While I miss the days of sitting on the edge of your seat as you go through a take with your band and hope that everyone gets a "good take" at the same time, These days we are blessed to be able to create the whole thing with patience and imagination. But I fear we lost something when we quit working as a group. However, I do love the tools we have today. I go back to the first studio I worked in. It had two Ampex two track recorders and an overdub was when you fed one machine into the board with whatever you were overdubbing and caught it on the other Ampex. Had to do the entire song of course. No selective punch ins per se. That was accomplished by taking the best parts of multiple takes and splicing them together using a razor blade and a splicing block. My how times have changed. Now, depending on the strength of your computer, we basically have unlimited tracks that can be manipulated in all sorts of ways. No razor blade needed lol! Love what you do! Thank you!
Don't miss those days at all. Philosophical discussions on why the drummer must double time in the middle of a song, late singers who never bothered to learn the lyrics, tape hiss, side players who play wrong on purpose for the overtime pay, "talent" flexes ego on my dime, diagonal splices of tape, etc. I am blessed to live in a time where it is all gone.
People spend a lot of money on plugins hoping they will be a magic button to fix their sound and they never are. Some of the best plugins are the free ones!
@@hannahmillington5781 Having done some tape recording in the 80s I'm flabbergasted at how much good free stuff is out there now inc Cakewalk, Hydrogen Drums, Audacity and loads of instruments.
I love what you did here. What a great arrangement and use of some superb plugins. I think you need to identify your favourite free reverb and delay plugins next!
Wow, this is the most useful approach to a “best plugin” video. Thanks, I am going to comeback to this a couple times since you put so much good info in one place. Really nice tune, too.
I've been using the TDR plugins for quite awhile. I actually bought the paid versions recently (there was a sale!) I like the Ample guitars too. For imaging I used A!Stereo Control (Alex Hilton) for a long time. It allows you to reduce the bass content from 500 Hz and below.
Yet another fantastic informative video Mike, I’m working my way through all your videos on cakewalk at the moment, they are just brilliant. Thank you 🙏
@@CreativeSauce they’re brilliant, I’ll be getting my new setup soon and found your videos invaluable. I’ve been treating them like an online course I’ve learned so much, so thanks again
Love all the selections! All of them... I would Add Klanghelm's Mjuc jr's compressor and Oril River reverb... I can't live withouth those and many of the ones in this list such as SSD drums
Great pick! I also own the majority of these plug-ins. By the way, I can highly recommend the entire FX Bundle from Sonic Anomaly. TDR NOVA & Kotelnikov are my stars - especially when it comes to mastering. Your demo song sounds great. Thanks a lot for the video! :)
My fav is the BBC Orchestra plugin. I couldn't find another like it for free. Special shout out to Guy Michelmore, whose videos gave me the tip. I'm gonna check out that amp sim and some of the compressors. Thanks for the informative videos!
You no longer have to wait for 14 days for the Spitfire Audio. I just downloaded it 2 days ago. It still goes to your e-mail, but now it's instant! It sounds amazing!!! Considering the fact that I've seen some orchestras from them that are up to around $3,500, it's awesome that this one is free. It sounds professional enough.
BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover is the best! the instruments are panned as if you were sitting in the audience listening to an orchestra, so it really gives off that authentic orchestra feel in the mix. it's my go-to plugin for symphonic/cinematic stuff. PS pretty much everything Spitfire Audio does is high-quality and on a different level. LABS absolutely sound amazing, easy to use, and they're free! LABS drums, in my opinion, is one of the best drum plugins out there. i've got all the LABS instruments and they've pretty much removed any need to get other instrument plugins. I love you, Spitfire Audio.
Awesome Mike! Have you used anything from Analog Obsession yet? I have to say, the Channev channel strip is my go to right now. Unreal how it is a free plug in. Would love to hear you review some of his plug-ins!
Great video again Mike and beautiful played and produced too. I have almost all of the plugins mentioned. My go-tos are usually: Ample Guitar M Lite Spitfire BBC Symphony Orchestra TDR Kotelnikov Keyzone Classic Piano
Vital uses a *lot* of CPU but sounds absolutely GREAT!! 🙂 For adding width, I prefer "DSPplug Blumlein Haas" over Ozone Imager, bc it sounds most pleasant to me among all free alternatives I know.
