30 Best VST Plugins You Can Download in 2024

The demand for VST plugins has risen along with new technological breakthroughs, which have given these in-demand products a look of being unattainable just a few years ago.

While 2020 might be considered the worst year since World War II, there is a bright side in that the blossoming music production ecosystem is present. Now, the average music producer has a fantastic amount of great VST Plugins at their disposal. When one has a wide range of choices, it may not be easy to choose the appropriate ones. 

Without further ado, Let’s diving into the 30 Best VST Plugins You Can Download in 2024

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Antares Auto-Tune Pro

If you have issues with getting your voice in tune or if you love the T-Pain sound, then Antares Auto-Tune Pro is an excellent autotune plugin for you.

Additionally, with Antares Auto-Tune Pro, you can dive into even more parameters with a few clicks. To modify the autotune, you can set a key, select a range, and choose whether or not to accept specific notes on a scale.

Besides, you can fix the pitch and timing if the automatic autotune needs further tuning by manually adjusting each of your words’ notes in Graph Mode.
Antares Auto-Tune Pro is One of the finest and most professional autotune plug-ins available on the market.

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Celemony Melodyne

Moving on, Melodyne is another excellent option if you require anything a little more sophisticated than Antares Auto-Tune Pro. Like Antares Auto-Tune Pro, Melodyne is based on a graph model, but unlike Auto-Tune Pro, there is no short-track solution to get you off quickly with only a few knob changes.

Also, Unlike Auto-Tune, it is a clever instrument that automatically senses the pitch, scale, and tuning of your audio. It not only allows you to change the pitch of notes, but it also allows you to shorten or stretch them out and change their velocity. You may also adjust the vibrato, volume, and other timing parameters.

in addition, This VST is an excellent choice if you have a lot of time to customize and manipulate the notes in the plugin and want to get very complex about editing

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MeldaProduction MMultiAnalyzer

MeldaProduction has a lot of excellent software for mixing and editing tracks, and MMultiAnalyzer is, without a doubt, one of the best.

Mainly, It consists of several spectral analysis graphs that allow you to compare different audio tracks in your DAW and search for frequency spectrum collisions and analyze the loudness, width of your instruments in the stereo region, and even pitch.

Also, The Collisions portion of this analyzer plugin is by far the most useful. Furthermore, If you don’t have an EQ with a graph to evaluate the frequencies, MMultiAnalyzer’s Sonogram segment senses each degree of frequency among the tracks you’ve picked in your DAW, and you can look at that when adjusting your EQ to fit your needs.

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MeldaProduction MRhythmizer

Further, MRhythmizer is another excellent method from MeldaProduction.
If you’re familiar with FL Studio, you’ve already heard of the plugin Gross Beat. MRhythmizer is a Gross Beat alternative for those who do not have FL Studio.

Additionally, Gross Beat is a plugin that adds rhythmic effects to your tracks by using a sequencer to manipulate time, volume, and various filters. MRhythmizer is identical to Gross Beat and has even more possibilities.

Not to mention, MRhythmizer has 36 sequences spread through three sequencers, giving you plenty of choices when it comes to controlling time, volume, and filters. Modulators in the plugin allow you to add record scratching and automate any filter in any way.

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Soundtoys Little AlterBoy

Following is Little AlterBoy by Soundtoys, a monophonic vocal formant and pitch-changing plugin. Additionally, You can alter the tone of a voice, adjust the formant to change the singer’s gender, or even make vocals sound like a robot sang them. Vocals can also be hard-tuned.

Although this plugin is essential, it has many capabilities and is a perfect way to generate new ideas. In addition to pitch and formant controls, Soundtoys also included a Drive knob from their Decapitator plugin to add warm tube saturation to the vocal effect if desired.

