Comments on: Free Vintage Synthesizer Emulation VST Plugins By Kevin Brown

By: Pat Cotillo Jr.

Pat Cotillo Jr. — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:26:57 +0000

I know I am late to this post but… If you haven’t checked out Kevin Brown plugins, I believe you are truly missing out. He made so many interesting synths with various characteristics! At first I was a bit thrown off by the lack of presets, but after playing around a bit I really started to appreciate them more for it. It forced me to learn more about the building blocks and signal flow of each of the synths they were inspired by. I have so much fun just creating patches that I actually get lost in time! I also find that I am using them more and more in my songs. Yes, many are 32bit, but with jBridge they work great in my DAW of choice (Cakewalk/Sonar)!!!!

The following is a list of my personal favorites. Naturally I haven’t tried them all…. yet!
MatrixSix1
Juan, Oh Juan
Voyette
Osciet
Cronus
VQ-800
Tyro
JP-680
PG-238
OBie 2V
SH3p
Polly
SH-75
Tonus 2813
Luge

I just released some music that features quite a few presets from these synths.
https://patcotillojr.com/the-sounds
Anyone interested in presets, just let me know.

AGAIN…. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

By: Esol

Esol — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:01:54 +0000

In reply to Kevin Brown. Thanks Kevin. :)

By: Kevin Brown

Kevin Brown — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 07:32:28 +0000

Hi all –

Please use this link for the Bundle: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g6m0z81ie05fjhf/AAArjiB6LAxI7vT7waLUwt3ja?dl=0

The plugins in the original folder didn’t have their parameters given unique names, so were not compatible with DAW automation, plus a low max number on the hidden internal Preset Manager. Both these caused some buggy behaviour and problems with preset saving/loading. The folder linked above has only the plugins that have had these issues addressed and quite a few have been done already. It will be added to as more of them get done.

Thanks,
K Brown

By: Wasyl

Wasyl — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:17:54 +0000

In reply to MAriusz. Jupiter 8 emulation has some horrible internal clipping.

By: MAriusz

MAriusz — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:18:44 +0000

definitely not wotrh to download and try – it has nice GUI but sound completly kaput. sorry

By: Bryan Lake

Bryan Lake — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:31:34 +0000

In reply to Bannazkit. I used them in FL. Not sure what they might be doing in Ableton. Very possible they were tested within FL Studio. Just a guess. But Flowstone is built into FL, so...

By: Esol

Esol — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:24:26 +0000

Wow. This is excellent. Looks awesome. :)

By: Bannazkit

Bannazkit — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 23:19:28 +0000

In reply to Bryan Lake. I tried them out in ableton 32-bit - which ones did you try out? I tried all of the fake u-he synths and the korgs also. All of them were maxing out the cpu-meter.

By: Bryan Lake

Bryan Lake — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:49:13 +0000

In reply to Bannazkit. I didn't have that problem, but I didn't demo every single one of them. However, the ones I did were pretty CPU friendly. You running them in a 32-bit environment? Some buggy plugins don't bridge very well.

By: Bannazkit

Bannazkit — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:15:13 +0000

Hmm.. So far all of the vst’s i tried out have been tanking my cpu heavily.. Without hte sound being worth tbh.