Free Autotune plugins

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GSnap

by Graham Yeadon

GSnap is an old plugin, but it’s still quite capable and fully compatible with modern DAWs. It was the first free autotune VST on the market.

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KClip Zero

by Kazrog

Best for Mastering · ★★★★★ 4.

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Clipper

by Kilohearts

Best for Drums · ★★★★★ 4.

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PeakEater

by Vladyslav Voinov

Best Open-Source · ★★★★★ 4.

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RazorClip

by Analog Obsession

Best Analog Character · ★★★★★ 4.

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GClip

by GVST

Best CPU-Light · ★★★★☆ 4.

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KLYP

by Voidstar Audio

★★★★☆ 4.

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Shatter Clip

by Golden DSP

★★★★☆ 4.

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Crispy Clip Light

by Yum Audio

★★★★☆ 4.

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SnapClip

by NovoNotes

★★★★☆ 4.

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TDR Kotelnikov

TDR Kotelnikov by Tokyo Dawn Labs is the free compressor I’d download first if I had to start over with an empty plugin folder. Tokyo Dawn built it as a wideband dynamics processor that controls the…

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Klanghelm MJUC jr.

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Goodhertz LA-210

LA-210 by Goodhertz is a free saturation and dynamics plugin. It combines an opto compressor, a soft clipper, and a cassette tape model into a single interface that looks like a Southern California…

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VladG Molot

Molot by Vladislav Goncharov (VladG) is the original character compressor from the early 2010s, with a GUI styled after a Soviet military instrument and a sound to match. It’s not an emulation of any…

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BPB Dirty LA

BPB Dirty LA is BPB’s own freeware compressor, designed to be easy to use and to sound musical without much fuss. It’s inspired by the LA-2A limiting amplifier, but with a few additions that the…

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Airwindows Compressors

Airwindows is Chris Johnson’s hand-coded plugin catalog, and it includes well over fifty free dynamics processors that don’t get the attention they deserve. The catch is that none of them have a GUI…

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Audio Damage Rough Rider Pro

Rough Rider Pro by Audio Damage used to live near the top of every free compressor list, and on Windows, it still earns the spot. It is a high-ratio, program-dependent compressor purpose-built for…

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Sidechain Compressor VST Plugins

Let’s look at some of the best free sidechain compressor plugins you can add to your favorite digital audio workstation. Before we list our favorite free sidechain VSTs, here’s a quick introduction…

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Valhalla Super Massive

Super Massive (also known as Valhalla Supermassive) by Valhalla DSP is a freeware delay VST plugin that makes any audio sound larger-than-life. It delivers monumentally large delay and reverb effects…

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Deelay

Deelay by Sixth Sample (developed in collaboration with Integraudio) is one of the most feature-packed free delay plugins. It offers five delay modes (Normal, Reverse Forward, Pure Reverse, Chaos,…

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Tymee

Tymee by Tritik is a straightforward delay plugin that I love using for lo-fi sounds. If you’ve used Tritik’s Krush bit crusher or their premium Flaw lo-fi plugin, you’ll recognize the same…

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Brigade Delay

Brigade Delay by Full Bucket Music is a faithful simulation of classic analog Bucket Brigade Device (BBD) delay lines. It was developed by Björn Arlt, the German programmer behind a large catalog of…

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Spirals

Spirals by Daniel Gergely is a dual-delay plugin with pitch-shifting capabilities that ventures into shimmer-reverb territory. If you make ambient, cinematic, or experimental music, this one deserves…

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Temper

by Creative Intent

Temper may seem confusing at first glance. Based on a phase distortion algorithm, it can do what no other distortion plugin on this list can—much more than traditional clipping.

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SGA1566

by Shattered Glass Audio

SGA1566 is a hardware preamp emulation designed like a two-stage 12AX7 tube preamp. It can add a lot of life and fatten up tracks recorded digitally or through solid-state gear.

