Best VST Plugins for Hip Hop

20 Best VST Plugins for Hip Hop

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hip hop originated in the Bronx in New York City and has evolved over time to encompass various styles and cultural elements. Ask 100 different hip hop producers what hip hop means to them, and they would likely give 100 different answers. Just compare the style of modern trap music with 90s jazz rap. They are technically in the same genre but have an entirely different feel.

No matter which kind of hip hop you are working with, there’s no question how essential the beat and the baseline are. They are the foundation of the whole genre.

Today we’re going to look at some of the top VSTs for producers of all types of hip hop.

------------------------------------------------------------------------


Xfer Records Serum

Infotmación:
The dream synthesizer did not seem to exist: a wavetable synthesizer with a truly high-quality sound, visual and creative workflow-oriented interface to make creating and altering sounds fun instead of tedious, and the ability to “go deep” when desired - to create / import / edit / morph wavetables, and manipulate these on playback in real-time.

Link:

XLN Audio Addictive Drums 2: Custom XL

Infotmación:
Addictive Drums 2 brings the world's finest drums straight into your music. You get outstanding drums, professionally-played rhythms, and phenomenal sound-shaping and mixing features that make your productions sound alive. All this with a fast, musician-centric interface that gets amazing results without getting in your way.

Link:

Initial Audio Sektor

Infotmación:

Sektor is a polyphonic wavetable synth plugin with a highly intuitive user interface and a lot of customization features. Sektor was built to use a low amount of system resources while having a massive high-quality sound.

Advanced modulation features such as feature rich modulation Envelopes, ADSR´s and LFO´s can be routed to the synths parameters via drag and drop, or via the right-click menu of the knobs. The modulation matrix gives you even more access to features such as velocity, aftertouch and much more.

Shape each parameter of 16 voices per wavetable oscillator with OSC+. Create massive unison sounds and change the waveform, phase, pitch, stereo spread, level and detune of each individual unison voice.

Sektors built-in Heat Up 2 multisample engine let you combine the real sound of a modern rompler with Sektors advanced wavetable synthesis engine.


Link:

XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Color Vintage Effect

Infotmación:

RC-20 Retro Color is a creative effect plugin that adds life and texture to any recording. It easily recreates the warm, cozy feeling of vintage recording equipment, but also works perfectly in any modern production setting.

  • Adds life and texture inspired by classic gear
  • Great on drums, guitars, keys, bass and full mixes
  • Flux Engine adds warm, analog-style fluctuations

Link:

iZotope Ozone 9

Infotmación:
Building on a 17-year legacy in audio mastering, Ozone 9 brings balance to your music with never-before seen processing for low end, real-time instrument separation, and lightning-fast workflows powered by machine learning. Find the perfect vibe with an expanded Master Assistant that knows exactly what you’re going for, whether it’s warm analog character or transparent loudness for streaming. Talk to more iZotope plug-ins in your session with Tonal Balance Control and blur the lines between mixing and mastering. Work faster with improved plug-in performance, smoother metering, and resizable windows. No more wondering if your music is ready for primetime—with Ozone 9, the future of mastering is in your hands.

Link:


Loopmasters Bass Master

Infotmación:

Heavy, speaker-shaking tones are just a few clicks away with Bass Master. This instrument is totally dedicated to bass, and it’s built on Loopmasters’ award-winning sonic history.

Bass Master’s huge variety of source sounds provide the inspiration for a weighty, powerful bass tone in any genre. Across two layers, the curated set of 217 waveforms (that’s almost 50,000 possible combinations), taken from a mixture of legendary hardware classics and cutting-edge synth science. Considering Loopmasters’ pedigree as purveyors of top-quality sounds for decades, why accept anything less?

Bass Master comes with over 350 mix-ready presets with a clean and simple UI, meaning it’s a breeze to dial in your ultimate bass tone.


Link:

Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2

Infotmación:

Omnisphere® is the flagship synthesizer of Spectrasonics - an instrument of extraordinary power and versatility. Top Artists all over the world rely on Omnisphere as an essential source of sonic inspiration. This award-winning software brings many different types of synthesis together into one amazing-sounding instrument that will spark a lifetime of exploration.