Finally, Little AlterBoy is MIDI compatible, so whether you have a MIDI keyboard or controller, you can use it to control the pitch for vocoder or harmony effects once you’ve set up the plugin’s parameters to your liking. Plus, When you use the formant shifting control, the effects you can get sound a lot more realistic than pitch and formant shifter plugins from Waves and other major plugin companies.

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Polyverse Music Wider

Next, is Wider, a free, fantastic little plugin explicitly designed for expanding a track’s stereo field without creating irritating phasing problems. Wider was developed by Polyverse Music and the electronic artist duo Infected Mushroom to address several producers’ problems regarding stereo widening.

Further, This plugin simulates an extended stereo representation of a mono signal. More comprehensive is unusual in that any extended audio signal will still stay in phase with itself, even if converted to a mono signal.

Overall, It’s an incredibly fast plug-in to use when you have to slap it and press and drag the track’s signal left or correctly to narrow or widen. If you like, you can extend a signal extensively,

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Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2

Unless you live under a rock, you have already heard of Omnisphere 2 by Spectrasonics. Notably, It is a powerful synthesizer plugin that is used by many producers today.
To illustrate, Omnisphere has an extensive sound library of over 14,000 sounds sampled from various instruments such as bells, chimes, drums, ethnic instruments, other synthesizers, and more.

Because of its versatility, Omnisphere has been used in award-winning films, hit songs, and best-selling games. Along with the massive sound library, Omnisphere includes 58 FX units, ranging from EQs to Delays and more, that can be combined with each sound to make it sound even better and fit right in your mix.

Omnisphere is a synth allowing you to simultaneously use several sounds and lay them down and edit using the ADSR. You can not only sound layer instruments sounds, but you can also layer sine, square, saw waves, etc.

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Spectrasonics Keyscape

Keyscape is just a standalone library that you may include in the Omnisphere addon if you use Omnisphere. Pianists, in mind, led to the creation of Keyscape.

It took ten years for the library to create a collection of 36 pianos meticulously sampled at various note speeds, each with a unique keyboard.

Not to mention, The LA Custom C7 Grand Piano shows the impractical use of the MK-80 Digital Rhodes Keyboard. A dream come true; although it has a vast library to load, it’s all well worth it. Offering all the pianos accessible is similar to making them free of charge.

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Spectrasonics Trilian

Plugins, as implemented by Spectrasonics, really amazed me. It is accurate—Spectrasonics is the only VST instrument plugin manufacturer to provide an extensive selection of authentic instrument sounds.

Because they start with real instruments, this is why they are known for producing true-to-life recordings.
Enter Trilian by Spectrasonics: 34 GB of acoustic, electronic, and synth bass sounds have been sampled from historical instruments for Spectrasonics.

This effect plugin’s basses can become expressive in real-time and help capture live performances and recordings inside a DAW.
In addition to auto-articulations, such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, and trills, you may use them to create even more authentic-sounding performances.
In addition to just seamlessly transitioning from one note to the next, you may also include ghost notes and string squeaks into your

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FabFilter Pro-Q3

FabFilter has a very simple to use fantastic EQ and provides a revolutionary way to mix your tracks to fit your mix. The Pro-Q 3 from FabFilter has a large, interactive EQ display, with a dynamic EQ, auto gain, EQ match, medium/sideband processing, and a completely customizable spectrum and collision analyzer.

In addition, Pro-Q 3 is very simple to use and helps you to single any band so that if you fail to hear it else, you can identify conflict frequencies in your mix.

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Waves API 550A & 550B

Most producers consider the Waves API 550A and 550B EQ plugins because they are a standard in the business. The main reason these EQs are on here is that they come as a pair. The 550A EQ is a direct descendant of an analog-modeled EQ from the 1960s. Also, The 550B EQ has less versatility than the 550A but is just as wonderful.

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Universal Audio Neve 1073

The Universal Audio Neve 1073 plugin is a channel amplifier with one of the best preamp and EQ circuits. The Neve 1073 is a beloved class A transistor mic and line amp that provides absolute transparency, sheen, and bite to your audio.

