Freebies: 9 u-he Audio Plug-ins that you can download and use for free!

u-he makes synthesizers, effects, and sound sets. They graciously have several freebies to enhance your sound design, no matter your DAW. This list previously included 7 freebies from u-he, but as I’m putting together the list of most popular freebies for 2023, I find 2 new ones! You’ll find the new ones at the bottom of the list. Download them all today!

It goes without saying, but don’t forget to check out u-he’s full list of products at Toolfarm. These are also listed them at the bottom of this page, to make it easy for you.

1. Tyrell N6, a compact, sporty synth

The first of our 9 u-he free plugins that we’re showcasing is Tyrell N6. It was commissioned by a German music magazine called Amazona.de.

Some features:

• Virtual analogue with classic architecture plus extras
• 2 oscillators, noise, ring modulator
• 2 LFOs with 8 waveforms, host-syncable
• Over 580 factory presets
• much more!

2. u-he Triple Cheese Synthesizer

u-he’s Triple Cheese was the winner of the 2006 KVR Developer Challenge. Besides the crazy name, it’s a synthesizer like no other! It doesn’t contain the usual oscillators, wave tables, or FM or phase distortion. So what does it contain? Download it and check it out!

Some Triple Cheese features:

• 3 comb filters for sound generation
• 8 different modes per comb filter module (11 modes total)
• Polyphonic (up to 16 voices), duo-phonic, mono-phonic (retriggered) or legato mode
• 170 factory presets
• much more!

3. u-he Zebralette – Mini Zebra Synth

Zebralette is a free synthesizer and an introduction to Zebra2’s fantastic oscillators. Perhaps it will persuade you to try Zebra2 and upgrade. If one oscillator is this powerful, imagine what you can achieve with four… and all the other great features available in Zebra2.

Zebralette has been recently updated, too.  Below, are some Zebralette features.

• A single Zebra2 oscillator with a 16-slot waveset
• Oscillator waveform editing with geomorph, spectromorph, geoblend, and spectroblend modes.
• 24 spectral effects including filter, sync, scatter, phase distortion, and much more!

4. u-he Podolski

Podolski is a simple, efficient virtual analog synthesizer. It contains a single oscillator, one filter, an envelope, and an arpeggiator / sequencer. It’s fast, easy to use, and creates clever sounds! Podolski has been recently updated, as well.

Some features of Podolski:

• Oscillator with variable symmetry (sawtooth to triangle, PWM) and glide
• Polyphonic (up to 16 voices), mono, legato, and arpeggiator modes
• 4 envelope modes: ADSR or HDSR, linear or exponential. Sustain has Fall/Rise control
• Over 520 factory presets
• more!

5. u-he Beatzille: little monster modulator

Beatzille is a compact version of u-he’s “monster” modular synthesizer Bazille. This one is available through a German magazine called Beat.

Beatzille features include:

• Modular architecture
• 2 digital oscillators with simultaneous frequency modulation (FM), phase distortion (PD) and fractal resonance (FR)
• 1 multimode analog-style filter with 6 parallel outputs (4× lowpass, bandpass, highpass)

6. u-he BazilleCM: little monster

Another mini version of Bazille and another commissioned by a magazine! This time it’s from Computer Music magazine.

Comparatively, here are a few of BazilleCM’s features.

• Modular architecture
• Coupled with 2 digital oscillators with simultaneous frequency modulation (FM), phase distortion (PD), and fractal resonance (FR)
• 1 multimode analog-style filter with 6 parallel outputs (4× lowpass, bandpass, highpass)

7. u-he ZebraCM

ZebraCM was commissioned for Computer Magazine and is a lite version of Zebra2.

Similarly, features include:

• 2 wavetable (16) oscillators with integrated sync and spectral filter
• Polyphonic (up to 16 voices), duo-phonic, mono, or legato
• Stereo signal path
• Noise generator: White, pink, digital or crackles
• Filter with 20 modes (various lowpass, bandpass, notch, shelf, allpass…)
• In addition, it comes with 3 LFOs.

8. u-he Protoverb – Experimental research reverb

“A natural-sounding reverb based on the concept of a room simulator. Protoverb is an experimental researchware plug-in, developed to aid our research. Download and use it for free.

9. u-he Zoyd – Synth

This is the synth that started it all. Available as AU 32-bit only.