Free VST 3 Plugins & Softwares

Rough Rider

Rough Rider is a free compressor VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by Audio Damage. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Rough Rider is a modern compressor with a bit of “vintage”-style bite and a uniquely warm sound. Perfect for adding compression effects to your drum buss, it also sounds great with synth bass, clean guitar, and backing vocals. Definitely not an all-purpose compressor, Rough Rider is at its best when used to add pump to rhythmic tracks. Of course, you can use it however you’d like. The Compressor Police aren’t gonna come to your house and give you a citation. Slap it on a track and crank some knobs.

The front panel layout is done the same as many hardware compressors, so it will be immediately obvious how to use it. A brief overview of the controls:

Ratio: The ratio knob is logarithmic in operation. Completely anti-clockwise is 1:1, and completely clockwise is 1:1000. The 12 o’clock position is 1:10, so everything to the left of center is single digits, and everything to the right is “atom bomb squish,” essentially.

Attack and Release: Audio Damage left off the actual time values, so you’re gonna have to use your ears, like the he-men did it in times of myth.

Meter: That honking big dial in the middle of the UI is the gain reduction meter. It basically shows how much compression is occurring.

Sensitivity: usually called “threshold” now, but Audio Damage think “sensitivity” always made more sense. Turn to the right, you get more compression, essentially. Turn it all the way to the right, and you’ve got a distortion box, the sound of which is tuned by Ratio, Attack, and Release.

Makeup: 30 dB of gain to compensate for the attenuation caused by the compressor.

Active: From the front panel, this is simply an off/on switch, but if you automate it, strange things happen…

MIDI Learn: Like all Audio Damage products, the VST version has MIDI Learn. Download any manual from the current product line for an explanation of how this works as it is common among all Audio Damage VST products.

http://www.audiodamage.com/

roomconvpbin

roomconvpbin is a free reverb VST, VST3 plugin developed by EXE Consulting. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

Binaural version of room acoustics modelling program RoomConvp. Used for headphone mixing. Binaural examples of mixing are available at SoundCloud under EXE Consulting.

VST2/VST3 again.

http://www.execonsultingtx.com

roomconvp

roomconvp is a free reverb VST, VST3 plugin developed by EXE Consulting. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

This room modelling program solves the wave equation in 3-D spaces, here a specific large concert hall of volume 12,500 cubic meters (for 44,100 samples/sec*) with the “Golden Ratio” for its dimensions. Please see YouTube channel for EXE Consulting for introductory video. Please see SoundCloud for EXE Consulting for songs that employ this room modeller. VST2/VST3 again.

(*) 9,694 cubic meters for 48,000; 1,462.5 cubic meters for 88,200; 1,212 cubic meters for 96,000. In other words, much smaller room size for higher rates. This may change for future versions.

http://www.execonsultingtx.com

Room Verb Hall

Room Verb Hall is a free reverb VST, VST3 plugin developed by EXE Consulting. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

This rotational room modelling program solves the wave equation in 3-D spaces, here a specific large concert hall of volume 12,500 cubic meters (for 44,100 samples/sec*) with the “Golden Ratio” for its dimensions. This version allows rotation of the microphones around and around (equivalently the room about the microphones) at different speeds. Please see YouTube channel for EXE Consulting for introductory video. Please see SoundCloud for EXE Consulting for songs that employ this room modeller. VST2/VST3 again.

(*) 9,694 cubic meters for 48,000; 1,462.5 cubic meters for 88,200; 1,212 cubic meters for 96,000. In other words, much smaller room size for higher rates. This may change for future versions.

http://www.execonsultingtx.com

Roboverb

Roboverb is a free reverb VST, VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by Kushview. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Kushview’s Roboverb is a one of a kind plugin unlike any other reverb, intended to allow you to stand out in a crowd. Equipped with versatility to replace your current “go-to” reverb, Roboverb also offers a set of switches capable of flipping your project on it’s ear.

Audio plugins don’t need to be complicated, you don’t need a bunch of ugly numbers and settings to achieve a professional sound of your own. Our unique plugin allows you to Robotize any sound you please by flipping a few switches, but if that’s too much, flip another switch or two and you’re back to a warm thick reverb.

