I use Surge lots and when I have the time will rip into the new kid on the block.

 

de la Mancha - plastique v1.0 Win 32 VSTi
plastique is a 2 oscillator subtractive synth, using the 31 waveforms from the Casio HT-700 and some enhancements to the original.
https://plugins4free.com/plugin/425/



Polyvalens - Casio VL1 Win 32 VSTi
VL1 is an emulator of the famous classic Casio synthesizer.
VL1 is not just a sample player, it is a real emulator that emulates the original hardware.
https://plugins4free.com/plugin/259/



MARVIN PAVILION - Casiopea Win 32 VSTi
Casiopea is a phase distortion synthesizer.
https://plugins4free.com/plugin/586/

 

I used a Casio VL1 on the first song that I ever recorded to multittack called I Won't Wait On The Line At The Limelight. It was my neighbor's synth which I borrowed. I recorded it on a Tascam 246 Portastudio which cost like $1200. Boy, was that a high tech machine or what? It was fun to have. That recording which is "mastered" to cassette might survive still from 1986.

 

NUSofting - Noisetar v1.0.1 VSTi - 22.01.2022 - Free

Noisetar is a synthesizer dedicated to the generation of many different noise based sounds.

The generation is purely mathematical, no samples or wavetables are used, thus allowing for an easy continuous morphing from one sound to the other. Twelve parameters control the generator, moreover its output can be further shaped and enriched inside Noisetar with its two filters, a chorusing reverb and a stereo enhancer. As modulators Noisetar offers an ADSR envelope and keytracking, with seven destinations.

Using the included bandpass filter, which is tuned to the incoming MIDI notes, is also possible to play Noisetar melodically.
Noisetar is designed with DAW parameter automation in mind to tailor complex custom modulations tied to each project rather then dealing with complicated patches.

Noisetar has its own sound space, ranging from various digital noises to crackle, rattles and crepitations similar to wood fire or rain, scratchy percussions and foot stomps, with many others from the lowest booming and gurgling drones, to thin misty hisses. The quality and types of Noisetar sounds obviously doesn't cover all possible noise sounds, but most certainly will increase your noise arsenal without taking up more than 2MB on your drive.

Any musical genre can make use of a versatile noise synth. Enjoy exploring its unique sound space.

Features:

- Unique integrated sound engine, with comb filter, LFO, AM, FM etc...
- Polyphony ten voices.
- Keytracking for various parameters.
- Melodic bandpass filter with adjustable bandwidth.
- ADSR envelope with 4 targets.

Effects:

- 12dB/octave, low pass and high pass.
- Chorusing Reverb.
- Stereo Enhancer.

Others:

- All parameters can be automated inside a DAW.
- Tooltips on screen.
- Resizable GUI.
- Custom colours and texture.

https://plugins4free.com/plugin/2570/

 

Lazerwave




SoundDemo: lazerwave_sd1.mp3 (Default Presets)

This Synth is a Triangle Wave based, waveshaping Polyphonic
Synthesizer with a spacy touch. It can make many kinds of sounds you may find usable for your Productions.

8 Voice Polyphonic Synthesizer
- 3 Oscillators with shapeable Triangle Wave
- 3 ADSR Envelopes
- 2 LFO Rootable seperataly
- 1 LowPass Filter with Resonance and a Stepsequencer in two Timing Modes (Host-Synced/Free Rate) for the Cutoff Frequency
- 1 DELAY Effect in MONO/STEREO/PINGPONG Mode
Output Amplitude is Toggled with the Velocity

Poly-LD8



Soundexample: bohnensalat.ogg - by Toshi

A very Poly-800 inspired VST Instrument, will bring the Poly 800 Sound on your 32bit Daw
Note: A 64Bit version can't be ported, due the Demo limitations of SynthEdit. That VSTi is Free,
without any limitations in its Functionality. If you want 64Bit versions, you can support me for making it sooner possible.

- 8 Voice Polyphonic Synthesizer
- 2 Poly-800 OSC's with Scaleable Overtones and Pan
- 2 ADBSSR Envelope Generators
- 1 LowPass Resonance Filter with ADBSSR Envelope Generator
- 1 Noise Generator
- 1 Lfo with Sinewave for OSC, Filter and Velocity and Delay
- The Mastervolume is wired to the Velocity
- 1 Chorus + 1 Host Synced Pingpong delay

http://ldaysynths.blogspot.com

 

DazAutomatic - RetroLazer Synth VSTi - 32 Bit - June 2003 - Rare

This synthedit creation is a unique VSTi, and was hard to find on the interweb.

