r/VSTi

Hi Again - Bowed Effigy was released two weeks back. This unique instrument was designed to replace traditional solo string instruments with something more primitive, raw and unpredictable. The resulting sounds were crafted by bowing a steel string acoustic guitar and initial response has been super positive! There are both legato and polyphonic patches and some custom designed pads to boot. If you need something gritty, emotional and full of character, I encourage you to give it a try!

Download here: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/bowed-effigy-primal-strings/

I'm looking for alt rock (punk, pop-punk) or indie rock drums

Pls What is the best plugin for electric guitar ?

Hey y'all, Truce https://github.com/truce-audio/truce is an audio plugin framework for Rust that can compile to any plugin format from a single codebase. JUCE exists, but I never liked how JUCE is owned by iLok, and JUCE just felt very 2005. Plus the Rust audio ecosystem seemed nascent enough for me to contribute to.

I posted about this a few weeks ago, it was at a working-but-ugly state at the time. The APIs are stable now and I'm starting to shift focus to actually building plugins :) so I thought it'd be a good time to call it a stable release and see what you all think. Docs are at: https://truce.audio/docs/

Let me know if you have any feature requests!

Hey! I'm Jaron Sweder, a music producer and software developer. I have been working on this incredibly powerful additive/spectral VST synth called "Spektral" for the past 2 years. It's still in beta, but it's finally at a stage where I can get other people to play around with it.

The little demo video shows a simple EDM bass and some simple drums. But this synth is also great for percussion, complex ambiences, and you can even use it as a vocoder using the sidechain input.

The core of this synth is a 'spectral table'. This is a 512x512 table of spectral data. You can load an audio sample into this, or even an image. This data can then be manipulated and modulated in many different ways. And eventually it will end up interacting with 1 of 3 'spectral parameters'. For the default 'Additive' mode, these parameters are level, frequency, and phase. This means you get precise control over the level, frequency, and phase of all individual 576 partials that are generated in the 'Additive' mode. There's also a 'Resonator' mode, which is a bank of 512 resonators, where you get control over the level, frequency, and decay time of each individual resonator. This mode approaches physical modeling, and with a bit of messing around you can make organic sounding real instruments. And because it's all coming from these spectral tables, you can make it as simple or as complicated as you want. You can just load a random sample into it and mess around. Or craft a very specific 512x512 image file to do exactly what you want. It's also very easy to make variations of the same sound, just load a different sample into the table! Check the user manual for more information, which can be found in the link below.

The demo is available for MacOS and Windows, both downloads can be found on this page, as well as a link to the user manual. It also comes with a handful of presets to play around with that show what it's capable of: https://shop.kaixo.me/product/Spektral

If you have any questions/feedback/suggestions/issues, feel free to leave a comment or send me a DM!

DISCLAIMER: I want to be clear that this is a demo version, it will not save its state, and you cannot export audio from your DAW in this version. Unfortunately, given how much time I've put into this insanely powerful and highly optimized synth, I can't afford to make it available for free. Hence the limitations. I know this sucks, and if I didn't need the money I'd make it free in an instant. But such is life...

This is a hybrid audio/midi effect plugin. It's main function is to convert audio (through sidechain routing) into a midi cc data, this data can than be used to control various parameters in its internal effects or control parameters in other effects and plugins.

It is experimental in nature, offering some unexpected sound design possibilities especially in following one audio track amplitude with a synced movement in another through audio effects or synth parameters.

It is free (pay what you choose with 0 minimum).

I am in need of a good Guitar virtual instrument, I have tried many and they ALL seem to fall short, they either just sound awful or just don't do what I need/want.
I have been hoping for years that Toontrack would make an EZGuitar... but through all of my searching, ODIN III comes up a LOT... it sounds promising and all of the videos I've seen look to be very good too... but my issue is that they don't offer a free trial like most others do... and $170 is a lot of money to throw at something that I can't be sure is actually any good, since most reviews are either sponsored or from the company themselves...
For information: I'm working on Death/Doom metal projects as well as Cyberpunk/industrial projects and I just need a good, chunky guitar that doesn't sound robotic and has enough features to tweak and make it sound semi-human. So i'd like to hear some honest opinions. Does it have a huge learning curve? Is it worth the money? etc...

It's been over a week since it came out. I can't believe that we got two Prophet emulations within the same month (the other being Pro-A5) and two licensed/official emulations on a single day (the other being Cherry Audio's ESQ-1)! After the trial ended, I pulled the trigger on it because of how good it sounded. I compared it with the Rev 3 filter extensively to Repro-5 (which I own) and Expanse-5 (trial) at a 96 kHz sampling rate with MDR-7506 headphones on. I did not find them to be significantly different except for when it came to filter FM. While Repro-5 sounds very good in its own right, it sounds somewhat sterile and VA-like compared to the other two. However, if you care about stable tuning across notes, it's still great for that. Even the filter FM sounds more stable than in the other two. I decided not to buy Expanse because it is very CPU-heavy despite how great it sounds. Its frequencies sound more pronounced than in Repro, but the GForce one still has some of that depth or subtleties with modest CPU usage.

In my opinion, the GForce plugin has a very distinct and musical tone. It really has an almost analog sort of quality with the detuned notes and the saturation in the filter. My only gripes with it are a few bugs and how the filter FM can detune or vibrate rapidly in higher notes. I never owned a Prophet 5 (but do have a Fourm), so I cannot tell if that's how the filter FM on the hardware sounds. Otherwise, the waveforms and poly-mod provide nice musical tones, and the X-modulators are a welcome addition. Unlike the other Prophet plugins I have tried, the square wave in the GForce one has additional harmonics that give it an edge or slight distortion, and the knob needs to be set at 46.5 to make it sound more like a traditional square wave.

If you want something similar to the GForce one, I recommend multi/poly native. It can get really close to the Prophet sound except for the Xmod and the filter FM at certain frequencies. Repro also holds up IMO, and I don't know if I will sell it because I used it in so many projects. Let me know what your thoughts are about the plugin and whether you have compared it to your Prophet synth.