Superwave - Free VSTi Synth

I watched a new tutorial for Ableton Live by Tom Cosm on creating glitchy basslines which used the free softsynth Superwave P8. I realised that it had not yet been included in our series of article on free VST instruments. The Superwave P8 is another one of those must have synths in any home music production studio. It produces excellent sound, is straight forward and easy [...]

Oatmeal by Fuzzpilz is another one of the top must have vst synths that is available for free. The designer is well known for his work with the Buzz Machines sequencer and its plugins. This is no exception and is a very complete and well thought out softsynth package. Oatmeal is a two oscillator polyphonic subtractive synth with a great sound and a lot of tweakable effects.

Crystal from Greenoaks is a free semi-modular software synthesizer featuring both subtractive synthesis and frequency modulation (FM) synthesis in the form of a VSTi plugin. It features over 90 parameters for creating its unique sounds and is an excellent sounding synth that will work in any host using the VST standard. Its sample [...]