Free Jazz Vst Plugins

 

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Jazz is a musical genre appreciated by purists. That means you are going to need the best jazz VST plugins to get the proper sound. Trying to find them will produce frustration. There are hundreds of free and paid plugins to choose from. We’ve narrowed down the choices to a single list of the best jazz VST plugins. Best free VST plugins download (virtual instruments) for Windows and Mac Best sampled instruments VST Gratis.

The saxophone is one of a member of the woodwind family and is usually made of brass. The prices of a real saxophone can be from 2,000 USD to 10,000 USD depending on the shape and sizes, the good news from a music production perspective is that you don’t have to invest in actually buying a real saxophone as there are lots of virtual saxophone instrument which I’ll be recommending you to some of the best free ones shortly.

A saxophone instrument can be used across most genres of music from classical music to Jazz to marching bands, and anything you can think of as long as you are creative. I occasionally use it when making afro beats. Free vst patches. That said, let’s see some of the best free saxophone VST plugins in the music production right now.

Starting with…

1.) DVS Saxophone

DVS sax was the first free virtual saxophone I ever tried and my first impression was the way you could fiddle intuitively with the parameters and create an unimaginable saxophone sounds. The author of this plugin pays careful attention to the way the velocity and the pitch bend effect compliment the current key you are holding onto or playing.

Additionally, DVS saxophone provides built-in reverb effects, an option to change the size of the sax and lastly the level knob. One feature I can’t do without is the auto-vibrato, it’s absolutely amazing, give it a try.

System Requirements:

  • Windows: Windows 7/8/10.
  • VST

2.) DSK Saxophone

This is a free saxophone VST instrument from DSK that provides an option to select a saxophone type such as the Soprano and Tenor. It also features an ADSR envelope control, which describes how the saxophone sound changes over time.

An explanation on how the ADSR(Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release) works:

The Attack controls the time it takes for your sound to go from silent to the loudest levels, Decay time control how long or the time it takes to go from the loudest level to the sustain level, Sustain is the level that the sax maintains when you hold a note, and Release control how long it takes the Sax sound to return the silence after a key is released.

I personally love setting a longer release, that way, it takes some time for the sax sound to fade away, of course, play with the settings yourself.

Additionally, it features a velocity curve selector and an inbuilt reverb fx for simulating the ambiance in a recording room.

System Requirements:

  • Available for Windows and Mac (32 and 64 bits)
  • VST/AU

3.) IOWA Alto Sax

IOWA Sax VST plugins is a sampled alto saxophone from the University of IOWA Electronic Music Studio, it features an ADSR envelope control which controls how the Alto Sax sound change over time. It also features a gain knob, and a pan parameters to control the position.

Download IOWA Alto Sax, experiment and make great music away!

System Requirements:

Available as a free download for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/AAX).

4.) DSK Saxophonez

This is a newish and rebranded version of the original DSK Sax that features 3 Saxophone types such as Soprano, Alto, and Tenor. I really dig the features added in this Sax such as the micro-detuner, high-pass/low-pass filter, 2 fx(reverb & chorus) and so many more.

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Download and enjoy the beauty of the DSK Saxophonez.

System Requirements:

  • Available for Windows only

5.) Naokit 72 Saxi Player

Saxi player is a free saxophone by Naokit and provides 3 types of saxophone sound such as Soprano, Alto & Tenor Sax. Also, it comes with some handy parameters and effects such as Reverb, Attack/Release control, Tangling control, Expression, Vibrato and more.

I would be honest with you, I had some issue getting this to work, for example, you can’t hold two notes together, probably because it supports only monophonic sound, so, the way to fix this is to play one note at a time or render different notes and stack them on top of each other, feel free to experiment with it, at least, it is free, thus we should appreciate that.

System Requirements:

Only works on Windows (32-bit)

6.) IOWA Soprano Sax

Similar to the IOWA Alto sax, IOWA soprano sax is also a sample soprano saxophone from the University of IOWA Electronic Music Studio. It also gives you an option to control the sax sound through the ADSR envelope module.

System Requirements:

Available as a free download for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/AAX).

7.) Alpine Project Sax

This is a free Kontakt library Alto Sax instrument, it uses a sample from the University of IOWA MIS.

Enjoy away!

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The famous Fender Rhodes Mark II stage 73 electric piano!
Essential if you plan to do funk-jazz, deep house, or any soulul music.
The Rhodes keys can be heard on countless tracks, from Herbie Hancock to Stevie Wonder, the Doors & Ray Charles, Chick corea & JojoLapin.

