vst effects freeware vs. paid

I know some vst effects are freeware which puts their quality into question but what freeware vsts are out there that ppl consider just as good if not better than ones you pay for in terms of efficient use of resources. Also what are some of the worst offenders in terms of ones you would pay for then perform or sound like shit.

i quite like synth1.vst as far as free synths go but then i dont really use plug ins much

well dont respond then dipshit

i suggested a pretty decent free vst synth

isn't that (partly) what you asked for?

yeah I'm on LUDD's side on this one.

'cept that synth1 doesn't exist for OSX...

yeah I'm on danknugz's side on this one.

I read a very thorough discussion about this on a swedish forum a while ago. They said that they were more or less exactly the same. the really expensive ones (waves etc) might use slightly better algorithms etc, but I think they just look fancier.

bad GUI is a bigger problem than bad sound in a lot of cases

some of the freeware plugins I've used caused a lot of CPU load or just made my DAW crash (that is Asynth and another VST that emulates plucked strings or something, it was mentioned on WATMM somewhere)

All of tweakbench vst's are quality and free.

my favorite free plugs

synth1

iblit

augur

xhip

Drumatic 3

digitalfishphones and bootsy also make decent free vst effects.

  Adjective said:

xhip

i just got this one about 15 mins ago, and it's sick

  JohnTqs said:

  Adjective said:

xhip

 

i just got this one about 15 mins ago, and it's sick

yeah it sounds great and decent features, there are different skins (better than the default) too

i like this skin

http://xhip.cjb.net/xhip/releases/?all

  Adjective said:

my favorite free plugs

 

synth1

 

iblit

 

augur

 

xhip

 

Drumatic 3

these are not for OSX right?

i use a lot of free plugins, mostly the stuff that comes with reaper, like the eq, comp, and guitar effects in jesusonic (amp modelling, tremolo and pitch shift mostly), but also stuff like smartelectronix ambience, mda leslie, mda epiano, tapeworm, cvpiano, usually the stuff with minimal interfaces.

i don't use much in the way of commercial plugins, but the few that i use, i tend to use the fuck out of. ezdrummer and edirol hq orchestral in particular are my favourite commercial plugins.

basically, i'll only go for something commercial if i can't find a free version - hence why i still use reaper, though i'm tempted to pay for it just because i like the program.

  Hanratty said:

these are not for OSX right?

i do not know, i think on the KVR pages they may say what OS is supported or try to find their official sites for alternate builds. I use these in Windows

Here's some good effects:

http://rekkerd.org/ronald-passion-releases...m-white-magnum/

http://kunz.corrupt.ch/?Products

http://www.kjaerhusaudio.com/classic-series.php