effect
Processes an incoming audio signal. The complement of an instrument, which generates one.
4K EQ— Luna Co. Audio
Professional 4-band parametric EQ with Brown/Black modes, analog saturation modeling, and real-time spectrum analyzer. SSL 4000 console EQ emulation with HPF/LPF, M/S processing, and 2x/4x oversampling.
Absorbiere— Florian Mrugalla
Autogain Sidechain Ringmod
ADSR— Florian Mrugalla
A plugin that transforms MIDI input into an ADSR modulator audio output, usable as a modulation source for other plugins.
ADT— Christopher Arndt
Automatic double tracking plugin (not only) for vocals
Aether— Dougal Stewart
An algorithmic reverb plugin, a port of Cloudseed with separate early and late reflection sections.
Airwindows— Chris Johnson
Huge collection of effects using simple UI controls.
Alt Denoiser— Altinus
Real-time AI noise suppression VST3 plugin powered by DeepFilterNet, embedding the DeepFilterNet3 model with no external downloads required.
Altar— iamlamprey
Modular DSP with guitar amplifier models, cab IRs, NAM (A1/A2) support, overdrive pedals, delay, reverb, chorus, ringmod, cab designer, realtime pitch shifting, tuner, recorder, and more.
AmbiRR2— Olivier Doaré
Room reverb that places up to 16 mono sources in a virtual room, capturing the result as a 3rd-order ambisonic stream or a stereo pair of virtual microphones.
ampli-Fe— Anton Lazarev
Amplifier effect which allows the volume to be changed from 0% to 200%.
AnalogChannel— Filippo Terenzi
Fully featured VST3 channel strip plugin designed for fast, musical and characterful mixing results
Audio Restoration VST— flarkAUDIO
Audio restoration VST3/Standalone - Click removal, noise reduction, filters & EQ
BassPreamp— Guillermo Moñino Cánovas
Bass preamp plugin blending ideas from multiple bass preamp effects — noise gate, MarkBass-inspired character/VPF control, and tone shaping
Bifractalizer— Andrew Kotov
An audio plugin that fractalizes and defractalizes sound 😺
Biztortion— Gabriel Bizzo
Modular distortion plugin for VST-based hosts. DOWNLOAD it for FREE in the Releases section.
Borato 224— Filipe Borato
A Lexicon 224 emulation VST developed in JUCE, modeling the original 12-bit/20kHz fixed-point DSP architecture, Schroeder-Moorer filter topologies, and time-varying modulation.
Breakdowner— Juan Sebastian Ospina
Distortion plugin with a pedal-style UI
Bus Channel Strip— Francis Secada
Professional 6-module bus channel strip VST3/CLAP plugin — API5500 EQ, ButterComp2, Pultec EQ, Dynamic EQ, Transformer & Punch. Built with NIH-Plug + vizia in Rust.
BYOD— Chowdhury DSP
Build-your-own guitar distortion!
Castello— lucianoiam
A small CLAP/VST2/VST3 reverb plugin based on Csound reverbsc
cFlanger— Cal Goheen
Flanger effect plugin
Chordant— Danny Ayers
Euclidean transport-synced capture/mix effect for rhythmic chord-like layering.
CHOW— Chowdhury DSP
Digital ditortion effect designed for maximum truculence, somewhere between a true half-wave rectifier and a noisy vintage compressor. Useful for mixing guitars, drums, even vocals when a heavily degraded sound is desire
CHOW Matrix— Chowdhury DSP
Delay effect, made up of an infinitely growable tree of delay lines, each with individual controls for feedback, panning, distortion, and more.
Chow Tape Model— Chowdhury DSP
Chow Tape Model is a digital emulation of a reel-to-reel analog tape machine. The original algorithm was developed to emulate the Sony TC-260, but has since been expanded to be able to model a wide variety of tape machin
ChowCentaur— Chowdhury DSP
A digital emulation of the Klon Centaur guitar overdrive pedal, using a combination of recurrent neural networks and Wave Digital Filters.
ChowMultiTool— Chowdhury DSP
Multi-Tool Audio Plugin
ChowPhaser— Chowdhury DSP
A phaser effect based loosely on the Schulte Compact Phasing 'A', with separate mono and stereo build variants.
Circulate— Anis Dadou
An open source VST3 phase smearing audio effect based on a bank of 64 allpass filters. With sample accurate parameters / modulation
Classic Reverb RE-04— AnClark Liu
Reversed engineering of Kjaerhus Audio Classic Reverb, with enhancements
Clockwork— Alexander Weichart
🎹 Simple MIDI note repeater plugin (VST3/CLAP).
