Time to update your producer toolkit.
There’s no shortage of innovative VST plugins out there right now. The hardest part is picking from the thousands of available ones.
Oeksound – Spiff Win 64 New Adaptive Trenzent Processor! Spiff allows you to cut or enlarge transients (aka transients) with “extreme” detail. It analyzes the incoming signal and applies processing only to those areas that contain information about transients. The rest of the signal remains as it was originally. Even on more extreme settings, spiff retains the original character of the sound, without introducing any nasty artefacts. Available as: Windows 7 and up as 32/64bit VST and 64 bit AAX. Mac OSX 10.7 – 10.13 as 32/64bit VST and AU, and 64bit AAX, Intel processor.
Don’t worry, we got your back. We’ve hand-picked a selection of plugins to make it easier for you. Oh, and they’re free!
The theme of this selection is effects – they’ll give your mix that extra crunch, oomph or whah.
Here are 10 free VST effects plugins that’ll add flavour to your sound:
1. Best free echo VST: Valhalla Freq Echo
The Freq Echo is a frequency shifter with analog echo emulation. My personal favourite.
It adds chorus, phasing and flanger effects. Go ahead and create some wild glissandos and runaway echos.
It’s great for dub and psychedelic effects. Use it for beefing up basslines.
If you’re a fan of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire you’ll love it.
Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU in 32 and 64-bit, AAX 64-bit, RTAS).
Download it here.
2. Best free fuzz VST: FuzzPlus3
Here’s the updated FuzzPlus distortion VST pedal emulation from Audio Damage.
The central knob is the fuzz distortion. There’s also a Korg MS-20 style low-pass filter. And you can feedback the signal for some extra juice.
Amazing on synths and drums for meaty, distorted effects.
Use the presets or save your own.
Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/VST3/AU 32 and 64-bit).
Download it here.
3. Best free EQ VST: MH Thump
MH Thump adds low end to your track. It recreates that nice thump you get on a vintage TR-808 drum machine.
It’s an audio processor that analyzes an audio input – say your drum track. Then it synthesizes a low frequency signal to add some body.
There are two independent oscillators and many knobs for fine-tuned control.
Go ahead and beef up those beats!
Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU/AAX 32 and 64-bit)
Download it here.
4. Best free bitcrusher VST: Krush
Krush is a very interesting bit crusher VST.
It creates that crunchy digital bit reduction effect. But it can also imitate a warmer analog effect with the drive and resonant filter.
If there can be such a thing: the Krush is a very elegant bit crusher.
The Dry and Wet faders allow you to play with how much of original signal and the effect you want.
The modulations can be free form or synced to a rate of your choice. Save and recall presets easily.
Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU/AAX 32 and 64-bit)
Download it here.
5. Best free overdrive VST: Mercuriall Tube Screamer 808
Meet the Mercuriall Tube Screamer 808 – your new overdrive VST effect plugin.
It’s modeled after the holy grail of tube screamers: the Ibanez TS-808 pedal.
Make your guitar sounds grungier. Flip between the TS-808 and MOD modes with the metal switch.
MOD will give you a slightly darker sound.
Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU/AAX 32 and 64-bit).
Download it here.
6. Best free tremolo VST: Pecheneg Tremolo
The Pecheneg is a tremolo VST effect. It gives you the power to create rhythmic modulations with your sound.
The Tempo section allows you to play the frequency either by selecting a Note or a Frequency.
Just like when you use LFOs, the Pecheneg Tremolo allows you to change the wave shape.
This effect will improve the groove of your track. It’ll give life to your synth or bassline.
Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU 32 and 64-bit)
Download it here.
7. Best free chorus VST: TAL Chorus -LX
TAL‘s stereo Chorus-LX is inspired by the Roland Juno-60 chorus. It’s a simple but powerful chorus VST.
It has two different modes (I and II) that you can use separately or together.
Select how much of the effect you want with the Wet/Dry knob.
Use it to give some grit and body to your bass or synth line.
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Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU/AAX 32 and 64-bit).
Download it here.
8. Best free EQ VST: TDR Nova
The TDR Nova is a four-band dynamic Equalizer (EQ). A true workhorse.
It allows you to make a drum track crisper or boost certain frequencies as needed.
Any producer needs a bread and butter EQ VST. This is the one.
It has a built-in spectrum analyzer for precise EQing.
It’s also got a preset manager, A/B comparison, undo/redo functions and more.
Compatible with Mac OS and Windows (VST/AU/AAX 32 and 64-bit).
Download it here.
9. Best free reverb VST: Protoverb 1.0
The Protoverb 1.0 by U-He is a different kind of reverb VST.
The coolest thing about the Protoverb is that you can generate random settings and save the ones you like.
The spirit of this plugin is trial and error – we like that. It encourages users to share their favourite settings from a button on the plugin.
Compatible with Mac OS, Windows and Linux (VST/VST2/AU/AAX 32 and 64-bit).
Download it here.
10. Best free panning VST: PanCake 2
Last but not least: the most flexible panning VST effect you’ll ever find.
PanCake 2 lets you manually draw the curves of your panning modulation. You can also generate one randomly.
It’s easy to use and very visual. The LFO in the PanCake 2 can be synced to your DAW.
Pan your sounds sharply for dramatic effects. Pan them smoothly for subtle variations.
