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Best Free VST Plugins: Synths, Effects, Instruments, Mixing...

🎛️ Here's a curated roundup of some of the best and most popular free VST plugins to help in the music-making process inside your favorite DAW.

🪄 The VST plugins in this collection are all free, available for both Windows and Mac and work in all modern DAWs like Ableton Live, FL Studio, Bitwig Studio, Studio One, Logic Pro...

💌 This is not a comprehensive list and I'm sure I've missed quite a few great plugins. Get in touch with me here if want to suggest a plugin that should be added to this list.

🎛️ synths
🔊 effects
🎹 instruments
🧰 utilities
🔧 mixing/mastering

Free VST Synth Plugins

Screenshot: Vital Synth — Vital
Spectral warping wavetable synth

Screenshot: Surge XT — Surge XT
Free and open source hybrid synth

Screenshot: Dexed Synth — Dexed
FM synth plugin modeled on the Yamaha DX7

Screenshot: Newfangled Audio Pendulate — Newfangled Audio Pendulate
Chaotic Monosynth

Screenshot: Odin 2 — Odin 2
24-voice polyphonic synth

Screenshot: TAL-NoiseMaker — TAL-NoiseMaker
virtual analog synth

Screenshot: Synth1 — Synth1
Virtual analog synth

Screenshot: Cardinal Synth — Cardinal
Free and open-source virtual modular synth

Free VST Effect Plugins

Screenshot: Valhalla Super Massive — Valhalla Super Massive
Reverb plugin

Screenshot: TAL-Reverb-4 — TAL-Reverb-4
High-quality vintage-style plate reverb

Screenshot: Valhalla Freq Echo — Valhalla Freq Echo
Echo plugin

Screenshot: Deelay — Deelay
Delay plugin

Screenshot: Fire — Fire
Multi-band distortion plugin

Free VST Instrument Plugins

Screenshot: LABS by Spitfire Audio — LABS by Spitfire Audio
Large collection of free software instruments

Screenshot: Decent Sampler — Decent Sampler
Popular sample player that plays samples in the DecentSampler format

Free VST Utility Plugins

Screenshot: TAL-Filter-2 — TAL-Filter-2
Host synced filter

Free VST Mixing/Mastering Plugins

Screenshot: TDR Nova — TDR Nova
Parallel dynamic equalizer

Screenshot: Limiter No6 — Limiter N°6
5-module limiter

Screenshot: Youlean Loudness Meter — Youlean Loudness Meter
Analyze the perceived loudness of a track

Screenshot: TDR Kotelnikov — TDR Kotelnikov
dynamic range compressor

Screenshot: MCompressor — MFreeFXBundle
Collection of free effect plugins, including a compressor, a distortion plugin and an EQ

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