looking for the best FREE VSTi's for MAC

[Mudchild]

Hi folks

I'm looking to get some school kids into Reaper, but to make the most of it, I'm going to need some free (or at least extremely cheap) virtual instruments. Can anyone make any good recommendations?

They don't need to be top quality, but of course it would be preferable if they weren't bottom quality either...

Should ideally cover the following bases:

Drums - rock, pop and hip-hop
Piano
some bass options
synths
a few orchestral sounds

Any advice appreciated...

[bob]

Originally Posted by Mudchild

Hi folks

I'm looking to get some school kids into Reaper, but to make the most of it, I'm going to need some free (or at least extremely cheap) virtual instruments. Can anyone make any good recommendations?

They don't need to be top quality, but of course it would be preferable if they weren't bottom quality either...

Should ideally cover the following bases:

Drums - rock, pop and hip-hop
Piano
some bass options
synths
a few orchestral sounds

Any advice appreciated...

http://www.vstcafe.com/2009/04/fuzzp...meal-vsti.html
oatmeal fuzz

with oatmeal you´ll have to download the banks,,not too sure where to find them.some are here. http://www.kvraudio.com/product/oatm...pilz/downloads
found them.here are all the banks(sounds)http://djtbmx.stdrand.com/DLs/Fuzzpi...n-One_Pack.rar

have fun, enough to keep you going for a year.
and
this,free and very good.

http://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/

[Steve Folta]

Originally Posted by bob

and
this,free and very good.

http://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/

And to play that (and other SFZs), you can use this: https://github.com/stevefolta/SFZero/downloads.

Here's a site with links to lots of good free stuff. Unfortunately, some of it is Windows-only: http://bedroomproducersblog.com/free-vst-plugins/.

And if that doesn't take up enough of your time, there's this: http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=563.

[DeathByGuitar]

Piano One for piano sounds. It uses a mix of physical modeling and sampling.

Also get all the Native Instruments free Players. Kontakt 5 Player and the included Factory Selection has an amazing funk bass that I use on all my songs. Sounds slightly fake, but when it's buried under other instruments you can't tell and it fits in nicely.

[squibble94]

Can't go wrong with the free version of Sampletank! http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products...-2-xl-versions

A very good free drum plugin is Drumcore 3 Free. http://www.sonomawireworks.com/drumc.../#DrumCoreFREE

[Mudchild]

thanks guys, will check those out!

[EvilDragon]

Synth1. TAL effects and synths.

[Banned]

u-he's Tyrell Nexus 6 is also a very nice free synth plugin, simple yet powerful. A bunch of decent presets included as well. I'd say it makes a good choice to teach/learn some basics of subtractive synthesis, and/or to just play around without any adult supervision.

[Viente]

Originally Posted by Banned

u-he's Tyrell Nexus 6 is also a very nice free synth plugin, simple yet powerful. A bunch of decent presets included as well. I'd say it makes a good choice to teach/learn some basics of subtractive synthesis, and/or to just play around without any adult supervision.

There is V2 available as well
http://www.amazona.de/index.php?page...rticle_id=3978