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lkjb QRange

lkjb QRange is an advanced IIR linear phase EQ plugin. It features twelve sortable bands that can work as peak, shelf, and cut filters.

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lkjb Luftikus

lkjb Luftikus is an outstanding free EQ VST plugin that captures the warmth of vintage analog equalizers. It resembles the renowned Maag EQ4 plugin, a high-end offering from Plugin Alliance ($229).

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RS-W2395c

RS-W2395c is a free Baxandall equalizer plugin developed by Fuse Audio Labs in collaboration with Roger Schult. It combines the vintage charm of a classic 1950s Baxandall EQ with today’s…

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Warmy EP1A Tube EQ V2

Warmy EP1A Tube EQ V2 is a free plugin with smooth EQ curves and a warm tube sound. It is the freeware counterpart of the popular Waves EQP-1A plugin.

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EQ560

EQ560 is a faithful digital emulation of the 1967 classic API 560 10-Band graphic equalizer. Its low CPU usage and extremely small memory footprint make it perfect for use on multiple channels across…

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Acustica Audio Jet

Jet is a free, hardware-inspired dynamic EQ plugin for macOS and Windows. It relies on Acustica Audio’s “hardware sampling” technology while using additional algorithms for dynamic processing.

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Bertom Audio Air Shelf

Air Shelf is a free dynamic EQ plugin from Bertom Audio. It is designed specifically to enhance and control high frequencies above 10kHz.

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iZotope Ozone 11 EQ

Ozone 11 EQ by iZotope is a versatile equalizer plugin from the Ozone suite of mastering tools. It is free as part of Native Instruments’ Komplete Start bundle.

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Polyverse Filtron

Filtron is a free modulated filter plugin by Polyverse. It is available in VST, VST3, AU, and AAX formats for Windows and macOS.

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Hollace Krunch

Krunch is a freeware that combines filtering and saturation. It is available for macOS and Windows in AU and VST3 formats.

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bpb Freeware Studio: Best Noise Gate VST/AU Plugins

This time on bpb Freeware Studio, we’ll be covering the best free noise gate VST/AU plugins for Windows and Mac. A noise gate is not the sort of effect you’d use all over your mix in electronic music…

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TL;DR

Best for classic, versatile phasing with wide stereo control. Blue Cat’s Phaser is an analog-modeled phaser effect that can go from a gentle shimmer to deep, psychedelic sweeps.

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MuVerb

by MuTools

MuVerb is another great reverb plugin for emulating large spaces. It is the native reverb effect in MuTools MuLab but is also available as a VST plugin for Windows and macOS.

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Convology XT

by Impulse Record

Convology XT is a free convolution reverb VST plugin developed by Impulse Record. It includes 70 reverb impulse responses captured from various vintage hardware reverb units.

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MConvolutionEZ Convolution

by MeldaProduction

MConvolutionEZ offers a wider range of impulse responses than Convology XT, but its feature set is less advanced. Using a pair of filters, the user can adjust the stereo width of the active impulse…

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Saturation VST Plugins

This article features the best free saturation VST plugins for Windows and macOS. For more free software, visit our free VST plugins page.

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Sonic Anomaly Transpire

Best for transparent transient control with intelligent non-linear behavior. Transpire looks simple, but its standout is a non-linear response.

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Surreal Machines Crack

Best for quick, clean drum shaping with built-in peak control. Crack is excellent if you need a lightweight transient shaper for use on multiple drum channels.

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Wavesfactory Flash

Best for fast, transparent results with handy M/S and mix control. Flash is a free transient shaper by Wavesfactory.

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MiniSpillage

This is a free version of a more full-featured paid product, but I wouldn’t dare call MiniSpillage “stripped down.

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Echo Sound Works Vinyl Guitar 2

Echo Sound Works released Vinyl Guitar 2 as a full overhaul of their original Vinyl Guitar. The first version is now deprecated on the ESW website, so v2 is the one to grab.

