u-he's Tyrell N6, Podolski and Triple Cheese have all been recently updated, and are great freebies :)

Great list brother. No shame in having DS on that list. It's a godsend for us folks without full Kontakt and we're all grateful. Nice presentation as always.

What a list! It blows my mind that these are all free (and so many of them are available on Linux too). I wish I could time-travel and take these back to early 2000s me. PS DecentSampler is such a gift to the music making community - thank you, David

Thank you David. You have one of my very few favorite KZfaq channels. Always clear and meaningful. I am relatively new to digital music but I hope, with mostly your inspiration, to create an instrument for your Decent Sampler.

I'm just glad Vital is getting recognition 😌 it's so so so extremely powerful and Matt did the unthinkable and made it free!

Surge is also a free high quality synth worth mentioning and it's available for macOS, Windows and Linux

Great list and it is amazing what you can get for free. As synths go, I really like Surge synth as well. Komplete Start is also worth having, though only a tiny sample of what you get with Komplete

I just want to say thank you for alll the sounds and the brilliant synth software !

Helm was IMMENSELY useful to me thru college. I was going to mention that Zebralette reminded me a lot of Vital but you dutifully put Vital in your list too! Great vid!

Dave, fantastic overview of free synth plugins, and thank you so much for mentioning BPB!

I love the free PG8X synth! It's a great Roland style subtractive synth with a great random feature. Thanks for the video David.

Thanks so much David! Wishing you all the best!

I've watched about 10 of your videos nonstop... there's something therapeutic about them. Keep it up! :)

This is such a good video. Great way to show off the synths by making a song throughout

Thank you for sharing this valuable information with us David. Much appreciated.

So much great information in this video - thanks David!

Oh, you create Decent Sampler, what a great job! I don't have complete Kontakt, just the player, so thank you very much for this amazing solution!

Your YT channel was highly recommended by another producer, Venue Theory, so I watched this video- without realising you were the one who created Decent Sampler! Thanks so much for this, I wouldn't have been able to use so many things without it :D

0:27 Windows has built-in Screen Capture. Push the Windows button + G, then click "yes" when you get asked if it's a game. Click on the Start Recording button (or Win + Alt + R) to begin capturing video. Oh, and personally, I think FM is very easy to program. Much easier than traditional analog synths. My very favorite free synth is Majken Chimera. It must be at least fifteen years old now, but if feels like modern music sensibilities have only really caught up to it in the past few years. It's a completely original kind of synthesizer, or at least i don't of any other VST that does this, but it's a common way of working with test equipment: all the sounds coming from Chimera are based on white noise filtered into notes using resonant bandpass filters. The "Q" of those filters decide how gnarly it sounds, and there are further modulation and delay options. The one other product that I thought sounded somewhat similar was Spitfire Audio's Contemporary Drama Toolkit, specifically the ambient patches. Edit: OMG, Synth1! Does that still work on modern computers?

Woow I see plugins and with both a great video and the man behind Decent sampler which is my first try of sampling since..ever...

Vital, Surge, and anything by u-he or Full Bucket (great retro synths) are all no-brainers, as is OB-xd for that Oberheim sound.

Damn Beautiful piece here you've done.

I'm now getting that riff going round and round in my mind!

I just downloaded the DS Sampler. I like it when good plugins are free, not so much about not to spend money, but to support good looking plugins and their developers.

Love your videos man. Nice reviews

Definitely need to add Odin II, Tyrell N6, and PG-8X to your list. Oh, and VCVRack if you want to play around with the modular concept without having to buy a pile of modules :)

Decent Sampler is a wonderful free sampler !!!

Great video !

Valhalla DSP, Audio Damage, SynthMaster - all have great value priced tools

Thanks, David. Fab video. 👌

Hey thanks alot Really nice institution of decent sampler God bless

Thank you David.

Great to find this video - and thanks for Decent Sampler as I don't have full Kontakt! Subscribed and will be looking forward to future videos - a tutorial on DS would be good if you haven't already done one :-)

Thanks for this video , i would definitely add Odin ll by thewavewarden to this list 😊🙏🏻

Hi David! Nice video, thanks for sharing! Crystal by Green Oak would be another honorable mention, i think. All the best, Ralf.

+1 for Surge, and a warm recommendation for Full Bucket Music Synths. Any of them, especially Fury 800 and the FB-3xxx ones. And of course DiscoDSP OB-Xd.

Perfect video

Charlatan by BlauKraut. Very simple synth, but I love the design and it keeps me focused when all I need is a classic subtractive sound.

