Free AAX Plugins & Softwares

VHL-3C

VHL-3C is a free equalizer VST, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by Black Rooster Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Built around a cascade of two constant-K filters the VHL-3C’s analog counterpart – a sought-after processor from the early 1950s – comprises an entirely passive design with very musical and interactive pass filters. Offering 3 simple and intuitive controls, the VHL-3C allows you to effectively remove rumble, hum or harsh frequencies from your signals. Set both filter knobs to their extreme positions and you’ll end up with a narrow telephone-line bandpass. “So what?”, you may wonder – Black Rooster Audio is giving away this goodie for free.

Features

Authentic Circuit Emulation

Our real time SPICE type component based circuit simulation approach allows to authentically capture the sound and feel of the analog counterpart in all nuances. Every crucial part of the passive filter network including filter stage interaction and the influence of different load resistances have been faithfully modeled.

SSE2 Optimized Code

DSP operations are pipelined using the SSE2 instruction set. This ensures highest possible performance operation despite very complex computations.

Auto-adjusted Oversampling For Maximum Audio Transparency

Aliasing artifacts are efficiently attenuated using a low latency linear phase Dolph-Chebyshev poly-phase design. The oversampling is auto-adjusted to your session’s sample rate to save valuable CPU power while offering the most transparent sound possible.

HighDPI / Retina Support

All our plug-Ins support high pixel density on Mac OS X and Windows to bring you the most enjoyable user experience on high DPI displays. Please refer to your manual to find whether your DAW is HighDPI capable if you’re working on Windows.

http://blackroosteraudio.com

Verberate Basic

Verberate Basic is a free reverb VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by Acon Digital. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

The Revolutionary Vivid Hall Algorithm for Free

The free Verbarate Basic 2 is based on Verberate 2 and offers the same highly praised audio quality. The plug-in offers four high quality presets from Verberate 2 that showcase the quality and versatility of the algorithm:

Plate, a realistic simulation of plate reverb with the typical frequency dispersion and decay properties that give plate reverb the airy touch.

Room, a beautiful and warm wooden room that gives a great sense of room without being obtrusive.

Hall, a natural and gorgeous sounding hall.

Lush Hall, a colorful out-of-world hall with frequency modulated tails that sounds amazing on synth pads.

The intuitive user interface has buttons for each of the four reverb programs along with a mix knob that let’s you adjust the dry and reverb signal levels.

Audio Examples

Acon Digital Verberate Basic 2 is available for both Windows (PC) and macOS (Macintosh). Both 32 and 64-bit versions are available for Windows and the version for macOS is 64-bit. The plug-in formats VST, VST3, AAX Native / AudioSuite and Audio Units (macOS only) are supported. Acon Digital Verberate Basic 2 supports mono and stereo audio formats.

http://www.acondigital.com/

UVI Workstation

UVI Workstation is a free sampler VST, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by UVI. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

UVI Workstation 3 is a completely free multitimbral instrument and soundbank player that provides integrated effects and arpeggiator, unlimited parts, live performance features and a smooth real-time workflow.

UVI Workstation 3 main features:

Single mode for loading UVI sounds and instruments.

Multi mode including unlimited parts and convenient mixing environment with meters, mute, solo, volume, pan, performance settings (keyswitches, range), and separate outputs.

Smart integrated browser with Search/Favorites to quickly find what you’re looking for.

Scalable UI adapts to different monitor sizes.

Powerful and extremely flexible Arpeggiator.

Expandable with all UVI-Powered instruments.

Manage instruments and loops in the same interface.

Comprehensive suite of professional FX can be infinitely stacked and combined with easily editable parameters (delay, reverb, phaser, chorus, EQ, filter, drive, distortion, compressor…).

Real-time time-stretch and slice algorithm with real-time beat syncing: loops are always in time.

Drag & drop MIDI & audio.

Import user REX files, Apple Loops, AIFF, WAV, …

MIDI learn & 128 user assignable Host automations.

Watch UVI Workstation 3 in action: {See video at top of page}

http://www.uvi.net/

UNO Synth Editor

UNO Synth Editor is a free software synthesizer developed by IK Multimedia. Available format(s): VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX for Windows 64b, macOS.

