We all know that VST stands for: Virtual Studio Technology.

Production are real-life producers making creative plugins to help you achieve studio quality processing quickly and easily. Multiband Transient Shaper; 3 Frequency bands with adjustable crossover and gain; Over 20 Creative Presets for bass, drums, vocals, mastering and FX; Click free bypass control per-instance and per-band.

• Format VST, AU, AAX. It’s an amp simulator that’s been around for a while, but the latest version takes it to new creative levels. We say: “With over 300 pieces of gear modelled in the MAX version of AmpliTube, this has to be one of the most creative amp sims around.” iZotope VocalSynth. Price £199 Type Vocal effect Format VST, AU, AAX.
• Soundtoys Decapitator is the best VST plugin to recreate the feeling of analog gear. Decapitator features five different saturation models and works perfectly at both low and high settings. It can give tracks warmth, make specific elements more pronounced, thin things out, and much more.
• The best VST plugins 2020: the finest synth, drum machine, sampler and effect plugins you can buy right now By Ronan Macdonald ( Computer Music, Future Music ) 19 June 2020 It’s the ultimate plugin shopping list.
• The Best Free Filter VST Plugins in 2020 (+ Download Links) 1. TAL-Filter 2 (Windows/Mac) TAL have been one of my favourite audio software companies for years now, primarily due to their unbelievably high quality FREE plugins.
• Nov 16, 2020 The FilterShaper 3 by Cableguys is an extremely flexible filter VST plugin that can be used to effectively shape your sound the way you want. In order to allow you as much freedom as possible, the FilterShaper features multiple controls: you can use two filters, up to 60 LFOs, and 50 envelope followers in order to change your sound.
• Jul 10, 2020 Soundtoys Decapitator is the best VST plugin to recreate the feeling of analog gear. Decapitator features five different saturation models and works perfectly at both low and high settings. It can give tracks warmth, make specific elements more pronounced, thin things out, and much more.

But when it comes to these plugins, it stands for Very Strange Things.

Creativity can be found in bizarre places. And these VSTs are no exception.

Put them in your best DAW. Who knows? Maybe they’re the secret ingredient you’ve been searching for…

Here’s the 8 freakiest VSTs around. Best omnishpere vst plugin packs.

U-He Triple Cheese

It ain’t easy being cheesy. Or is it?

Either way U-he makes cheesy infinitely fun with this ridiculous comb-filter synth. Comb-filter sounds are created through a series of short delays.

The result is some seriously mind-bending sounds spanning from flighty flutes to ambient washes. Happy cheesing.

The result is some seriously mind-bending sounds spanning from flighty flutes to ambient washes.

Download it here for free.

Ohm Force Symptohm PE

This synth is absurd as in absurdly cool.

Any instrument that has a preset called ‘Dirty Maurice’ instantly caught our attention. And it didn’t disappoint when we started playing with it.

Highly recommended if you wanna start messing around with the sounds of Planetary Motion, Evil Bass, or Dirty Paula.

Download it here for free.

LiveCut by MDSP SMART ELECTRONIX

LiveCut by MDSP Smart Electronix can seriously freak a loop out. It’s a beat chopper, but it runs on some less-than-normal logic.

Throw a loop in to smash, chop, squish, mangle and roll it until it’s unrecognizable. Then do it again.

Download it here for free.

Tytel Helm

This VST isn’t that strange… yet.

Helm is a synth VST. But you can run it anywhere, change the source code and generally modify the crap out of it.

So the strangeness is in your hands. How freaky can you make it?

Throw a loop in to smash, chop, squish, mangle and roll it until it’s unrecognizable. Then do it again.

Download it here for free.

Alan Vista

We had to put Alan Vista Plugins on this list. But we couldn’t decide on just one. So we picked all of them.

From Orchestral Cymbals, to Chinese Gongs, to Woodblocks, Vista has all your tripped out percussion needs covered.

Download all of them here for free.

Darwin Arts Trilobite 1.4

What would happen if two synth patches had a baby together? Well now you can find out with Trilobite 1.4.

Trilobite lets you seriously mess with sound synthesis. You can even apply the basic laws of Darwin evolution to grow your synth patches over time.

It’s a bit tough to figure out at first. But the bizarre factor is off the charts once you get into it. Time to start fiddling.

Download it here for free.

What would happen if two synth patches had a baby together?

Wavosaur VST Speak

Searching for the best vocal VST? Well the Wavosaur VST Speak might not be the best, but it’s certainly the most interesting.

This spell-and-speak plugin reads back anything you type into it. All in a tweakable voice capable of some pretty strange sounds.

So put it in your DAW and say hello to VST Speak. Then make it say hello back.

What will you make it say on your next track?

Download the Mac version here for free.

Download the Windows version here for free.

Harsh Digital Nose

If a shape could make a sound, what would it sound like? If blue was a noise, would it be harsh or mellow?

Tweak the sound of a purple square, or pitch-down the sound of a green triangle—it’s up to you with this strange but fun plugin.

Now you can find out with Harsh Digital Nose. Draw shapes, lines, or pictures right inside this plugin to see what they sound like.

Tweak the sound of a purple square, or pitch-down the sound of a green triangle—it’s up to you with this strange but fun plugin.

Download it here for free.

Thinking outside the box, inside the Box

Creating with VSTs inside the box is insanely fun. When things get weird they usually get inspiring too.

So try these weirdo free VST plugins for some happy noodling.

