Cosign on Trackspacer, I love it, my main job is in Post and I use it all the time to carve a little notch in my music or fx busses to make some room for voice, which it does very well.
You have to be careful though, there's a bug that sometimes pops up where you get distortion on the right channel, if that happens just reload the plug as multi-mono instead of stereo, that should fix it.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 29 November 2021 10:57 (two years ago) link
quick survey: what is everyone currently using for drums?
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
Samples :)
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
I usually start with a rack of a bunch of M4L drum devices. But I don't think my drums sound that great! :)
― DJI, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
Funny, I was just about to ask the same question. I've been trying to reduce my time auditioning one-shot samples by making my own presets for Ableton's Drum Rack, and using Klevgrand's Skaka (for shaken percussion), and (soon) Boz Digital's kick/snap/clap/stomp plugins.
Can anyone recommend a VST drum machine that they find particularly joyful to use? I've been using synth plugins for percussion parts when Drum Rack's lack of a synth engine doesn't cut it, but it'd be nice to have a go-to (virtual) drum machine that handles multiple parts.
― davey, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 07:19 (two years ago) link
Been using Klevgrand's Slammer recently as a sort of side percussion thing, it's great!
I'm still in the dark ages with Battery to be honest, I find that there are a couple of drum sample kits in there that work really well.
I had to make a couple of fake Nirvana tunes for a podcast recently and used the old Battery multi-mic kit into the Arturia Fet-76 with the 'all buttons in' setting to pop the room, it sounded surprisingly good.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 10:48 (two years ago) link
I think mostly I'm one of those people who don't like using midi for drums, it just feels wrong somehow
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
https://blog.native-instruments.com/5-free-e-pianos-kontakt/
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 9 December 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
Arturia Tape Mello-Fi - lo-fi tape-style modulation effect:
https://www.arturia.com/products/software-effects/tape-mello-fi/overview
PS it's FREE until December 31
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
Their servers are creaking. I got it a half hour ago and it's still not showing in my account.
― DJI, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
lol same
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
i guess we can watch the video about it in the meantime >
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5r2HhDeFgE
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
and yes there are about a billion other plug-ins that do the exact same thing already but hey
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
i guess the tape stop thing is new tho
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
I’m using Uhe Satin for tape sim stuff at the moment, not quite sure how as I sold my licence but it just kept on working. Should probably just download this and go legit again lol
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
I like Audio Thing's Reels plugin and SketchCassette for this lo-fi stuff, they have a nice distortion.
Subtle tape stuff is beyond my hearing ability, I want it absolutely trashed if I'm using a "tape" plugin.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 00:22 (two years ago) link
Also Izotope's Trash 2 is free!
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 03:42 (two years ago) link
https://www.izotope.com/en/shop/trash-2.html
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 04:40 (two years ago) link
Nice free Spitfire labs Xmas-related thingy.
https://labs.spitfireaudio.com/christmas
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 23 December 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
After a kerfuffle with Arturia software center (turned out it was just on their end), I got my Pigments update (great) and the Tape Mello-fi freebie. The latter rules - I've had a bunch of tape emulations and saturators, and this is the best by far. Instantly usable and fun, highly recommend people grab it if possible.
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 1 January 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
Cool! Will you be posting anything on Instagram for #jamuary?
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link
Ha, not likely. For electronic music my setup isn't very video-friendly, I almost always use headphones instead of monitors, and work mostly on the computer.
For drums, the more I've been practicing and getting my hands right, the less I've felt compelled to make any videos for some reason. Maybe if I finally get some drums set up in the house, although drum kit sounds terrible on phone audio.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
I cracked and bought the hainbach audiothings gong amp. Think it goes back up to full price tomorrow-ish?
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 21:21 (two years ago) link
Surge synth is now free/open-source, and they added a bunch of stuff. Haven't tried it yet, though: https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/index.html
― DJI, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 17:26 (two years ago) link
New Hainbach dropped: https://www.audiothing.net/instruments/noises/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 February 2022 03:34 (two years ago) link
Recently went through a bunch of free transient shaper plugins for a specific use case, and Crack from Surreal Machines is very nice:https://www.surrealmachines.com/transient-machines-vstau/
Also scooped a few others, I have high hopes for Rave Generator if I can get it working.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link
I'm kinda disappointed in Noises, it's interesting but I don't feel that you can screw with the original samples quite enough for my liking, plus bit reducers are corny.
Bought the latest cheapy background noise cleaner-upper from Waves that's just been released, I have RX Elements but it's great to have something that I can use in real-time across a track.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 7 March 2022 23:07 (two years ago) link
Got an email from Native Instruments with a bunch of free downloads from NI, Izotope, and Plugin Alliance since apparently they're all teaming up. Looks like some real useful stuff in there (mostly on the saturation, mixing, and masering side of things), I won't say no.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link
Free Mellotron VST:https://www.audiolatry.com/mel-lofi/
― DJI, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
nice!
