"Best Free VSTs of 2013"

I’ve been on a quest for a few years now to actually reduce the VST/VSTi ‘clutter’ on my DAW. I’ve been steadily purging various 3rd party plugins, having a bit of a purge as it were, and now with Cubase 7.5, Jamstix 3.5 (coupled with Steve Slate Drums 4), and NI “Alicia Key’s” Piano - I actually have everything I need and I am determined to rigorously resist the urge to indulge in stuff I don’t need even if it’s free! And the reality is that I’ve barely scratched the surface with some plugins and VSTi’s. I could easily spend the rest of my days just getting more familiar and more expert with the bundled stuff. Now, that’s not to say some of those listed plugins and others aren’t any good… it’s just I don’t want or need them and I don’t believe that unnecessarily clogging my system up with an assortment of miscellaneous plugins will make any real-world tangible difference to any thing I produce. Running a clean lean system has more appeal to me. But that’s just me… :slight_smile: