lab along with the Arturia Collection."
#123

Serato

4.0
(1)
"Serato for a sampler."
#124

Weiss series plugins

4.0
(1)
"All Weiss series plugins by Softube."
#125

Arturia Efx Fragments

4.0
(1)
"Arturia Efx Fragments."
#126

Devious Machines

4.0
(1)
"Anything Devious Machines."
#127

Minimal Audio Rift

4.0
(1)
"Minimal Audio Rift."
#128

Synplant 2

4.0
(1)
"Vital, Synplant 2, Harmor, Xpand!2, Quanta2, Phaseplant."
#129

Harmor

4.0
(1)
"Vital, Synplant 2, Harmor, Xpand!2, Quanta2, Phaseplant."
#130

Xpand!2

4.0
(1)
"Vital, Synplant 2, Harmor, Xpand!2, Quanta2, Phaseplant."
#131

Quanta2

4.0
(1)
"Vital, Synplant 2, Harmor, Xpand!2, Quanta2, Phaseplant."
#132

Kilohearts plugins

4.0
(1)
"Kilohearts plugins."
#133

Massive

4.0
(1)
"Massive."
#134

Vengeance

4.0
(1)
"Vengeance."
#135

Ample plugins

4.0
(1)
"Ample plugins."
#136

Electra3

4.0
(1)
"Electra3."
#137

FM8

4.0
(1)
"FM8."
#138

Zynaptiq Morph

4.0
(1)
"Zynaptiq Morph."
#139

Valhalla plugins

4.0
(1)
"Valhalla plugins."
#140

ElastiquePitch

4.0
(1)
"ElastiquePitch."
#141

Flex Beat

4.0
(1)
"Flex Beat (Gross Beat)."
#142

TAL VST's

4.0
(1)
"TAL VST's in high esteem."
#143

Sylenth

4.0
(1)
"Sylenth."
#144

ReFX Vanguard

4.0
(1)
"ReFX vanguard is super underrated."
#145

DUNE3

4.0
(1)
"Highly recommend DUNE3."
#146

BooBass

4.0
(1)
"BooBass"
#147

Expand

4.0
(1)
"Expand has great lead sounds as well as great presets"
#148

Wavestation

4.0
(1)
"Wavestation is pretty good"
#149

Albino 3

3.0
(1)
"Albino 3 isn’t so beginner friendly tho."

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