Thanks a lot for this awesome video (and the awesome demo-song) !! Great plug-ins and great vst instruments, definately. I would have been very happy, if you would have had added some "before-after" comparisons with the effects-plugins. But nonetheless a great video.
Great video Mike - thanks. Liked your slip into Yorkshire dialect when you said the doubler switch gives the Martin Lite ' a right nice wide stereo feed' ;-)
TDR Nova has been on literally every production I've made since I heard of it. The option to actually show you what it's cutting gives you SO MUCH CONTROL. I found it when I needed a way to cut certain clicky sounds my bass was making on certain notes. It cut those frequencies only after they became too loud, otherwise leaves them alone allowing me to have my cake and eat it too!
@@CreativeSauce Exactly! Before TDR Nova I tried simply EQ-ing those frequencies out, but it changed the sound and I thought to myself "If only I could EQ those frequencies only when they show up" :D
Thank you very much. I just started making my music and, as a beginer, I found this video very helpful. With it, at least, I have a good starting point. You've got my thumbs up!
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Great episode, Mike! These are all great plugins! This was very helpful. Thanks Mike!
Best free EQ is EQium - unlimited bell curves, sensitive low-high pass and it's got a volume control. If you've got something that doesn't have CC Changes, it's darned useful to have a volume control for it, even if onlon the E.Q. Chris.
Verry Good and verry helpfull... i love all your videos... Thaks for sharing all this... God Blessyou so much... keep it up bro, keep that good work... you dont only teach and help us, you also inspire us... Thank you...
kotelnikov is a super transparent compressor whereas molotok will introduce more character and saturation to the sound, In The Mix made an amazing video about them!
I am new to your channel. The 'click the dislike button twice' comment compelled me to sub - was hilarious, never heard that before! Was a helpful video.
Great sounding song, mix, and selection! ..I saw someone mention this company below but it deserves another, Analog Obsession, it’s unreal that he’s giving his plugins for free, they sound absolutely Amazing and there are so many!
Great video, I don’t know what it is about Melda Productions plug-ins but they look so visually off putting? And the paid ones are so expensive. But hey you can’t complain with the free ones.
The Meldaproduction plug-ins' look can be made much more appealing with some adjustment to the "style" (or skin) and colors. Unfortunately the default style and color are pretty unattractive, IMO. One of the first things I do when setting them up for other people is switch to the Argon style.
Yup LABS absolutely rocks the Free PlugIn thing too - such an amazing variety of instruments (for want of a better description) the only limits are hard drive space and your imagination!
Great stuff! Yeah the TDR ones for me too, very much agree, especially NOVA. Also I've found myself using a lot of the LABS stuff from spitfire audio recently. For compressors I tend to use some of the klanghelm freebies too which I think are great for something a bit different.
All really great plugins. Nice demo song. For the acoustic guitar on the song: Some reverb would make it sound more natural, especially since it's the dominant sound at the beginning of the piece. Oril Reverb is a very good free reverb. In the context of this piece, dial down the high frequencies. Voxengo's Old School Verb is really good too.
I love free VSTs/plugins... especially when they are excellent (of course, not all free plugins are great). I also believe that we should support the makers of these plugins. So, as and when funds become available, I try to donate or buy the upgrades of these plugins. And right now, Tokyo Dawn is having a sale on their plugins... 120 Euros for their Everything bundle... I just helped myself to that great deal - and I know now that I will not regret it.
Hey Mike thank you so much for your impressive video sir, i like your song too, thats lovely. I already have half of these plug-ins & i couldn't agree more with your choice. The ones which i do not have look awesome too, thank you for sharing your selection, much appreciated. I like the sound of that bass guitar plug-in, awesome. My "can't do without plug-in" from your list is most probably TDR Nova or TDR Kotelnikov. Missed out are Analog Obsession (on Patreon) including Specomp, BPB Rare (Pultec EQ), very nice plug-ins imao. I hope your injury is healing well & your not in too much pain, bless you & kind regards, keep well ☘️😉💛
I love the Amplitube Metal collection but I have to say, the Amp sim that comes with Cakewalk is a great option too. It's very versatile and sounds awesome. The only drawback I found is the user interface is kinda hard to use.
