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I have been trying out a lot of free VST plug-ins over the last few weeks to incorporate into my Sonar sequencer and B&B tracks. Many are so-so and often of poor quality but I’ve finally hit upon real top quality set. They are by Kjaerhusaudio and hard to believe are free!!. I have been running them without any problems on my 64bit version of Sonar and Vista. (They will also run on 32bit and XP I’m sure) www.kjaerhusaudio.comClick “Download” and you’ll see them at the bottom of the screen. They are listed as the Classic set with auto-filter; Chorus; Compressor; Delay; EQ; Flanger; Master limiter; Phaser and Reverb. The files are not big and are very efficient on CPU usage. Click on the name of the unit and there’s a description, key features tab and Tips tab. The Master limiter is particularly effective for a guitar track as it brings “forward” with presence the track in the whole sound image. Really high quality stuff and worth a look if you’re doing mixes. Cheers F
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+1
These effects have been mentioned here a few times over the years, and always with good regard.
Make your sound your own!
.. I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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The Classic Chorus has been a main stay here for years...
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Hi FrankK,
Thank you for the link. I have not stumbled onto this suite of plugins.
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Noel
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Quote:
The Classic Chorus has been a main stay here for years...
Thanks Guys. Well there's nothing like a good discovery and it must have been mentioned before I joined the forum.
So repeated here again and for good reasons. Cheers.
Last edited by FrankK; 03/16/10 09:54 PM.
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Guys If you are beginning to get hooked on free VSTs, you might want to try the following resource: www.gersic.com/pluginsThis is a directory of literally hundreds of free VSTs (including the Kjaerhus ones mentioned in the original post). Some are excellent, some are, well, let's be generous, useful in certain situations! Makers who often receive plaudits include Martin Eastwood (compressive is a favourite of mine), DIgitalfishphones (whose Spitfish De-esser is regularly recommended in Sound on Sound and used by me!), de al Mancha, Jeron Breebart and Bootsy (who recently won the KVR-Audio challenge for best freeware plug-in). There are also hundreds of VSTis - masses of Moog, Odessey and Prophet clones, as well as more original conceptions. www.kvr-audio.com also has a fine database, with reviews, and a news section regularly used by PG Music! Finally, if you have access to the UK Computer Music magazine (which I understand is also available in the US), its cover disk has about 100 quality free VST/VSTis each month, all with descriptions. Hope this is of interest. Brian
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Very much Fifer. Thanks for the info. Another I have tried as my second preference is at http://frettedsynth.home.att.net/FeeAmp3 Full an VST "guitar" amp with three slots for FX flanger,phaser,EQ, etc Re F
Last edited by FrankK; 03/17/10 12:48 PM.
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The older freeamp2 was a much deeper plugin that gave some systems problems, but I liked it a lot. Its down a little bit on the page.
The new freeamp3 does sound a little better, but offers less options and controls. I think you can get more than three FX slots going in it.
There is a helian bass amp sim that works pretty well also for free. Getting harder to find. It doesn't have much in the way of FX, but the amp/speaker sim makes a noticable difference.
Make your sound your own!
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Very knowledgeable people here at the PgMusic Forum. Thanks rharv.
Cheers F
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If you're prepared to use a separate guitar preamp/head and speaker cabinet, there are a couple of Canadian companies produced astonishingly good free guitar amp VSTs.
Acmebargig (www.acmebargig.com) has produced some fantastic amps. The new "Shred" amp is good fun, with a lot of customisation, but I like some of the older "heads", particularly the "Tamla Head", a recreation of a 1960s guitar sound similar to the Funk Brothers Motown sort of sound.
LePou software (http://lepouplugins.blogspot.com/) produces really high quality stuff. The LexTac amp is amazing and completely free.
With all these plugins, you'll also need a cabinet simulator. LePou has a really handy one called LeCab, which is free and dead easy to use. Alternatively, any reverb which loads waves (like Perfect Space in sonar, or Boogex - free from Voxengo) would do. There are literally thousands of guitar cab wav files on the internet. There are some free demo wav files at the Recabinet site (http://recabi.net/site/) which are really cool when used with LeCab.
The separate guitar and cabinet approach is more work, but can be really rewarding when used with any freeware stomp box models.
I also have Amplitube, but that's $159 and not as much fun!
Brian
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