A collection of free audio plugins in VST3 and AU formats, developed by the bachelor students of my course “Development of technologies for music production”.
Being the result of students’ efforts, no responsibility is taken for their stability. However, some of them are quite impressive, for example, check out the MiniMOOD plugin: a virtual-analogue emulation of a famous synthesiser.
PLUGIN LIST (30):
Colorizer★★★★★
Type: Eq
Description: MIDI-controlled polyphonic resonator.
JCLIM800★★★★★
Type: Waveshaper
Description: Guitar preamplifier simulation with solid and valve state, guitar cabinet and filters.
MiniMOOD★★★★★
Type: Synth
Description: Virtual-analog version of a famous analog synthesiser.
TheMasker ★★★★★
Type: Eq
Description: Automatic frequency masking compensation (beta version).
BrightyWah★★★★
Type: Modulation
Description: Brightness-based auto-filter/auto-wha effect.
crushedORANGE★★★★
Type: Modulation
Description: Parameter-modulated bit-crusher.
Funky Duck★★★★
Type: Dynamics
Description: A guitar and bass compressor.
Granolizer★★★★
Type: Synth
Description: Granular-wavetable hybrid synthesiser.
Grindbox★★★★
Type: Waveshaper
Description: Distortion effect ideal on bass.
HyperTremolo★★★★
Type: Modulation
Description: HyperTremolo is a Dual Amplitude Modulator effect. It is designed to be an Harmonic Tremolo, but can be tweaked to get a lot of different effects, from haunting Ring Modulations to Rotary Speaker emulations!
PitchShifter★★★★
Type: Modulation
Description: Harmonizer with delay-based pitch shifting.
reDroidFlux★★★★
Type: Ringmod
Description: All in one MIDI controlled ring modulator and bit crusher.
TapeDestroyer★★★★
Type: Waveshaper
Description: This plugin simulates WOW and Flutter effects, typical of old tape cassette, including digitisation distortion (quantisation noise and aliasing).
Triton★★★★
Type: Synth
Description: Monophonic dub siren.
Bitlejuce★★★
Type: Waveshaper
Description: Simple LFO-modulated bitcrusher.
Colossus★★★
Type: Waveshaper
Description: Electric Guitar Fuzz Effect.
Disharmonium★★★
Type: Waveshaper
Description: Distortion (soft-clipping or fuzz) and equalization effect.
Easy Comp★★★
Type: Dynamics
Description: A simple compressor based on peak analysis.
EQino★★★
Type: Eq
Description: Mid-Side Equalizer.
LOFIRE★★★
Type: Reverb
Description: Lo-fi effect composed of a saturator, band-pass filter and a reverb.
MIDI RingMod★★★
Type: Ringmod
Description: Ring modulation effect (modulating frequency through MIDI).
NoiseGate★★★
Type: Dynamics
Description: A simple Noise Gate.
Ping Pong Delay ★★★
Type: Delay
Description: Typical ping-pong delay.
SynthThesis ★★★
Type: Synth
Description: Stereo virtual synthesizer.
Two Knobs Synth ★★★
Type: Synth
Description: Two knobs synth means „not a lot of knobs“.
NoizGate ★★
Type: Dynamics
Description: A simple Noise Gate.
Simple Flanger ★★
Type: Modulation
Description: Simple delay/flanger effect.
CitSalEq ★
Type: Eq
Description: 4 bands mid-side equalizer.
PingPongDelay ★
Type: Delay
Description: Delay with independent delay time for each channel.
SyntHello★
Type: Synth
Description: Digital Monophonic Synthesizer (a hello world synthesizer).
Installation
Some plugins come with an installer application, if this is not the case, copy the plugins to the appropriate folder:macOS VST3 folder: ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3
macOS AU folder: ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components
Windows VST3 folder: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3
Please note that the plugins are not digitally signed: if you have trouble running the plugin under macOS, try typing the following in the os terminal (replace PluginFileName with the name of the downloaded files):
sudo xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/PluginFileName.vst3
sudo xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/PluginFileName.component
https://www.signalperspective.com/2021/08/07/lim-plugin-collection/