Hi, I'm not sure if Addictive drums 2 still comes with Cakewalk or not, it was included with Sonar at no additional cost, but I think I prefer it to SSD5. The Tokyo dawn products are wonderful, for no cost you can't beat them in my opinion as well, along with Voxengo products. Although the Span, Span plus and really all the Voxengo products are not much to look at, but in terms of functionality they are also superior for the no cost units. I'm looking forward to trying Unlimited, as I have only just been acquainted to it here, thanks for that. I like your demo, nice little piece. So thanks for your fine work, looking forward to more. Ron J.
Mike, Thoroughly enjoy your videos. Question: I have had a Yamaha Tyros 4 keyboard for a number of years. Can it be connected to my computer in such a way that, when I want to use a VST in Cakewalk, I can play the sounds of the VST using the actual keys on my Tyros 4 keyboard?
This was a great video, very helpful, thank you! I think OTT by Xfer should have been mentioned as well; it's great for sculpting the sound of a single track, and indispensable as part of an Mastering chain.
Thank you a lot for all these great recommendations. Do you know, if all the plugins you showed support NKS? For me and many other blind music producers this feature is very important, because we often work with NI's keyboard controllers which provide a voice assistant for blind people and over the browser from the keyboard the VSTs and their presets get accessible. So if you know something about that, I'd be grateful, if you shared your knowledge.
The other free Tokyo Dawn plug is a series of EQ, not sure if they're supposed to be channel sims, but they include a "warming" control. They're right up there with Waves imo. This EQ comes in different layouts, such as "USA" "UK" , and the one I like best just bcos it's so funny and crazy, is "Soviet" mode. Who of us don't look up to rock's "Russian Invasion" as one of the eras of rock we derive much influence from even to this day, right? 🤣
Slate Drums, Spitfire BBC, and TDR Nova would definitely be among my favorite free plugins. The Ample Bass is great too, but I'm a bassist and would rather just play my own "real" bass. A few other free plugins I use constantly are Kiive Audio Warmy EP1A and the Kit Burier. The Warmy is a Pultec style EQ. I put it on bass, drums, and the master bus. It's probably my favorite plugin, period. The Kit Burier is an awesome saturation plugin. There are about half a dozen more I could name. I have a lot of plugins I paid for, but I end up using free ones just as often.
I'm using amplitude and it's very extensive for a free vst. The cab section is great, but with sum good IRS it becomes a monster,. I play old school metal, cause I'm old, always used big valve amps, usually Marshall or mesa, but I'm completely sold on amplitude. The mesa pack sounds insanity good. Thankyou #ikmultimedia And thankyou Mike for all the in-depth videos, You have helped me so much, navigate CAKEWALK. And help me produce sum quality tracks. So thankyou good sir,👍
Hi Mike - some good suggestions here - I'm moving onto the mixing stages in Cakewalk so might give the mastering effects a try. Just wondering whether you know of a good free jazz rock flute vst? I've used Ixox which is quite good but cant get the articulations working in Cakewalk. Some favourite instruments I use include dvs saxaphone (gritty tenor sax), DSK range of saxes.TPS Brass, SIM Clav by Quilcom clavichord/clavinet and Ticky Clav and particularly Hanon B70 Hammond B3 emulation and Velvet elect pianos - the pianet is quite useful for a lighter sound. So many to choose from so little time. PS my other half reckons you sound like Jason Donovan.
Hi Mike, great video and sounds amazing. Question though. What about the rhythm guitar and lead? Did you use real instruments for those and then feed them through Amplitube? Are there any instrument plugins that you would recommend for electric guitar. There seem to be so many options for acoustic guitar, bass and piano but I’m always struggling with electric guitar. Thanks in advance for any recommendations (and apologies if anyone above already asked this - your videos are so popular there are too many comments to scroll through!)