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Waves CLA-2

One of Waves’s most popular plugins is the CLA-2A compressor. The CLA-2A is patterned after an old, classic tube compressor known as the LA-2A, characterized by its vintage frequency response.

Because it is based on frequency, the CLA-2A is slightly slower than other compressors, but it is smoother. It is not noted for being loud, and it uses the right amount of compression to help make the music seem smooth without causing it to sound too subdued.

Additionally, you may activate a limiter option if you want to do any delicate limiting, and you can sidechain the mixer channels to the plugin if required.

The CLA-2A is an excellent compressor for bass, guitar, and most notably vocals due to its exceptional voice treatment capabilities. analog sound and to smooth down the peaks, so they don’t seem to pierce

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Waves CLA-76

The studio’s first legends were both versions of the “Blacky” and “Bluey” Class A line level limiting (as fast as 50 microseconds). The CLA-76 has a unique “ALL” control that offers one of the most powerful drums sounds possible due to the original’s potent “All-Ratio-Buttons-In” setting and pre-amp distortion to provide a little style.

Preamp distortion from the compressor helps to make your drums stand out. One more thing: This being said, the CLA-76 is most suited for drums, but it also sounds great on guitars, vocals, and bass. The phrase is both catchy and emulates the sound of an analog recording. For drumming or anything with a percussive beat, I strongly suggest using this VST plugin.

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FabFilter Pro-C 2

FabFilter’s plugin architecture has a trend of being very modular and highly intuitive. The Pro-C 2 is no different. The Pro-C 2 provides eight different forms of compression (clean, classic, Opto, vocal, mastering, bus, punch, and pumping). You also get a lookahead feature to preserve oncoming transients, as well as an oversampling feature.

Auto gain and release are available, so you can let your audio play and focus on Pro-C 2 to keep the audio level stable as you tweak the other knobs and controls to your liking. Ahold feature and a range feature are also used, which is unusual for a compressor plugin. Pro-C 2 also includes sidechaining and mid/side processing to ensure there is enough space in the mix for other instruments and vocals to shine through.

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Waves C6

It is wise to have a multiband compressor on hand if you need stability or solve any problems in your blend. The Waves C6 is a 6-band multiband compressor that evolved from Waves’ C4, an award-winning 4-band multiband compressor.

The C6, known as a powerhouse, can dynamically form mixes by expanding, limiting, and compressing. The C6 can also be used to tame plosives and de-ess with surgical precision.

Each band has an internal and external sidechain along with the six bands (4 crossovers and two floatings) that you have complete power over. And it’s advantageous when you need to monitor low frequencies such as drums but don’t want to detract from the bass guitar in your mix.

It would be best to listen to each band separately to hear what the compressor is doing to your audio. The C6 is unquestionably a weapon worth having in your arsenal.

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Waves Renaissance Reverb

Many producers consider the Waves Renaissance Reverb plugin to be their first reverb option. It offers dense reverbs with tons of texture to fill your blends, as well as a warm sound that emulates many retro reverb sounds.

There are 12 different reverb forms in Renaissance Reverb, including Hall, Room, Chamber, Church, Plate, Reverse, Gated, Non-Linear, EchoVerb, and ResoVerb. Each reverb style has several variations that you can edit and fine-tune to your taste using the controls provided.

You may adjust the sum of pre-delay, the length, size, diffusion, and linear decay, as well as the number of early reflections and the mix of wet and dry signals.

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ValhallaDSP ValhallaPlate

ValhallaPlate by ValhallaDSP is a plate reverb plugin, as the name implies. Plate reverb is helpful for various instruments, including vocals, which is why it’s included as one of the best plugins.

ValhallaPlate simulates steel plate reverbs using 12 different algorithms. There are three different reverb modes (Eternal, Shiny, and Chrome) and reverb presets within those modes.

