#Best free vst plugins for reaper series#
#Best free vst plugins for reaper download#

#Best free vst plugins for reaper series#

Some of my favourites are Bootsy's Ferric, GVST's GClip and GRecti, Jeroen Breebaart's Ferox, MDA's Combo and Bandisto, Mokafix Noamp ( Silverspike's Rubytube ( and Voxengo's Tubeamp: so much dirt, so little time! For more outrageous grainy and grungy effects, DBlue's Glitch ( ) is a good bet, as are Jack Dark's outrageous Darkware series ( and Tweakbench's Pudding and Sideslip. For tremolo/chopper effects, try Tweakbench's Cairo ( or Oli Larkin's Autopan and LFO Chopper ( When it comes to distortion/saturation, there's lots of good stuff and I admit to being a bit of a collector in this respect. MDA's Leslie and The Interruptor's Wow & Flutter ( are cool for general modulation grunginess and I use those a lot. My freeware fallback for chorus, phaser, and flanger effects is Kjaerhus Audio's Classic series, and although I could no longer find a web presence for them at the time of writing, it's still possible to find the plug‑ins hosted on other sites via Google. ReaGate and ReaFIR are a solid bet for most expansion and noise‑reduction tasks, so I've never really bothered looking elsewhere.

As far as dynamics are concerned, ReaComp and ReaXcomp in the ReaPlugs set are, again, good all‑round workhorses, but things like Georg Yohng's W1 ( Buzzroom's BuzMaxi 3 ( Bootsy's Density, Jeroen Breebaart's PC2 ( and the Antress Modern vintage emulations all get regular use on my projects.

For synth‑style filtering, I usually just tend to automate ReaEQ, but Camel Audio's Camel Crusher ( and Ohm Force's Frohmage ( have more obvious attitude, if required. DDMF ( have a great donationware linear‑phase EQ called LP10, too. Other particularly worthwhile sets I've found are those from Antress Modern ( ‑), Bootsy ( ), GVST ( MDA ( ) and Voxengo ( which cover a lot of bases between them.īut on to some specific things I like, all of which have proved their worth in the heat of Mix Rescue! For general‑purpose EQ'ing, I do like Reaper's ReaEQ a lot, but for extra colour, try Bootsy's Nasty series and the Antress Modern emulations. I've done whole mixes with just Reaper's plug‑ins, so I can vouch for their effectiveness.

#Best free vst plugins for reaper download#

SOS contributor Mike Senior replies: First of all, you could do worse than just download the ReaPlugs VST suite, which is a big chunk of the Reaper plug‑in complement and includes everything you're after, in one form or another.

I'm on a PC, so VST would be best.Įoghan Brady via email Some good freeware and donationware VST equalisers: Cockos ReaEQ, Bootsy Nasty CS, Antress Modern Black Dragon, and DDMF LP10. In particular, I'd be interested in any 'go to' freeware choices. I've checked out a few of the ones mentioned in Mix Rescue and have been quite impressed, so I was wondering whether you could give me some further suggestions for a couple for each basic category of plug‑in. One site I checked out listed 670 of them! I'd rather not slow down my sessions looking for the perfect delay when just sticking with a good one and working with it would be much more productive. There are loads of freeware plug‑ins floating around out there now, so I find I'm getting swamped by choices.