Hi Andy. Yeah, they were real guitars going through Amplitube. I have not found a free electric guitar which I find is any good. However, all of the paid ones from Ample Sound are good.
@@CreativeSauce ok thanks Mike. That’s a shame, maybe it’s too complex an instrument for the plugin makers. It’s funny, I was listening closely as you talked through the different instruments and then you mentioned rhythm and lead and I thought finally I’m going to find a great guitar. Not to be! Oh well let’s both keep looking!
@@andyhampton1338 hi Andy there is a Japanese company that has some really good free electric guitars bass and other instruments which run win sforzando. They have some really good articulations and sound. Recently used one in a production and it sounded great. The companies name is Unreal Instruments.
i tried ssd5 but found it too complicated as i am not a drummer and couldn't find a tutorial, so i use MT-Powerdrumkit which is free and still allows you to assign each instrument to a track so you can control the sounds. The standard sound isn't bad either
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While I miss the days of sitting on the edge of your seat as you go through a take with your band and hope that everyone gets a "good take" at the same time, These days we are blessed to be able to create the whole thing with patience and imagination. But I fear we lost something when we quit working as a group. However, I do love the tools we have today. I go back to the first studio I worked in. It had two Ampex two track recorders and an overdub was when you fed one machine into the board with whatever you were overdubbing and caught it on the other Ampex. Had to do the entire song of course. No selective punch ins per se. That was accomplished by taking the best parts of multiple takes and splicing them together using a razor blade and a splicing block. My how times have changed. Now, depending on the strength of your computer, we basically have unlimited tracks that can be manipulated in all sorts of ways. No razor blade needed lol! Love what you do! Thank you!
Don't miss those days at all. Philosophical discussions on why the drummer must double time in the middle of a song, late singers who never bothered to learn the lyrics, tape hiss, side players who play wrong on purpose for the overtime pay, "talent" flexes ego on my dime, diagonal splices of tape, etc. I am blessed to live in a time where it is all gone.
Have you heard of endlesss studio? Free software that is unique tech but more importantly to me, is bringing back that joy of working together
I can't believe how good that sounds. And with free plugins?! Aren't we blessed as home recordists?
Thank you, and yes, we certainly are!
People spend a lot of money on plugins hoping they will be a magic button to fix their sound and they never are. Some of the best plugins are the free ones!
@@hannahmillington5781 Having done some tape recording in the 80s I'm flabbergasted at how much good free stuff is out there now inc Cakewalk, Hydrogen Drums, Audacity and loads of instruments.
I love what you did here. What a great arrangement and use of some superb plugins. I think you need to identify your favourite free reverb and delay plugins next!
A great idea, and thank you :)
Very nice way to conclude with a beautiful piece of music showcasing all the plugins presented before. Amazing!
Glad you like it Raphael!
Wow, this is the most useful approach to a “best plugin” video. Thanks, I am going to comeback to this a couple times since you put so much good info in one place. Really nice tune, too.
Why cant I like this video more than once ?
I love your musicality and content on your channel !
Thank you Daniel - you are very kind.
I love it when you tell us about all the cool free stuff! Thanks.
And I love telling you!
If I made the same video, I'd showcase the same free plug-ins. Stellar job Mike 👌
Lol, cheers Ron :)
You’re the best Mike! Great to have you back and making awesome content.
I appreciate that!
I've been using the TDR plugins for quite awhile. I actually bought the paid versions recently (there was a sale!) I like the Ample guitars too. For imaging I used A!Stereo Control (Alex Hilton) for a long time. It allows you to reduce the bass content from 500 Hz and below.
Nice tip thank you!
Nice video as always. And I've this very special respect for you channel because, it's your channel I got to know about cakewalk.
Thank you so much its appreciated!
I. Love. Cakewalk.
I have to say Valhalla’s Supermassive is one of the best freebies I have ever come across. So lush!