ValhallaPlate, like every other reverb plugin, has a pre-delay knob, a wet/dry mix knob, a decay knob (with frequency-based decay), and a size knob. Furthermore, ValhallaDSP lets you adjust the width of the reverb, making it wider or narrower in the stereo field.

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Universal Audio Lexicon 224

The Lexicon 224 by Universal Audio is a digital reverb developed in 1978 and digitized into a plugin. The plugin’s interface, like the hardware module of the Lexicon 224, is a tactile slider style. There are eight separate reverbs and one chorus effect, all of which use the same algorithms as the original hardware to give you the same sound you would get if you had access to the hardware.

You will find more things like pitching the reverb shift and changing the input and output gain if you open the plugin. If you would like a natural and transparent reverb without coloring, I highly suggest you try this one.

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Waves H-Delay

Waves’ H-Delay is a hybrid delay plugin that enables you to connect old and more recent music delays. The H-Delay interface is straightforward to use and can customize your delay to accurate parameters and design.

If you’re unsure where to begin, H-Delay has a decent selection of presets to get you started. From there, you can fine-tune the sound using the delay time knob, the feedback knob to adjust how much delay you want to hear, a knob to adjust the modulation depth and rate, one for the analog character, and even some for high and low pass filters.

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Soundtoys EchoBoy

Soundtoys’ EchoBoy is the perfect delay plugin. It is by far the most flexible delay plugin ever created, and it is widely used. EchoBoy is an analog-modeled plugin that channels 30 different vintage analog delay gear emulations.

Many classic echo and delay tones are available, including Echoplex, Space Echo, Memory Man, and DM-2. In addition to these analog alternatives, Soundtoys designed some other gear that goes beyond stompboxes.

Since EchoBoy was designed with musicians in mind, its pacing is dependent on music notes, so you’ll need to know a bit of music notation. However, there are knobs to monitor, among other things, echo time, groove, feel, the different echoes, a high and low cut filter, and saturation.

Along with delay and echo presets, you can also choose between modes such as dual-echo and ping pong delay. You can also make your delay rhythm if you want to. EchoBoy is incredibly flexible, providing you with a plethora of delay gear in one package.

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FabFilter Saturn 2

If you have to widen the thickness of your mix or apply a little extra to the tracks of your instrument, FabFilter’s Saturn plugin is your answer. It offers a warm, clean tone with plenty of colors, harmonics, and no loss of dynamics.

Saturn is mostly a saturation plugin, but it also has a few distortion modes for crushing and clipping the sounds. Saturn’s interface in multiband style (up to 6 bands) enable you to monitor each band’s dynamics, drive, tone, and level. The plugin also includes modulation, which, when used properly, will add a lot of class to your songs.

Saturn has a total of 16 distinct saturation modes (including distortion). You can solo and mute each band in the multiband interface, alter the parameters individually, or use presets or MIDI data. As usual, FabFilter has created a fantastic plugin with a wide range of options.

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Camel Audio CamelCrusher

One of the free plugins on this list is Camel Audio’s CamelCrusher. It is also another plugin for coloring and applying saturation to your mix, but it can also compress or expand it. It has a straightforward user interface and very few knobs, making it extremely simple to use.

The VST plugin includes several basic presets, but you can also start from scratch or use the random generator to get different randomized settings to keep your flow clean.

The plugin’s distortion section allows you to add distortion and excellent saturation, while the filter and compressor sections work to maintain the signal clean and controlled. There are two forms of saturation available in the distortion section: tube and mech. The tube produces a more analog sound, while the mech produces a mechanical sound.

The only drawback to this fantastic plugin is that it was discontinued a few years ago when Apple purchased Camel Audio, but you should still be able to find it online or in Apple’s Logic Pro X DAW.

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Virtual Mix Rack – Slate Digital

This combination of four analog-modeled plug-ins and one software-based emulation plug-in is found in the Slate Digital VMR, which may be used in a 500 series modular style virtual mix rack. The +1 represents the free module Revival, found in VMR. VMR’s Fabrice Gabriel has become the poster boy for algorithm design when it comes to analog modeling.

