Vital - Mat Tytell

Fantastic new spectral morphing wavetable synth with quite a unique character in the sound department and several very interesting features not found elsewhere, such asstereo spreadv on the LFO. There's more than a a dash of Serum and Arturia Pigments in the look and features. The free version has some limitations compared to the paid version, but, hey this is a real steal for being totally free.

Nexus2

One of the most popular  romplers which utilizes samples as the basis for its sound manipulations. Excellent realistic sounds here with lots of expansion banks to choose from. And it looks good too with several different skins! I've used this one and i really like it! It will probably be one of your most used go to synths. Particularly excellent for dance music material.

NEXUS2 is a next generation ROM synthesizer-plugin that delivers a level of sonic quality unsurpassed by even the highest end hardware. Euphoric leads, glowing keys, otherworldly pads... NEXUS2 does it all. NEXUS 2 redefines the term “factory presets” with a massive 6 GB library of more than 1100 pristine, high-resolution sounds that have been painstakingly crafted by sound-design wunderkind Manuel Schleis. These are the sounds - not sound-a-likes - that grace top productions from every corner of the electronic music world. Magnetic, uplifting leads, spine-tingling arpeggios; flooding, glowing, ethereal pads; deep, cone-rattling basses... all here, waiting to light up your productions. And when you’re ready to take your sound in new directions, you won't have to look far: Check out our collection of over 60 NEXUS 2 Expansions - covering every genre you're passionate about - all created by the world’s top sound designers.

Waves - Version 11

Probably the greatest and most comprehensive set of plugins out there!

We are pleased to announce a new version of Waves plugins, Waves V11. Update to V11 to future-proof your sessions, ensure compatibility with the latest DAWs and operating systems (including MacOS 10.15 Catalina), enjoy plugin updates including new versions of the Renaissance plugins, get new plugins added to premium bundles, and more. Release Notes September 10th, 2020 •New release — Driver software is now available for DSPRO StageGrid 1000 (Fw v10.3.51.265 Control Panel v10.0.2.288). •Firmware update for DSPRO StageGrid 4000 (Fw v10.3.51.265 Control Panel v10.0.2.288).: Fixes recovering from 100MBit connection to 1GBit. September 8th, 2020 •New release — Kaleidoscopes: Available as a single plugin as well as in Mercury, Pro Show, and SD7 Pro Show

Valhalla Delay - Valhalla

Probably one of the very best delays out there which is more than just its name suggests.

Echoes of the past, present and future
Valhalla Delay is our take on classic and modern delay and echo units. Tape echo, BBD, old-school digital, pitch shifting – we’ve got you covered. ValhallaDelay offers the classics, and expands them into new dimensions, with the unique Ratio and Quad delay styles, the Ghost mode (which adds frequency shifting), and a powerful diffusion section that can create anything from smeared echoes to ethereal reverbs. Set the controls for the heart of the sun with ValhallaDelay!

Valhalla Delay has ten different delay Modes:
Tape: Modeled after vintage tape echoes, with all the features and quirks that were loved in the old hardware.
HiFi: A higher fidelity tape echo, where the ability to precisely sculpt the sound is in your hands. .
BBD: A dark, low fidelity bucket brigade delay model.
Digital: A cleaner, higher bandwidth delay, with the ability to dial in digital dirt.
Ghost: A Valhalla DSP original! Combines the tape model from the HiFi mode with frequency shifting and a unique diffusion algorithm, for sounds that will split your skull in two.
Pitch: A digital delay with added pitch shifting. Perfect for micro-shifting vocals, adding harmonies to synths, creating vast shimmering soundscapes, or shrieking sounds that forever spiral upwards or downwards.
RevPitch: Reverse pitch shifting! Everything that goes in, comes out reversed.
BBDuck (new in 1.5.2): A brighter BBD model, with brightness that tracks the delay time (shorter delays are brighter, while longer delays are darker), and ducking.
Clarity (new in 1.5.2): A clean “digital” delay, with a program dependent limiter, so you can SLAM the drive gain without getting distortion. Deep and wild modulation waveforms, selected by the Era control. Ducking!
DuckTape (new in 1.5.2): A tape delay with built-in companding noise reduction and ducking.

