Top 7 FREE VST Instruments For Synthwave!

[@flickeringscreens]

3 more great free synths are Vital, VK-1 Viking, and Surge. Vital and Surge are just good free synths in general, but Viking is an emulation of the Moog Voyager, and it sounds great

[@frankgeppert7698]

I too love Surge and Vital and checked a lot more, but these 2 cover all your needs.

[@AutPen38]

I think the Viking is actually an emulation of the Moog Voyager, the 2002 remake of the original Minimoog. Those things cost over two grand twenty years ago, so it's amazing that the VK-1 is free. It even comes with a special Synthwave bank of 50 presets on top of the standard 100+ it was launched with. No Synthwave producer should go without it, imo.

[@flickeringscreens]

@@AutPen38 Yeah, I got that wrong. I looked at the website again a few days before you made this comment, and realized it was the voyager and not the minimoog

[@maplefoxx6285]

You are a legend for going thru all these and finding the best sounds that blend together. I know how long that can take. Thank you soooo much

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

That’s so encouraging! I’m glad it was helpful! Are there other Synthwave tutorials you’d like to see me make?

[@aishikchakraborty6816]

@@OrpheusAudioAcademy Yes please :')

[@bluedev1495]

TAL has amazing VSTs...the U-NO-62LX is my go to. Great vids man, keep em coming!

[@JaundNeinable]

Thank you so much! Exactly what I need and the links are working!! thanks

[@analogdriver8635]

Soo really nice list dude! There is also another free VST Synth and this is PG-8X, a very close emulation of the Roland Jx-8p and it has very synthwave sound!

[@sergeyalexandrov9026]

Thanks for sharing, bro!

[@angery_lettuce]

sheesh. u had me at TAL-noisemaker

[@_mickmccarthy]

Great list, I keep forgetting about Synth1. There's also TAL's U-NO 62 which is a free basic version of their paid U-NO-LX, which is well worth checking out.

[@LilShawtyWood]

was searching for 80s synth sounds and found them!

[@nikos4828]

best video i'v seen over free synth.

[@aaronjboysreleasing2001]

Awesome synthwave!! And that would be mashup with horror to synthwave!! Like John Carpenter, and others!!

[@CarrionSmile]

Great video, but I can't believe you didn't mention Vital! Such an amazing synth as well. 👌

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

That is a good synth! I don't think I was aware of it at the time I made this video though.

[@andreishmulevich446]

Great video man!

[@letnkdesboisphotographicac778]

Cool use of my analog dreams synth1 bank. Your "pan attack" preset use is amazing 😊

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

No way, that’s your pack? So cool! I had forgotten where I had found that pack. I’d love to include a link to it in the description of the video.

[@letnkdesboisphotographicac778]

@@OrpheusAudioAcademy it must be stored on kvr somewhere... this pack us more than 10 years old !

[@FFSharp-fq4hw]

great stuff, great work! subscribed.

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Awesome, thank you! I'm working on a part 2 to this video right now actually.

[@hertzcules]

There's a synth called Vital, very similar to Serum, if you master this I think this is all you need.

[@frankgeppert7698]

I am using Vital and Surge and both cover everything imaginable. Vital is more intuitive and has more visual feedback but I managed to create more realistic instruments in Surge. So both have their places.

[@TenshoBeats]

THANK YOUUUUUUU BROOO. This is the only video with true data 🔥🔥

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Welcome 👍 Any other video topics you'd like to see me make?

[@Ma66ot_Official]

This video is VERY USEFUL... true data !!

[@TheSebastianHansson]

Thank you so much for this! It was REALLLLY helpful!! :D

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

You’re very welcome! So glad it was helpful!

[@AutPen38]

The Fury sounds nice, but its GUI is a direct translation of the one from the original Korg synth. That's great for people that had the hardware version with all its buttons, but not ideal for those of us that grew up with a mouse attached to our hands.

[@magmakeys]

Great Video !!! I just stumbled over this and i have to say, software has come a good way. CPU power gets more every year and makes things and emulations much better and better. Even Guitar VSTs get really good actually and can have great sounding guitar as well, that was not the case some years ago.... Me producing this music as well with hardware till last year, i also use software already. And the free tools are a great start and sometimes have very great sounds that go into productions on every electronic genre today. Don´t get afraid of not having "pro equip and expensive software" no matter what you use, if you can make it sound great, that´s in the end what counts. Getting it to sound great in general is like it was in the 80s, all about mastering the mix and dynamics with tools and stuff that was not even designed for things, the guys did with it. I heard even Joe Satriani did record his last record with software and not over is beloved Guitar-Amp Setup all the way. can this be? yea this is possible today even such purist musicians use.... the power of mits and bytes today alllll the way :D.

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Excellent observations. And you're right. My mentor owns his own commercial recording studio, and has been working as an audio engineer and mixer since the late 70s. He doesn't even use amps anymore. It's much better to just record clean, and then you can change the tone later with all the different guitar emulations that exist now. But if you record an amp, then you're locked into that one tone, and you can't really adjust it.

[@guitarheroIX]

I really loved the blade runner brass pad. is that a preset that comes with the obdx plugin?

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Yes it is!

[@thanos879]

I was vibing to the music. Good job on those. Edit: You should enter the cyberpunk 2077 music contest they just launched. Because I wanna hear your stuff in the game.