It’s funky, soulful, deep, smooth, jazzy, lounge, groovy.
Here are the best FREE VST emulations of the e-piano:

1. MrRay73 & MrRay22 VST by Guido Scognamiglio

MrRay 2.2 ! rhodes 4 ever

These two VSTi are donationware.
and they are pure synthesis, no sample involved.
The sound is very good, Mr Ray 73 VST gives you that funky feeling when you play it.
Mr Ray 22 has more parameters and some good classic effects : a chorus, a wah wah, a tremolo/autopan, a distortion and a stereo delay.

Mr Ray Charles:
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Mr-Ray-Charles-Shake-a-Tail-Feather.mp3

stormy !
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/riders-on-the-storm-mrray22.mp3

straight Rhodes e-piano
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mrray73.mp3

soft deep house chords
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mrray22.soft_.mp3

Rhodes piano through wah wah effect!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mrray22.wahwah.mp3

2. MDA ePiano

Based on a small but clever wavetable, the antique MDA ePiano still sounds fresh in 2014!
and since MDA plugins became open source, you can also find version for Mac & Linux, and also 64 bit versions => http://sourceforge.net/projects/mda-vst/files/mda-vst/mda-vst-src 20100214/

MDA ePiano VST is simple & effective, of course it’s more limited than Mr Ray, but sounds great!

riders on the storm!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/riders-on-the-storm-mda-epiano.mp3

Ray Charles – Shake a Tail Feather
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ray-Charles-shake-a-mda-epiano.mp3

3. EP-Station VST by Big Tick audio

EP station : more groovy keys

A very nice FM modeled electric piano. EP-station is now freeware.
The plugin is not a straight emulation of a Rhodes piano.
It can also do the ” DX 7 e-piano “, the famous FM piano as heard on 95% of the pop / ballad / tv show theme / etc. tracks produced between 1983 & 1989.
The EP-station also features a chorus & a phaser effect.

smooth sound for deep house
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ep-station1.mp3

phased Fender Rhodes !
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ep-station2.mp3

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ultra smooth Deep house Rhodes+phaser
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ep-station3-effectrhodes.mp3

FM pop piano ! the sound of the 80’s
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ep-station4-dxpop.mp3

4. 4Front R-Piano VST

Based on samples, but not only, this emulation gives you a clean sound.
It comes for Windows 32 & 64 bit, and Mac OS X.
4Front R-piano also include a reverb.

soft e-piano for lounge house
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/4frontrpiano.mp3

plucked style
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/4frontrpiano2.mp3

5. LazySnake VST by Andreas Ersson

Lazy Snake VST

Back to a 100% synthesis emulation !
The Lazy Snake electric piano gives you this lounge and mellow sound.
The synth is easy to tweak, and you have a tremolo + wah wah effect.
It’s not really a Rhodes piano emulation, but it’s perfect for deep house chord.

soft clean deep house chord
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lazysnake-smooth.mp3

wah wah effect!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lazysnake-wah.mp3

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Ray Charles shake a snake
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ray-Charles-shake-a-snake.mp3

6. Orange Lounge 2004A by StarrFish Lab

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A funky japanese VSTi , created with Synthdit.
It’s not a Rhodes MK2 emulation, but it’s also groovy, and well suited for that deep house feeling.
We can feel the FM modulation but it’s nice!

pretty hard tremolo effect for this e-piano
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/orangelounge-deep1.mp3

funky !!
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/orangelounge-deep2.mp3

7. SFZ + Learjeff jRhodes3 soundfont

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SFZ+ + Learjeff Rhodes soundfont

There are some nice free Rhodes multisample bank around the interweb. So you can pick your favorite sf2 capable VST player and load a Rhodes piano soundfont into it!
Here i choosed the SFZ+ player by RGCAudio and the jRhodes sf2 , that’s the best combo!

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8. RhodyMK1 by Wahnsyn

A Synthedit VST plugin from Plugindex German website : it has a clean sound, i think it’s based on a soundfont / wav bank. It’s very usable. Unlike the other “classic” emulations, it features a vibrato effect instead of a tremolo effect, it’s strange but that makes unusual sounds!

9. Clavia Lab by Simple Media

Clavia Lab VST

This plugin is intended for e-piano sounds and also organ and clavinet / harpsichord sounds.