Five tape Styles, for controlling the number of delay voices:
Single: Same delay length & modulation for left and right channels.
Dual: Independent delay lengths for left and right channels.
Ratio: The right channel is set to a ratio of the left channel, and the feedback of left and right channels is mixed. Perfect for sounds that slowly transition from delay to reverb-esque.
PingPong: A delay that bounces between the left and right channels, with the ability to set the left and right delays independently.
Quad: Models the multi-head tape echoes of the 1960s and 1970s, with up to 4 delay taps on tap.

Cool features:
Delay lengths ranging from 0 msec to 20 seconds. Dial in choruses and flangers, slapback echoes, longer delays, or long Frippertronic loops.
Sync the delay to the beat, with straight/dotted/triplet options. Or, control the length via milliseconds.
Age control, for adjusting the artifacts of the delay mode. Clean and shiny, old and dusty, or anywhere in between.
Powerful Diffusion section, that can be used to smooth out the attacks of delays, or can be an amazingly smooth and lush reverb in its own right. Up to 20 seconds of diffusion time possible!
Era control, for selecting between different variants of the delay modes.
Ducking control (in BBDuck/Clarity/DuckTape modes), for having the echo level track the input signal volume.

Zebra2HZ - UHE

This is the so called 'Dark Zebra' version with a bank of presets from the famous soundtrack composer 'Hans Zimmer' and others. Customized to his own taste with several new features.The new GUI is really nice indeed!

A bank of over 400 presets, a collaboration between Hans Zimmer and Howard Scarr. Practically all Zebra sounds in the The Dark Knight as well as The Dark Knight Rises soundtracks are included, plus several more that didn’t quite fit into the scores. The pack also includes Hans' custom built update from a licensed Zebra2.x to the version you can see in this video, ZebraHZ. Several of the more recent patches make use of the extra features available in ZebraHZ.

Supermassive - Valhalla

A hybrid of a Delay and Reverb in combination which can produce some really uique sounds. It's Valhalla so it's got to be good, and best of all it's entirely FREE!

ValhallaSupermassive is designed to blow your mind and your music to new levels of consciousness and experience! Luscious clouds of reverb, otherworldly delays, swelling waves of feedback unlike any you’ve heard before.

ValhallaSupermassive has been designed from the ground up for MASSIVE delays and reverbs.

Supermassive uses a variety of feedback delay networks, where each delay in the structure can be up to 2 seconds long. Combine these long delays with the unique WARP control, and the results range from echoes that slowly fade in, to cascading harmonic echoes, to lush reverbs, onwards to reverbs that decay way over the course of minutes.


Features:
• Tempo synced delays, up to 2 seconds
• Multiphase delay modulation
• DENSITY control, that allows you to dial in pointillistic echoes, lush reverbs, echo clusters, and all sorts of sounds in between.
• Eight unique delay/reverb MODES, named after celestial objects:
- • Gemini: Fast attack, shorter decay, high echo density.
- • Hydra: Fast-ish attack, shorter decay, low to high echo density (depending on the DENSITY control setting)
- • Centaurus: Medium attack, longer decay, medium to high echo density (depending on the DENSITY control setting)
- • Sagittarius: Slow attack, longer decay, high echo density
- • Great Annihilator: Medium attack, very long decay, medium to high echo density (depending on the DENSITY control setting)
- • Andromeda: Slowest attack, very long decay, very high echo density
- • Lyra: Fast attack, shorter decay, low echo density
- • Capricorn: Fast attack, shorter decay, medium echo density
• Cross-platform preset browser

HY-Poly - HY-Plugins

Superb subtractive styled synth which not only sounds excellent but has a plethora of audio FX and modulation routings. The modulation is as easy as dragging and dropping, much similar to 'Serum'

Another plus is the very intuitive GUI with some very interesting and unique sound design possibilities which you will not find elsewhere! The look and the way in which you add modules will be very familiar to anyone who uses 'Bitwig'. Cool. 


