
Hosts
Cloud Seed
by Low Profile
Cloud Seed is perfect if you need a dramatic, 80s-style reverb effect. It is an excellent freeware alternative to commercial plugins like Valhalla Shimmer ($50) or Eventide Blackhole ($199).

by SIR Audio Tools
), but some users still swear by it. Its simple user interface and rather capable feature set make it a useful tool even in this modern age of VST plugins. However, SIR1’s biggest drawback is that it is only compatible with 32-bit VST plugin hosts on Windows. Mac owners and Windows users running 64-bit digital audio workstations are out of luck. The user interface is well designed, with the file browser on the right, waveform display on the top, the control parameters on the left, and the spectrum display on the bottom.
The user can adjust the pre-delay time and the envelope of the loaded impulse response. The IR can also be time-stretched, which is a great feature for a convolution plugin. SIR1 has a fixed latency of 8960 samples and is optimized for low CPU consumption. Compatibility: 32-bit VST plugin format for Windows
Links to www.siraudiotools.com — the article includes the official download links.

Hosts
by Low Profile
Cloud Seed is perfect if you need a dramatic, 80s-style reverb effect. It is an excellent freeware alternative to commercial plugins like Valhalla Shimmer ($50) or Eventide Blackhole ($199).

Hosts
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…

Autotune
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.

Autotune
by g200kg
KeroVee is another old-school pitch correction tool, released way back in 2010. Although it looks less modern than the previous three autotune VSTs on this list, KeroVee’s feature set is on par with…

Autotune
by Resonant Cavity
Voloco is a free and lightweight autotune plugin designed exclusively as a creative tool. Voloco is an intentionally robotic-sounding autotune plugin for electronic and urban music.

Modulation
Cesium is an interesting freeware chorus by Green Oak Software, the same developer who created the Crystal synthesizer. CH4D by Jovan Koncar (discontinued) was an interesting four-voice chorus effect…