Old freebies that are better than new expensive plugins.

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    I have yet to find a better bax style plugin than the old freebie Variety of Sound Baxter Eq and i have them all.
    It has has that elusive hardware weight, tight low end, clean and sparkly highs. It respects the timbre of the material processed.
    What are other freebies that are as good as expensive ones or even better?
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    reFX Vanguard 1.8, i know this has been renewed by KORG, but MDE-X is a very simple fantastic plugin.

    GalactiX - one of the first weak supersaws i created with that one.
    Bram's s(M)exoscope, this was redone in JUCE a while ago to work in 64bits and MacOS/Linux too

    The Steinbergs Classics series has some cool old gems, you can download for free on stienberg page.
     
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    SPAN Analyser / Monitor Plugin by Voxengo www.kvraudio.com/product/span-by-voxengo
    Stereo Touch Imaging Plugin by Voxengo www.kvraudio.com/product/stereo-touch-by-voxengo
    Sound Delay Utility Plugin by Voxengo www.kvraudio.com/product/sound-delay-by-voxengo
    Radio FM Radio Effect Plugin by Voxengo www.kvraudio.com/product/radio_by_voxengo
    Recorder Audio Recorder Plugin by Voxengo www.kvraudio.com/product/recorder_by_voxengo
    Overtone GEQ EQ Plugin by Voxengo www.kvraudio.com/product/overtone-geq-by-voxengo
    Correlometer Correlation Meter Plugin by Voxengo www.kvraudio.com/product/correlometer-by-voxengo
    Boogex Distortion / Overdrive / Amp Plugin by Voxengo www.kvraudio.com/product/boogex-by-voxengo
     
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    Voxengo has some very cool old freebies!
     
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    Melda free bundle, almost 40 highly customizable and very quality plugins. But some people don't like their GUI, probably the only downside.
     
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    I just checked out their website:-

    https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/downloads/

    And it seems they make a ton of freebies. I'm going to try them out.


    Oh and Klanghelm make some very nice freebies too. I like the MJUC JNR Compressor

    https://klanghelm.com/contents/freeware.html
     
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    xfer ott, i use it in place of my ssl 4000 desk compressor
     
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    Tukan plugins for Reaper:

     
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    The developer recently upgraded most of them to 64bit and even fixed some bugs. VOS could easily charge 50$ or more for a plugin yet he gave them for free.
    You should also check out his Density Mk3 clean glue compression with a drive option, great for subgroups, mixbus etc.
    Ferric TDS, great tape style plugin with dynamics and saturation option.
    Nasty DLA MK2 , chorus with tape delay, superb for creative mangling.
     
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    Cheers buddy. I will
     
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    Krush Bit Crusher Plugin by Tritik www.tritik.com/product/krush/
    Baby Comeback by BABY Audio https://babyaud.io/freebies
    Magic Switch by Baby Audio https://babyaud.io
    More Distortion Plugin by Mod Sound www.kvraudio.com/product/more-by-mod-sound
    Youlean Loudness Meter 2 by Youlean https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/
    Voltage Modular Nucleus 2 by Cherry Audio https://store.cherryaudio.com/bundles/voltage-modular-nucleus
    Valhalla DSP’s free effects plugins https://valhalladsp.com
    AMP by Produce RNB https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2021/07/16/amp-leqs/
    FKFX Influx Sequenced Resonator Distortion Plugin by FKFX www.kvraudio.com/product/fkfx-influx-by-fkfx
    Clon Minotaur by Nembrini Audio www.nembriniaudio.com/products/clon-minotaur-transparent-overdrive
    Tape Cassette 2 by Caelum Audio www.caelumaudio.com/CaelumAudio/?Page=TapeCassette2
    L12X Solid State Amplifier by Audiority www.audiority.com/shop/l12x-solid-state-amplifier/
    OTT by Xfer Records https://splice.com/plugins/3788-ott-vst-au-by-xfer-records
    MFreeFXBundle by MeldaProduction www.meldaproduction.com/MFreeFXBundle
    Fracture by Glitchmachines https://splice.com/plugins/2924-fracture-au-by-glitchmachines
    PanCake by Cableguys https://splice.com/plugins/8378-pancake-vst-au-by-cableguys
     
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    Vanguard is my favorite, so many crunchy chords I used to make with a trancegate built in... it was amazing. still up and running on my 2009 macbook. it was and ARCADE release I think... still live RG floating around too
     
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    yeah ive been using it on windows 10 in Live 11 with jbridge/bridgewize, works quite good.

    I like the character vanguard has, very acidish, edgy - while todays most plugins only sound noisy.

    I have another plugin: the DSP563xx emu, which just loads Access Virus ROM B & C - very capable of todays music and its just better than the hardware in every way.
     
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    Loudmax by Thomas Mundt, a Look-Ahead Brickwall Loudness Maximizer. Very clean sound, made me totally forget that spam-mail company with their ultramaximizing plugins, can't remember their name, something with wave.
     
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    One great advantage of freebies was the fast load and processing, because the lack of protecting subroutines.
    Many of them were released in dx format before VST appears. I loaded them in Cakewalk cubase and FruityLoops.
     
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    One of the greatest freebies was FruityLoops, early versions were free, super fast and superstable to mangle samples as you want. Many world-hits in many styles were made with it, including new-beat, technno and reggaeton.
     
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    Windows Basic Bundle - 2021 August
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    Stereo Widening:
    - Ozsoft Expander (best of the lot IMO, sounds more natural than infected M. Wider to my ears + WAY more control)
    - Infected Mushroom Wider
    - Xfer Dimension Expander

    cuz who needs mono compatibility lol - i.e. use sparingly, but tbh I use them all the time
     
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