The 27 Best Free VST Plug-Ins In The World

[filkertom]

According to the readers of Music Radar, at least.

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[shockwave77598]

Yay, my Proteus made the cut!

The default composer file is eh, okay. But get a copy of Protean Drums and Virtuoso for it, and VST opens its wings and flies.

[alverant]

Nice .... what's VST?

[filkertom]

Virtual Studio Technology is a plug-in format that allows makers of music software to create instruments and effects that will work with any compatible host software, which is most of them. They're primarily a Windows thing, although there are some for Mac; not many for Linux, as licensing the tech from Steinberg can be a bit troublesome.

[phillip2637]

I should try a few of those.

The only one in the list I use -- and I use it *all the time* -- is Voxengo Span. If the others are its peers for usefulness or quality, that alone makes them interesting to me.
(Being a computer geek, I tend to use the effects that ship with Reaper because they let me play with actual numbers instead of 1-to-10 scaled dials.)