Free VST synths for Mac and Windows Ableton Live 10 and 10.1 (64 bit) 2019

The VST instruments (synthesizers) in this list had to meet 3 criteria

  1. Compatible with both Mac and Windows
  2. Available in 64 bit, so they can run on Ableton Live 10, 10.1 onwards
  3. Free!

How to install VST into Ableton Live 10 on Mac


How to install VST into Ableton Live 10 on Windows


Tunefish

Some hard metal/percussive sounds and harsh aggressive tones among the fat analog ones

Helm

Polyphonic synth with sequencer/arpeggiator

u-He Podolski

Virtual analog synth with arpeggiator/sequencer plus chorus and delay.

u-He Zebralette

A single Zebra2 oscillator with a 16-slot waveset; oscillator waveform editing with geomorph, spectromorph, geoblend and spectroblend modes.


PG-8X

Virtual analog synthesizer based on the Roland JX-8P synth

Dexed

This is much much more than a DX-7 (though it does emulate that FM synth very well), it has a wealth of sounds.

TAL-software

Half a dozen synths and effects in one place https://tal-software.com/products

Noisemaker

TAL-U-No-LX
(very synthwave, based on the Roland Juno 60)

TAL-Filter-2
This can be used as a Trance Gate or Stutter effect or simulate LFO or Sidechain Compression


Synth 1 (Windows only)

Sorry - this had a Mac version, but that has been pulled for some reason. Hopefully the developer releases it again. In the meantime here is the Windows version (warning: site is in Japanese, if you use Chrome, let it translate for you)


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