I would probably remove Helm and add Surge to the list instead. Extremely powerful! And let's not forget about Reaktor Player with Bento Box / Blocks Base!

Another tip for a mailing list: Plugin alliance. They do a lot of good sales and have great plugins

Great list! Here are some more free great synths: FB-3300 Ocean Swift Synthesis

odin is also great and of course vcv rack. i gave you a like, although i had all of these synths installed already! 😉

Thank you!

There are loads of blind music producers like myself who use screen readers to make great music with Logic and reaper and the like. We're desparate to use decent sampler as part of our repertoire of sounds but I've heard you've been unresponsive to offers to help make it accessible. Can you please reconsider as the world of music surely is something we shouldn't be shut out off and making software accessible isn't so difficult these days. Native Instruments and Reaper and others actively do this. Decent Sampler is a step change in music-making for every home producer it's hard not to be allowed to use it. Please put a little time aside to think about this.🤞

Great Vids you explain everthing very well - love the DS plugin a great addition to my stuff Thanks aka TallBoyShort

I have a Yamaha PSS 570 which basically has the same sound chips as the DX7. It's a toy really but really easy to make any classic FM sound with it.

Danke !!

Yoooo surge deserves to be on this list. Still love the video def gonna check out pendulate

What a legend thanks

Also you can use dexed with the amazing Korg volca fm too, it is able to send midi sysex to the device

Hey David. Thanks for your videos. Maybe you already know but give Bespoke a check. Not a synth, not really a daw but I'm sure you'll find it very interesting.

I also like Syntronik by ik Multimedia.. and the Bully that they gave out recently.. sounds straight outta the 70s..

I have all of my old Labs libraries from Kontakt, but I haven't really converted to their sampler because I never could get it working right. I'll get around to it eventually. Nice list though!

I learned a new way to make loops in ableton after watching this

u-he is Urs Heckman a German genius. Sonic State have some eye opening interviews with the mild mannered futurist.

Thank you

I just found this, thanks so much for this great information. My question is how do you find Zebralette, Dexed and Vital in Logic Pro 10.7 once everything is installed? Many thanks! Love Decent Sampler!

Interestingly, i have four of them on my computer. Similar taste!

Make Noise have released a couple of their synths in vst form for free and they are great.

Odin. Anyone out there, try Odin. It sounds great, it looks great. If you get it to work on your computer you may not need another synth. Maybe Surge for some more experimental stuff but if you just want to make something that's not dubstep Odin is great.

Thanks for the insights, but I think I might skip giving spitfire any of my information thanks.

u see that little cog option button on the bottom near the fullscreen button? if u click on that u can chose to slow it down or speed it up. i

I didn't know there was a windows equivalent of a Mac mini. Can you share what it was?

David I am trying to get into programming for music and audio and physical modeling synthesis and just in general synthesis creating my own sample instruments etc and creating my own plugins within Logic Pro X.... my math sucks though what kind of programming should I get into people have said C++ but Looking for a visual way of learning programming I use Logic Pro X so You can see why I am very visual learning also auditory learner as well I was told to Install Xcode from apple store and first learn Swift not C++ and then after Swift then go on to C++ what is You view on this Sir? Thank You for all Your hard work Sir God Bless and Stay Safe out there

French Violin VCO2 orchestra (there's a free version) Synth1

Will “decent sampler” work on a windows 8 laptop? Also can I use MIDI from a keyboard to the computer on decent? I want to learn to make music but have no idea what I’m doing.

playing around with it and never knew certain tNice tutorialngs. I thought you could only use it with a midi keyboard.

do any of these work on the mac? mac versions?

what's the Beelink Mini PC model, cpu, ram, mhz, hd, win ver, that can these vst's ? ...and the daw ?

is there any plugin at all, that actually has animals sounds?

hi :) i installed the plugins but they are not shown in the plug in folder abelton 10 ??

I just bought a Windows Machine for Music Production?

How can i find quality VSTs for classical ethnic instruments from Arabic, Turkish and Mongolian repertoire? Thank you!

Out of curiosity, do you also build Linux releases of DS yourself?

OB-Xd by discoDSP is awesome. LABS is awesome too but it's a buggy mess.

And you completely overlooked Tyrell...

Link for the Windows device?

Hello

3:14

Have you considered giving lessons? If so please contact me. I live an hour from Philly.

You know that Andrew who explains fm is partial death? Read my other comment what is hidden.

How about instead of bonus points for folks who make stuff for M1 Macs, we give Apple negative points for making everything incompatible with their stuff every few years?

Obxd