Compatible with Mac OS or Windows (VST/AU in 32 and 64-bit).
Download it here.
Spice up your mix
A mix can go from bland to grand with the right effects.
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Meet Spiff, an advanced, adaptive transient tool that will let you sculpt your sound with high precision.
by Vince Bellanova, Sept. 2020
Oeksound’s Take on Transient Control
We previously met the Finnish Oeksound in the pages of SoundBytes Magazine, especially when we talked about their innovative and quite impressive Dynamic Resonance Suppressor, Soothe 2 (you can read the review here). With Soothe 2 we could say goodbye to manual, tedious resonance taming sessions and leave that responsibility to this tool. This time we are going to explore their second plug-in, Spiff, which is Oeksound’s new approach to transient shaping. The interface of Spiff is quite similar to Soothe, but the process is entirely different. Spiff is described as an adaptive transient tool, and it recognizes the transient material and processes it according to our directions. As with Soothe, we have a lot of freedom because we can direct Spiff’s reaction with the EQ interface.
Spiff has been highlighted for treating voices and removing clicks and pops, but as we will see its applications are countless. It’s perfect for drums, for both controlling or enhancing some parts; we can use it on entire mixes, or Master channels; we could also use it for sound design for sound sculpting plucky synths, enhancing impacts; or even for controlling field recording material.
What is intriguing is that Spiff seems to push the boundaries of multi-band transient shaping by letting us move with comple freedom within the spectrum. This tool is also adaptive, so it automatically recognizes transient material and only reacts when needed.
Let’s dive into the controls.
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Spiff is designed to be an intelligent tool that reacts only to the transient material, and it can work in two modes, Cut and Boost, allowing us to add some spike or to tame and control our material. Most of the controls are on the left, while the center of the GUI is dedicated to the EQ. Selecting one of the modes (Cut or Boost) the color of the EQ interface will change between light blue and magenta.
The EQ, as with Soothe, is more of a Sidechain EQ, meaning that boosts and cuts make Spiff’s reaction to transient in that area more or less pronounced. As with Soothe, we can play with the five different bands, selecting their shape, adjusting frequency, Q factor and we can also listen to the single-band isolated with the Band Listen mode. Between the shapes we also have Low and High Pass, if we remove the lows with a Low Cut, for instance, we are telling the plug-in to ignore that frequency region.
The application of Spiff can be as simple as cutting or boosting transients in very specific areas of the spectrum, but there’s more. The big Depth knob controls the overall effect intensity of the processing.
We can take much more control over its action by setting its Sensitivity, for instance. Less Sensitivity means that only the most pronounced transients will be detected, and more means the opposite, of course. Sharpness allows us to control how narrow the cuts and boosts will be, ranging from broad, natural curves to sharper ones. Broader Qs (Sharpness knob values tending to the left) are more natural.
Decay controls how much time a cut or boost requires to jump back to its regular level. This can also be set in relation to high and low frequencies via the dedicated knob, which can be used to set a longer decay for one of the two parts of the spectrum.
One of the most useful controls is the Delta switch with which we can monitor and listen just to Spiff’s action. In this way, we can have a much clearer idea of what we are doing. This is also suggested as a starting point while playing with the Depth knob and with the Mix, which is another essential control. Yes, it is just a Mix control, but the combination of the Depth, Sensitivity, and Mix control is offering a very high level of control over the processing.
Spiff also offers a Trim control to compensate eventual level changes, it allows to work in Mid/Side or standard stereo mode, to link both sides to apply the same amount of processing to both Left/Right or Mid/Side, depending on the mode we selected, and to further adjust it with the Balance control.
In the Advanced tab, we can set the oversampling and resolution, as well as the phase mode, choosing between Minimum Phase and Linear Phase, with the Minimum Phase resulting more natural, while heavier on the CPU and less accurate.
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With a nice assortment of controls, Spiff has a bit fo a learning curve, but that is tied more to its effect than to the plug-in itself, especially because Spiff can do some truly unique things. Sometimes in cut mode, it can be necessary to adjust the mix to avoid excessive blurring, but I found it amazing for adding color, sharpness, and definition to drums and whole mixes. I have been impressed by the clarity and impact it can give without being aggressive, without sacrificing dynamics and doing something I have never seen. Transient shapers usually offer attack and release settings, and they are multiband if we are lucky. But here we can break the bands’ barriers, be very selective with the region to boost or control, and also take advantage of other useful controls such as the Decay knob, which, to me, is very interesting when used to morph the sound and perfect for adding a nice tail in the low end of percussive material, for instance.
Controlling drums, enhancing their punch, adding low end and weight, these are just the beginning, Spiff is also magnificent on vocals, instrument busses, even on raw recordings of everyday objects I use in my job for sound design for both adding some clarity or removing slight imperfections.
One improvement I’d like to see is to be able to boost a band while doing a cut on another. Nevertheless, I found easy and simple to get good results with Spiff.
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Conclusion
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Spiff is a processor like no other, it is particularly interesting just because it can morph your audio material by enriching it or correcting it with precision and it is still able to offer a lot of control over its action. When we talk about transients, drums come immediately to mind, but I strongly suggest trying Spiff on other material too.
Oeksound Spiff is available for both PC and Mac platform, in AU, VST and AAX format, at the price of €149 EUR. A trial version is available on Oeksound’s website.