"Best Free VSTs of 2013"

That’s how I roll. Heh.

I’ve only downloaded Swatches and think it’s pretty neat. Philter would have a ball with it, in my opinion, because the presets are geared toward the techno genre.

I also checked out the KVR Audio Developer Challenger results for 2012. There were some that looked interesting but I only downloaded the Strings VST that was so highly lauded there.

I was completely unimpressed. The stock nki’s in Kontakt are much better sounding - not surprised really since they are sample based, but that can cause difficulties in their expressiveness - and I can only imagine what a dedicated string library like EWOL sounds like.