Top 10 Weirdest VST Plugins 2019

Each family as well as each group of friends has that one weird guy doing some rather ubiquitous things which are straight up weird and that’s the case with plugin developers. We all have that one plugin that we load up when we’re in need of something extraordinary or simply crazy. What does it take to be on our list of weird plugins? We either judge the straight-up weirdness of the GUI or the sound shaping capabilities. Let’s just simply jump into the craziness, here is our top 10 list of weird VST plugins in no particular order.

1 Glitch 2 by Illformed

This is technically a step sequencer but what’s unique about it is the fact that it doesn’t trigger sampled sounds. Instead it triggers FX. This is a Swiss army knife for slicing, dicing, screwing, twisting, turning and mangling your sounds. There’s a whole bunch of FXs here such as randomizer, modulator, tape stop, retrigger, reverser, stretcher, LoFi, distortion, gater and delay.

Since Glitch features a multi-lane editor, you can trigger and tweak these effects in real-time. The Mutate function is our favourite because it really randomizes each effect into something completely unexpected. Weirdly enough you can get some really inspiring and awesome results. For 50 EUR you’re getting a lot of fun here.

2 Frohmage by Ohmforce

The name itself sounds cheesy! But aside from the name the UI itself is all cheesy and weird looking. If you disregard all of this you’re getting a really decent resonant filter. It’s designed to be dirty, warm and can add some serious colour to your signal. Frohmage features a low-pass filter, multiple band-pass filter and a distortion stage and it can really transform your tracks.

The EVOLVE knob uses multiple pitch-shifting delays for each band of the multi band-pass filters and it creates some out-of-this-world effects. You can even map your MIDI controls to this plugin to control all of the effects in real-time like on a synth. If you’re feeling cheesy, this one’s for you and it’s a freebie by the way.

3 The Orb by Audiothing

This is a formant filter which simulates the characteristics of the human voice. Featuring a set of three band pass filters, The Orb can transform any sound into a vowel-like formant-filtered sound. With the three LFOs you can modulate the Vowel, the Emphasis/Resonance of the formants and the Drift which can shift up or down the frequencies of each formant.

You can also create your own set of vowels by changing the name and frequency for each vowel/formant. Oh and it also looks like a control panel of a submarine or something from the cold war era, so it’s cool to look at as well. It’s 50 EUR so give it a go if you please.

4 Ned Flangers by Killapluggies

Even though this is a straight-up simple flanger, they got us with the name here. Just for the name itself you need to take a look at this one. It’s 32-bit Windows only but has some dirty raw sound which many modern digital flangers don’t have.

The GUI has four simple knobs for control and features Ned Flanders dressed as the Devil. Have we mentioned it is free? Go get it!

5 Delay Lama by AudioNerdz

This is the first VST instrument which features vocal synthesis with a real-time animated 3D interface. What it does is that it enables you to make a Tibetan monk overtone sounds simply by playing one note due to its monophonic structure.

Use the built-in XY pad to adjust the pitch of the sound and go through the vowels. It features a simple stereo delay to add some depth to the sound. This a ridiculously funny instrument in the best way. It’s free, so you don’t have an excuse for not at least trying it.

6 Meow Synth by Meowizer

Here’s something for all of you cat-lovers out there. The sounds of this synth are actually based on a real cat owned by the developer. It’s a freebie and it’s actually nice for creating some weird sounds. It features a single oscillator which is basically a cat meowing and it has an auto filter.

Strangely enough it’s velocity sensitive and it has monophonic and polyphonic modes. Meowizer also features a built-in chorus and tempo-synced vibrato with controlled attack.

7 Physion by Eventide

It was formerly known as Fission, but the guys from Eventide decided to change it for some reason. This is a structural effect that breaks-up a signal source (or a sound) into its basic components and then processes them individually, only to combine them back together again. It separates the transients and tonal elements in order to individually process them.

It features six transient effects and seven tonal effects and it can really alter the sound in unimaginable ways. You can totally change a drum sound by processing the resonant pitch without affecting the transient pitch and it can adjust the impact of a pick on a guitar string. Physion also features reverb, delay, chorus, phaser and tremolo for adding depth so it’s more than just a transient and tonal shaper. Bearing in mind the price tag of $179, it’s a good thing they offer a time-limited test version.

8 Cannabis Vocoder by Bitsonic

We simply had to feature this one! This one covers everything a weird plugin should have. A weirdly looking interface is absolutely matched by the sound shaping capabilities.

Cannabis vocoder is a funny plugin which can completely change the sound of your vocal track. The mono version is an effect plugin and by using the effect on the vocal track the software automatically tracks the tune of the vocal track and calculates the pitch of the changed sound as well. The poly version is a VST instrument application so you can load the vocal track into the software and by playing your midi keyboard you can create a polyphonic vocoder effect. Real cannabis is often not free and it will get you into a lot of trouble with the authorities, but this plugin version won’t. 🙂

9 Backsmack by Freakshow Industries

Okay, so this one REALLY wins on all fronts! It looks like it’s out of this world and sounds like it too. This is how Freakshow Industries describe it:

“A chaotic reverser plugin built to make mom proud. Backsmack uses government approved paradox processing technologies to expose the hidden terrors of music. Uncover the plots of ghosts, aliens and other rogue entities with Freakshow Industries Backsmack”.

This is how we describe it: ABSOLUTELY MENTAL. In the best possible way. This one is our favourite of the bunch. For 20 bucks it’s a no-brainer too.

10 Triple Cheese by U-He

This one is similar to a lot of synth plugins out there but it goes through a lot of short chromatic delays in order to create some rather strange sounds. With a massive set of features in its interface and a giant host of presets, this comb synthesizer should keep you busy for a few hours… or weeks. Depending on your synth addictiveness, it’s a cheesy synth to say the least.

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