Room Piano is a light piano plugin for musicians who want to add a lo-fi touch to their tracks. The instrument comes with a series of on-board lo-fi and modulation effects to help you shape your own rustic piano sound. The plugin is based on a Kawai Upright acoustic piano recording.
Features:
1 lightweight piano sound (less than 20 MB on Windows).
Amplitude ADSR.
Vinyl and tape effects.
Multi-LFO.
Highpass/Lowpass filter.
Room reverb.
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS El Capitan and up
25.4 MB of HD space
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi/VST3 or AUi Host
CZ-Tronics is the perfect plugin for 80s music production. It features a collection of 36 multi-sampled phase distortion sounds that fit perfectly well in synthwave and synthpop tracks. An authentic hardware synthesizer from the era has been sampled.
Features for the plugin version:
Multi-LFO
Room reverb
Highpass/Lowpass filter
Amplitude range controls
Preamp/Glide/Legato
3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato
Features for the Kontakt 5 version:
Amp and Lowpass Filter ADSR
Chorus/Reverb
Sync Delay
Requirements for the VST/VST3/AU plugin version:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS El Capitan and up
519 MB of HD space
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi/VST3/AUi Host
For the Kontakt Edition:
macOS 10.9 or later
Windows 7 or later
788 MB of HD space
The full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 and up
Not compatible with the free Kontakt Player
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
The SampleScience RX-21 HD sample pack is a free high definition sample collection of the Yamaha RX-21 drum machine sounds. The RX-21 is a mid-eighties entry-level drum machine featuring one drum kit that can also be found on other Yamaha drum machine models (among them, the Yamaha RX-11 which has been used by Aphex Twin on his latest album and also on his previous double album Drukqs).
Included in the pack are the clean recordings of the RX-21 drum sounds in 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit 44.1kHz Wav file format. As a bonus, we also added tube processed samples with 4 round robins and a cool 80s reverb version of the RX-21 drum kit.
Features:
16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit Wav files
Clean, Tube and 80s Reverb Drum Kits
27 different sounds
Requirements:
22.3 MB of HD space
Software that reads 24-bit WAV files
606 Koncept is a plugin based on a famous analog drum machine from the eighties. Each sound has been meticulously sampled and mapped according to the General MIDI convention. Vinyl, tape, and sub sound layers can be triggered on their own to add texture and depth to your drum sequences. Each drum sound can be pitched up or down using a unique summing pitch mixer.
Features:
The original 606 Drum Kit
Vinyl, tape-hiss, and sub sound generators
Multi-pitch sum mixers for each drum sound
Multi-LFO
Room reverb
Highpass/Lowpass filter
Amplitude range controls
3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS El Capitan and up
9.05 MB of HD space
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi/VST3/AUi Host
Suntron is Hexagon Sky's little lo-fi brother. Mainly focused on glide effect and ambient pads and atmospheres, Suntron can be used to produce retro-oriented genres such as chillwave, retrowave, ambient, lo-fi hip-hop, downtempo, and beats to study to. The plugin instrument features 60 ready-made sounds.
Features:
60 lo-fi sounds
Multi-LFO
Room reverb
Highpass/Lowpass filter
Amplitude range controls
3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS El Capitan and up
231 MB of HD space
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi/VST3/AUi Host
Famirom is a sample-based NES sound emulator that uses a bank of 60 waveforms to recreate the sound of this legendary game system and its 2A03 sound processor. The instrument allows you to easily recreate any NES tones using a simple but intuitive user interface.
The waveforms used by the plugin were sampled from two vintage Famirom game systems bought many years ago. Their sounds were meticulously sampled and edited to be as close as possible to the real thing. Unlike other emulations, Famirom is based on recordings from an original NES hardware sound chip.
Features:
60 Waveforms
Multi-LFO
Glide and Reverb effects
Full amp range controls
Highpass/Lowpass filter
Amplitude range controls
3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS El Capitan and up
36.4 MB of HD space
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi/VST3/AUi Host
Pianotone 600 is a plugin based on the analog piano sound of a 1970s electronic keyboard, the Jen Pianotone 600. VOX also did their own version of the Pianotone 600.