It’s a subtractive type poly phonic synthesizer with midi effects and audio effects.
And many of synth and audio fx parameters can be modulated.
You can create wide variety of synth sound with those midi/audio fx and modulations.

Format:
VST2, VST3(32/64bit) for Windows
VST2 , VST3 and AU(64bit) for macOS

System Requirements:
Win : Windows7 or higher
Mac : OSX 10.9 or higher

Main Features:
3 oscillator modes
Dual multi-mode filters
Drag and drop modulation assignment
24 modulation sources
9 midi effect units
25 audio effect units
Midi learn
Preset browser
Resizable interface

Cloudrum - Ample Music

If  your after a great free Tongue Drum percussive instrument, then Cloudrum is the one!!

Cloudrum is a unique and relaxing Steel Tongue Drum with a range of 3 octaves. It produces wonderful tones, add color and a unique moderation to your music no matter the genre.
System Requirements:

1 GB of free hard disk space.
Windows Vista or newer, Pentium 4 or Athlon processor with 2 GB RAM.
Mac OS X 10.7 or highe, Intel-based Mac with 2 GB RAM.
AU, VST, AAX host application and professional sound card recommended. Stand-alone version included.
AAX Windows version is not available in current version.

Specifications:

Size: 760 MB, 44.1khz
DFD(Direct from disk)
Two mic positions with stereo and mono modes.
Open, Mute, Opened Release, Muted Release 4 articulations

Technology:

CPC (Customized Parameters Control) - any controller can be controlled by MIDI CC or Automation.
Double - different samples at L & R channel.
Each Cycle - Separate sample cycle for each note and velocity layer to improve humanization and sample utilization efficiency.
Cycle * 3 Simulation - When toggled on, sample cycles can reach up to 12 (default is 4), which significantly enhances repetitive notes. No more robotic and machine-like sound.

Soundtoys

If you only have one set of effect plug ins then spundtoys is the way to go. The effect rack can hold multiple devices and you can control them all from one knob. Extremely versatile and going way beyond most with the intuitive tweakability. The Crystallizer and Tremelo  is particularly nice but so are they all really!!

Soundtoys 5 brings together our entire range of audio effects into one powerful collection. Includes all 18 Soundtoys plug-ins.

Saturate, compress and distort with Decapitator, Radiator, and Devil-Loc. Get a virtual history of echo and delay hardware with EchoBoy and PrimalTap. Transform your vocals with Little AlterBoy. Recreate classic studio pitch, chorus and widening effects with Crystallizer and MicroShift. Take modulation to new levels with the beat-synced rhythmic effects of PanMan, Tremolator, FilterFreak, and PhaseMistress.

All of these individual elements are proven, powerful tools, trusted by professional mix engineers, musicians and sound designers everywhere. But combined in the new Soundtoys Effect Rack, they are indeed the ultimate effects collection.

The new Soundtoys Effect Rack is the centerpiece of Soundtoys 5. It turns a tried-and-true collection of powerful individual plug-ins into a virtually unlimited creative multi-effects system.

The Effect Rack makes it simple to build your own custom effect chains and define your signature sound. And when you’ve created the perfect combination of effects, the Rack’s global controls let you treat the whole rack as a single plug-in.

Lock rhythmic effects to a single tempo, or let them run free. Fine tune the input and output levels, and use the global mix control to blend your effect in with the dry signal. Then experiment with the powerful new global Recycle control. By mixing the output of the rack back into the input, you can build your own modulated reverbs, over-the-top delays and other unique ambience effects that would require complicated routing to accomplish in most DAWs.


Work Smarter

The Effect Rack integrates all of the individual Soundtoys effects into a single plug-in, which improves workflow by displaying an entire custom effect processing chain at once. You won’t need to juggle multiple plug-in windows to adjust parameters, add new effects, or change their routing. The Effect Rack keeps everything right at your fingertips.

