jamesyoyo
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Re:Essential Must Have FREEWARE Vst's???
2010/11/23 07:28:56
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Independence Free is terrific, but I have found it to be a tad unstable.
Crystal was the first synth I downloaded. Rich organic sounds.
Kore Player is great, but it is unstable and takes entirely too long to load patches.
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RogerS
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Re:Essential Must Have FREEWARE Vst's???
2010/11/23 17:00:00
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+1 on yoyo.
Independence Free sounds great, but was unstable on my previous and current system (XP), so I did not install it on Win7.
Same experience with Kore Player too. It took forever to load patches, and even accessed my floppy sometimes.
But I like the 4Front freebies - bass, piano, and rhodes) and the Proteus VX (bit I completely reworked the presets to make it useful to me).
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Re:Essential Must Have FREEWARE Vst's???
2010/11/24 03:59:10
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yeah i agree though Kore 2 Player is a lot better. I mention Independence cos it's a lot of sample for the money, so if you wanted one of the few instruments it covers, it's a great thing. but yeah, bounce to audio as soon as!
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Glyn Barnes
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Re:Essential Must Have FREEWARE Vst's???
2010/11/27 11:51:48
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RogerS
+1 on yoyo.
Independence Free sounds great, but was unstable on my previous and current system (XP), so I did not install it on Win7.
Same experience with Kore Player too. It took forever to load patches, and even accessed my floppy sometimes.
But I like the 4Front freebies - bass, piano, and rhodes) and the Proteus VX (bit I completely reworked the presets to make it useful to me).
I never had any issues with Independence (free ot pro), except the time my hard drive was starting to fail. Maybe its an XP or 32 bit issue? I agree the load times with Kore player can be a bit long. I have not had any stabilty problems with single instances, but I have had a couple of BSOD with three instances loaded. Proteus VX is the one thing I never got working well in 64 bit.
post edited by Glyn Barnes - 2010/11/27 11:53:12
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RogerS
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Re:Essential Must Have FREEWARE Vst's???
2010/11/27 21:11:17
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Just to clarify, when I said "Same experience with Kore Player too", I was commenting that I had the same experience as yoyo with Kore Player (slow load times). My comment might have sounded like I was saying that Kore Player was unstable like Independence Free on my system.
But as you said, maybe Independence Free would have worked better on Windows 7.
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Re:Essential Must Have FREEWARE Vst's???
2010/11/27 22:16:18
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Re:Essential Must Have FREEWARE Vst's???
2010/11/28 13:33:44
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jhughs
SteveStrummer put together an extensive list awhile ago; not sure how many of these are still valid:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=1498134
Thanks, I looked for that but couldn't find it when I started this thread. Bobby
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Philip
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Re:Essential Must Have FREEWARE Vst's???
2010/11/30 01:37:46
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No free ones on my system ... I'll re-look some of you-all's favs.
... several *almost-VSTs* that are next to free (<$30):
1) A cheerful collab partner whose willing to splill his/her heart into your/my song. All mine have been free ... yet sooo pricele$$!!!!!
2) A cheerful forum artist-mate or 10 ... who are willing to crit or help out a song or technique. All mine have been free ... 'must-haves' (all of you, basically)
3) Free (or almost free) MIDI's, waves, samples, MIDI code, and acid/apple loops abound. Now more than ever is the time to pomp up with professional loops and/or samples that prevent re-inventing the wheels
4) Another live artist (great or small) nearby you/I is a must-have, IMHO ... especially if he/she is faithful and free ... to add new-blood to a vibe or song.
5) I'd like to think my own heart and brain can spot other VST-like, free, essential, helpers, and work-arounds ... to enhance the work-flow ... like thousands of refreshing new Sonar VSTs and DAW parameters, outboard instruments within my arms reach, church choirs, gigs, friends-who-help, etc. ... but I'll spare you my pathetic plethoras.
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RockingChair
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Re:Essential Must Have FREEWARE Vst's???
2010/12/10 09:26:26
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http://tda.tention.org/index.php?cat=tdae&dest=eq2032 I like this EQ, it's great for fine tuning. It says some systems can't run it, I have no problem using it, just read the info. at the bottom of the page for the specs. It says donation ware, I haven't seen any nag screens or nothing like that, at least not yet. Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!! Bobby
post edited by RockingChair - 2010/12/10 09:30:03
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RockingChair
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Re:Essential Must Have FREEWARE Vst's???
2010/12/15 00:35:48
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I know Acme Bar Gig was mentioned here, but unless I missed something on their forums, I don't think they offer "DIG" for guitars anymore? Although I found it here on this link : Dig Download Link Also, check out : Shred Download Link It's very good also. Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bobby
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