Slime Green Dead Mall LITE – Free VHS Synth VST3 Plugin

Hear what your beats sound like on a lost tape from 1994. Free.

Every lo-fi producer has the same plugins, and a lot of beats end up sounding alike. Dead Mall LITE lets you try a sound that's different, without paying a cent.

Picture an abandoned shopping mall at 3 AM. The fountain is dry, the lights buzz, and muzak drifts out of a closed store. Dead Mall records every note you play to a dying VHS tape and plays it back through an old CRT TV. You hear it warble and hiss, and sometimes it breaks up.

This Isn't a Watered-Down Demo

Dead MALL LITE is the complete instrument. You get every knob, every effect and the live TV, with no time limits and no noise bursts. The only difference is the number of presets.

• After Hours: one knob that "closes the mall." Your sound gets darker, slower and lonelier
• Eject: a real tape stop for drops and transitions
• Ghost Notes: some of your notes come back seconds later from another room in the mall
• Tracking and Dub Gen: wreck the tape on purpose, all the way to an 8th-generation dub
• Next Room: push your synth behind a store wall, like muzak bleeding out of a closed shop
• The live TV screen that reacts to every note you play
• Light on your CPU, so it won't slow down your session

12 Hand-Picked Presets

The 12 presets cover every bank of the full version, so you get a taste of everything Dead Mall can do:

• Featured: Food Court 1994, Escalator To Nowhere, Mannequin Choir, Security Tape 3AM
• Atrium Pads: Skylight At Dusk
• Sublevel Drones: 3:33 AM
• Food Court Keys: Food Court Organ
• Fountain Bells: Coin In The Fountain
• Neon Leads: Neon Sign Lead
• Loading Dock Bass: Loading Dock
• Security FX: Tape Monster, Attention Shoppers

Every preset is level-matched, so you can flip through them without your speakers jumping in volume.

Want More? Unlock 116 More Presets

Once you hear it, 12 won't be enough. The full version gives you all 128 presets in 8 banks, 16 of each type, plus lifetime free updates with new sounds. Click the Upgrade button inside the plugin, or go to the full version here:

Get the full version of Dead Mall →

Installs in Under a Minute

1. Download and unzip the file.
2. Copy the whole Slime Green Dead Mall LITE.vst3 folder into:
   C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\
   (Copy the folder, not just the file inside it.)
3. Open FL Studio and go to Options → Manage plugins, then click Find installed plugins.
4. Find Slime Green Dead Mall LITE under Generators. Click the star to add it to your favorites.
5. In the Channel Rack, click + and pick Slime Green Dead Mall LITE. Start playing.

No DAW? Open Slime Green Dead Mall LITE.exe from the Standalone folder and play it on its own. Click Options at the top to choose your audio device and MIDI keyboard.

Windows may show a SmartScreen warning when you open the standalone app. Click More info → Run anyway. The VST3 loads normally in FL Studio.

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit)
• Any DAW that supports VST3 (FL Studio, Ableton Live, Studio One, Reaper, and more), or use the standalone app
• Not available for Mac yet

It's free, so there's nothing to lose. Add Dead Mall LITE to your cart now and hear the difference in your next beat.

P.S. When 12 presets aren't enough, all 128 are waiting in the full version.