Choose from our range of carefully-crafted presets to find the perfect jumping-off point. Or quickly design, save and recall combinations of your favorite Soundtoys effects—all in one self-contained plug-in.

Effects that move to your rhythm. With any shape you can imagine.

An LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator) is at the heart of every modulation effect — it’s what gives tremolos, phasers, panners and sweeping filters their characteristic motion.

Our included library of LFO shapes goes far beyond standard modulation effects, giving you curves based on vintage modulation effects, amps and instruments as well as more abstract shapes. You can also draw and sculpt your own totally customized shapes using our Shape Editor. Use it to dream up new LFO shapes, from knife-edged waves to gently ebbing curves.

Our Rhythm Editor is like a rhythmic modulation sequencer. Choose a length (in bars) and the size of the steps you want to edit (sixteenth notes, eighth notes, quarter notes, etc), then start clicking to make a new pattern. You can turn individual steps on and off to create pauses or rests, and adjust the level and length of each step to humanize your pattern and give it some musical variation. You can even choose the number of beats per bar to create some funky syncopation or odd-time-signature grooves. Like our custom shapes, custom patterns are even swappable between plug-ins. And, of course, you can lock everything to the master tempo of the Soundtoys Effect Rack or your favorite DAW for solid, dead-simple synchronization.

XY - Transfer - Rob Papen

Very detailed sound manipulation wth a plethora of Fx. Can be a little overwhelming to start with.

Picture a -Filter Bank- with 36 different Filter types and an XY panel which can also be recorded and played back in several different ways. Yes...that is already very cool, however, picture in your mind that you can also use it in combination with 2 other FX, which also have their own XY pad and this is all then polished off with a flexible Stereo Delay!

Imagine using the Lo-Fi effect combined with a Comb Filter and an analog modeled filter, and this all with each its own XY pad and this all topped off by the Stereo Delay. :o

Indeed, thinking out of the box, this is what the - Rob Papen - brand loves to do and of course, this is the case with XY-Transfer And If you are familiar with the instruments, you know the XY panel for sure. It is a very creative tool for adding dynamic changes to a sound.

Well, now you can use our exciting XY panel in combination with a cool range of effects!
The cool thing about XY-Transfer is that each ‘BLOCK’ which holds one of the FX, also has its own XY field. So very complex effect types are possible which can lead to some unheard and creative effects!

The available Block effects are: - Filter Bank - | - Comb Filter - | - Shaper - | - Room - and - Gater -.
These effects can be combined in these blocks and the - Stereo Delay- can also be placed in different combinations within these 3 blocks.

So, if you are looking for a - Filter Bank ‘ and beyond... XY-Transfer will transfer your audio into something creatively new and unheard.

Quad - Rob Papen

Yet another great sounding synth, (previously rack instrumernt for Reason)  making for a more unique sound with PhaseDistortion and WaveShaping.

QUAD was the first-ever Rack Extension synthesizer built from the ground up for Reason by the Rob Papen team and is now also available as VST/AU/AAX plugin.

The sonic palette is huge, through the vast modulation possibilities that QUAD has to offer. The sound sculpting tools start in each Oscillator and are the Phase Distortion and WaveShaper.
These tools are brought to life by 2 XY-Pads in each Oscillator, which can be moved through an extensive modulation matrix.
QUAD’s Oscillators are complemented by two top-notch analog-modeled Filters, which have different routing options, an arpeggiator, and two high-quality effects processors.

Welcome to the new refreshing synthesizer QUAD – not only available in Reason but available to all!

Quad is delivered with over 750 presets!

Vecto - Rob Papen

Another great synth from Rob Papen which is much more focused on  ambient type sounds. So if your into soundscapes and cinematic type music this would definitely be your bag. Simple but very powerfull!!