It's a blaster laser gun from outer space emulator with few controls.
Some say it's the secret weapon behind all sucessful songs ("My Way," "Da Funk", "Pinocchio").

A FULL 16 presets bank in fxp/fxb format for Retrolaser including:

- Growling BASS preset
- Deep Bass preset
- Horrible noise presets
- Sci Fi shit presets
- Rhodes MKII E-Piano
- Techno Remix
- Pony Master

Backup - Download
https://mega.nz/file/rmoQnb7J#uTStw0fBg4UGfA_9if1lEZaR2vDITnGx_0-UKCvShus

 

Last edited: Nov 5, 2022

Good one!

 

WOK - ClockWOrK v1.1 Step Sequencer Plugin (Windows - 32 Bit) Now Free

ClockWOrK brings a vintage style step-sequencer into your computer as a plugin. Besides the clear GUI it offers some specialties,
like the ability to mute and skip steps, note names at the knobs, a second row for velocity or MIDI CC per step, manual
trigger by MIDI key, selectable number of steps up to 16 and others. The sequence can be transposed by MIDI input.

ClockWOrK is a pure MIDI plugin, intended to be used with any sound source - plugins or external synths.
So its output can be recorded as MIDI in your DAW and further manipulated.

Using an external controller box gives the feel of using an old step-sequencer, from
which artists like Klaus Schulze or Tangerine Dream took their hypnotic sequences.

Features:

• Clear and easy interface.
• Number of steps selectable (up to 16).
• Note per step selectable from 3 octaves with display.
• Additional row for velocity or MIDI CC.
• Each step can be muted or skipped.
• Sequence transpose by MIDI input.
• Selectable speed (clock divide).
• Manual step thru the sequence with button or MIDI key.
• Reset to a specific step manually or on bar start.
• Play only when MIDI key is pressed.
• Random play.
• Supports automation by your host (like "Learn" in Reaper or Energy or Novation Automap).
• MIDI-output; any plugin or synthesizer can be used as sound source.

Info & Free Download
http://wokwave.com/old-plugins/html/clockwork_stepsequencer_vst.html

 

g200kg - KeroVee v 1.61 VST (Pitch Correction & Auto-tuning) 32 Bit - Free

KeroVee is a Pitch Correction plug-in that works as a VST effect.

KeroVee can mix two independent Transposed / Formant tweaked outputs of pitch-corrector and bypassed output.

Features / controls:

• Scale Buttons 'C' to 'B' Specify the 'Allowed' note.
• TuneSpeed: Tuning Speed. May be robotic if set to max.
• Nuance: Keep or ignore subtle pitch changes like vibrato.
• Amount: Pitch correction amount.
• Calib: Master tuning.
• TuneTo: Scale/MIDI/MIDIChord
  • If enabled both, the MIDI note is prior, but scale tuning is effective after notes are "offed".
  • If not enabled both, the output pitch is follow to the input pitch, but be tweaked by transpose and formant parameters.
• Bypass Pan/Level: Bypassed output of source sounds.
• Tone1/Tone2 Presv/Shift/Fine/Transpose/Pan/Level
  • Two independent Pitch-correctors output.
  • Level: output level.
  • Pan: output pan (Note that the audio track must be stereo).
  • Transpose: transpose output pitch.
  • Fine: fine tuning of the output pitch.
  • Shift: formant shift.
  • Presv: formant shift mode.
    • On: formant is preserved. Independent to the pitch correction. Formant shift is still effective in this mode.
    • Off: formant is changed depend to output pitch.

www.g200kg.com/jp/software/kerovee.html

 

Audio Damage released their older stuff for free: https://www.audiodamage.com/pages/free-and-legacy

 

Rave Generator VST : free 90’s stab synth



Rave Generator VST

Rave Generator VST by DJ * CSI * is a free rompler VST synth, containing many of the classic sounds of the early rave / hardcore from the 90’s.

When you need an old school rave stab, just load the Rave Generator VST and go through the presets ! => instant Altern 8 / 2 Unlimited / Belgium techno / hardcore gabber rave sound !