Cloud Reverb— xunil-cloud
Algorithmic reverb plugin based on CloudSeed
Cloud Seed— Valdemar Erlingsson
Algorithmic Reverb VST Plugin
Cocoa Delay— tesselode
A tasty, cozy delay plugin. Focusing on clean design, easy operation, and a warm, lively sound.
CognitoniBlkFx— Toni Lyttinen
Spectral FX plugin reimplementing the classic DtBlkFx by Darrell Tam — FFT overlap-add processing through a modular "card" system, with per-card frequency masking and harmonic selection
Comprez— AnClark Liu
Simple and fast compressor plugin.
Convulse— Danny Ayers
Experimental stereo convolver whose FIR kernel is regenerated by an internal waveform synth.
cPhaser— Cal Goheen
Phaser effect plugin
Crispy— herzplatinedurchgebrannt
Saturation plugin with odd/even harmonic control, pre-saturation high/low pass filters, oversampling, matched bypass, and auto-gain
Crystal Bowie— IcebreakerAudio
Simple, customizable clipper plugin
cStop— Cal Goheen
Tape stop audio effect plugin with WebView UI
CTAG Dynamic Range Compressor— BillyDM
An audio compressor plugin
Darvaza— Igor Zinken
Darvaza is a multichannel audio gate with a twist : whenever the gate closes on your input signal, you get a perversion of your source spat back at you.
DCOffsetter— Kazuma Narita
DC offset audio plugin
De~Lío— Juan Manuel López G
Tremolo and reverb audio plugin made with JUCE.
DEL2— magnetophon
The delay that you play.
Delax— Ava Wallenfang
A delay audio plugin, currently supporting CLAP
Delay Intervals— Matth-ewe-f
An audio plugin that can create fully customizable delay patterns, with adjustable volume, panning, and interval between repeats
Delirion— Igor Zinken
A multiband Doppler-based chorusing/detune effect
demucs-rs— Nikhil Unni
Native Rust implementation of HTDemucs v4 for music source separation. Splits a song into stems (drums, bass, vocals, other) using GPU-accelerated inference, as a native CLI or a DAW plugin (VST3/CLAP on macOS).
DF JPverb— Christopher Arndt
A lush algorithmic reverb designed to sound great with synthetic sound sources, built with DPF and based on FAUST library demo code
DF Zita Rev1— Christopher Arndt
A feedback-delay-network reverb plugin built with DPF and based on FAUST library demo code
Distortion Designer— Guillermo Moñino Cánovas
A distortion/overdrive design tool for guitar amp emulation, chaining a noise gate, EQ, distortion waveshaping, and compression stages so you can dial in values to reuse in your own distortion modules.
DISTROAR— Melinte Florin
Heavy, gritty VST3 distortion plugin for electric guitar.
dm-BigMuff— Dave Mollen
Distortion plugin
dm-DS1— Dave Mollen
Distortion plugin
dm-Fuzz— Dave Mollen
Fuzz plugin
dm-GrainDelay— Dave Mollen
A granular delay effect, written in Rust and compilable to LV2 or MOD Audio plugin formats.
dm-LFO— Dave Mollen
Low frequency oscillator modulation plugin
dm-Octaver— Dave Mollen
A harsh octave down plugin
dm-Rat— Dave Mollen
Distortion plugin
dm-Repeat— Dave Mollen
Multi-tap delay plugin
dm-Reverb— Dave Mollen
Reverb plugin
dm-Reverse— Dave Mollen
A mono reverse delay effect, written in Rust and compilable to LV2 or MOD Audio plugin formats.
dm-SD1— Dave Mollen
Overdrive plugin
dm-Seq— Dave Mollen
MIDI sequencer plugin
dm-Shredmaster— Dave Mollen
Distortion plugin
dm-SpaceEcho— Dave Mollen
Delay and reverb plugin
dm-Stutter— Dave Mollen
Stuttering delay plugin
dm-TimeWarp— Dave Mollen
Granular delay, looper & sampler plugin with time stretch capabilities
dm-TubeScreamer— Dave Mollen
Overdrive plugin
dm-Vibrato— Dave Mollen
Vibrato plugin
dm-Whammy— Dave Mollen
Pitchshift plugin
DPCM Bitcrusher— potatoTeto
A JUCE Bitcrush VST emulating NES 2A03 DPCM sound
DPF Plugins— Filipe Coelho
Collection of DPF-based plugin effects.