The original instrument doesn't have touch sensitivity, and because of this, Pianotone 600 comes with two modes: original and amplitude velocity.
Screenshot of the plugin version:
Decent Sampler version:
The Decent Sampler version features the same sounds as the plugin version but has different effects and sound-shaping capabilities. Decent Sampler is a free sampler VST/VST3/AAX/AU/AUv3 and is compatible with Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS. There's also a standalone version.
Kontakt version:
The Kontakt version has amplitude and filter ADSRs as well as reverb. The Kontakt 5/6 version requires the full version of Kontakt 5/6 and up. It must be the latest updated version.
The Samplescience community created many great tracks made with Pianotone 600.
The latest version of Kontakt 5 or Kontakt 6 and up
It must be the full version, it won't work in the free Kontakt Player
122 MB of HD space
*except Android
808 Lab lets you play with the sound of the TR-808 as a chromatic instrument. Each tonal sound of the 808 has been tuned to perfection so you can play your favorite 808 sounds in key with your track using your piano roll! You can easily create 808 basslines with it.
Unlike the original machine, you have full control of each drum sound: easily shape and modify their tonal quality with the easy-to-use interface. Just select the sound you want, shape it and you're set!
The 808 has been used by famous musicians like Jean-Michel Jarre, Aphex Twin, BT, The Prodigy, Marvin Gaye, LL Cool J, Ice Cube, and the Beastie Boys.
Features:
All the 16 original sounds of the 808
Tonal shaper
Amp floor and ceiling controls
Saturation
Reverb (for some of the sounds)
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS El Capitan and up
12.4 MB of HD space
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi/VST3/AUi Host
VaporDrums is a virtual instrument plugin meticulously crafted for vaporwave and 80s music production enthusiasts. Boasting 25 drum kits infused with the essence of vaporwave, this plugin brings the iconic sound of 80s drum machines to life through VHS and audio cassette recordings.
VaporDrums is your go-to plugin for crafting compelling drum tracks for genres such as vaporwave, chillwave, synthwave, and other 80s-inspired styles.
Unleash your creativity and let the retro vibes of "VaporDrums" transport your productions back in time!
Features:
25 vaporwave drum kits
118 MB
10 MIDI drum loops
179 samples included as WAV files (24-bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Multi-LFO
Reverb
Highpass/Lowpass filter
Amplitude range controls
3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS El Capitan and up
182 MB of HD space
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi/VST3/AUi Host
In the Vaporwaves Trilogy Bundle, you get 3 VST/VST3/AU plugin instruments for vaporwave/chillwave music production. Buying them all together gives you a 30% discount on the standard prices (63$ instead of 90$).
Vaporwaves 3 is the follow-up to the highly successful Vaporwaves 2. The plugin features new sounds recorded on VHS and audio cassettes. This time, the focus is on old-school sound modules and 80s synthesizers: deep bass, 80s movie hits, dusty pads, fuzzy synths, 80s mallets, and more!
Features:
52 sounds recorded on VHS/cassettes
Multi-LFO
Room reverb
Preamp
Highpass/Lowpass filter
Amplitude range controls
3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS El Capitan and up
1.66 GB of HD space
Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi/VST3/AUi Host
Cassette Roads is the beautiful sound of an electric piano recorded on cassette. It's the perfect plugin to create lofi beats to study to, or even better, lofi vaporwave lullabies.
Features:
A multi-sampled electric piano sound
Multi-LFO
Distortion, Delay, Chorus, Reverb
Highpass/Lowpass filter
Amplitude range controls
3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato
Kontakt Edition:
The Kontakt version of Cassette Roads features the same sounds as the plugin version and requires the full version of Kontakt 5/6. It's not compatible with the free Kontakt Player.
Requirements for the plugin version:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS El Capitan and up
65.8 MB of HD space
Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi/AUi Host
Requirements for the Kontakt 5/6 version:
The latest version of Kontakt 5 or Kontakt 6 and up
It must be the full version, it won't work in the free Kontakt Player