[@lloydmckay3241]

What DAW are you using . Looks too cool.

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Logic Pro X

[@zenica12]

Any other recommendation for free beat maker?

[@iamamoronic]

Already had all of these. But nice information. And the new GUI for noise maker doesn't fit on my screen so I have to use the old one.

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

I’ll have to make another video with more obscure sounds. But these are definitely my favorites. Are there any other free ones that you recommend for Synthwave?

[@iamamoronic]

@@OrpheusAudioAcademy ODSay. Fantastic Arpeggiator.

[@iamamoronic]

@@OrpheusAudioAcademy And the FB3100

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

@@iamamoronic cool! I’ll have to check those out!

[@simpson6700]

What's the best way to get synthy percussion? Making individual tracks for each drum doesn't feel right.

[@argniests5357]

Is there a legal place to purchase midi files, to help get going in a direction of playing with synthwave music on computers, and synths like volca's, korgs, etc

[@lorenzodefilippo]

There is a huge amount of presets for Synth1, in which banks are the presets you named in the video present?

[@rydromusic]

I'm getting OB Xd, what's the one you recommend to have the most? Lot of them are good but I don't wanna install too many VSts so I'm asking for your top 3 from those in the video

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Definitely OB Xd. Then probably Zebralette and Tyrell.

[@misfit1-3]

3:30 that sounded so good did u release this beat?

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Thanks! And not yet, but I plan to this year.

[@misfit1-3]

did you release it yet?@@OrpheusAudioAcademy

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

2023 was probably one of the most difficult years of my life, so sadly, it's not out yet, but I have finished the arrangement and recorded vocals for it, so I just need to mix it. Aiming for release this February or March.

[@misfit1-3]

@@OrpheusAudioAcademy I had those moments as well so i understand. I cant wait to hear it tho !

[@ianclarke6084]

Love the Zebralette part, you should make this a full track it’s full of emotion

[@JamToast89]

hey man! Im looking to star making synthwave music, and i downloaded OB-XD. I cannot find the presets.

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Have you tried right clicking on the plugin and selecting banks?

[@ripjaws577]

I can't get Tyrell to work, when I load it up theres no sound on any preset. Nothing even registering that I'm play MIDI.

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Huh, I’ll have to look into that.

[@Athousandson1]

how do you get the free drums? The link just takes me to a site asking me to pay for stuff.

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Really? The link sends me to a page where you just enter your email. Try this link: www.orpheusaudioacademy.com/starterpack

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Which of these free synthwave virtual synths do you like the best?

[@kambennett2487]

That OB-XD sounds pretty nice!

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

@@kambennett2487 I know, right? It has tons of awesome sounds. It's probably my favorite one of these 7.

[@andreicardosokenne9254]

I love Synth1 and also OB-XD too, is great! Nice video bro big ups from 🇧🇷

[@8HeartNCM]

Tnx for sharing but "vst directory cannot be used" sad reality.

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Not exactly sure what you mean, but I think just about all of these come in other formats, like AU, which is what I use.

[@8HeartNCM]

@@OrpheusAudioAcademy i mean i can not install it on windows "vst directory cannot be used" error is popping up.

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

@@8HeartNCM Must be something wrong with file structure or something on your end. You should be able to run vsts on a Windows computer.

[@8HeartNCM]

@@OrpheusAudioAcademy probably not optimised for my hardware.

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

@@8HeartNCM That could be. That's one of the downsides of free plugins. They're not always updated.

[@spunkadellic]

I don’t know why you are complaining about the poly800 interface. It it literally the same as the original. Same as dexed

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

It’s the fact the display doesn’t update when the controls are adjusted like the other synths. But to each their own.

[@karmaindustrie]

mono?

[@Chalisque]

There are quite a number of FullBucket synths. I had a quick (1hr) play with them and came up with kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXLHeWanh9WGhsk -- PECS is the lead synth, MonoFury's default preset doing the bass, misc synthwave drums and perc, and a could of other FullBucket synths whose names I can't remember right now (I'm on a different machine than my music PC, so can't easily look them up).

[@LegendaryForwards]

hey mate I kinda feel in love with the melody u used to show the TAL-Noisemaker, I'd like to ask if you could provide it for us please, I'd appreciate that kind act, one love :)

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Sure! I’ll see if I can turn that into a full song and release it asap

[@LegendaryForwards]

@@OrpheusAudioAcademy tysm! I appreciate that

[@LegendaryForwards]

@@OrpheusAudioAcademy ah and btw I use fl studio so I cannot open ableton files :c

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

@@LegendaryForwards Me either, as I use Logic Pro X

[@LegendaryForwards]

@@OrpheusAudioAcademy oh i thought u were using ableton pardon me but again I appreciate what you're doing I'm loving it!! Keep doing this man

[@deltaxvlol100]

THESE BEATS ARE TOO UPBEAT.LETS GET SOME DARKWAVE 😈

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

Is this darker? kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWezo52NpqiYqM0

[@zayne-space]

OB-Xd is not free

[@OrpheusAudioAcademy]

I was when I made the video. Sorry. ☹️ I’ll be putting out a part 2 to this video soon though with more great free synths for Synthwave!