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Audiolatry PlastikGuitar

Multi-samples of a Yamaha Eterna classical guitar, recorded through a CAD E100 microphone, is what you get with PlastikGuitar by Audiolatry. The tone is deliberately a bit cheap and not perfectly in…

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Impact Soundworks Shreddage 3 Stratus FREE

No other free electric guitar library in 2026 has the depth of Shreddage 3 Stratus FREE. It’s a Fender Stratocaster-style instrument built on Impact Soundworks’ full Shreddage 3.

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MonsterDAW Monster Guitar

Agus Hardiman, the developer behind Monster Piano and Monster Synth, also makes Monster Guitar — a preset-based electric guitar plugin covering a range of styles from sparkling cleans to heavy tones.…

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The Felt Seiler — Free Edition (Strezov Sampling)

Few free felt pianos sound as cinematic as Strezov’s The Felt Seiler — Free Edition, and what sets it apart is the three built-in synth-design layers named Warmth, Ache, and Loneliness. Blend the dry…

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The 88E (Impact Soundworks)

The 88E is the weirdest piano library on this list, and that’s the point. Impact Soundworks took the Mattias Krantz idea of tuning every key on a piano to the same note (E) and sampled a whole…

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Sonuscore Orchestra Elements

If you want a full orchestra in one instrument, Sonuscore Orchestra Elements is one of the fastest ways to get there. The library covers strings, brass, winds, percussion, and choir, with 30 presets…

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Sonokinetic Tutti Free

Sonokinetic made Tutti Free permanently free in December 2023, and it’s one of the strangest yet most useful libraries on the list. It contains 216 aleatoric orchestral samples, which means atonal,…

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Tokyo Scoring Strings Free

In October 2024, Impact Soundworks launched a separate free tier of their flagship Tokyo Scoring Strings library. It’s a pretty big change from earlier versions that were bundled in different ways.

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Shreddage 3 Stratus FREE (Impact Soundworks)

Impact Soundworks describes Shreddage 3 Stratus FREE as “the finest free virtual guitar ever released,” and while that’s a bold self-description, I don’t think it’s far from the truth. The free…

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Shreddage 3 Precision FREE (Impact Soundworks)

Shreddage 3 Precision FREE is the electric bass companion to Stratus, and Impact Soundworks made it compatible with Kontakt Player in August 2023. The instrument samples a classic P-bass (Precision)…

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Soundiron Rainsong

Soundiron released an enhanced Kontakt 7 Player version of Rainsong in August 2023, replacing the older full-Kontakt original. The instrument is built from natural rain ambiance, one-shot drips, and…

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Fracture Sounds Blueprint series

Fracture Sounds Blueprint isn’t a single library. It’s an ongoing collection of free Kontakt Player instruments that Fracture Sounds has been adding to for years, and as of 2026, there are 27…

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BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover

BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover is the best free orchestral VST plugin in 2026, and the first thing I’d install on a fresh system. It’s the entry-level free tier of Spitfire Audio’s flagship BBCSO…

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Spitfire Symphony Orchestra Discover

Spitfire Symphony Orchestra Discover is Spitfire’s largest free library to date and a separate product to BBCSO Discover. Released in November 2025, it brings 44 instruments from the paid Spitfire…

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Tutti Free

Tutti Free by Sonokinetic is a 445 MB Kontakt Player library of aleatoric orchestral effects. It captures a full orchestra — 52 strings, 12 woodwinds, 11 brass, plus piano, celesta, and percussion —…

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Big Bang Orchestra

Big Bang Orchestra by Vienna Symphonic Library is a free tutti orchestral library recorded at VSL’s own Synchron Stage Vienna. Every sound you hear is the whole orchestra playing the same phrase at…

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Layers

Layers by Orchestral Tools is a free orchestral library recorded at Teldex Scoring Stage in Berlin — the same room behind OT’s premium Berlin Series. It runs in the free SINE Player and gets added to…

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SINEfactory

SINEfactory is Orchestral Tools’ growing collection of free original instruments for the SINE Player. New titles have been added since the January 2021 launch, and all of them stay free forever.