Dragonfly Reverb— Michael Willis
Dragonfly Reverb is a bundle of free audio effect plugins for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
Drops— Clearly Broken
Drops is a single audio file sample player. Load an audio file, play it, loop it, pitch shift it, and make it into something entirely new.
Dust Saturator— Andy Ma
Dust Saturator adds upper harmonics and a sandy, granular texture to a sound by time-shifting each sample forward based on its amplitude, without clamping the signal's peaks.
DyERS— Thiago Henrique Gomes Lobato
DyERS is a dependency-free JUCE/C++ spectral-based Dynamic Equalizer/Resonance Suppressor
E-Mix— Danny Ayers
Euclidean bar-block mixer with transport-synced gating and fades.
Entropictron— Quamplex
Entropictron is a free software context synthesizer and audio effect.
Equalize It— Egor Smirnov
12-band parametric EQ
Erode— Interspectral6
An audio effect inspired by Ableton's Erosion.
ESP-L1— Lluís Estapé
ESP-L1 is a time-domain brick-wall limiter with linked-stereo peak detection, a dual real-time oscilloscope/spectrum analyzer, and VU + gain-reduction metering.
EuDelay— Danny Ayers
Euclidean rhythm-based delay with tempo-synced taps.
FaceMelter— Rudro085
This is a distortion pedal vst plugin for guitar.
Fire— Jerry Yifeng
Multiband distortion plugin.
Flutterbird— tesselode
Add pitch and volume fluctuation to incoming audio. Create wow/flutter effects as well as more chaotic, extreme modulation.
FogPad— Igor Zinken
A VST reverb effect in which the reflections can be frozen, filtered, pitch shifted and ultimately disintegrated.
Folder— sout_Nantang
A strange distortion VST plugin
Formant Filter— mogesystem
Formant filter controlling vowel character by vocal tract length and formant map, with a breathiness control
Funky Moose Rootflow Synth— Uwe Arthur Felchle
Organic synth with bio-sequencing, reactive visuals, and ambient modulation for evolving textures, pulses, and plant-like motion
Fuzz Ball— Fake Industries
A fuzzy audio distortion plugin
Gamelanizer— Luke M Craig
A real-time audio effect plugin inspired by the processes of traditional Indonesian Gamelan music. Accompanying material for the DAFx19 paper.
Glade Desk— Ardura
Custom Console Idea.
GlitchNexus— OTODESK
Granular glitch multi-effect plugin with a cross-modulation engine and a 16-step sequencer for controlled destruction
Glorious— Christian Abbott
A stereo chorus plugin made with JUCE
GnomeDistort 2— CROWBAIT
A brutal, destructive multi-band distortion plugin — not intended for soft saturation.
Guitar Strum Sequencer— Allen SC Wu
A 16-step MIDI FX plugin that turns held chords into realistic, string-by-string guitar strumming patterns using a chord voicing engine.
Guitar Vocoder— Duncan
Vocoder plugin that combines a voice and guitar input, for Logic Pro, Pro Tools, REAPER, and other AU/VST3/AAX hosts
GuitarD— TobiasKozel
Node based multi effects audio processor
GuitPreamp— Guillermo Moñino Cánovas
Guitar preamp plugin blending ideas from multiple preamp effects — noise gate, tone-shaping character/emphasis EQ, tube-emulated drive, and a compressor
Haas Effect— tetra-fox
Stereo widening plugin using the Haas effect — per-channel delay, smoothing, polarity inversion, crossfeed, feedback, and a built-in limiter
Hammer und Meißel— Florian Mrugalla
A keytracked polyphonic modal filter effect
HarmonicExciter— Hermann
Based on a half-wave clipper, adds harmonics to the source signal by mixing them in.
Helm— Matt Tytel
Polyphonic semi-modular synthesizer with a flexible modulation system.
High Shelf Filter— James Morris
VCF plugins by Matthias Nagorni ported to the LV2 specification
High Shelf Filter CV— James Morris
VCF plugins by Matthias Nagorni ported to the LV2 specification
Homecorrupter— Igor Zinken
VST plugin that reduces sampling rate, bit depth and playback speed on-the-fly
HTek Distortion— kiztam
Piecewise, memoryless soft-knee hard clipper with a monotonic quartic transition between the linear and saturated regions, plus optional bias and DC compensation
Hyperclip— Albert Shefner
Distortion/clipper plugin
IEM Plugin Suite— Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics
Collection of ambisonic plug-ins including Compressors, Delays, Reverb, Encoders, Decoders and Visualizers.
im_disperser— sout_Nantang
Disperser plugin that spreads frequencies apart over time using an allpass filter chain
InstaWidth— Ariel Hartung
Open-source M/S stereo width plugin with 3-band control, monomaker, side tilt, side de-esser, and switchable min/linear phase.