Link:

D16 Group Nepheton

Infotmación:
Nepheton contains 17 fully synthesized modules that work together to emulate the original 808 drum machine. All the sounds and detailed nuances of the original are captured perfectly. Nepheton’s modules are equipped with additional controls for deep tone and envelope tweakability. Listen to the audio examples or just download the demo and start beat making today!

Link:

Vengeance Sound VPS Avenger Synth

Infotmación:

Meet our new alpha and omega of synthesis: Vengeance Producer Suite Avenger is here! The most versatile and best sounding synth you will ever encounter. There is nothing VPS Avenger can't do, it offers you tons of features and a gigantic growing library from some of the best sound designers on this planet.

Up to 8 OSC Modules:

  • Each OSC with own V-Saw (Supersaw) (1-7 voices, 1-4 octs, pan spread)
  • Each OSC with its own vibrato LFO (which can modulate every V-Saw (Supersaw) voice separately)
  • Each OSC with own Chorder (Note Stacker, Unison)
  • Each OSC with additional Sub OSC model
  • Each OSC can have its own synthesis model (see 'GENERATORS' for details)

Link:

iZotope Trash2

Infotmación:

Trash 2 takes the best of Trash and makes it even better. With an entirely new sonic architecture, brand new features, optimized performance, better sound quality, and support for modern hosts and formats, Trash 2 is primed for a powerful new era of audio mangling, distortion, and experimentation. Let sonic mayhem ensue.

Key Features:

  • Distort in ways you never dreamed with the Trash module’s 60+ distortion algorithms, perfect for transforming your sound into something never before heard
  • Design your own unique distortions, from massive to mild and everything in between, with a new, customizable, multiband Waveshaper
  • Let your tracks inhabit any space or object with the new Convolve module. Choose from over 100 impulse responses or load your own to put your bass in a washing machine or your keys in a cave
  • Find a new voice: make your audio speak and growl with two redesigned Filter modules, each one featuring new vowel formant filters, screaming peaks, node modulations, and more
  • Start trashing your audio immediately with an extensive new preset library and an ear-friendly Limiter that ensures you can play without fear

Link:

Future Audio Workshop SubLab

Infotmación:

A new class of synthesizer designed for hip-hop, future bass and trap genres. Create powerful 808 style sub-bass that sounds punchy on every speaker, every time.

Get all the tools you need to sample, layer, widen and distort any kick into a uniquely powerful sub in one plug-in. SubLab’s innovative yet simple mix workflow includes X-Sub™, our psychoacoustic sub-bass oscillator. This newly invented oscillator works as a sub-bass maximizer to achieve consistent, accurate and deep subs on any speaker system.

SubLab comes packed with 6 signature Bass Packs and 250 kick samples meticulously recorded from classic analog drum machines and modern modular systems. You can also drag and drop your own samples into the sampler and SubLab will automatically detect the pitch of your sample for a faster workflow. Build your own sample library and Bass Packs as you go.


Link:

UJAM DOPE 2

Infotmación:

Forget Loops and Samples

Introducing Beatmaker DOPE 2 – your fast-track ticket to the underground world of slick Hip hop beat production. There's no longer any need to search through all that dusty vinyl at the local record store hoping to find the perfect sampled beat.

Boom Bap, Hip Hop & Rap

DOPE 2 is already locked and loaded with the most authentic sounding and satisfying electronic hits, beats and grooves for Boom bap, Hip-hop and Rap styles.


Link:

D16 Group Decimort 2

Infotmación:

Decimort recreates the colouration and adds the vintage sampler's magic to any sound.

Electronic music (especially Hip-Hop) producers have long been aware that classic samplers (such as early Akai and E-MU units) had a character and sound all their own: they added a "grit" and "colour" to the samples and loops they played back which made them sound "fat" and sit well in a mix. This sound colouration was due to the encoding techniques, lower sample rate and bit depth, and conversion circuits used by these early samplers. Decimort recreates this colouration and adds that vintage sampler magic back to any loop, any bassline, or any sound played through it for that matter! Beyond vintage sampler emulation, it’s also the perfect bit-crusher with filter, capable of extreme settings for dramatic results.


