Livecut is a free VST effect plugin by MDSP that slices and glitches the audio being fed to it on the fly. Easy to use and a nice gui Livecut VST can take a boring track and add that extra touch.
Fretted Synths Audio has a free vst effect plugin called Free Amp which is an amplifier and speaker simulator with effects. Great for use with live instrument line feeds especially guitar and bass but will work well with other audio sources as well. You have a choice of speaker boxes and microphone placement. You can display the effects as stomp boxes or as rack units. [...]
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 [...]
Puremagnetik is probably the most well known provider of third party resources for the popular Ableton Live sequencing software. They provide quality downloads of Ableton live packs as well as NI Kontact and other sampler packs on a resonably priced subscription basis. Their products are centered around reproducing hardware synths but cover many other forms of [...]
The Kjaerhus Gold and Mastering Series are well known for their excelent, well designed sound and mastering vst plugin device lines. The Kjaerhus Classic line of audio effects is probably the best that you will find for free. These nine units rival many of the better and much more expensive…
Glitch is one of the more interesting free VST effect plugins available. Glitch from DBlue (Kieran Foster) is a good multi-effect processor with some unique features. DBlue Glitch is a multi effect sequencer. The incoming audio gets divided into individual steps of various lengths. A variety of effects can then be applied and mixed into those segments and the sequence looped.