The UNO Synth Editor is a plug-in and standalone app that lets you access all the parameters of IK’s groundbreaking UNO Synth, the real analog synthesizer for everyone. The Editor lets you go beyond the front panel controls and access deeper programming settings like full 4-stage ADSR envelopes for both filter and amplitude, pulse width and waveform shape modulation of the oscillators, modulation wheel assignments, velocity control and much more. The Editor does not make sound on its own. Rather, it is a controller for the UNO Synth hardware that gives you remote control of this innovative instrument from your computer or mobile device.

The UNO Synth Editor works as a standalone application on iPhone and iPad, but on Mac and PC something special happens: in addition to a standalone application, the UNO Synth works as a plug-in inside your favorite DAW.

This means that you can program and play the UNO Synth just like a virtual instrument with total recall, so the Editor will recall its previous settings each time you open an older session. And it’s freely resizable, so you can adjust the screen size to fit your workflow.

Enjoy the convenience and flexibility of plug-ins, but with the massive advantage of real analog synthesizer sound. With UNO Editor, you can take your music production to the next level faster than you ever imagined working with an analog synth could be.

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/

TX16Wx Software Sampler

TX16Wx Software Sampler is a free sampler VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by CWITEC. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

TX16Wx Software Sampler is a sampler plug-in with professional features and an easy to use graphical interface. Built to mimic the best aspects of hardware samplers, but with the quick and easy operation of modern software. An instrument not for preset players, but people who enjoy making, tweaking and playing their own samples.

Features:

Re-sizable, flexible GUI

Full Undo/Redo support.

Built-in file browser with sound playback and wave/program preview.

Fully skinnable.

Program icons.

Dual playback engine

Direct from disk – supports massive sample sizes.

RAM playback – sample accurate loop modulation.

Unlimited multi-timbral operation

128 voice polyphony

Two 6/12/24 dB resonant filters per voice.

Low-, high, band- and all-pass.

Notch, peak, low- and high shelf.

Two sync-able LFO per voice.

Two Modulation Envelopes per voice.

Three Step Sequencers per voice.

Modulation matrix with 16 modulation slots per voice.

Three-way cross modulation (variable modulation strength).

Variable keyboard scales.

Multiple trigger modes.

Mono/Poly/Legato operation.

8 choke groups per program.

Per-sample loop start/end/direction modulation.

Polyphonic glide.

Multiple glide modes.

Polyphony limit per channel.

VST micro tuning support.

Built-in oscillators

Multiple waveforms.

Pulse width modulation.

Mix synthesized and sampled content.

Built-in sample editor

Automatic Loop Slicing + slice mapping.

Actually Samples!* Record audio straight into the sampler from host (Requires routing/input capable host).

Built-in MIDI generator and automatic sample cutter for quick re-sampling of external or internal content.

Automatic pitch detection.

Loop tools

Loop auto detector.

Loop overlay.

Non-destructive, interactive loop cross fading.

Multiple loop definitions per wave

Individual loops for sustain/release per mapping.

Trim, cut, duplicate.

Pitch detection.

Normalize.

Reverse.

Tempo detection.

Graphical keyboard mapping editor

Automatic sample layout.

Flexible drag & drop-based group edit.

Cut&paste or drag and drop move and copy between groups and programs.

Quick select of sound data via MIDI.

Drag & drop of samples/programs/performances/banks.

Multiple outputs

12 Stereo outputs, 8 of which can be switched to mono.

Individual output mapping for key groups (drums).

16 mappable controllers for modulation.

128 mappable VST parameters for modulation.

All sound parameters can be automated or mapped to MIDI controllers.

Preview loaded programs and samples in your song before loading.

Reads multiple sample and bank formats

WAV/AIFF/AIFC.

SoundFont 2.

SFZ Files.

Logic EXS.

Akai AKP.

Akai disk images.

Ogg Vorbis.

FLAC.

REX/REX2.

Typhoon compressed AIFC files.

Original Yamaha OS Wave files.

100% documented XML-based sound file format

Anyone can write conversion tools.

Saves data in DAW project directory.

Low CPU usage.

Fully native, optimized for SSE2.

Multi platform

MacOS X 10.7+ AU/VST2 (64-bit)/VST3 (64-bit)/AAX.

