Free VST Effects

Recommended Free VST Plugins for WavePad

WavePad Audio Editor has integrated VST plugin support, giving you access to thousands of additional tools and effects that are available. Below is a list of recommended free VST plugins that you can download and use in WavePad on your PC to further enhance your audio editing projects.

For more information on how to use these VST effects see:
How to download and use VST Effects in WavePad Sound Editor.

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Reverb and Echo Effects

Name: Valhalla Super Massive
Type: Reverb Effect
Download URL: https://valhalladsp.com/shop/reverb/valhalla-supermassive/
Company: Valhalla
Description: ValhallaSupermassive has been designed from the ground up for MASSIVE delays and reverbs. Get ready for luscious clouds of reverb, otherworldly delays, and swelling waves of feedback unlike any you’ve heard before.

Name: OldSkoolVerb
Type: Reverb Effect
Download URL: http://www.voxengo.com/product/oldskoolverb
Company: Voxengo
Description: This is a reverb unit VST plugin suitable mainly for instruments and sounds which do not have sharp percussive elements to them, otherwise this reverb sounds too edgy. This reverb is great at creating additional ambience.

Name: Spread Delay
Type: Echo/Delay Effect
Download URL: https://audec-music.com/spread-delay
Company: Audec
Description: Ping-pong style multi-tap delay effect.

Mastering and Gate Effects

Name: Blue Cat's Triple EQ:
Type: Equalizer Effect
Download URL: http://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_TripleEQ
Company: Blue Cat
Description: Blue Cat's Triple EQ is a 3 bands semi-parametric equalizer that can be controlled as a single filter with customizable shape. It includes a low shelf filter, a high shelf filter and a boost/cut peak filter. Its wide range of gain (+/-40 dB per band) and bandwidth (.01 to 5 Octave) makes it very versatile to create any filter shape. The three filters are linked together so that when you change the center frequency or the bandwidth, the parameters of the three filters are modified accordingly: you can control the entire equalizer characteristics with a single mouse click.

Other VST Effects

Name: iZotope Vinyl
Type: vinyl effect
Download URL: http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/vinyl
Company: iZotope
Description: The ultimate lo-fi weapon, iZotope Vinyl uses 64-bit processing and advanced filtering, modeling and resampling to create authentic "vinyl" simulation, as if the audio were a record being played on a record player.

Name: KarmaFX Plugin Pack
Type: Reverb, Filter, Delay
Download URL: http://karmafx.net
Company: KarmaFX
Description: KarmaFX Plugin Pack is a collection of quality effect plugins that are small, simple and easy to use. Plugins that simply get the job done without too much knob tweaking.

How to download and use VST Effects in WavePad Sound Editor:

Download one of the free VST effects from the above list. When you install these effects, you will need to specify a location on your computer to save them. It is normally a good idea to create a folder called "VST" and save all your VST effects there.
Once you have downloaded and saved your VST plugin to your chosen VST folder, open WavePad. Go to Home tab > Options > VST.
Click on Add Path and find the folder where your VST is saved. Press OK.
From the top Effects menu choose "VST Plugins." This will open the VST plugins window.
Use the drop down VST plugin list to select your VST plugin and click OK.
Your VST plugin will open in WavePad. You can still edit your waveform, and do whatever you would normally do in WavePad, except now what you hear is being processed by the new VST effect. To save the effect, you need to click the "Apply" button on your effect. This will close the effect and save the audio with the new effect added. To save the effect, you need to click the "Apply" button on your effect. This will close the effect and save the audio with the new effect added.

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