Designed with you in mind, Roboverb is small in size, carefully preserving your desktop and work area.
Customizing your entire project can be as simple as flipping a switch, or turning a knob.
If you’re looking for an audio effect to help you create your custom sound, try Roboverb today.

https://kushview.net

Riviera: Hyper-Room Reverb

Riviera: Hyper-Room Reverb is a free reverb VST, VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by NuSpace Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Riviera is a free hybrid algorithmic-convolution reverb plugin for modeling specular acoustic reflections in N-dimensional orthotopes. e.g. string, plate, room, tesseract, and up (vooms or volume+room for short). Normally, direct computations in these spaces are expensive but some clever maths reduced the asymptotic costs to the point of practical use (e.g. a Reverb plugin). Parameterizing these spaces and then combining them with some fast time-varying frequency decay resulted in some interesting sounding impulse responses (IRs).

Features:

Voom designer: Adjustable number of dimensions, size, listener offset from sound-source origin, and material reflection dB loss.

Time controls: Adjust pre-delay, IR onset/reverser, geometry scale/density sampling, and dimensional attenuation.

Frequency controls: Low and high frequency dampening, low-cut linear phase filter.

Stereo controls: Pan, Haas, phase, mix (wet/dry), mid/side (mono to difference), and gain.

Graphical user interface: Real-time displays to IR and spectrogram.

High performance: Low-latency & low CPU usage convolution algorithm, variable max FFT block size, multi-threading support for computing IRs in the background.

Specifications:

VST2: Windows 7+, 32/64-bit, Mac OS X 10.7+.

VST3, Windows 7+, 32/64-bit.

AudioUnit, Mac OS X 10.7+.

Minimum SSE2 supported processor with improvements if AVX enabled.

Credits:

Yuancheng [Mike] Luo: DSP, algorithms, GUI.

WDL-OL: Targeting VST2/VST3 and cross-platforming.

https://nuspaceaudio.com/

Ripchord

Ripchord is a free chorder VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by Trackbout. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Ripchord is an obnoxiously simple MIDI plugin for creating and remixing chord progressions. It lets you easily map multiple output notes to a given input note so that you can create your own custom chord mappings, and then experiment with the order and the rhythm of the chords by simply playing one note at time.

Ripchord is free and will always be free, and you can also download free presets from the community.

{See video at top of page}

https://trackbout.com

Ring 2

Ring 2 is a free ring modulator VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by Audec. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Ring is a ring modulator effect.

Price: Free.

http://audec-music.com/

RESOM

RESOM is a free resonator VST, VST3 plugin developed by WOK. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b.

RESOM is a free resonator audio effect.

It features 6 resonator units (2*3, stereo) with 4x oversampling, tuned as a “power chord”.

Overall tuning can be adjusted on the GUI or with MIDI keys.

The signal can also be send to bandpass filters first before going to the tuned resonators, there is a fine detuning function and stereo spread.

RESOM is available for Windows as a 32-bit VST plugin and 64-bit VST3 (experimental) from WOK.

Update v1.1
– shows up as effect now, not synth
– Mac 64-bit VST3 version included (experimental)

Update v1.2
– 64-bit version wrong resonator calculation.

Audio

http://www.wokwave.com

ReFine

ReFine is a free enhancer and exciter VST, VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by lkjb. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

ReFine is a plugin that allows to add a final polishing to your tracks, busses and masters. It extracts psycho-acoustic parameters from the source and thus allows to add warmth, space and punch to your mixes. This is done level dependent and rather subtle; you probably won’t be able to create heavy distortion effects with this plugin.

Version 1.1.0 won’t be compatible with earlier versions but 1.1.0 can be installed alongside previous versions if one of the plugin is renamed. Since the amount of controls isn’t too high migrating shouldn’t be a problem.

The plugin is now open source.

The manual is available here.

Changelog:

1.2.0: JUCE update.

1.1.0: moved plugin to JUCE, added AU format, added x2 toggle.

1.0.6: fixed crash in mono instances.

1.0.5: fixed CPU issue in Cubase during silence.

1.0.3: added support for older VST hosts on Windows, OS X 10.6 support.

1.0.2: fixed denormalisation bug.

1.0.1: fixed high CPU bug (appeared when silence was put in after a signal).

https://lkjbdsp.wordpress.com/