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Browse 28 reviewed free guitar & bass plugins for Windows, with compatibility, formats, interface previews, and installation details.
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Suburban Guitarist is a free lead and rhythm guitar VST2 plugin for Windows featuring pitch wheel modes like bend, slide, and whammy bar, palm muting, harmonics, and humanization control to simulate realistic guitar playing.
String Thing is a plucked string instrument plugin featuring a new comb filter with advanced controls and filtering. The successor, String Thing 2, uses impulse, resonator, and resonant body models to recreate acoustic plucked string sounds.
Strat-A-Various by Krakli delivers versatile guitar tones from clean sounds to intense overdrive. It comes with 16 presets to get you started quickly.
SoloString by E-phonic is a physical modeled acoustic guitar synthesizer plugin for Windows.
Sienna Bass by Sound Magic is a free acoustic bass guitar plugin for Windows, available in VST2 format for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
Project16 Picked Bass by bigcat Instruments offers a sampled Rickenbacker 4001 bass played with a pick, available as a free VST2 plugin for Windows and macOS.
Project16 Fingered Bass by bigcat Instruments is a free sampled Rickenbacker 4001 bass plugin played with fingers, available for Windows and macOS.
OMB2 by Samsara Cycle Audio is a Windows VST2 electric bass guitar plugin featuring 128 presets, studio-sampled bass sounds, graphic EQ, and multiple effects including flanger, delay, tremolo, and distortion.
OMB1 by Samsara Cycle Audio is a free electric bass plugin offering four bass guitar style samples with customizable controls for fine tuning, octave shifting, and volume.
MF Concert Guitar is a free sampled nylon string guitar plugin by bigcat Instruments featuring samples recorded by Markus Fiedler. Available in VST2 format for Windows and macOS.
Gutbucket by Samsara Cycle Audio is a free VST2 plugin for Windows that emulates the sound of a washtub bass, delivering authentic guitar-bass tones.
FS Blues Steel Guitar is a sampled steel-string acoustic guitar plugin by bigcat Instruments, available in VST2 format for 32 and 64-bit Windows systems.
FabBass by Samsara Cycle Audio offers an authentic 1960's violin bass tone with detailed control over pitch, dynamics, and tone.
DSK Electrik GuitarZ is a free electric guitar VST plugin featuring 10 distinct guitar models, an amp section, envelope control, finetune, portamento, and a 5-band equalizer. Enhance your sound with built-in flanger, delay, distortion, and chorus effects. Supports MIDI automation and velocity response.
Dynamic Guitars by DSK features three realistic guitar types with dynamic velocity response, ADSR envelope control, reverb effect, and panorama control.
DVS Guitar by Dream Vortex Studio is a sampled electric guitar plugin ideal for lead and heavy sounds. It offers realistic playability with pitch wheel control, plus built-in overdrive, reverb, and flanging effects.
DSK Guitars Nylon is a free VST2 plugin featuring a classic nylon-string guitar with expressive and dynamic sound. It offers a clean and simple user interface for easy playability.
DSK Guitars Acoustic is a free sampled acoustic and folk guitar plugin for Windows. It delivers expressive, dynamic sounds with a simple and clean interface.
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