There are 64 sounds, including the T99 Anasthasia choir stab, classic hoover, Black Riot stab, the “Landlord” stab as heard in “Outlander – Vamp” and countless rave tracks, the “Inner City” stab, etc.. There’s also some funny “wooh” voice sounds. OldSchool Rave 100 % garantee.

download RaveGenerator VST for Windows (32 bit)
download RaveGenerator VST for Windows (64 bit)

https://blog.wavosaur.com/rave-generator-vst-free-90s-stab-synth/

 

Rave Generator 2 VST / AudioUnit : the stab machine is back in the house !
Rave Generator 2 free plugin for Mac / Windows / Linux



Rave Generator 2 : Back From Hell !

Everybody should know the first version of the famous RaveGenerator VST plugin : a rompler with a lot of funky rave stabs/samples coming straight from the 90’s, for the late-to-the-party, here’s the link with full description : https://blog.wavosaur.com/rave-generator-vst-free-90s-stab-synth/

Now the version 2 is ready and full of improvements :

• Mac OS X, Windows and Linux compatible VST ! + AudioUnit version for Logic users.
• up to 147 internal sounds.
• sampler vs rompler : you can load your own samples !
• you can layer samples (up to 16 sounds).
• multi timbral : you can assign different MIDI channels to each sample.
• editable / automatable loop points per sample.
• tune/pan/volume + volume & pitch envelope per sample.
• AKAIZE effect from hell for your speed garage time-stretched vooooiiiicccceees.
• reverse, awful delay, green colors, working embeded keyboard.
• pitch bend.

Download for FREE!
Rave Generator 2 VST (Windows)
Rave Generator 2 VST/AU (Mac OS X)
Rave Generator 2 VST (Linux)

The plugin is available in 32 & 64 bit, it comes with a user guide in PDF format.

 

BPMinus is the modern musician's instrument of choice for learning new repertoire. It allows you to control the speed of audio tracks while maintaining pitch and sound quality. It gives you powerful tools to help you learn difficult passages. And best of all, it's easy to use and customizable. So get BPMinus today and start learning at your pace.

Control Tempo

Change the tempo of your track without altering its pitch. BPMinus offers multiple methods of controlling the tempo, allowing you to find a solution that sounds the absolute best for the track you're working with.

Change Pitch

Alter the pitch of your tracks with built-in pitch adjustment. Pitch adjustments work independently of tempo adjustments so you can hear your tracks at a different octave without altering the timing!

Scaled Viewing

BPMinus features a vector interface that allows you to enlarge your view of the application without blurring or losing quality. This is perfect for the practice studio environment where you may be far away from the display.

File Formats

While BPMinus supports many of the most popular audio formats out of the box, it also features an extensible add-on mechanism that allows users to support just about every audio file format. See the Add-Ons page for more information!

Looping Audio

Focus on the portion of audio you really want to work with. BPMinus allows you to simply specify a loop region with a simple mouse drag. Alternatively, use the keyboard to specify exact audio loop points down to a hundredth of a second.

Analyze BPM

BPMinus's beat analysis attempts to analyze the original tempo of your audio track. As you adjust the tempo, both the active and original tempo are displayed. This useful tool helps musicians to get a true feel for playing at specific tempos.

http://bpminus.com

 

Wavosaur - VSTSpeek v1.3 VSTi (32bit/64bit) Windows - Free

VST Speek is a free vocal synthesis VST plugin for recreating the old skool robotic text to speech we all love.
Choose a preset, type any text and let’s speak !

https://blog.wavosaur.com/text-to-speech-vst-vst-speek/

 

AnalogX - SayIt v2.04 - Standalone - Free

Are you ready to dazzle and amaze your friends by generating custom computer synthesized speech? Yes, I know it sounds almost like a dream too wonderful to be true, but your computer just needs a nudge in the right direction... With AnalogX SayIt!

Inspired by that evil device many of us were tormented by as children, the Speak&Spell, AnalogX SayIt gives your computer a synthesized voice to rival that of Colossus (from the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project). Type in any word or phrase, set the sliders to the appropriate settings, and click the 'Render' button - out pops a nice little wave file. Or, if you are just playing around, use the 'Preview' button and hear what it sounds like. It's that simple.

AnalogX SayIt outputs 16-bit wave files, and can handle phrases up to 500 characters, more than enough for your average computer speech needs.