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 2 June 2022 09:17 (one year ago) link
Hora Detour module in VCV Rack is great fun - self contained vector synth, combine it with the Instruo Harmonaig module for a sort of polyphony (or maybe there's a way to get polyphonic note input into VCV Rack, I haven't really looked)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 June 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
This DAW Mixbus is awesome. Pretty much this stock daw, a good editable delay and a good editable reverb = all you need for a killer mixer software.
https://harrisonconsoles.com/product/mixbus/
Really you could get by with just the DAW and a good audio editor that had some decent effects built in.
For mixing, this stuff is awesome - the EQ and compression and gain control is so deep - you don't need anything else. I've been cutting stuff with limited tracks and this app has been awesome for mixing. Don't about inputting synths or anything.
I've gone back to Acid as my cut 'em and track with a virtual drum machine or loops. I find it much easier to cut up files than Ableton, which has some cool effects built in. Acid not so much, but it was the first software like this I used, so I know how to use the edit tools - hence - it works for me.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Sunday, 26 June 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
Not really a VST thing, but not sure where else this should go. Does anyone know of any good, preferably free, collections of vocal samples? Can be singing, talking, stuff from movies or TV, whatever, as long as it is not weird generic stuff.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
freesound.org might have some usable things that realm but it's a slog to go through
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 21 July 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/downloads/
Finally got around to installing the Access Virus chip emulator and a Virus C BIN file, sounds and works great, takes up pretty much zero CPU
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 08:37 (one year ago) link
If you have Minimoog D for iOS, it's now a free VST/AU on macOS.https://www.moogmusic.com/news/model-d-app-now-available-macos
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 September 2022 03:37 (one year ago) link
Angela‘s reaction to
― JLB Credit (Jack BS), Friday, 9 September 2022 05:32 (one year ago) link
Ooh good one
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 9 September 2022 05:59 (one year ago) link
possibly the wrong thread, but i guess spitfire audio guy chose a good week on twitter to pledge support for transphobes:
https://ra.co/news/77787
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 16 September 2022 08:14 (one year ago) link
It's not exactly a cheapie since the intro price is $59, but Cherry Audio's new emulation of the GX-1/CS-80 is pretty great.https://cherryaudio.com/products/gx-80
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 November 2022 11:14 (one year ago) link
Does anyone use Analog Obsession's donation/ware plugs? Looking at YT reviews they seem almost too good to be true.
― MaresNest, Friday, 25 November 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
Whoa, definitely going to get those, ty
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 25 November 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
The Best Free Plugins of 2022: Free Plugins of the Yearhttps://www.gearnews.com/best-free-plugins-2022/
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 25 December 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
Thank you! Some intriguing stuff in there.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 26 December 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
Finally started messing around with Vital, seems like an extremely promising synth. I don't really know what I'm doing yet and I haven't installed any presets or wavetables (which seems to be an essential part of the experience), but I still got a cool part just from messing around with the single default wavetable in the free version. The modulation and routing is really intuitive, and the fx sound great.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 13 March 2023 18:02 (one year ago) link
I've been playing with that one, too. I've mostly been following along with the least obnoxious Youtube videos I can find, but have made a few interesting patches.
― beard papa, Friday, 17 March 2023 20:46 (one year ago) link
Digging the Cherry Audio Jupiter 6 emulation, might have to actually buy it. Roland's slider interface lends itself to VSTs better than knobs IMO.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 18 March 2023 22:07 (one year ago) link
Waves new free voice/vocal plug is decent, it's a handy little cocktail of dynamic eq/de-essing and a one-fader threshold/make up gain compressor. There is a gate in there too but it's not so great.
Seems like every single YT review uses these absolutely fucking dismal trap vocal tracks as their testing ground, so it's hard to get a read from some badly recorded asshole saying the same sentence three times, but worth checking out if you can take the deluge of emails from Waves that comes from signing up.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 November 2023 12:37 (five months ago) link
Not a lot of freebies, just tons of sales blowing up my inbox. The BPB (Bedroom Producers Blog) newsletter continues to be a treasure trove though, they released a free VHS simulator and pointed me to another free tape sim and a cool delay. I grab something from them every week (hence all the plugin mailing lists).
I did finally spring for the Vulf compressor on discount, and I'm thinking about the soundtoys Super plate too.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 25 November 2023 16:35 (five months ago) link
Super Plate is gorgeous. I got the full Soundtoys bundle a long time ago for $100 on a super sale but don't use most of it (the Lexicon Prime Time, the pitch shifting - don't care for Echoboy or the distortion devices really), the $29 upgrade to Super Plate justified the whole thing.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 25 November 2023 23:13 (five months ago) link