-= FREE VST Plugins Thread =-

[bmovie]

UpStereo

A FREE stereo enhancer.
* Loudness control enables a complex saturator to boost your
mixes.
* Stereo width slider going from mono to wide, bringing the
stereo image out and towards the listener.
* Subtle Air & Bass boosters to lift and help the audio
'breath'.
* Very low CPU usage.
* FREE!

What is it?
UpStereo is a simple, useful tool - it makes your mixes bigger, in stereo width and loudness.
Using three basic basic systems:
1. A fixed frequency EQ designed to lift the highest audio frequencies, and boost the bass.
2. A stereo width unit, for expanding stereo sounds so they appear wider and fatter. At extreme levels other characteristics are also brought out of the sound, so this can also be used as a tonal control for individual instruments. This also has a mono setting, useful for squashing up those aggressive samples that take over the mix.
3. A loudness button that raises the waveform to the limits in a smooth curve. This saturation gives the mix a more perceived loudness, without clipping.

These stages create an overall loudness effect on the final output, so a gain control is included to keep the limits in check.

The main 'bubble' display on the plug-in is really a basic meter, when one of the stereo halves flash white, then the output is in danger of being clipped. Try and keep the levels so the white flashes only occasionally, this enables the loudness saturator to work at it's best.

http://www.quikquak.com/Prod_UpStereo.html

Windows:
http://www.quikquak.com/media/UpStereo_1_00_VST_WIN.zip
Apple Mac Universal Binary OSX:
http://www.quikquak.com/media/UpStereo_1_00_VST_OSX.zip
http://www.quikquak.com/media/UpStereo_1_00_AU_OSX.zip

[loopdon]

All the goods in one box, mapped to gm standards:

DSK mini DrumZ



DSK mini DrumZ is a "Drum ROMpler". It includes 20 kits featuring the sounds of the following drum machines:

• Ace Tone Rhythm Ace, Kakehashi's pre-Roland sound drum machine.
• Akai XE8, the 1U rack mount unit with 16-bit drum samples.
• Akai XR10.
• Alesis HR-16, one of Alesis's first drum machines.
• Boss DR-55, first drum machine from Roland with the name Boss.
• Boss DR-220, typical mid 80's digital drum sounds.
• Fricke MSB512
• Kawai R50, 12 bit 32K sampled drums.
• Korg DDD-1, came with 18 short PCM samples.
• Korg DDM110, lo-fi and crunchy sounding.
• Mattel SynSonic, from the people who brought you Barbie.
• MXR 185, the machine where it's hard to tell rim from snare.
• Roland CR-78, the 1978 drum machine that used analog drum voices.
• Roland TR-606, originally designed to be used with the Roland TB-303.
• Roland TR-727, latin drum kit version of the TR-707.
• Roland TR-808, originally manufactured for use as a tool for studio musicians to create demos.
• Roland TR-909, partially analog, partially sample-based drum machine.
• SCI DrumTraks, Sequential's first digital drum machine.
• SCI Tom, similar to the DrumTraks but more advanced.
• Yamaha RX11, the drum machine that looks like a DX.

Apparently too low in volume but that surely will be fixed soon, until then - use an amp emu.

http://rekkerd.org/dsk-releases-mini-drumz/

http://rekkerd.org/?dl=548

[loopdon]

Some gems coming here:

TesslaSE



TesslaSE - modelling pleasant sounding 'electric effects' coming from transformer coupled tube circuits in a digital controlled fashion.

at a glance:
• transformer style signal saturation
• smooth transient polishing and increased RMS leveling
• subtle analog style signal colouration
• switchable sub bass enhancements

features:
• zero latency processing, low CPU usage
• harmonic enhancements without artefacts (aliasing)
• dynamic noise model
• proprietary signal processing and modelling algorithms implemented
• performance crucial parts are written in assembler, completely SSE optimized

requirements:
• Windows 98, 2000, XP, SSE support
• Tested and known to work in many VST compatible hosts

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=202790

http://bootsy.cr68.com/plug/TesslaSE_1.0.rar

[loopdon]

Rescue



Rescue is part of a small series of signal modelling VST fx and is released as freeware.
Rescue features decent gain and transient mechanics applied straight forward to m/s encoding. Some decent non-linear signal couloration is given as well.
For further features and overall handling please check the manual. Use the presets for inspiration but don't take them to serious - u will have to tweak your own like with EQ or Comp.

Requirements: PC only, VST compatible host und SSE compatible CPU. Basic m/s understanding.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=196012

http://bootsy.cr68.com/plug/Rescue_Release_1.0.rar