In addition to this Virtual Console Collection, Virtual Buss Compressors, and Virtual Tape Machines, Fabrice also created algorithms for the widely used Virtual Console Collection, Virtual Buss Compressors, and Virtual Tape Machines that Slate Digital offers. The fact that his initials are on all the VMR modules in the system is not surprising, considering his prior expertise in developing virtual emulations of analog hardware.

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Slate Infinity EQ

Slate Digital’s most sophisticated contemporary equalizer is INFINITY EQ.
It provides zero-latency analog matched curves, lightning-fast intuitive workflow, and a unique filter and M/S mode. And, this is all topped off with presets designed by renowned sound designers like Mike Dean and Oak Felder.

Infinity EQ reduces the number of mouse movements, clicks, and modifier keys used while processing your recordings. The sleek interface allows rapid filtering, slope adjustments, gain adjustments, grouping, M/S, and bypass choices.

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Acon Mastering Suite

Acon Digital Mastering Suite is a collection of five audio mastering plug-ins, all of which are intended to make the audio signal as transparent as possible.
Next, Dynamics: a compressor, expander, or gate that works together
Multiband Dynamics, which enables dynamic processing in up to four distinct bands, expands Dynamics offered in Multiband.

The next feature is a limiter with an intelligent look-ahead that minimizes distortion to a minimum, only limited to the 0 to the 30-millisecond range.
To bring things back to equalization, we have the parametric equalizer (also known as a tone control), which helps tailor the sound. Still, unlike standard equalizers, you can also change all three parameters (frequency, gain, and bandwidth) as well as the filter slope for each band.
And lastly, Dither: a plug-in that has adjustable perceptual noise structuring that constantly bumbles.

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PSP Xenon

Xenon GUI, the graphic user interface for the plugins, includes Xenon, an additional stage of processing for limiters, and an integrated Leveller, along with sophisticated K-System metering and psychoacoustically tuned wordlength reduction. In every step of the signal pipeline, the PSP Xenon uses 64-bit precision processing and supports sample rates up to 192kHz.

In the case of mastering and other critical audio applications, we think you will adopt this plug-in as your “go to” limiter.

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Virtual Buss Compressors

A set of three dynamic processor emulations based on some of the most popular audio industry mix buss compressors have been included in the Virtual Buss Compressors collection. The circuit pathways, such as transformers, tubes, VCA’s, amplifiers, phase distortions, harmonic distortions, and timing, were meticulously duplicated for each compressor to preserve the unique characteristics of each unit. Adding a professional-sounding result to your mixes is as simple as using VBC.

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Spire VSTi

Spire is a polyphonic synthesizer created by Reveal Sound. The unique thing about it is that it has polyphonic synth algorithms, which can play several notes or tones at once. It is different from monophonic synthesizers, which are capable of only playing one note at a time.
Creating a hybrid has never been easier. Four multimode polymorphing oscillators are featured: Classic, Noise, FM, and AM Sync.
If you need to load one oscillator with up to nine unison voices, each voice controls how much the voices are split out in chords and octaves. One voice may be a clone of other kinds of unison, such as hyper saw and supersaw, among other unison types.
This VST plugin includes built-in Fx processing with a spire-shaped phaser, vowel, chorus, flanger, delay, and reverb.

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FabFilter Pro-G

Pro-G, a feature-packed VST/AU/RTAS noise gate/expander, is now included in the “Pro” line of FabFilter mixing plug-ins. Similar to previous Pro-series FabFilter plug-ins, the interface is geared towards providing easy undo/redo, help balloons, preset categorization, and comparing the current and alternative settings.

Also, there is a scrolling graph of the incoming signal level as with Pro-C and Pro-L. The color of the gate varies depending on whether it is open or closed.

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