If you're looking for some FREE realistic instruments to make music with,
I pulled together 5 of the best ones I could find.
[Example of how a note will sound on each instrument]
There are examples of what each one sounds like too, so stick around.
[Best Free Orchestral VSTs 2018] [Realistic Instrument Plugins]
Hey everyone, Jake from Transverse Audio here.
There are SO MANY free instruments out there, it can make it really hard to find ones
that are worth your time.
Stick around until the end of the video, the last one is going to really surprise you.
As always, download links are in the description.
As far as acoustic guitars go, AGM Lite II is a really high-quality plugin for being free.
I was kind of surprised it wasn't a paid instrument with its professional Interface
and an abundance of options to play with.
[Example of how AGM Lite II sounds]
Another feature packed into this is the strummer, which you can activate using this note here
and turn it off by using the lower velocities on the same note.
[AGM Lite II strummer example]
or by going to the strummer option and pressing
play there, after you've selected the pattern or have made your own.
You can also play the score from the tab using this key here,
[Guitar Tab example]
or by going to the tab optionand pressing play here.
[Guitar Tab example]
KEYZONE Classic is a versatile piano plugin,
especially when you throw some subtle reverb on it.
With 5 different pianos included, you can use this plugin in many situations.
[KEYZONE Piano Example]
This plugin also comes with the ability to control different parameters, as well as the
note velocity on the keyboard itself.
[KEYZONE Piano Example]
DSK Overture includes 4 slots to load up different instruments and instrument groups (as combos).
These can all be routed to different MIDI channels and in the piano roll,
you'll need to set what channel each note triggers.
This plugin is, however, very CPU intensive, so you'll probably only be able to use one,
maybe two instances of this plugin per project.
[DSK Overture Example]
To get around this, I recommend bouncing the MIDI tracks you use with this to WAV
or other audio file formats and simply remove the plugin once all of the tracks are bounced.
[DSK Overture Example]
Now, with DSK ChoirZ is pretty good, and you'll probably find a more realistic choir out there
if you put some money into it.
But, it's one of the only plugins I could find
that has a good sounding choir that doesn't cost money.
[DSK ChoirZ plugin example]
This is the grand finale, the moment you've all been waiting for.
This behemoth contains an array of different orchestral sounds
ranging from strings and brass to percussion and piano.
Many of these allow for different articulation too.
If you go into this plugin with attention to detail, you can really get some good results out of it.
[VSCO2 Orchestral Plugin Example]
Now, these are definitely not all of the free realistic instrument plugins out there.
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