Link:

DopeSONIX Beat Machine 2

Infotmación:

Beat Machine 2.0 is a completely brand new Hip-Hop drum machine VST/AU plugin for MAC or PC. This has been specifically designed for producers who require the huge range of Hip Hop drum sounds made famous over the last 30 years.

All 600 kits are already pre-mixed and eq’ed to improve your beatmaking workflow. No more spending hours looking for the perfect Kick, Snare and Hi-Hat combination, with Beat Machine 2 we’ve done all the hard work for you!…buy, download and take your beats to the next level.


Link:

Reveal Sound Spire Synth

Infotmación:
Spire is a polyphonic software synthesizer that combines powerful sound engine modulation and flexible architecture, and a graphical interface provides unparalleled usability. Spire is the embodiment of the best opportunities, within software and hardware synthesizers.

Link:

AudioThing Vinyl Strip

Infotmación:
Vinyl Strip is a multi-effect plugin featuring 6 modules: Distortion, Compressor, Bit Crusher, Tilt EQ, Vintage Reverb, and Vinylizer. The modules can be arranged in any combination by simple drag-n-drop. Vinyl Strip will add life and an old school touch to your samples and tracks, and achieve that classic vinyl record sound in your digital environment. The plugin is optimised to be lightweight on the CPU.

Link:

UJAM HUSTLE 2

Infotmación:

Trap, Grime & Dirty South

Beatmaker HUSTLE 2 is your rhythmical fixer for bass music styles like Trap and Dirty South. On the money and ready to make a statement for all types of modern urban styles that need a dirty basement-shaking beat or gritty Grime groove laying down.

Turn Up!

Make your production instantly sound like you’re rolling through Atlanta in a Lambo flexing your gold grill. The mix presets included in HUSTLE 2 provide a great starting point for getting your tracks sound professional.

It's a Trap!

Bass music genres are all about the beat – booming bass drums, frantic hi-hats and gritty snares. HUSTLE 2 captures the spirit of the genre – sounds, patterns and mix. Get busy with a virtually unlimited combination of credible beats inspired by the legendary Roland TR-808.


Link:

Sugar Bytes Factory

Infotmación:
Modular Synthesizer for complex and organic sounds. Choose from the most particular synthesis methods, let yourself be charmed by the Matrix and morph between the most improbable variations of your sound. Four sequencers are pulling the strings behind the curtain. Factory is polyphonic supersonics!

Link:

Future Audio Workshop Circle2

Infotmación:
Circle² is the new major update to Future Audio Workshop’s flagship software synthesizer, Circle. Since its release in 2009, Circle has achieved cult status, becoming a key tool in the arsenal of both seminal underground and pop hitmakers such as Hudson Mohawke, Arca, David Guetta and Deadmau5. The 2015 update incorporates several new features, modules and effects, extending the spectrum of sounds that can be composed. Circle² also features a completely redesigned user interface, providing a forward-thinking interpretation of Circle's esteemed user-centred design approach.

Link:

AudioThing Hats

Infotmación:

Hats is a drum synthesizer plugin dedicated to hi-hats and cymbals sounds, which features two independent sources: synthesized noise and sample section. Instead of generic white or pink noise, the noise section features 6 square wave oscillators with different pitches and phases, like the famous 808 - the result is a noise sound with a controllable metallic character.

The factory bank comes with more than 50 samples, ranging from rare analog drum machines to real acoustic hi-hats and cymbals. Some of the samples were also processed with a classic Aphex Aural Exciter and recorded to tape with a vintage Revox B77 MkII.

Both sources can then be processed with 4 effects: Ring Modulator, Bit Crusher, Filter, and Reverb. The effects can also be arranged in any order with a simple drag and drop. The filter section features a HighPass and BandPass in series; both filters are 12dB/oct state variable filters with zero delay feedback.


Link:

Comentarios