 Vecto was originally created for the Propellerhead Reason RE platform, however we have received many requests asking if this great synthesizer also could be available for other platforms. So here it is!
Vecto is a four-oscillator vector synthesizer that allows users to draw in vector paths to shape the sound in many different ways. Included are a large range of oscillator waves, plus sampled waveforms and lots of different modulation options and preset vector paths to help create the unique Vecto sound!
Due to the interesting range of waveforms, from classic analog modelled ones, Additive, Spectrum and high quality sampled waveforms, the sound options are dazzling deep! Two filters are added with 28 Filter types and 2 top notch effect processors finish the audio route with blister. A lot of interesting modulation options and creative features are added in Vecto, including an arpeggiator.

Sub Boom Bass 2 - Rob Papen

Much improved from the previous version with that fully featured 4 section sequencer which is very rarely to be found elsewhere.  Great for those Tangerine Dream vibes.

SubBoomBass 2 is the successor of the legendary SubBoomBass! Its GUI (graphical user interface) has received a makeover for more comfortable control of all features. SubBoomBass 2 still has its analogue modelled waveforms on board, but the sound colour has been expanded with new spectrum waveforms, new creative ‘think out of the box’ high quality samples and introducing Karplus-Strong string synthesis! You will understand that these new features generate fresh and unheard-of sounds! But there is more… An X/Y screen, a new pattern mode for running 4 sequences, and just like in Predator 2 it has the easy to use Bank Manager with star feature, so that you can quickly find and go to your favourite sounds straight away.

BIT - Rob Papen

Another outstanding synth in th Rob Papen arsenal. Just about excellent sounding at anything whether basses or pads with a more modular approach!

B.I.T. stands for Back In Time…

Instead of combining the best of analog modeling with hybrid synthesis, which we can see with the other Rob Papen synthesizers, B.I.T. focuses on Analogue Modelled Synthesis.

Why this move you might think? The idea behind it is that the classic analog type of synthesis has its own charm and simply has not yet been covered by the Rob Papen brand. So, no spectrum waveforms, or samples inside B.I.T. nope, it is pure ‘Analogue Modelled’ synthesis.
Although B.I.T. has no patch cables, it is modular by all means! The Modulation Matrix is used for the patching, however, also included is the smart ‘advanced’ panel below the Oscillators. With these advanced features (accessed by switching the ADV switch), you can quickly make several connections such as LFO and Envelope to the Oscillator parameters inside of B.I.T.

Also included is the option to modulate Oscillator 2 by Oscillator 1 in several ways which expands the sound pallet with Phase Modulation, Frequency Modulation, and Ring Modulation.
A Rob Papen synthesizer would, of course, be incomplete without the arpeggiator (which can also work in sequencer mode), so a fully-featured Arp is available and has an additional free row that you can use to modulate other parts of B.I.T. by using the Modulation Matrix.

Adding the finishing touch on B.I.T. is, of course, the FX section. Some superb sounding FX are added.
Our top-notch Reverb is also included inside B.I.T. which means you won’t have to go outboard for adding reverb.
As previously mentioned B.I.T. stands for ‘Back In Time’ however it can also mean ‘Be Inspired Today’ whilst using our Analogue Modelled Synthesizer.

Icarus 2.0 - Tone 2

Amazing new updated version of icarus ,which already has proved itself to be one of the best out there, yet surprisingly not listed as such on many 'best of' VST  lists. 

With the new addition of a programeable drum machine it now falls into more into the workstation category, much like VPS Avenger and as such is a whole new ball game so to speak. Apart from the drums where one can load ones own samples, they have also incorporated a glitch machine which can do all manner of things to your drums sounds, from repeats,gates,pitch shifts to panning etc. This alone is a great effects feature to have. Also on board are new resynthesis features, including the amazing meolody/phrase resynthesis which takes a melodic sample and places it into the arpeggiator for you to tweak  Speaking of which the redesigned interface, albeit larger, has a much improved display of the  arpeggiator section which is a great improvement over the previously too smaller one.

There's many other new features too, far to many to include here , but the new MSEGS in particular  are great. Great fun too are the one hold patches. which are complete songs with the press of one key! WHAT!!!

All in all a fantastic major update to an already fantastic synth and by the way it won't harm your CPU much either!!