About AAX Plug-ins. With the release of Pro Tools 10, our partner AVID has announced a new plug-in format: Avid Audio eXtensions (AAX).With Pro Tools 11, AAX has also become 64-bit. We have been working closely with AVID in order to deliver the best integration of our technology into Pro Tools. Drum Pro is a drum ROMpler plugin that comes stocked with 20 free kits, with the option to add more via paid expansions. There’s little hiding the fact that Drum Pro is primarily designed as a means to tempt you into parting with your cash for said expansions, but its free sounds are still nothing to scoff at. I’ve decided to update editor Justin Colletti’s ”The Big List of Free Pro Tools Plugins”, originally posted here back in 2012. Here’s a new, even bigger list, each plugin is AAX 64-bit compatible. Blue Cat Freeware Plug-ins Pack II. Free AAX Plugins, Instruments & Software. Here is our colection of FREE software, VST plugins, VSTi instruments, audio utilities and DAWs. Should you know of anything that we have not listed here let us know. The Noize Retro is slimmed down limited edition version of the Noize 2 plugin from denise audio. It features one unique adaptive noise. AAX: Pro Tools 10.3.6 or higher; Download: Windows / Mac. Delay Free VST/AU/AAX Plugin. Delay is an audio effect that records an input audio signal to a medium and then plays it back after a period of time or after the time you specify. Some of the free delay plugins are 12.) Proximity.
Nothing is ever free for ProTools right? Wrong! There are plenty of free plug-ins out there if you care to look around. Last time we looked at free stuff, the focus was on synth plug-ins for all DAWs, so this time here are 10 of the best free effects plug-ins for Pro Tools (but some will also work with other DAWs).
DrumCore Free version 3
- Sonoma WireWorks
- RTAS (also AU/VSTi)
- http://www.sonomawireworks.com/drumcore/downloads
You only get two kits with the free version of DrumCore, but it's still 1.16 GB of lovely drum sounds, something noticeably lacking from a basic installation of Pro Tools.
Amplitube Custom Shop
- IK Multimedia
- RTAS (also AU/VSTi)
- http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/amplitubecs
IK want you to use Custom Shop as a portal to their online purchasing system, but with the free version you get four preamps, nine stomp boxes and two rack effects which is enough to get you started with guitar amp simulation!
Thump
- Metric Halo
- AAX
- http://apps.avid.com/metric-halo
A percussive subharmonic synthesizer that creates low end for your mix ' add bottom to your kick, strengthen a bass line or even synthesize drones.
Niveau Filter
- Elysia Software
- AAX/AU/RTAS/VST
- http://www.elysia.com/software/niveau-filter
Modelled on a semi-parametric Baxandall filter, the Niveau is essentially a hi-fi tone control on steroids, and is great for making wide-range changes to frequency - and there's nothing like it in Pro Tools built-in plug-ins!
Frohmage
- Ohm Force
- RTAS/AU/VST
- https://www.ohmforce.com/ViewProduct.do?p=Frohmage
Partly chosen because of its name I'll admit, this is another tool not found in Pro Tools built-in plug-ins, which are mostly tasteful and transparent. The cheesy one is a low-pass filter with resonance, distortion and delay, just great for '˜messing stuff up'!
Vinyl
- iZotope
- RTAS/AS/VST/MAS/Audio Unit
- http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/vinyl
It's been around for quite a while, but nothing adds the sound of vinyl to your mixes quite as well as, er, Vinyl.
BitterSweet 3
- Flux
- RTAS/AU/VST
- http://www.fluxhome.com/products/freewares/bittersweet-v3
Another tool missing from Pro Tools' basic set, BitterSweet is a transient designer with but one control, which keeps it simple, and allows you to enhance or soften transients without audible compression.
Project Time
- Hofa
- All formats
- http://hofa-plugins.de/pages/start_en/4u_en.php
Included because I like to be reminded of just how much time I've wasted trying to turn my latest sow's ear into a silk purse! All it does is tell you how long you have spent on your current project ' know a better way?
The Hofa 4U pack also includes a more than useful Meter, Fader and MS ' Pan tool, and a Goniometer/Correlator.
Saturation Knob
- Softube
- AAX
- http://forms.avid.com/forms/AAXpluginoffer2012?cmpid=70140000000U2to
Add analog warmth to your mix by turning a large knob - if only everything in life were that simple.
bx_solo
BrainWorx
AAX/AS/AU/RTAS/TDM/VST
Pro Tools Autotune Plugin Free
Free Pro Tools 12 Plugins
A middle-and-sides decoder that lets you solo left, right, mono sum or difference; you can also turn a stereo recording into middle-and-sides and vice versa, and expand stereo width by up to 400% as well as fold down to mono. Invaluable!