Vst Plugin Sidekick

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SideKick6 by BeatRig is a Virtual Effect Audio Plugin for macOS and Windows. It functions as a VST Plugin, an Audio Units Plugin and a VST 3 Plugin. Plug-in, App & Soundware Format (s). A basic but versatile stereo Compressor / Limiter VST plugin. Sep 29th 2009, 17:37 GMT. A VST plugin meant to easen creating a side-chaining effect.

Vst Plugin Sidekick

Here are a the 3rd party VST plugins that I use in my tracks. You can download them for free:

  • Ambience (alternative download)
    A reverb plugin.
  • BuzComp Free Series (alternative download)
    A collection of free compressor effects, perfect for mastering purposes.
  • cadmium
    A dirty synth from my demoscene group mate wrl/SVatG.
  • CamelCrusher
    With this plugin, you can colour your audio signal on various ways. It offers distortion, EQ and compression.
  • Delay Lama (alternative download)
    A singing monk! A classic among all VSTis.
  • Electri-Q (posihfopit edition) (alternative download)
    Electri-Q is a very advanced, yet handy equalizer.
  • epicVerb (alternative download)
    A truly epic reverb.
  • FREEVERB
    A simple but good reverb.
  • JS (alternative download)
    This collection is quite old. It may cause trouble in your plugin host as all plugins have the same UID and cause playback errors. Don't use it. It's just here so you can listen to my tunes.
  • Kjaerhus Classic Series
    Some really good free plugins.
  • Korg Legacy Collection
    Virtual remakes of some well-known Korg synths and effects. Obviously, these plugins are not free.
  • MB Puncher (alternative download)
    A handy puncher effect.
  • mda (alternative download)
    A very useful and handy plugin collection, also available for Macintosh computers.
  • Microgater (alternative download)
    A straight-forward gate plugin which can be used to emulate sidechain compression.
  • otiumFX Basslane (alternative download)
    This plugin modifies the stereo width below a given frequency
  • Rez 2.0 (alternative download)
    A virtual analog monosynth, with a highly resonant low pass filter
  • sfz
    A soundfont player.
  • SideKick v3
    A plugin for sidechain compression which is also suitable for hosts like OpenMPT that normally can't do sidechaining. A superior version 4 has already been released, but it's shareware. Requires the Visual C++ 2003 Runtime (MSVCR71.DLL), which has to be copied to C:WindowsSystem32 on 32 bit systems or C:WindowsSysWOW64 on 64 bit systems respectively.
  • SQ8L (alternative download)
    A fantastic emulation of the Ensoniq SQ80 synth.
  • String Theory 1.5 (alternative download)
    A physical modeling synth which is capable of emulating plucked strings, atmospheric pads and similar stuff.
  • SupaPhaser (alternative download)
    A nice Phaser plugin.
  • Surge (alternative download)
    A flexible, originally commercial synth now resurfaced as an open-source plugin.
  • Synth1 1.13 (alternative download)
    A classic among the virtual synths.
  • TAL-BassLine (alternative download)
    A nice synth for creating electro bass sounds.
  • TAL-Elek7ro (alternative download)
    A small but good FM synth.
  • TriDirt (alternative download)
    Useful plugin for distorting sounds, there are three frequency bands and each can be distorted differently.

Please keep in mind that not all plugins that I host are necessarily up-to-date. Usually, I provide the version that I personally use.

So you downloaded a module which requires VST plugins? And you don't know how to use them?Here is a small tutorial for OpenMPT:

Step 1: Open a module

Run OpenMPT and open your module or just a new module to avoid the warnings.In the lower third of the 'general' tab, you'll find the plugin settings.Hit the 'Select' button in that part of the window (marked red in the screenshot).

Step 2: Add plugins

You will see a list of plugins that OpenMPT already knows. If you have never used VST plugins before, you will maybe only see the DirectX media effects.
Hit the 'New plugin' button (marked red in the screenshot) and browse to the folder in which you saved your plugins. I recommend a central folder for all your plugins, something like C:Program FilesOpenMPTPlugins.

Speedy method

Actually, this process can be shortened a lot! You can simply drag the plugin files (DLL files) on the OpenMPT window to register them in the tracker.

Vst Plugin Sidekick App

More information about plugins

You may find further information about VST plugins and OpenMPT in the English OpenMPT wiki.

SHERLOCK and WATSON are almost alike, they differ in the size of the GUI, in the number of buttons they use and some other minor features!!!

Best free vst for reaper. WATSON is a VST plugin originally built for CUBASE® and NUENDO®.

It can be loaded into your DAW session like any other virtual instrument, you can save presets and it will automatically load with your session.

The size of WATSON is 1920 x 450 px. and the idea behind is to give the user plenty of buttons but to leave some real estate on a 1920 x 1080 touch screen for a mixer or other plugin windows.

If you need 192 buttons and the whole 1920 x 1080 space occupied you should look into SHERLOCK as it is made exactly for that.

  • Every command available in CUBASE®/NUENDO® is already available in the Menu and with each DAW update new commands are being added soon after the official release
  • Supports CUBASE® ver. 8-10.5 and NUENDO® ver. 7-10
  • Beside the built-in DAW commands there are many special commands added by 14bitMIDI – generic MIDI events, custom Logical Editors, custom Project Logical Editors, 256 empty LEs, PLEs and MACROS to be populated by the user
  • From a list of over 3000 commands with only few clicks/taps you decide what the 192 buttons will do!
  • No need for any coding or scripting – just assign a command to an empty button and save – done!
  • User can tweak the look of a button and even add own PNG files if needed
  • 16 CC faders for controlling Quick Controls or any other parameter reacting to incoming CC data
  • 4 XY-Pads
  • Unique TRACKSLIDER and TIMESLIDER function
  • 18 PAGES with 48 buttons on each PAGE
  • 20 SPOTS and 20 SELECTIONS
  • Dynamic button assignment depending on the selected track
  • Supports multi-touch

We can use this great feature already since version 1.3. In short, user can decide how many buttons and what commands will be displayed every time a particular track (actually a track name to be exact) is selected. This feature has nothing to do with the 18 available Pages and is just something special for all the people that need even more flexibility in their workflow. Please refer to the User Manual (the “Advanced Functions” section) for the step-by-step explanation of the process or check the dedicated video for better understanding of the process.

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Plugin developers can decide which parameters can be automatable and which don’t. Thanks to the Generic Remote feature in Cubase/Nuendo we can use any MIDI equipped keyboard, pedal board, mobile app, tablet etc. to control parameters of a plugin or VST instrument. In case of SHERLOCK we can externally control/trigger:

Vst plugin sidekick download
  • – all 16 CC# sliders
  • – 18 Pages buttons
  • – 20 Spot buttons
  • – 20 Selection buttons
  • – 4 Macro buttons
  • – the XTRA button
  • – all the 48 buttons

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We will make sure that all the functions of SHERLOCK will be explained as short video clips and published on our YouTube channel for all current and future users. We understand that reading PDF manuals is not the coolest thing to do nowadays and a short video might be as helpful as pages of text. Keep an eye on this space, subscribe on YouTube and for now, enjoy the fine selection of Kurzgesagt videos.

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“I hope that 14bitMIDI products will improve your workflow immensely. Working with CUBASE® or NUENDO® will be even more intuitive and productive.” – Karol Obara – 14bitMIDI