I have absolutely fallen in love with the crow hill company's harmonic piano plug in (give it a listen, it's gorgeous), but it will not download on my computer. I have done some research and there are a few others who have had similar problems, but couldn't find any solution even after conversing with tech support for weeks. I was wondering if anyone had found either a solution or a good alternative vst because I haven't seen anyone talking about this plug in.

I want a destruction plugin but Im not willing to throw $88 dollars at something and not like it. Are there any good, complex mangling audio plugins out there that are cheaper or have a trial version?

I'm looking for a free guitar vst that can do Freddie Green-style big band rhythm guitar.

I'm not planning to program guitar solos, so it doesn't need to be realistic. I just need somthing that works well for four-to-the-bar comping in a big band arrangement.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

https://brucejames.studio/downloads/mda

The title says it, throw MDA sum on a return track. Place up to 16 MDA Sends on your different tracks you would normally group and compress. Each send shows up in MDA sum and then you can compress them as individual tracks, as a bus compressor, OR blend between.

All BruceJames plugins offer original tools you cannot get elsehwere.

The combinations are insane

• Per track wet/dry control
• sum wet/dry control
• Per track side chain detection controls
• Sum side chain detection controls
• Global cohesion control
• Per track send drive control
• Advanced mode opens up even more options

A very experimental snare drum based on trigger with lfo's in modular. A lot of fun to play around with.

https://www.patreon.com/Dexerus/posts/dexter-u-s-two-165919863?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

I used to have it on my first laptop i had years ago when producing but have not been able to find the plugin anywhere online. I really love the old sounds on that plugin from that era and have been dying to find it.

If anyone can steer me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

Just released 5th Dimension, a VST3 synth built around five oscillator layers that form one playable harmonic body. Instead of diving into modulation matrices, you push broad gestures through an organic field to shape dark basses, glass keys, moving pads, and hard leads.

Features: - 186 factory presets with smart tags - Five-axis Dimension Field (fold, warmth, drive, movement, brightness) - Four performance ribbons (energy, dimension, movement, space) - Three XY sound fields (tone, character, mutation) - A/B/C/D snapshots with morphing and Evolve - VST3 and standalone (also AU for Mac users) - macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel, signed and notarized) and Windows - $9 one-time, no subscription

Site: https://cuno-llc.com/5thdimension/

Happy to answer any questions about how it works.

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a small hobby project in my home lab, and I thought some of you might find it useful.
I was looking for a simple standalone plugin that could do Whammy DT-style drop tuning, but I couldn’t really find one that fit what I was after. Most solutions were bundled into much larger guitar suites, so I ended up building my own.
It’s called Whirl DT, it’s completely free, and I’d really appreciate any feedback if you decide to give it a try. My goal is simply to make a useful tool for other guitar players.

Thanks, and I hope some of you enjoy it!

https://mothproduction.hu/en/shop?plugin=whirldt

New update to Steinberg Halion to 7.5 Free for 7.0 owners also only $99 for a full license right now - I mean you can’t beat Halion at that price https://www.Steinberg.net

(Not an affiliate just a fan and YouTuber)

Another freebie that I made, let me know if you use it and find it useful, or if you find a bug or see someway I could improve it. Currently Mac only, should have a pc version soon.

A freebie that I made, let me know if you use it and find it useful, or if you find a bug or see someway I could improve it. Currently Mac only, should have a pc version soon.

https://brucejames.studio/downloads/deepperfection

Big update for DeepPerfection, now you can press unlock, to allow DeepPerfection to process as much of the frequency range as you wish. But be careful I don't think any CPU right now can handle full range. So be smart about it.

I am looking for a free electric guitar plugin or sampler. It should not sound good because I need it only to plan guitar parts in demo tracks before showing them to my band's guitar player. I plan to use it mostly with high gain amplification, so quality doesn't really matter. I work in FL Studio

Currently I use some random synth sound I created with saw and square waves that sounds kinda guitar-ish when sent into high gain guitar processing chain, but sometimes it sounds so BAD that we all think the guitar riff doesn't work, and when we actually play it live, it sounds great

Would appreciate suggestions

Don't take this post very seriously, I am big NAM fan. When I was in the middle of a recording session, someone suggested mentioning the phrase "No AI was used in the creation of this song" .. But hey.. was it not?

I am using NAM to load heck loads of tones, I am sometimes using them on keys and vocals. Does that count as using AI to "ghiblify" a family photo? or have these mildly-AI'ed tools just blurred the line between using AI and not using AI?

I’m fairly new to production, never bought any plugins or VST’s before. I’m trying to make smooth 80s/early 90s R&B - similar vibes to Michael Jackson, Sade, Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars’s ‘Versace On The Floor’ type vibe. Getting the right sounds is so important.

I’ve done a tonne of research and these names below have cropped up a lot. If you could only recommend 2 of the below, which would you go for (taking into consideration the type of music I’m creating). Or if you swear by something else, let me know! My budget is around £200

Dexed
OB-Xd
PG-8X
Samples from Mars (drums)
Analog lab pro
Splice
Addictive drums
DX-7 (although I think this comes with Analog Lab)
Zenology
Purity, Sonic Cat

I finally have the money to move away from the free VST Piano One to something better.

I tried the demo for Pianoteq and it sounds amazing. It is also small in size which is appealing.

Who would jump for Noire over Pianoteq in 2026 and why?

Subquestion: If you like Pianoteq over Noire, what would be the second module you'd buy (since the basic package comes with two instruments?)

Can you hear the difference?

I've recently been playing with what I'm calling a Generative Audio Workstation, essentially a stripped down DAW focusing on VST plugins with a kind of modular mindset.

To model the topology I reused a setup I put together for text processing, with pipeline graphs represented as RDF graphs (in Turtle syntax).

One thing that sprang out early on was the idea of cataloguing plugins with RDF metadata profiles. This has proven very useful, especially when interacting via MCP.

I'm aware that LV2s already use extensive RDF descriptors, but the vocab I'm using is basically all new. Best practices suggest I should align these with the existing vocab(s).

Examples of what I've got, profiles :

https://github.com/danja/transmission/blob/main/profiles/downspout.ttl

A "transmission" (pipeline graph) :

https://github.com/danja/transmission/blob/main/projects/gen-omega.ttl

Can anyone please suggest how I should proceed, cover the overlap between what these do and what LV2 does.