SayIt works on all versions of Windows, from Window 95 to Windows 7 and everything inbetween (including XP, Vista, Win2k, etc). If you have a general question related to any of the programs on the site, or would like some additional info related to the downloads in general, then check out the downloads FAQ.

www.analogx.com/contents/download/Audio/sayit/Freeware.htm

 

Analog X - Vocoder v1.02 - Standalone - Free

Are you longing for the return of Disco, or perhaps have some of the newer club tunes got you wishing you could get your synthesizer sounding as if it could talk? Yes, it hardly seems possible - but thanks to modern technology you too can make your synth pad come to life with your voice, courtesy of AnalogX Vocoder!

Simply supply a wave file with some speech (or singing), supply another wave file with an instrument playing, and voila! Your instrument will now be modulated by the speech wave and it will sound as if it's talking. You can vary the effect from very slight to almost unrecognizable, from smooth and flowing to hard and rhythmic.

AnalogX Vocoder outputs 16-bit/mono/44100 wave files and can load any sample rate and any bit depth mono wave files.

Vocoder works on all versions of Windows, from Window 95 to Windows 7 and everything inbetween (including XP, Vista, Win2k, etc). If you have a general question related to any of the programs on the site, or would like some additional info related to the downloads in general, then check out the downloads FAQ.

www.analogx.com/contents/download/Audio/vocoder/Freeware.htm

 

Balabolka v2.15 - 21.6 MB - 8 Feb 2022 - Windows - Free

Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka.

The on-screen text can be saved as an audio file. The program can read the clipboard content, extract text from
documents, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

Balabolka supports text file formats: AZW, AZW3, CHM, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, EML, EPUB, FB2, FB3,
HTML, LIT, MD, MOBI, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDB, PRC, PDF, PPT, PPTX, RTF, TCR, WPD, XLS, XLSX.

The program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of regular expressions.

Balabolka can save the synchronized text in external LRC files or in MP3 tags inside the audio files. When an audio file is played with players on a computer or on modern digital audio players, the text is displayed synchronously (at the same way, as lyrics for songs).

http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm or https://balabolka.de.uptodown.com/windows

 

Last edited: Feb 14, 2022

Audio Damage Legacy plugins are now free
Audio Damage Free And Legacy Products

 

Free Step Sequencer - Special

Stochas - Midi Tool | Step Sequencer by Surge Synth Team VSTi (Windows Mac Linux) 64 Bit - Free
www.kvraudio.com/product/stochas-by-surge-synth-team / https://stochas.org / https://stochas.org/ss/

Full Bucket Music - SequencAir VST (Windows Mac) Written in native C++ code - 64 Bit - Free
www.fullbucket.de/music/sequencair.html

Monoplugs - B-Step Sequencer VSTi VST (Windows Mac Linux) 64 Bit - Free
www.kvraudio.com/product/b-step-sequencer-by-monoplugs

ClockWork - Step Sequencer Plugin by WOK (Windows) 32 Bit - Now Free
www.kvraudio.com/product/clockwork-by-wok

Blip1000 - Step Sequencer Plugin by WOK (Windows) 32 Bit - Free
www.kvraudio.com/product/blip1000-by-wok

Blip2000 - Matrix Sequencer Plugin by WOK 8windows) 32 Bit - Free
www.kvraudio.com/product/blip2000-by-wok

Noizefield Instruments - Stepinator (Windows) 32 Bit - Free
www.kvraudio.com/product/stepinator-by-noizefield-instruments

HY-Plugins - HY-SEQ32 (Windows Mac Linux) 64 Bit - Free
https://hy-plugins.com/product/hy-seq16x3/

MSQ-32 by B.Serrano (Windows) - 32 Bit - Free
http://bserrano.free.fr/MSQ-32.html

RPS-1 by contralogic (Windows) - 32 Bit - Free
www.contralogic.com/vst-plugins/rps-1/

ApolloV3 by Meesha (Windows) - 32 Bit - Free
www.meesha.nl/vst/apolloV3.html

Apollo by Meesha (Windows) - 32 Bit - Free
www.meesha.nl/vst/apollo.html

 

Last edited: Feb 15, 2022

The legacy plugins from Variety of Sound are free to download. They were fantastic then and I bet that they'll hold up now. They include...

VladG Nova-67P, VladG Limiter N°6, VladG Molot Compressor, TDR Feedback Compressor II, Proximity and the TDR Feedback Compressor