Free VST's section.

[BPT]

Okay, I figured this'd be a good resource for new (or experienced) producers who are short of cash or as cheap as I am.
These are a few of my recommendations.

Synths/Generators:

MonoFury

Supposed to be an emulation of the Korg Mono/poly. Fucked if I know. Despite its terrible preset, it is capable of a lot of good sounds, especially fat leads and basses. It has four individual oscillators.

blooo

Same developer as the MonoFury. It has kind of a tricky interface at first, but it pays of once you realise the possibilities that it presents.

Pixelpops

This weird thing can make some pretty cool glitch sounds. It's only controlled by the velocity of the note, which controls the waveform a slight bit (less noise with a higher v) and portamento. The pitch and waveform is random.

Polyvoks

Supposedly emulates the Russian Polivoks. Can sound really heavy as a bassline and pretty thick as a lead.

TAL Noisemaker

It's got a weird interface, but has some pretty cool sounds.

Minimogue VA

Supposed to be a Minimoog, sounds nothing like it. Although, it has some really sweet sounds, perfect for trance, chill or ambient.


Effects:

Distroyr V2.3

Badass distortion that sounds good on almost anything. Gives you different option between fat and harsh.

dblue Glitch

What can I not say about this beast? It even coined a term (glitch abuse) for how much people love to use it. To run it down: It has a sequencer that goes up to one bar and 9 different effects (tape stop, ring mod, stutter edit, shuffle, reverse, bitcrush, gate, delay/combfilter and time stretch). You can set any effect anywhere in the sequencer's timeline, aswell as random and no effect (you should probably use the no effect the most). All the effects sound high quality and most importantly: every possible parameter can be modified and modulated.

berrtill

Glitch distortion. Hard to explain the sound in any other way that brutal.

BJ Ring modulator

Good run-of-the-mill ring mod if you don't have.

BJ Wavechanger 3

This thing is weird. It detects the input sound's pitch and modulates a selectable waveform after it. You can also pitch up the waveform. It can make some interesting nasal insect noises, aswell as some other things.

BJ Bitcrusher

This is a bitcrusher and it is also distortion. HARD distortion. If you really want to fuck a sound up, use this. Beware with reverb, though.

Basically any effect by Togu Audio Line

TAL put out some good quality alternatives to the stock effects you get with your DAW. Their bitcrusher is especially nice.

GLITCHGIRL NEO

Insane glitch effect. I can't really explain its sound. It's good for total noise and IDM/industrial ambiance. May be a bit hard on your CPU.

SCATTERSHOT LITE

More tasteful than Glitchgirl, but still pretty insane. Hacks and chops a sound somewhere within recognition. Its parameters don't allow for modulation, which is a shame.

Bionic Delay

Great, smooth sounding stereo tape echo. Can go into loop mode.

jb Ferox

Tape emulator. Makes some nice tape distortion, but the tape speed knob steals the show. Great fun to play around with.


If you know of any good or even just okay free VST's, please try to expand this thread.

[JannikR]

Holy shit, I've been longing for something like this to pop up. Thanks a bunch!

[BPT]

My pleasure. I keep seeing too many posts about fairly high-priced VST's, when a lot of the good stuff already is free, and there's this whole scene behind it making these really creative effects that I think deserves support, rather than people kind of getting ripped off by this stuff (just look at Effectrix and then at dblue Glitch).

[alexc]

I'll just name some good one's I use

The Kjaerhus Audio Classic series, KarmaFX, TAL, and mda plug-ins pretty much cover everything. All pretty solid VST's definitely worth the download.

Magnus' Ambience for reverb

CMT Bitcrusher

AtlantisFilter: Not just a filter. It includes distortion, saturation, and other things. Also comes with a synth, but it looks so confusing I haven't even touched it

Frequency analyzers:
Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst
Voxengo SPAN

[izotonik]

some of my fav freebies..

Synths
Drumatic 3
http://www.e-phonic.com/plugins/drumatic3.php

GTG range of VST Synths.
http://www.gtgsynths.com/plugins.htm


Effects
Leslie Sanford Autofilter, Delay
http://www.lesliesanford.com/Products.shtml
very light and clean.

Devine Machine Minion
http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=503
great free filter

Voxengo EssEQ
http://www.voxengo.com/product/esseq/
pretty good to clean up vocals.

ReaPlugs
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
I love ReaFIR for insane EQstuff

GlitchTek Ring Modulator
http://www.gersic.com/plugins/index.php?daCat=3

GRev Delay
http://www.gvst.co.uk/grevdly.htm

TT Dynamic Range Meter
http://www.brainworx-music.de/en/download

[alexc]

A distortion plug-in to add.
Camel Audio's Camel Crusher

[izotonik]

Vember Audio Shortcircuit (sampler)
http://vemberaudio.se/shortcircuit.php

[MizukisLastChance]

14 free vst instruments and 8 free vst effects, each awesome in their own right. I personally love Monomate, Peach, Toad for chiptune stuff and Papaya is a great little unit for making steel drums etc

http://www.tweakbench.com

[Watermint]

DSK makes a massive amount of free VSTs. While some of them can suck up CPU quite a bit (mainly the ones that emulate real instrument sounds), they have such a variety of stuff, especially orchestral plugins.

http://rekkerd.org/dsk-vsti/

Some of my favorites are:

ChoirZ, mini DrumZ 2, Electrik GuitarZ, BlueZ (really good for making downtempo pads), SaxophoneZ, Virtuoso, (the symphonic one) OranZe, (good for trance music pads, and can make some really sweet leads too) Elektrik Keys, and Darkness Theory 2 (ambient synth).

[nineofkings]

TAL noizemaker - nice free synth vsti
Zynaddsubfx - another powerful free synth, with a bit of a weird interface
Vocovee - a free vocoder with an internal oscillator
Kerovee - free "autotune" effect (better than GSnap)
mda plugins
REAplugs
SHRED amp sim
dblue glitch