The magic of software virtual instruments ! Recreating known piece of hardware, emulating famous synth, trying to capture the spirit of a machine, attempting to copy the sound and feeling of an instrument!
Available for Windows (32 & 64 bit) & Mac (VST & AU 64 bit) This one is more than a simple sampler for loading & playing audio files! It’s the more complete & full featured free sampler. Tons of modulations & envelope, powerful keyboard mapping It can load wav, aiff ogg, flac + sf2 soundfonts and sfz.
Here’s a compilation of all the articles about free VST plugins that try to emulate the most famous synths, plus links to the freeware plugins that are the only one to recreate a kind of machine (they didn’t get an article). Below is a list of best free VST emulations.
Here you can find free virtual alternatives to the classic analog synths :
MiniMoog, Arp 2600, Arp Odyssey, Synthi VCS3, Obeirheim OB-X
There are also your favorite FM / Vector Synthesis / “digital” synths :
Yamaha DX7, Prophet VS, PPG Wave, Ensoniq SQ80
The usual techno/trance suspects are here too :
Roland TB303, Alpha Juno, Juno 60, JP-8000, Korg Mono / Poly, Clavia Nord Lead 2
We did not forgot the Jazzy/Funky/Rock famous instruments :
Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hammond B3 organ, Farfisa combo organ, Hohner Clavinet, Wurlitzer E-piano, Mellotron & Arp Solina.
And even the antic Theremin + some funky toys : Speak and Spell & Stylophone.
This is work in progress, i’ll add free VSTi plugin if we find some new free recreation of well known synthesizers.
All the VSTi in this list are freeware.
Here we go :
1. Minimoog
2. ARP 2600
3. ARP Odyssey
4. VCS3 Synthi AKS
5. Oberheim OB-X / OB-Xa / OB-8
6. Roland TB 303
7. Roland Alpha Juno
8. Roland JP-8000
9. Roland Juno 60 / Juno 106 / Juno 6
10. Korg Mono / Poly
http://www.fullbucket.de/music/monofury.html
11. Yamaha DX7
12. Prophet VS
13. Ensoniq SQ80
14. Waldorf PPG Wave
15. Rhodes MK2 electric piano
16. Wurlitzer electric piano
17. Hammond B3 tonewheel organ
18. Farfisa electric combo organ
19. Clavinet D6
20. Mellotron
21. ARP Solina string ensemble
22. Theremin
23. Speak and Spell toy
24. Dubreq Stylophone
25. Linndrum LM-1
26. Electronic Dream Plant (EDP) Wasp
Sf2 Vst Free Download
27. Clavia Nord Lead 2
http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/softsynth/ + check my preset banks for Synth1 !
28. Roland JX-8P
Contents- Synthesizer
Free Sf2 Vst
FreePiano can only generate MIDI signals, it needs a synthesizer to render MIDI signals to audio signals.
FreePiano support MIDI, VSTi and SF2 synthsizers
Only VSTi synthsizers outputs wave signal back to freepiano, So if you use a MIDI synthizer, you can not export your song.
FreePiano comes with a tiny VSTi plugin: mdaPiano.
Loading a VSTI plugin.
FreePiano searches VSTi plugins installed on your machine on the folowing locations:
- VST plug-in path in registry and all its subfolders.
- The folder where freepiano.exe is in and all its subfolders.
If FreePiano didn’t find you plug-in, you can load it manually via menu Instrument -> Browse, and you can also drag a dll file to freepiano’s main window.
If your have so much VST plugs that freepiano become very slow to show the instrument menu, you can hide all plugins by uncheck Config -> Options -> GUI -> Show VSTi instruments
To show the UI of current loaded VST plugin, select Instrument -> Show VST GUI.
Use a SF2 sound font
FreePiano load sf2 sound fonts through a plugin, this plugin is included in freepiano distributions. Put your sound fonts under ‘sf2’ subfolder in freepiano install directory, and then select SF2 files using instrument menu.
Select audio output device
When a VSTi plugin is loaded, sound is outputed through FreePiano. you can change output devices in config page Config -> Options -> Audio. FreePiano will try to find a best device by default.
The default buffer is 10ms, it’s the minimal delay in most cases, If your audio doesn’t sounds correct, try to increase the buffer time.
Use ASIO devices
If your sound card support ASIO, you can select ASIO outputs, if not, you can install ASIO4ALL. ASIO provides less lags.
When uses a ASIO output device, output delay in FreePiano configuration is ignored.
Output through MIDI
If you have a synthsizer only supports MIDI input, or you want to use FreePiano as a controller of another application, you can use a virtual MIDI cable. Try MIDI Yoke.