Free Audio Softwares Hosting VST Instruments

Zen

Zen is a free file manager VST plugin developed by BigTick. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Zen is a Universal Presets Manager: It loads in any host as a VST instrument, and acts as a loader for other VSTis. So with Zen, you can search for “Rhodes piano” and get a list of all matching presets – regardless of the final VSTi (Rhino, Zebra, Absynth… whatever). When you select one of the presets in Zen, the corresponding VSTi is automatically loaded to play the requested preset.

Many popular VSTis are supported, and new ones are added daily. Eventually Zen aims to categorize all available presets, for all VSTis.

Zen is online
It constantly synchronizes its own local database of presets with a master online database hosted at www.bigtickaudio.com – users get new presets daily, delivered right into their sequencer, already categorized.

Zen for commercial presets designers
Commercial presets designers can use Zen to send demo versions of their presets to all potential customers. Users can preview the presets in Zen, directly in the context of their track, and buy the presets they like with just one click. Presets can be bought individually, as opposed to purchasing a full bank of presets.

http://www.bigtickaudio.com/

Wavosaur

Wavosaur is a free audio editor plugin developed by Wavosaur. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

Wavosaur is an audio editor application. It supports VST plug-in effects, which can be chained.

Features:

Basic editing functions (cut, copy, paste, trim/crop, reverse, mute, fade, normalize, etc.).

Unlimited effects via the support of VST plugins. Plug-ins can be chained.

Wavosaur is currently in alpha release stage (i.e. pre-release) and made available for free (donations welcome).

http://www.wavosaur.com/

vvvv

vvvv is a free audio and studio utility plugin developed by vvvv group. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

vvvv is a toolkit for real time video synthesis. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously.

vvvv uses a visual programming interface. Therefore it provides a graphical programming language for easy prototyping and development.

vvvv is real time. where many other languages have distinct modes for building and running programs, vvvv only has one mode – runtime.

vvvv is free for non-commercial use. Commercial use requires a license.

Main feature summary:

Effortless handling of multiple Objects with Spreads.

Seamless Multi-Projection Setups with Boygrouping.

DirectX based 3d Rendering.

Loading 3d Models.

Texturing 3d Models with Motion Graphics and Video.

Real-time Shader Programming.

Real-time Physics Simulations.

Real-time Video Analysis.

Audio capabilities.

Interfacing with a wide variety of external devices and protocols.

http://vvvv.org/

VSTWrapperBuilder

VSTWrapperBuilder is a free wrapper VST plugin developed by Hypercube Softwares. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

VSTWrapperBuilder is a tool designed to get rid of common issues with VST plug-ins:

Giant menu with VST Shell. Using such thing inside Nuendo or Cubase is a nightmare. Here the solution: Use VSTWrapperBuilder to extract all plugins from the shell and organize them properly on your hard drive. You can define some rules to specify where a given effect must belong to.

Old plugins require the audio buffer to be cleared by the host. With recent hosts this is not done so your famous old plugin can no longer be used. The solution is simple: generate a wrapper with VSTWrapperBuilder checking the column “Old” and that’s all. It will work. The wrapper will fill the audio buffer properly.

Some VST Hosts don’t send effSetSpeakerArrangement to surround plugins. Because of that, they acting in mono most of the time. The solution is also simple: generate a wrapper with VSTWrapperBuilder checking the column “Surround” and that’s all. The plugin will receive automatically a 5.1 configuration. Of course you have to use it on a 5.1 track.

http://hypercube-software.duckdns.org

VSTServer

VSTServer is a free routing and wrapper plugin developed by Kjetil Matheussen. Compatible OS(s): Linux.

Kjetil Matheussen’s VST server system has evolved to include the following components:

A WINE-based server (vstserver).

A LADSPA host plugin for VST plugins (vst.so).

A native object for hosting VST plugins in the Pure Data environment (k_vst~.pd_linux).

A standalone host application for running VST instruments, i.e. VSTi plugins (vsti).

http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org/toots/vst-plugins/

VstSeq

VstSeq is a free sequencer stand alone application developed by PQN Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

VstSeq is a simple “piano roll” style pattern sequencer VSTi host actually designed to run as a plugin in Tuareg 2 but it also has a stand alone version.

Features:

Simple piano roll pattern sequencer:
1 – 8 measures.
2 – 32 steps per measure.
30 – 303 BPM.

Loads multiple VSTi.

Save/Render as WAV.

http://pquenin.free.fr/pqnaudio/

VSTLord

VSTLord is a free routing plugin developed by Arne Scheffler. Compatible OS(s): macOS.

VSTLord is a simple VST “Test Host” for Mac OS X 10.4.x. (PPC & i386).

http://arne-scheffler.de

VSTForx

VSTForx is a free routing and wrapper VST plugin developed by samba_godschynski. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

VSTForx is a creative effect network creation tool which comes as a VST plug-in that can load any number of VST plug-ins and connect them any way you want.

Additional features:

Add plug parameter on stage and bind them.

Operators for such parameter connection (inverse, offset, EXP, …).

I/O step sequencers and switches.

Audio2parameter-value modules (e.g. ADSR-trigger, Peak-tracker).

Load several VST-instruments and assign them via MIDI-channel.

Program/preset chooser.

Plugin-editor position and visibility are controllable with knobs.

MIDI CC Receiver Node.

{See video at top of page}

http://www.vstforx.de/

VSTHost

VSTHost is a free routing plugin developed by Hermann Seib. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

VSTHost is an Open Source VST-compatible host that:

Loads VST 2 / 3 / Module Architecture plug-ins.

Parameterizing / editing them.

Sound output for VSTis.

MIDI-input and -output.

Loading / saving.fxb files.

Supports ASIO2.

http://www.hermannseib.com/english/

VstBoard

VstBoard is a free routing and wrapper VST plugin developed by CtrlBrk. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

VstBoard is a free, open source, VST host and plug-in. Its main purpose is to allow fast switching between setups and was primarily designed to be used as a guitar multi-fx.

Features:

Multiple setups per file.

Fast switching between setups.

Multithreaded.

Runs standalone or as a plugin.

Free (unrestrained) audio and MIDI routing.

Some basic scripting capabilities.

Undo/redo, your mistakes, endlessly.

Customizable interface (dockable windows, custom colors, zoom, plugins windows size and position).

Localized : EngRish and French.

Other useless stuff.

https://vstboard.blogspot.com/