Tag Archives: VST

Element ~ Advanced Plugin Host

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This is the community version of Element, a modular AU / LV2 / VST / VST3 audio plugin host. Create powerful effects, racks and instruments by connecting nodes to one another. Integrates with your existing hardware via standard protocols such as MIDI.

Features:

  • Runs standalone or as a plugin in your DAW
  • Route Audio and MIDI from anywhere to anywhere
  • Play virtual instruments and effects live
  • Create re-usable instruments and effect graphs
  • Preloaded plugin graphs
  • External sync w/ MIDI clock
  • MIDI controller mapping
  • Sub graphing – nest graphs within each other
  • Custom keyboard shortcuts
  • Placeholder nodes
  • Built in virtual keyboard
  • Multiple undo/redo
Element

github.com/kushview/Element
kushview.net/element/

Dragonfly Reverb ~ Four Reverb Effects

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Dragonfly Reverb is a bundle of four free audio effect plugins (LV2 and VST) for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

dragonfly_reverb

michaelwillis.github.io/dragonfly-reverb
github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb

Utility ~ Channel Strip Plugin

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Utility is a free, lightweight, universal general purpose all in one digital channel strip plugin offering precise controls over various aspects of an audio signal, from mid/side processing to soft clipping.

Features:

  • input routing with separate pans for the left and right channels, or alternatively a pre mono balance control to decide how the left and right channels are blended for conversion into mono
  • gain, and individual left and right channel gains, mutes
  • pan and phase inversion of either channel
  • width control, along with separate mid and side gain sliders and mutes
  • maximally flat minimal phase high and low pass 12db/octave filtering
  • optional hard and soft clipping at 0db
  • everything is fully automatable with sensible parameter ranges/scaling

www.vennaudio.com/utility
gitlab.com/JHVenn/Utility

glBars ~ OpenGL Visualisation Plugin

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This is an OpenGL bars visualization plugin (as seen in XMMS and XBMC/Kodi). It’s adapted from the jack_glbars project by Nedko Arnaudov. glBars works as a JACK standalone and audio plugin (LV2 or VST).

glbars

github.com/DISTRHO/glBars
distrho.sourceforge.io/plugins
github.com/DISTRHO/DPF-Plugins

dexed ~ Frequency Modulation Synthesizer

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Dexed is a multi-platform, multi-format plugin synth that is closely modelled on the Yamaha DX7. Dexed is also a midi cartridge librarian / manager for the DX7.

Features:

  • Multi platform (OS X, Windows or Linux) and multi format. (VST, AU, LV2)
  • The sound engine music-synthesizer-for-android is closely modelled on the original DX7 characteristics.
  • 144 DAW automatable DX7 parameters available from one single panel.
  • Fully supports DX7 input and output Sysex messages; including controller change. This means that you can use this with a native DX7/TX7 as a patch editor and sysex manager.
  • Each operator has a realtime VU meter so you know which one is active.
  • Can load or save any DX7/TX7 sysex programs. It is also possible to save a single program into a different sysex file.

asb2m10.github.io/dexed
github.com/asb2m10/dexed

Cocoa Delay ~ Warm Lively Delay

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Cocoa Delay is a free, open-source delay plugin in VST format. It focuses on clean design, easy operation, and a warm, lively sound.

Notable features:

  • Delay time drift, for giving the wet signal a slight wow / flutter effect
  • Adjustable wet level ducking based on the input signal
  • Static, ping-pong, and circular pan modes
  • Drive section based on open-source Airwindows saturation code
cocoa delay

tesselode.itch.io/cocoa-delay
github.com/tesselode/cocoa-delay

CHOW ~ Maximally Truculent Distortion

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CHOW is a digital distortion effect designed for maximum truculence, somewhere between a true half-wave rectifier and a noisy vintage compressor. Useful for mixing guitars, drums, even vocals when a heavily degraded sound is desired. Feel free to build and use for your own enjoyment!

chow

github.com/jatinchowdhury18/CHOW

Multiply ~ Clear Chorus Effects

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Acon Digital Multiply is a free and versatile chorus effect with a unique twist. Each simulated voice is processed with a phase randomizing filter so that unpleasant comb filter effects are avoided. The effect can be used to simulate the effect of several performers playing the same tones simultaneously, to widen the spatial image or to create special effects for sound design. Multiply can simulate up to 6 additional voices and both the pitch and the loudness of the voices can be modulated. There is also an integrated equalizer consisting of low cut, low shelf, high shelf and high cut filters that can be applied to the effect signal. An integrated pre-delay section makes it possible to create modulated and diffuse echo effects.

multiply-acon

acondigital.com/products/multiply

BinAural VST ~ Mono To 3D Stereo

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A mono-to-stereo VST plugin that positions sound in a 3D space using Head-Related Transfer Functions. Created with JUCE framework.

BinAural VST

github.com/twoz/binaural-vst

Audio Effects ~ Theory, Implementation & Application

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Collection of audio effects plugins implemented from the explanations in the book ~ “Audio Effects: Theory, Implementation and Application” by Joshua D. Reiss and Andrew P. McPherson.

  • Chorus
  • Compressor-Expander
  • Delay
  • Distortion
  • Flanger
  • Panning
  • Parametric EQ
  • Phaser
  • Ping-Pong Delay
  • Pitch Shift
  • Ring Modulation
  • Robotization-Whisperization
  • Template Frequency Domain
  • Template Time Domain
  • Tremolo
  • Vibrato
  • Wah-Wah

github.com/juandagilc/Audio-Effects

Argotlunar ~ Granulator VST / AudioUnit

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Argotlunar is a tool for creating surreal transformations of audio streams. Specifically, it is a real-time delay-line granulator. It disintegrates an audio stream into short samples (grains). Each grain can have random settings of amplitude, panning, duration, delay, pitch, glissando, filter and envelope. The output of all grains is mixed together into a stream which can be fed back into the main input.

Time-related parameters can be synced to the host tempo, for rhythmic and pulsing textures. Pitch-related parameters can be quantized for harmonic and melodic effects. Feedback can create chaotic, densely layered, and distorted sounds.

Most of the parameters can be correlated. Examples:

  • Filter cut-off correlated with pitch: Higher filter cut-off for grains with higher pitch, and vice versa.
  • Grain duration correlated with panning: Grains with shorter duration panned to the centre of the stereo field, and grains with longer duration panned wide in the stereo field.
argotlunar

mourednik.github.io/argotlunarhttps://mourednik.github.io/argotlunar/
github.com/mourednik/argotlunar

andes ~ Perlin Noise Sound Synthesiser

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Andes is a standalone software synthesiser, or plugin, in early stages of development. The core of Andes is an original oscillator which uses a pseudo-3D version of Perlin Noise to produce distinctively digital sound.

andes

artfwo.github.io/andes
github.com/artfwo/andes