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List of free synth plugins - Otto Halmén - 05-18-2016
Classical synth remakes:
- Dexed (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
- Mono/Fury (Win VST)
- Nabla (Win VST)
- Obdx (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
- Proteus VX (Win standalone, VST)
- SQ8L (Win VST)
- Synth1 (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
Original softsynths:
- amsynth (Mac AU, various Linux formats)
- Kairatune (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
- Kern (Win VST)
- MauSynth (Win VST)
- Oatmeal (Win VST)
- Podolski (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
- Ragnarök (Win VST)
- SynthMaster Player FREE (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
- TAL-NoiseMaker (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
- The blooo (Win VST)
- The deputy Mark II (Win VST)
- The scrooo (Win VST)
- Triple Cheese (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
- tunefish4 (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
- TyrellN6 (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
- Zebralette (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
Percussion synths:
- GFM Koch (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
- MiniSpillage (Mac AU)
Physical modelling synths:
- Piano One (Win VST; Mac VST, AU)
- Spicy Guitar (Win standalone, VST; Mac standalone, VST, AU)
This is a list of freeware synth and other instrument plugins that aren't conventional sampling instruments. If you've run across something useful, perhaps something that works well in orchestral hybrid music, drop a line so we can grow the list.
A bunch of these synths were featured in the One Synth Challenge. If you want to hear them in action before you download them, this is a good place.
RE: List of free synth plugins - Mattias Westlund - 05-20-2016
The full bucket music synths are also very good.
MauSynth should definitely be on that list too IMO.
Although 32 bit only, Oatmeal and SQ8L are also worth a mention.
RE: List of free synth plugins - MagneticM - 05-27-2016
Really good and free replicas suit http://www.elektrostudio.ovh.org/index.php?go=down
RE: List of free synth plugins - Otto Halmén - 05-27-2016
Welcome, MagneticM, and thanks for the tip! I'm currently at work but I'll check them out once I get home.
RE: List of free synth plugins - Orte Pigi - 03-21-2017
My favourite go-to secret weapon is Zyn. Although this is based on Linux and has a paid version, there is a 32bit port on windows already. Older versions are free and available to download here
It has a bunch of great sounding presets to get you started. Works superb in hybrid music anyway