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  1. SONiVOX Eighty Eight – Grand Piano
    13 Mar 2010, 12:51 pm

    SONiVOX announced the release of their Grand Piano Virtual Instrument, Eighty Eight, conceived and designed as a virtual embodiment of a Steinway CD 327 grand.


  2. Music Notation on Word
    13 Mar 2010, 12:40 pm

    musicnotationformsword.com announced the release of Music Notation for MS Word, a music notation editing product that allows musicians to embed, edit and publish music notation in Microsoft Word envir. […]


  3. LePou Plugins LeGion
    13 Mar 2010, 12:32 pm

    LePou Plugins has released LeGion, a free high gain preamp simulator VST effect plug-in for Windows.


  4. zplane Elastique Pitch Plugin
    13 Mar 2010, 12:17 pm

    zplane has announced that a new version of the Elastique Pitch Plugin is available for download.


  5. Mutools MU.LAB 3
    13 Mar 2010, 12:12 pm

    MUTOOLS has announced MU.LAB 3: A pre-release version of MU.LAB 3 is already available for download for Windows and Mac OS X.


  6. rs-met CrossOver
    12 Mar 2010, 2:25 pm

    rs-met has released CrossOver, a new free VST effect plug-in for Windows that replaces rs-met's older Crossover 3-Way plug-in - CrossOver now allows for splitting into up to 4 bands.


  7. Voxengo SPAN 2.0
    12 Mar 2010, 2:21 pm

    Voxengo SPAN 2.0 is now available for download - SPAN is a freeware real-time "fast Fourier transform" audio spectrum analyzer plug-in for professional music and audio production applications.


  8. VSL Collections Updates
    12 Mar 2010, 2:09 pm

    VSL has released updates for the Vienna Instruments, Vienna Imperial and Vienna Suite plug-ins.


  9. MeldaProduction Updates All Effects Plugins
    12 Mar 2010, 2:07 pm

    MeldaProduction has released updates for all its effect plug-ins.


  10. MUTOOLS Announces MU.LAB 3; Pre-release Version Available for Download
    12 Mar 2010, 5:05 am

    12th March 2010: MUTOOLS has announced MU.LAB 3. A pre-release version of MU.LAB 3 is already available for download for Windows and Mac OS X. New in MU.LAB 3: Function shortcuts: Map a key or MIDI ev. […]



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Select a category on the right to view the Free VSTi’s.

Note: these VSTi’s (VST instruments) have been tested on Windows - please check the inidividual plugin’s websites for information on using them on non-Windows operating systems.

A VSTi is a Virtual Studio Technology instrument, and is usually downloaded as a .dll file.  The .dll file can then be loaded into a VSTi host and played, most often with midi.

Glossary

Bass - real (electric, upright) bass sounds, or synthesized bass sounds
Brass - trumpets, trombones, tubas, etc…
Drums - plugins which contain real drum sounds or synthetic drum sounds
Emulator - replications of classic synthesizers
Exotic Instruments - unusual instruments from around the world
Percussion - marimbas, bells, bongo drums, steel drums, etc… (now featuring a cowbell!)
Piano - pianos and electric pianos
Sound FX - blips, bloops, whooshes, and etcetera
Strings - guitars, violins, cellos, synth strings, etc…
Synth
– fm (frequency modulation) - a simple waveform is modulated with another frequency to produce a more complex tone
 — modular - a modular synth consists of individual components (modules) which can be chained together in various ways
– subtractive - harmonics are subtracted from an audio signal using a filter in order to alter the tone
– additive - harmonics are added to an audio signal, usually to replicate the sound of an instrument
– wavetable - short recorded clips of an instrument are looped and altered to produce realistic sounds
Vox - emulations of voices and choirs
Woodwind - flutes, saxophones, etc…

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