Years ago appeared free plug-ins - GVST plug-ins! They are simple, efficient, useful, and with very good quality.
GVST plug-ins by Graham Yeadon (development, code, graphics, website and documentation) and contributor Greg Pettit (documentation). Almost all plug-ins are "processing", some - "synths".

Effects:
GBand - Band-pass filter.
GChorus - Chorus effect.
GClip - Wave-shaping signal clipper.
GComp - Compressor.
GComp2 - Compressor.
GDelay - Delay effect.
GDuckDly - Ducking delay effect.
GFader - Signal gain (-100 to 0 dB).
GForm - Formant/pitch shifting for vocals and other monophonic inputs. [beta]
GGain - Signal gain (-12 to 12 dB).
GGate - Gate.
GGrain - Granular resynthesis.
GHi - High-pass filter.
GLow - Low-pass filter.
GLFO - Triple LFO effect.
GLoop - A triggered sample recorder/looper. [beta]
GMax - Limiter.
GMonoBass - Bass stereo imaging effect.
GMulti - Multi-band compressor and stereo enhancer.
GNormal - Noise generator for avoiding denormal problems.
GPitchGate - Pitch-controlled gate effect. [beta]
GRect - Full-wave rectifier. [beta]
GRevDly - Reverse delay effect.
GSatMax - Oversampled maximizing limiter with saturated drive. [beta]
GSinthG - Pitch-driven synth effect. [beta]
GSnap - Pitch-correction.
GSpace - Psychoacoustic stereo ambience effect. [beta]
GStereo - M/S processor used in GMulti. [beta]
GTriChorus - Three-band chorus effect. [beta]
GTune - Chromatic tuner.

Instruments:
GSinth - Mono synth using three continuous portamento sine generators.
GSinth2 - Extends GSinth by adding triangle, square and saw-tooth wave shapes.

x86 and x64 versions

DOWNLOAD: http://www.gvst.co.uk/packages.htm
just download archive and put them into your plug-in folder.

Latest update: 14 May 2015 (previous update was 23 March 2015, older - February 2015, etc.)

MAC OS and LINUX page: http://www.gvst.co.uk/portpage.htm
HOME PAGE: http://www.gvst.co.uk/index.htm
Here you'll find some extra info about them. There are no changelogs, but as Graham emailed me months ago updates are "bug fixing, small enhancements, optimizations and stability improvements", but rarely he adds new plug-ins. So, I'll inform you here in thread by adding info about the latest update. As well as, you can make a donation to support GVST.

 

quality stuff. Gclip is gold even better than T-racks Clipper

 

I use GFader and GGain as gain - sometimes it is better than DAW's fader))

 

Thanks, mild pump milk!

really very usefull, quality stuff. *yes*

 

why you think so?

 

Because with heavy clipping sounds better, used it on every track I did.Controlled Clipping it's part of some genres like EDM or Progressive House. And it's CPU lighter. Plus with recent T-Racks CS you need to load all the suit just to load the clipper.

 

Excellent, very useful FXs. Especially when you know how to use them.

I've been using these for years. So handy. Not really high quality, but not crap quality, either.

@Mostwest: You can load single plugins in T-rackS v4.

Cheers!

 

T-RackS CS v4 can be loaded as single plug-ins, all suite is CPU killer. Single plug-in loading is one of the major T-RackS CS v4 feature.
But right, GClip sounds very awesome and in many cases it is more suitable=)
One of my friend works in studio (he is in Ukraine) - they have a good studio, but software they uses is free or old/forgotten/abandoned and no cracked software + some hardware (not much and not expensive). So he recommended me GVST (in 2009), because he has been using them too much. So his music - excellent results, good quality, good engineering/mixing/mastering. As well as he achieves good results on old cheap Yamaha monitors (HS80M or 50M), but it is good. GVST stuff in 2009 was very excellent, now in 2005 it is getting better.

 

Don't know... i could load every single plugin separatly with previous release than CS (like 3.5). Now i can load only Metering and classic eq as separate plugin. Plus i don't use the newer stuff.

 

@ Mostwest,

It seems to me that since the 'Version 4' of 'T-RackS CS', all the Plugins comprised in that Bundle are accessible directly within the 'T-RackS' Container, as said by 'SineWave' : "You can load single plugins in T-rackS v4."

Moreover, if you don't usually use others of the most recent Plugins of that Bundle :

You should be able, after installation of the Full Bundle, to simply delete the non desired ones ('.dll'), thus just keeping the desired ones...
The next time you'll launch your 'T-RackS CS', you should then solely get the desired ones available...
By cons, if you plan to do that, I suggest you to keep 'T-RackS CS.dll' in its initial location, because this '.dll' is the 'Container Rack' from which you can load and get all the other 'CS' Elements. *yes*
You can also delete the corresponding '.vpa' & '.vpa64' as well (e.g. 'T-RackS CS Black 76.vpa' & 'T-RackS CS Black 76.vpa64') as these will become useless, and which you can find via the following Path :

C:\Programmes (or Program Files)\IK Multimedia\T-RackS CS\<-- here !

By cons, absolutely keep 'T-RackS CS.pak', 'T-RackS CS.vpa' & 'T-RackS CS.vpa64', which are in relation with the 'T-RackS CS.dll' (that famous 'Container' !).

 

@Studio 555
there is a way to have single plugin without the container stuff?? like was in version 3.5?? I just need the Opto Compressor as single plugins (but i could install v 3.5)

 

@ Mostwest,

*no* Unfortunately, I don't think so... and that's the reason why since the first 'Version 4' of 'T-RackS CS', you can get now all the Plugins using that 'Container Rack'...

As you want to solely use 1 'T-RackS' Plugin (or maybe just a few), I can only suggest you to try to find (if you don't have it into your Archives), the (old) 'T-RackS 3 Singles' Version, which contains only the following Plugins (including your desired 'Opto Compressor') :

 

@Studio 555

As i thought thanks, i should have stored the installer of T-Racks 3 somewhere

 

Would be nice if we could skin these. You know, for psychological reasons. I am a sucker for cool GUI's. I will use anything that will get me the result I need, but am more inclined to use a plugin if it looks cool. lol.

These, I have been using for at least 9-10 years I think. They are great when you need a simple plugin to do a simple task. Often rather hard to find these days. Most plugins have more features than I need for some simple tasks.

 

@ Mostwest,

In case that you may not find that "somewhere" ... just let me know. *yes*
I have that 'T-RackS 3 Deluxe Edition' (x86-32bit) for PC, and which contains exactly the Plugin Models depicted in my previous Comment. *yes*

 

@Studio 555

thanks man really appreciated, however i always try to store new version alongside old's one. Seems i'm lucky on my ext hdd just found this
"IK.Multimedia.T-RackS.3.Bundle.STANDALONE.VST.RTAS.v3.5.0.x86.x64" wich should be deluxe 3.5 plus white2a and black76