Created by Patent Sounds, Scratchpad aims to fill all your lo-fi, retro needs. This free VST instrument is capable of outputting high quality keys, pads, basses and leads but can also be used to texture your own sounds. With a fun notebook style user interface, this free VST impresses with an assortment of presets
although limited are warm and sound just like a sample which could have been found on an old record.

Pros:

  • In-built High Quality Chorus, Distortion and Flutter effects
  • In-Built ADSR and Reverb
  • 12 Handpicked presets based around Lo-fi Hip-hop and related genres
  • In-Built noise generators for rain, tape and vinyl textures
  • User friendly GUI

Cons:

  • Limited presets can only work with a few genres
  • Intense CPU usage
  • Large file size

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