Windows 7+ VST/VST3/AAX support.

64-bit support.

Nice sound.

http://www.cwitec.com/

Tube Saturator Vintage

Tube Saturator Vintage is a free overdrive and saturation VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by Wave Arts. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Tube Saturator Vintage is a free reissue of the original Tube Saturator.

Tube Saturator Vintage uses circuit simulation technology to faithfully reproduce the sound of a dual triode preamp. While it sounds great, the circuit simulation technology is very CPU intensive, that’s why Wave Arts developed its successor, Tube Saturator 2, vastly more efficient, nearly identical in simulation accuracy, and with added features. However, some users prefer the sound of the original and requested it, so they’ve re-released it as a free plug.

Find out more and download it at wavearts.com/products/plugins/tube-saturator-vintage

http://www.wavearts.com/

Tube Amp

Tube Amp is a free overdrive and saturation VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by Voxengo. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Tube Amp is an audio effect plug-in that applies asymmetric tube triode overdrive usually found in single-tube microphone pre-amp boxes. The sound this plug-in produces varies from a mild “warm” overdrive to a fuzzy distortion. Beside that, Tube Amp includes a -6 dB/oct low-pass filter that is built-in into plug-in’s valve modeling equation, and can be used to imitate a lower-quality tube triode.

Tube Amp also features all standard advanced Voxengo plug-in features like full multi-channel operation and built-in oversampling.

Features:

Asymmetric tube triode overdrive.

Multi-channel processing.

Internal channel routing.

Channel grouping.

Mid/side processing.

Up to 8x oversampling.

64-bit floating point processing.

Preset manager.

Undo/redo history.

A/B comparisons.

Contextual hint messages.

https://www.voxengo.com/

TSE BOD

TSE BOD is a free amp simulator VST, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by TSE AUDIO. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

DSP Bass processing unit with analog modeling of a bass stompbox.

https://www.tseaudio.com

TSC 808 Core

TSC 808 Core is a free saturation and overdrive VST, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by Mercuriall Audio Software. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Tubes Creamer 808 Core free plugin for Mac OS X and Windows in AU, VST and AAX plugin formats.

Features/details:
• The modeling is based on a real circuit of the Ibanez TS-808
• Mod switch: “808” for a default sound of the Ibanez TS-808 and “Mod” for getting a cleaner sound with slightly more bass when “Drive” is at the minimum
• Low CPU usage
• Stereo and Mono modes
• Low (no oversampling) and High (4x oversampling) Quality switch.

http://mercuriall.com

Triple EQ

Triple EQ is a free equalizer VST, VST3, Audio Unit, RTAS, AAX, DirectX plugin developed by Blue Cat Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Blue Cat’s Triple EQ is an easy-to-use 3-band semi-parametric equalizer. It includes a low shelf filter, a high shelf filter and a boost/cut peak filter. Its wide range of gain (+/-40 dB per band) and bandwidth (.01 to 5 Octave) makes it very versatile. The three filters are linked together so that when you change the center frequency or the bandwidth, the three filter parameters are changed accordingly: you can change the entire equalizer characteristics with one single mouse click making any equalization task very easy and intuitive.

The graph shows the computed frequency response of the plug-in, so that you can exactly know how your signal is processed. This is not an approximated or “ideal” response curve based on the controls of the user interface, but the exact computed frequency response of the filter, which makes this plug-in a true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) equalizer.

Main Features:

WYSIWYG 3-band semi-parametric equalizer.

Filters designed after analog circuits.

+-40 dB range on each band.

Automatic gain compensation.

No latency.

Real time display of the frequency response.

Native DSP code for optimal performance.

Random preset generation: auto generate custom presets with one single click.

‘Smooth Update Mechanism’: real-time parameter modification with zipper-free parameter updates. Hear absolutely no ‘click’ when playing with parameters.

Full automation support (all parameters can be automated, with smooth and continuous update).

Any sample rate supported.

DirectX version: supports 32-bits floating point as well as 16 / 8 bits PCM audio streams.

Triple EQ supports “Blue Cat’s Skinning language”, allowing you to customize the plug-in to your own needs.

http://www.bluecataudio.com/