10 Best Free VST to produce techno.

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Neos Sound
Date
February 18, 2022

You want to start producing your own songs but you don't want to invest a lot of money?

You are at the right place, the costs related to the purchase of VST being very important, the use of free vst is very useful to start those first tracks and experiment a musical universe.

In this Top 10, you will discover the 10 best free VST to produce Techno in the style of Amelie Lens, Fjaak, Sam paganini, Shlomo,Randomer, Charlotte De Witte and more.

The free VST presented below are still used in current productions and will be perfect for your compositions.

First of all, you need to have a DAW software like Fl studio, ableton, Logic Pro X or reason and to install the VST by clicking on the links indicated.

1.VITAL.

Vital is a wavetable vst with the particularity of using spectral distortion to act on the waveform. It aims to compete with Serum and Pigment 3 which are paying alternatives. The free version of Vital is limited and requires you to invest in preset packs if you are looking for particular sounds that use different wave tables.  

However, you can very well exploit the power of VST with the free content which is excellent. Like any powerful VST, it consumes a lot of CPU so it can slow down your project if you are short on power.

2.Alionoctis.

Alionoctis is a VST developed by HG Fortune's that allows you to create ambient sounds and textures. It's a VST from another world, the built-in presets are excellent and can be modified in an infinite way.

We use it in many projects because we can play on the dimension of our sounds via "Super Modulation" and "Inferno/Spooks".

3.Spitfire Audio LABS.

LABS is a free sound series proposed by the sound design company Spitfire Audio. It is known for having created cinematic VSTs of exceptional quality with the greatest composers in the world such as Hanz Zimmer for example. In this free version you will find mainly cinematic atmospheres and instruments.

We particularly like this VST to make darkest ambiences a bit cinematic in our productions which allows to have different sounds from the current scene.

4.4TUNE.

4 Tune is synth from Noizefield company, It's a VST that aims to recreate the modern sounds of electronic music. It is composed of multi-oscillator allowing to recreate bass and lead as powerful and qualitative as the paid vst.

The great qualities of 4 Tune is the power provided by its 4 oscillators. It has 58 types of waveforms per oscillator. Moreover, like the other VSTs, you can modulate your sound with the different filters offered.

5.U-he Tyrell N6.

TyrellN6 is a synth designed by Urs Heckman for Amazona.de

It has a very large Preset Bank that can be modified according to your desires. This VST of u-he allows you to introduce you to their universe of vst of very great qualities, in particular DIVA, Bazille.

Tyrell allows you to discover this universe for free, with Tyrell N6. It is excellent to begin in electronic music.

6.Rave generator.

Rave generator is a free plugin based on samples but not sampled like the classic samplers. It includes more than 150 sounds influenced by the 90's raves.

We use it a lot for our rave techno projects because it has unique stabs.

7.HELM.

Helm is an excellent polyphonic synthesizer developed by Matt Tytel, perfect for creating your own electronic sounds. With its ergonomic interface you will be able to easily create quality sounds. The interface was really designed to make it easy for producers to connect the different elements together to improve the sound design.

This synth has all the qualities of a paid VST but because of the convictions of its founders, it is one of the best free VST.


8.T-Force Alpha Plus.

T-Force Alpha Plus designed by Mastercode Audio. It's a synth offering mainly Trance music sounds.

It is composed of several oscillators and integrated effects like the Gate to make your melodies rich and powerful. The sounds offered by this synth are often used in many classic Trance and Techno.

9.VK-1 VIKING SYNTHESIZER.

VK-1 Viking Synthesizer is an emulation of the greatest analog synthesizers like the Moog Voyager. It has been developed by Blamsoft's company.

It aims to render the analog sounds of the best VSTs for free. This kind of machine can be worth several thousand euros and this plugin allows us to get familiar with the use of this type of machine for free.

Especially in techno, it is very interesting to use this kind of vst to vary the moods and lead through our productions. To do this, you just have to create automations on the different filters and vary it on the different passages of your track. It is therefore extremely interesting.

10.DEXED.

Dexed is an FM synthesizer modeled on the famous Yamaha DX7. With all these effects and a ton of great presets, you have an instrument with the best sounds of the 80s.

Being a vintage synth it gives you a perfect introduction to mastering the Roland range of synths like the jUno 106 and Jupiter 8.

What you need to remember.

As you have seen in this top, there are many free VST of very high quality. There are of course other possibilities and free VST alternatives that can be included in this top but we have listed the best VSTs to use in a techno register according to our opinion.

I encourage you to download and test as many as you can to practice this plugins.

Once you've studied them properly, you'll be able to switch to a range of paid synths and expand your musical universe.

If you are interested in paid VST, we have listed a top about it in other articles.

If you need more information or have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us!

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