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Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra

Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra is a somewhat old free orchestral SFZ library. Mattias Westlund created the original in 2011, and Peter Eastman has been maintaining and expanding it for years.

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One Track Orchestra

One Track Orchestra by Make Some Music Now is a simple freeware orchestral sketching plugin based on VSCO 2 Community Edition samples. It maps strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion to different…

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Creative Toolbox Piano

by Strezov Sampling

Best Overall · 9.

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Hammersmith Free

by SonicCouture

Best Realistic Grand · 9.

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LABS Autograph Grand

by Spitfire Audio

Best for Beginners · 8.

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Absurdly Quiet Piano

by The Crow Hill Company

Best Felt/Cinematic Piano · 8.

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LABS Soft Piano

by Spitfire Audio

Rating: 8.

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Salamander Grand Piano

Rating: 7.

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Klavir

by MNTRA

Best for Sound Design · 7.

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Surge XT

by Surge Synth Team

Surge XT is the best free synthesizer VST plugin right now. If I could only recommend one synth from this list, this would be it.

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Tyrell N6

by u-he

Before Surge XT, there was Tyrell N6. If you asked me what my favorite free VST synth was before Surge became open-source, Tyrell N6 would be the answer.

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VCV Rack

by VCV

If you always wanted to experiment with modular synthesis, VCV Rack is the place to start. It delivers all the sonic capabilities of a hardware modular synth without costing a fortune or taking up an…

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PG-8X

by ML-VST

If you make synthwave, vaporwave, or any 80s-inspired electronic music, PG-8X should be at the top of your download list. It emulates the Roland JX-8P hardware synthesizer, and the virtual instrument…

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Pendulate

by Newfangled Audio

Pendulate is a free monosynth developed by Newfangled Audio and released by Eventide. No iLok is required.

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bpb Freeware Studio: Best Oscilloscope VST/AU Plugins

After making a list of the best freeware spectrums analyzers, the next logical step was to find and list the best freeware oscilloscope plugins in VST/AU format. Follow the links for screenshots &…

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What about Mac?

Unfortunately, it seems like there aren’t any freeware step sequencer plugin for Mac. Although that totally sucks, here are a couple of cheap solutions for the Mac crew.

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MPC Beats

MPC Beats by AKAI is the ultimate beat-making freeware. It makes music production accessible for beginners and adds firepower for seasoned creators.

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LMMS

LMMS is a free, open-source platform for beat creation. It replicates the efficient workflow of FL Studio, one of the most popular beat-maker tools.

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Pro Tools Intro

OS: Windows + macOS Free access: Free Avid account required Tracks: 8 audio + 8 instrument + 8 MIDI (18 total active tracks) Plugin formats: AAX only Offline use: Yes (after sign‑in) Pros: Learn the…

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OBS Studio

OBS Studio isn’t usually called recording software, but it’s the best free way to capture system audio, microphone input, and multiple sources at once. It’s open-source, available on Windows, macOS,…

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Ardour

Ardour is a professional-grade open-source DAW that ships in a different way than anything else on this list, and the licensing situation is worth understanding before you download. On Linux, Ardour…

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Cakewalk Next (by BandLab)

Cakewalk Next is the lightweight DAW from BandLab, available for both Mac and Windows. It’s designed as a simpler, more approachable alternative to Cakewalk Sonar (listed below), and focuses on song…

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ASIO4ALL

ASIO4ALL is a free audio driver for Windows that reduces latency when you don’t have a dedicated audio interface. If you’re using your laptop’s built-in sound card and getting noticeable delay when…

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bpb Freeware Studio: Best VST Host Applications

After covering numerous free VST plugins so far in our bpb Freeware Studio series (aka Free VST Plugins Directory), now would be the right time to take a look at the best free VST host applications…