Tapesaturation and warmth is what you want in your crispy lofi hip hop mix. Over 100 presets, offering great settings from ambient delays to analogue chorus. Seemingly simple at first sight, the Echoboy by Soundstoys offers a great variety of options for tweaking the sound and feel of your delay.īeside the normal mix, delay, feedback and time parameters you can go crazy with shuffled delay times, different emulations of hardware delays (like the famous Space Echo) and many more cool parameters. The ONE delay I have on almost all my tracks. You’ll never want to use a different rhodes plugin. You can also start with one of the awesome presets ranging from rhodes, organs, wurlitzer and more experimental sounds. Adjusting the hammer, tremolo, the pickup or the damper is fun. This digital adaption of an electric piano lets you shape the sounds to the max. Lounge Lizard by Applied Acoustics Systems is a powerhorse. My go-to plugin for Rhodes, Wurlitzer and more. With the ‘Keep Gain’ control, you can avoid overall gain changes when boosting or cutting with this EQ, which helps judge your decisions better. More an adaptive than a surgical EQ, it adds the last crips you need on your mix. This digital adaption of a hardware 5 band EQ sounds just awesome. Great for vocals, great for drums – great for everything.
Equipped with a filter, resampling engine and a quantizer, you have full freedom to shape your sound.įrom light and crispy, to totally destroyed – this plugin offers the best of both worlds. In lofi hip hop especially, it’s all about finding the right place between old and new.ĭecimort 2 offers a great spectrum of options for high quality bitcrushing. One of my favourite plugins for bit reduction. Misc.inc shows you 5 of his most essential plugins for lofi hip hop, ranging from synthesizers to bitcrushers. Every VST in this list will work regardless of your operating system, as long as your digital audio workstation supports VST plugins.
Since they're free, you can grab them all, and see how they sound, without opening your wallet. We've assembled the top 15 free VST plugins that can help elevate your music to the next level. When it comes to compressors for that rugged hip hop sound, I’m just gonna give one recommendation for best hip hop VST. Emu Planet Phatt Best Hip-Hop Soundfont SF2 File.
Top Five Plugins are, all with free trials.