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Cormac Daly has released Thaw, a VST plug-in for the creation and manipulation of static and drone sounds using the phase vocoder.

Thaw was created as part of a Masters in Music Technology academic project whose aim was to explore the use of the phase vocoder for the creation and manipulation of static and drone sounds.

Thaw can be used for creating a perceptual ’snapshot’ of a sound and then creating drones using a number of effects including a low frequency oscillator and a pitch shifter.

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• DSK, various instruments (Brass, Strings, etc.)
• DtBlkFx, a Fast-Fourier-Transform (FFT) effect plug-in
• Float Crush, new type of bitcrusher effect
• FoolPlugMini, instrument with sound of blowing on bottles
• GenMce, generic Midi controller to Mackie control emulator
• Little critters, instrument with sounds of bugs
• Makunouchi Bento, various instruments and effects
• Matthew Lindsay, NCL EQ and NCL Phase EQ, two free equalizer VST effect plug-ins for PC
• Nix plugs, various VST effects made with SynthMaker
• O’Malley Sound, various vst instruments
• Osiris Cymbiant, a freeware 8 voice polyphonic analog emulation
• ROM-500 and Unify, SF2 player and hardknee compressor
• Ronald Passion, bass and guitar preamp (no cab), and equalizer effects
• Sweetboy, collection of effect plug-ins
• Terry West, various vst effects
• Thaw, phase vocoder effect for static and drone sounds
• Wiz ARPocalypse, 8 step rhythmic pattern generator VST effect

The plug-ins below are listed by last update, so most recently added plug-ins are at the top.

NCL EQ / NCL Phase EQ

NCL EQ is a freeware 10 band parametric equalizer VST plug-in for Windows PC.

It was designed to be clean, precise and to minimise digital artifacts such as frequency warping. Uses include mixing, tracking, and mastering.

NCL Phase EQ is a high quality six band stereo equalizer which allows simultaneous left/right and mid/side processing.

Phase EQ has been designed to be both powerful and flexible yet easy to use. Controls and parameters have been set up to steer users in the right direction without being restrictive in function.

More information and download links: NCL EQ / NCL Phase EQ

 

DSK VSTi

DSK has released several freeware instruments created with SynthEdit and SynthMaker, including various romplers (Synthopia 2, ElectriK GuitarZ, Virtuoso, Brass, Strings, DrumZ Series plug-ins, Asian DreamZ, etc.) and synths (Darkness Theory, OranZe, SixSenZe, etc.)

For more information and links to download these and more DSK plug-ins visit this page.

 

ARPocalypse

ARPocalypse is an 8 step rhythmic pattern generator VST effect for Windows PC.

Simply put it takes chords of up to six notes and plays them in a predefined sequence in sync with your sequencer.

Check here for more info and a link to download ARPocalypse.

 

Ronald Passion effect plug-ins

Ronald is offering various freeware VST effect plug-ins.

• Crunch Passion, a dual guitar preamp (Clean & Crunch)
• Slap Passion, a tube bass preamp.
• Equalizer Passion, a virtual analog equalizer effect.
• Digital Parametric Equalizer, a digital equalizer effect.
• Blue Channel, a digital tube channel plug-in.
• Massive Passive EQ, a mastering equalizer.
• Master EQ, a tube equalizer for mastering.
• Bad Vox, a tube equalizer effect for vocals.
• Silver Magnum & White Magnum, two analog valve custom parametric equalizer effects.

More info and download links here.

 

Osiris Cymbiant

Cymbiant is a wonderful 8 voice polyphonic analog emulation by Osiris (James Jones).

This synth features 2 Morphable Oscillators, and is capable of fat SuperSaw sounds. More info here.

 

Nix plugs

Nick has created several freeware plug-ins with SynthMaker.

• Wave Mechanic, a multi-effect with a full-featured filter section.
• Shifter, a realtime pitch shifter.
• Tripper, a monophonic filter envelope for audio.
• Dream Sequence, a simple sequencer.
• 2SYN, a pitch to midi plug-in.

All of these plug-ins can be downloaded from the Nix plugs page.

 

DtBlkFx

DtBlkFx is a Fast-Fourier-Transform (FFT) based multi effect plug-in.

• v1.1 for Windows (15-04-2008)
• v1.1 for Mac (15-12-2007)
• v1.0 (25-04-2006)
• v0.9 (21-01-2006)

 

Terry West

Terry West has released some freeware VST effect plugins. (Downloads include mono and stereo versions)

Update: Terry now has a website up with all his plug-ins, so check that for to be sure to have the latest versions. I will try to mirror them here.

For more information about Terry West plug-ins you can check these posts.

 

O’Malley Sound

O’Malley Sound released 5 VSTi plugins a few years ago: 2 subtractive, 1 FM, 1 SF2 player, and 1 helicopter synth.

More info and links to download the O’Malley Sound plugins here.

 

GenMce

Kip Chatterson has created a generic midi controller to Mackie control emulator.
Let your midi controller act like a Mackie Control Universal for near mouse free surface control of your DAW software.

Note: GenMce now has a dedicated website here.

 

Float Crush

Float Crush is a new type of bitcrusher exploiting the nature of the floating point unit.

It offers something the regular bitcrusher can’t; a dual flavor distortion.

 

ROM-500 and Unify

Marcus Clef released 2 plug-ins in august 2006. The original download locations are not available anymore, so you can now get them from rekkerd.org.

• ROM-500 is a SF2 player that uses MIDI files to play custom loops.
• Unify is a hardknee compressor including a 6 bands post-compression coloration tool which acts like an EQ but on fixed frequencies with limited gain range.

 

Makunouchi Bento plug-ins

These (and more) Makunouchi Bento plug-ins are also available from their website, so check that place as well.

• Makunouchi Bento Hiccup (last update 28 feb 2007) provides simple smooth humanized stutter / audio retriggering.
• Makunouchi Bento Organg (last update 05 oct 2006) is an electronic (transistor) organ that sounds a bit “broken”.
• Rorgang (last update 10 oct 2006) is basically like Organg, but with the addition of resonant filters to achieve more tones.
• Makunouchi Bento plug-in pack (last update: 08 sep 2006) is a collection of FSU effects including statiq, Mouse Family, Limun Shaper, radio Gloria and eLEKT.

 

Maple and Brown-Sugar skin for Oatmeal

Grymmjack created a wonderful skin for Fuzzpilz’ Oatmeal. Originally starting out in a “Maple and Brown-Sugar” color scheme, there are now a whole bunch of skins available.
If you still want other colors you can download the Photoshop source files and create your own skin!

The skins and source files can be found here.

 

Thaw VST v0.1

Thaw is a VST plug-in for the creation and manipulation of static and drone sounds using the phase vocoder.

Thaw was created as part of a Masters in Music Technology academic project.

 

Sweetboy VST

Sweetboy’s VST plug-ins are available in a total of 6 downloads:

• SH-1 – Graphic EQ, Delay, LFO Multi, Reverb, PhaseShifter, Chorus (Chorus/Flanger), Filter (Lo-Hi Pass Filter).
• Glacier (LinEQ020) – Linear Phase EQ.
• RDR – Refined Digital Resolution (dither).
• S and S VSTFX Pack – SampleSlider, StereoStretcher, SFilter, SDynamics, SonicChorus, SLFO.
• T-SLEDGE – Multi-band compressor for mastering.
• Volcano – Peak limiter and level maximizer.

 

Little critters (v0.22)

Little critters is a VSTi that has eight different sounds of insects, which can be mixed and manipulated.

Creepy!

 

FoolPlugMini

FoolPlugMini is a VSTi that can resemble the sound of blowing on bottles.