JCBCompressor— cjitter
Plugin compresor de audio hecho con gen~, Plugin Export y JUCE
JCBDistortion— cjitter
Plugin distorsionador hecho con gen~, Plugin Export y JUCE
JCBExpander— cjitter
Plugin expansor de audio hecho con gen~, Plugin Export y JUCE
JCBMaximizer— cjitter
Plugin limitador/maximizador hecho con gen~, Plugin Export y JUCE
JCBTransient— cjitter
Plugin de diseño de transitorios hecho con gen~, Plugin Export y JUCE
JS Inflator— Aris Kiriki-Liszt
JS Inflator is a copy of Sonnox Inflator.
Kapitonov Plugins Pack— Oleg Kapitonov
A collection of LV2 guitar sound processing plugins, including a tube amp emulator with preamp/tonestack/power-amp/cabinet stages, distortion, and fuzz.
Kapitonov Plugins Pack (KPP)— olegkapitonov
Set of guitar sound processing plugins (VST3). Includes tubeAmp (advanced tube amp emulator with profiles), Bluedream, Distruction, Fuzz, Deadgate, Octaver, and Single2Humbucker. Great for guitar tones.
Kiln— Martin Morrell
A multiband linear-phase crossover plugin with per-band compression, limiting, and saturation, summed back together with no phase smearing.
Krunch— Matthijs Hollemans
Lowpass filter + saturation audio effect plug-in
lamb— magnetophon
A lookahead compressor/limiter that's soft as a lamb.
LameVST— Artur Iunusov
MP3 as a VST effect, ideal for previewing your track in mp3-mode during playback
LayerEngine— samplaman
Quad-layer granular synthesizer for sound design and atmospheric textures, with per-layer position/pitch/density jitter, filters, spatialization, modulation and a global FX suite (chorus, delay, phaser, limiter).
Le Phonk— Speechrezz
A distortion plugin with a built-in "Le Ottz" OTT-style multiband compression mode, time and multiplier controls, and automatic update checking.
Low Shelf Filter— James Morris
VCF plugins by Matthias Nagorni ported to the LV2 specification
Low Shelf Filter CV— James Morris
VCF plugins by Matthias Nagorni ported to the LV2 specification
LSP Plugins— Vladimir Sadovnikov
A collection of open-source audio effects, synthesizers, and tools designed for music and sound production, primarily on the GNU/Linux platform.
Macro Oscillator— Reece Mitchell
Compact synthesizer built around the Mutable Instruments Braids macro oscillator engine, with multi-stage MSEG modulation
maetning— soerenbnoergaard
A saturation plugin with multiple selectable saturation algorithms, available as VST2 and LV2.
Maim— Arden Butterfield
Circuit bends MP3 and Opus encoders in real time to create distortion and digital glitches.
Manta— Florian Mrugalla
A resonator effect using parallel bandpass filters, plus a comb filter and ring modulator, with a waveform-generating formula parser and a tuning editor for exploring xenharmonic scales.
MDA Ambience— djshaji
Amp Rack is a Guitar / Voice Audio Effects Processor for Android. Amp Rack is an Open Source LADSPA Plugins Host for Android. More than 150 high quality audio plugins are available which can be added in any order to the
MDA Bandisto— djshaji
This plug is like MultiBand but uses 3 bands of clipping instead of compression. This is unlikely to be a plug you use every day, but when you want to recreate the sound of torn bass-bins you know where to come!
MDA De-ess— djshaji
Reduce excessive sibilants (/s/ /t/ /sh/ etc.) in vocals and speech.
MDA Degrade— djshaji
Amp Rack is a Guitar / Voice Audio Effects Processor for Android. Amp Rack is an Open Source LADSPA Plugins Host for Android. More than 150 high quality audio plugins are available which can be added in any order to the
MDA Dither— djshaji
When a waveform is rounded to the nearest 16 (or whatever)-bit value this causes distortion. Dither allows you to exchange this rough sounding signal-dependant distortion for a smooth background hiss.
MDA DubDelay— djshaji
Amp Rack is a Guitar / Voice Audio Effects Processor for Android. Amp Rack is an Open Source LADSPA Plugins Host for Android. More than 150 high quality audio plugins are available which can be added in any order to the
MDA Dynamics— djshaji
Amp Rack is a Guitar / Voice Audio Effects Processor for Android. Amp Rack is an Open Source LADSPA Plugins Host for Android. More than 150 high quality audio plugins are available which can be added in any order to the