Glitch VST

Many of you have probably heard of Aphex Twin before, especially his über-cool track titled, Windowlicker. (quite the jam, check it out) I always wondered how he managed to tweak and bend it like a madman.. no need to wonder anymore though.

Let me introduce, Glitch 1.3.05 - A great tool for all you glitchers, dubsteppers and breakerheads out there.






A short introduction from the creator:
Glitch features a pattern-based effects sequencer that takes the incoming audio, breaks it down into user-defined slices, and then applies different effects to each slice. The sounds it generates range from quite subtle to extremely bizarre, depending on how much you tweak the controls. Effects can either be programmed by hand to create specific desired patterns; chosen pseudo-randomly based on each effect’s probability level, with a user-defined seed value that optionally allows the same sequence of “random” effects to be chosen each time; or combined into a mixture of both methods to suite your own tastes.




See what it is capable of, Check out the Demo





Quite crazy, eh? Tweak away!
Download Glitch 1.3.05 here (469 kB ZIP)

Fishing for Free VST effects

Blockfish - Free VST Compressor
The BLOCKFISH compressor is a dynamics compressor capable of a compact and dense sound (hence the name). But unlike a lot of digital compressors, it does not 'squash' your signal that much.
The focus was to keep your music alive and let it breathe. It comes with a typical 'vca' circuit providing modern compression - best for drums and guitars - and a classical 'opto' unit that recreates the sound of old photo-electrical gain devices and has been optimised for vocal tracks. The basic parameters are easily set up but you have access to futher adjustments that can turn BLOCKFISH into a real 'killer' device.




Floorfish - Free VST Expander / noise gate
FLOORFISH is a classical gate/expander unit that was originally designed to make acoustic drum recording much cleaner. Especially seperately miked snares and toms often unveil a large amount of 'bleeding noise' if you compress them. The FLOORFISH can help to lower this noise floor. Unlike a typical 'noise gate', the signal is not cut off completely if you do not want it to.




Spitfish - Free VST De-esser.
SPITFISH serves as an easy-to-use de-esser. If you ever had problems with loud sibilants and s-like vocals, this device can help to make those nasty sounds much smoother. You can also apply it to other signals that might need some evening out within the upper frequency range, e.g. cymbals and crashes.
The whole character has been tuned to 'nice' and 'gentle'. It should be almost impossible to make your recordings sound unnatural within the normal operational range.


Download them all in one go!

Fish VST (win)
Fish VST (mac OS 9)
Fish VST (mac OS X)

Thanks goes out to Sascha Eversmeier

Free VST Delay Plugins

It's delay time folks!

I was browsing the net earlier today trying to find a decent delay plugin, not only did i find it, i found 2 of them.
Simple Delay V2 and BTS Ping Delay V1.0.

Not only do they come as VST Plugins, but standalone aswell and that my friend is awesome.

Download Simple Delay V2 (1,3 mb RAR)
Download BTS Ping Delay (1,5 mb RAR)

Head over to Blechturmstudios to find more VSTs, and standalone versions of these two plugins.

Double 'O'

This free SFX VST Plugin helps you to easily chop up the audio for you.
Control the speed & depth of both stereo channels with ease with the knobs.
Works like a charm on vocals!



Try it yourself here: Double 'O'

Vinyl scratch VST plugin

Turntablist PRO VST
This VST Plugin is probably not the best out there when it comes to making fake scratch effects.
I truly hope it's not the best, But it's free atleast. (we like it like that)
Don't get me wrong here, you can create some nice slide effects and pitch tweaks with it but that's about it though.


Turntablist PRO VST (windows)
Turntablist PRO VST (max OS X)

Huge VST pack!

Download 30 VST plugins for free in one file.

VST's that are included in this pack:

Bandisto - Multi-band distortion
BeatBox - Drum replacer
Combo - Amp & speaker simulator
De-ess - High frequency dynamics processor
Degrade - Sample quality reduction
Delay - Simple stereo delay with feedback tone control
Detune - Simple up/down pitch shifting thickener
Dither - Range of dither types including noise shaping
DubDelay - Delay with feedback saturation and time/pitch modulation
Dynamics - Compressor / Limiter / Gate
Envelope - Envelope follower / VCA
Image - Stereo image adjustment and M-S matrix
Leslie - Rotary speaker simulator
Limiter - Opto-electronic style limiter
Loudness - Equal loudness contours for bass EQ and mix correction
Multiband - Multi-band compressor with M-S processing modes
Overdrive - Soft distortion
Re-Psycho! - Drum loop pitch changer
RezFilter - Resonant filter with LFO and envelope follower
Round Panner - 3D panner
Shepard - Continuously rising/falling tone generator
Splitter - Frequency / level crossover for setting up dynamic processing
Stereo Simulator - Haas delay and comb filtering
Sub-Bass Synthesizer - Several low frequency enhancement methods
Talkbox - High resolution vocoder
TestTone - Signal generator with pink and white noise, impulses and sweeps
Thru-Zero Flanger - Classic tape-flanging simulation
Tracker - Pitch tracking oscillator, or pitch tracking EQ
Vocoder - Switchable 8 or 16 band vocoder
VocInput - Pitch tracking oscillator for generating vocoder carrier input


Visit smartelectronix to download these goodies.


Installation notes:

There's no setup/installer, just dll files.
Extract all the .dll files to your VST folder, open up your DAW of choice and search for you new plugins.

Free VST Vocoder

"Want to make awesome robotic sounds like Daft-Punk, Kraftwerk, Vangellis, or Sparky the Magic Piano?"

According to SDAS the software will help you achieve that.
A free Vintage Vocoder from Sonicism Digital Audio Solutions.


I personally find this handy and fun. But it would be great if it came with a pianoroll or something like that to easily edit the shape and sound.
I guess i'm used to Reason's vocoder way too much.

Follow this link to download this vocoder: sonicism