LINUX PLUGINS THREAD (2022)

1. lsp-plugins

   1 17 881 8.5 Makefile

   Linux Studio Plugins Project

   

   Linux Studio Plugins (LSP), a collection of open source plugins.

2. AppSignal

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   AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.

   

3. fat1.lv2

   2 5 101 3.9 C

   Fons Adriaensen's AT1 -- Autotune LV2 plugin

   

   x42 Auto Tune — my go-to autotune plugin, modelled on Zita's AT1. Very barebones, with tuning/bias/correction/speed controls, you can select which of the 12 chromatic notes to retune to, or you can also sidechain to a MIDI channel to force tuning to a particular note in realtime.

4. vital

   3 22 2,108 0.0 C++

   Spectral warping wavetable synth

   

   Vital/Vitalium by Matt Tytell — a beast of a spectral wavetable synth. 3 oscillators, sampler, 2 filters, 3 env/LFOs, bunch of macro controls, great in-built effects (compressor, distortion, verb, delay, etc.), and so so much more. Hats off to Matt for this, this is an achievement! Vital is free with a "basic" setup of 75 presets/25 wavetables, there are also options for monthly subscription / "plus" / "pro" upgrades for more presets, skins, and other perks. Matt published Vital's source code but isn't accepting pull requests; Vitalium is a community fork of Vital.

5. DelayArchitect

   4 4 112 0.0 C++

   A visual, musical editor for delay effects

   

   Delay Architect — a brilliant delay plugin with with robust, manual controls for things like pan/tuning/resonance/cutoff, as well as the patch save/loading! See also Unfa's video on this plugin.

6. stone-phaser

   5 1 50 4.1 C++

   A classic analog phaser effect, made with DPF and Faust

   

   Stone Phaser (m/s) — personal favourite, simple but effective analog phaser, with a pretty GUI modelled on Small Stone.

7. GxPlugins.lv2

   6 4 235 2.1 Shell

   A set of extra lv2 plugins from the guitarix project.

   

   Guitarix — probably the best virtual guitar amp tools for Linux, it has dozens of individual pedal units for distortion/overdrive/fuzz effects. See also these standalone versions of the pedals.

8. helm

   7 64 2,409 0.0 C++

   Discontinued Helm - a free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation (by mtytel)

   

   Helm by Matt Tytell — another staple synth by Matt Tytell, with 2 oscillators, upto 32 voices, feedback, filter/LFOs/envelopes/arp/gates and much more. Comes with a huge pack of great presets. If Vital is the FOSS replacement for Serum, Helm is the replacement for Massive.

9. Kargo

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10. sfizz

    8 28 524 4.4 C++

    SFZ parser and synth c++ library, providing a JACK standalone client

    

    sfizz — a barebones sampler developed around the SFZ (soundfont) format.

11. drops

    9 5 49 0.0 C++

    Discontinued Drops Really Only Plays Samples

    

    Drops (alpha) — a simple sampler built on sfizz with basic ADSR/filter controls, and pretty GUI. Use with caution, still in Alpha dev!

12. ninjas2

    10 6 158 0.0 C++

    Discontinued Rewrite of Ninjas sample slicer

    

    Ninjas2 — a lovely slicer, allows automatic/manual sample slicing, and automatic mapping of slices to MIDI notes, with basic ADSR controls as well.

13. JuceOPLVSTi

    11 8 32 2.6 C++

    A VST instrument which emulates the Yamaha OPL sound chip used in PC sound cards from the 90s.

    

    JuceOPL — a clean FM/additive synthesizer.

14. x42-plugins

    12 2 146 2.5 Makefile

    collection of LV2 plugins (submodules) for packaging

    

    x42-plugins suite has a very nice 4-band parametric EQ. It has the nice algorithmic property that all parameters (Q width, gain, freq, etc) can be smoothly time automated without introducing any distortion / blips to audio.

15. Cardinal

    13 82 3,164 7.5 C++

    Virtual modular synthesizer plugin

    

    https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal Cardinal is a modular synth / fx plugin. Create your own synth or effect with it (if you know what you're doing and have the time :-D)

16. geonkick

    14 3 283 4.0 C

    Discontinued A free software percussion synthesizer for GNU/Linux

    

    I'd add Geonkick to the drums (it's a drum-synthesizer). Also, I'd add Galactic (from the excellent Airwindows -collection) and Aether to the Reverb-section.

17. SaaSHub

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