The free VI's/plugs list.

[mikebeckmotu]

https://www.softube.com/installer-mac

[Rick Cornish]

https://www.softube.com/installer-mac

Brilliant… thanks!

[James Steele]

There’s a whole bunch of freebies from Strezov including the Seiler Felt Piano:

https://www.strezov-sampling.com/produc ... ebies.html

[James Steele]

There’s a whole bunch of freebies from Strezov including the Seiler Felt Piano:

https://www.strezov-sampling.com/produc ... ebies.html

Hmmm. I attempted to install Seiler Felt Piano this morning and when I loaded it into Kontakt 6 got a strange GUI glitch. Hmmmm

[James Steele]

There’s a whole bunch of freebies from Strezov including the Seiler Felt Piano:

https://www.strezov-sampling.com/produc ... ebies.html

Hmmm. I attempted to install Seiler Felt Piano this morning and when I loaded it into Kontakt 6 got a strange GUI glitch. Hmmmm

For anyone interested, I solved the problem by following the instructions here...

https://www.strezov-sampling.com/articl ... layer.html

...and entering the serial number for the free edition into the Native Access app and using Native Access to do the install. Worked fine that way.

[James Steele]

Here's a free channel strip plug in. I think though you may have to create an account at their site and install their general purpose installer app to install the plug.

https://www.acustica-audio.com/pages/specials/eminence

Here's the description from their page:

Free 'Creamy' Channel Strip for Xmas!

As per our tradition, every year for Xmas we like to surprise our faithful users with a gift for their loyalty and support. This year is no exception, so please give a warm welcome to Eminence, a 'vintage' tool to add "mojo" to your music and give you that old-school sound!

So, in the world of vintage 'Cream-style' units (well, if we consider the AA world that is) Eminence embodies:

• an ultra-rare '60s British 3-band EQ, famously used in probably one of the most famous and mythical worldwide broadcast studios, produced and developed at a time when record labels and companies maintained their own recording studios, going so far as to design and build most of their own recording equipment.
• A 'Frankenstein' compressor that fuses two different seriously ‘Old school’ solid-state dynamic processors in one (591: an Optical Compressor – 612: FET Limiter) from a renowned U.S. audio electronics company.
• a preamp section includes the preamp stages from all three units that comprise this powerful plugin.

Enjoy Eminence, a brand new FREE plugin bringing you the authentic old-school sound. The process is simple. Log in to Aquarius, our free download manager for macOS and Windows, using your email and password.

Download the plugin in the desired format, and authorize it! Done!

Happy - and safe - mixing!

[monkey man]

For those who're unaware, be prepared for a massive CPU hit.

[James Steele]

For those who're unaware, be prepared for a massive CPU hit.

For the Eminence plug? I need to check it and see how bad it was on my system. I didn’t notice.

[monkey man]

You probably only had it instantiated once or not much more, Jimbo.

It's a channel-strip plugin, so given the fact that when I think Acustica Audio I think CPU hit, I'm bettin' few would be able to whack it across a bunch of tracks, as is intended with such plugins, without bringing their 'puters to their knees or at the very least having to compromise on their workflows to compensate.

[James Steele]

Some new bit of software Waves is giving away that lets you search for samples on your drives apparently. Haven't check it out or even installed it yet... but wanted to pass along

https://www.waves.com/plugins/cosmos-sa ... ple-finder

[James Steele]

Legato Solo Trumpet Freebie

Requires full version of Kontakt

https://musicalsampling.com/trumpet-freebie/

[James Steele]

This says it runs out on 3/7 which is coming soon on the West Coast. Hopefully they're not strict on the time limit. It appears to be a IR player with a set of free IRs from a Blackstar Studio (in Italy?).

https://overloud.com/products/blackstar-studio

[James Steele]

Free Kontakt Instrument:

https://heavyocity.com/product/foundations-piano/

It will run on Kontakt Player if you don't have full Kontakt.

[James Steele]

https://impactsoundworks.com/product/the-88e/

Works with Kontakt Player

From the site:

What if you tuned every note on a piano to “E”, and played them all at once? Wonder no more: the unbelievably huge sound of The 88E is now playable at any pitch with this free virtual instrument loaded with sound design options, and created in partnership with YouTuber and mad scientist engineer Mattias Krantz.

At checkout they will ask for small donation for bandwidth. Also there's a checkbox to ask if you want to create a Pulse Downloader (or whatever they call it) account. I already had one from another "freebie" instrument. So I didn't check that. I got an email with a serial number, and then put that into the Pulse app and it downloaded the library. However, when I opened it in Kontakt it did not play and said "DEMO." So I ran Native Access, (which the manual refers to and makes no mention of Pulse) and then chose "Add a serial" and used the same serial again and this time it initiated an approx. 3 GB download. So I went to my NI Sample Libraries folder and renamed the previously installed "The 88E" folder while this download is going as I figure it's going to properly install from Native Access. I don't know what this Pulse thing is about, but I'll know in a another minute or two if it's not necessary.

Okay... from what I can tell IGNORE THE PULSE THING. Only use the serial number you get from Impact Soundworks with Native access.

By the way... this thing sounds COOL! Get it!

[James Steele]

https://www.powerdrumkit.com/

Basic free drum VI with just one kit, but also comes with pretty good, utilitarian groove library which can be dragged and dropped and used with other drum VIs if you wish.