Yet another fantastic informative video Mike, I’m working my way through all your videos on cakewalk at the moment, they are just brilliant. Thank you 🙏
Glad you like them! Thank you Andy :)
@@CreativeSauce they’re brilliant, I’ll be getting my new setup soon and found your videos invaluable. I’ve been treating them like an online course I’ve learned so much, so thanks again
Vital is definitely my go to I have been using it for about a year now, I love it so much I will be naming a song after it
Love all the selections! All of them... I would Add Klanghelm's Mjuc jr's compressor and Oril River reverb... I can't live withouth those and many of the ones in this list such as SSD drums
Great pick! I also own the majority of these plug-ins. By the way, I can highly recommend the entire FX Bundle from Sonic Anomaly. TDR NOVA & Kotelnikov are my stars - especially when it comes to mastering. Your demo song sounds great. Thanks a lot for the video! :)
My fav is the BBC Orchestra plugin. I couldn't find another like it for free. Special shout out to Guy Michelmore, whose videos gave me the tip. I'm gonna check out that amp sim and some of the compressors. Thanks for the informative videos!
Agree, Guy is awesome!
You no longer have to wait for 14 days for the Spitfire Audio. I just downloaded it 2 days ago. It still goes to your e-mail, but now it's instant! It sounds amazing!!! Considering the fact that I've seen some orchestras from them that are up to around $3,500, it's awesome that this one is free. It sounds professional enough.
BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover is the best! the instruments are panned as if you were sitting in the audience listening to an orchestra, so it really gives off that authentic orchestra feel in the mix. it's my go-to plugin for symphonic/cinematic stuff.
PS pretty much everything Spitfire Audio does is high-quality and on a different level. LABS absolutely sound amazing, easy to use, and they're free! LABS drums, in my opinion, is one of the best drum plugins out there. i've got all the LABS instruments and they've pretty much removed any need to get other instrument plugins. I love you, Spitfire Audio.
Awesome Mike! Have you used anything from Analog Obsession yet? I have to say, the Channev channel strip is my go to right now. Unreal how it is a free plug in. Would love to hear you review some of his plug-ins!
i haven't used any of these plugins but your mix sounded great even through youtube
Great thanks, plug ins clearly have come a long way. Some smashing stuff on here, cheers
Thank you!
Not just a good choice of free plugins - nice playing Mike!!
Hey thank you Ross!
Cheers for the vid. Got myself some good plugs off the back of this that I never realised where free!
✌🏼😎👍🏼
Solid list of free plugins. Looking forward to implementing some of these soon! Thanks for the ideas!
Thanks Mike. All been in my draw for many years.
Thanks Vatche :)
Great video again Mike and beautiful played and produced too.
I have almost all of the plugins mentioned. My go-tos are usually:
Ample Guitar M Lite
Spitfire BBC Symphony Orchestra
TDR Kotelnikov
Keyzone Classic Piano
Thank Adam :) Keyzone is really versatile for sure.
Vital uses a *lot* of CPU but sounds absolutely GREAT!! 🙂 For adding width, I prefer "DSPplug Blumlein Haas" over Ozone Imager, bc it sounds most pleasant to me among all free alternatives I know.
Very cool Mike, well done. Really good to see you back. Thanks for sharing.
Really enjoy the Frontier limiter. Great for pushing a compressor into filthy saturation, or as a last compression/limiting stage on my master bus.
Great rundown....and a beautiful piece of mudic!
Thanks a lot for this awesome video (and the awesome demo-song) !! Great plug-ins and great vst instruments, definately. I would have been very happy, if you would have had added some "before-after" comparisons with the effects-plugins. But nonetheless a great video.
Fantastic video and pretty much exactly what I was looking for, thanks Mike!
My compliments to SSD5, Ample Guitar and Spitfire. I use all of them often. They really make the difference. Thanks Master. Like and Subscribed
Thank you!
Great video Mike - thanks. Liked your slip into Yorkshire dialect when you said the doubler switch gives the Martin Lite ' a right nice wide stereo feed' ;-)
Lol, gonna need to watch that again now! Thanks Joe :)
@@CreativeSauce You'll be singing 'Ilkley Moor baht 'at' before you know it. :-) Hope things are going ok
Thanks Joe. I guess, as we as can be expected, but fun to make a video.
@@CreativeSauce It's good to see you. One step at a time mate.
TDR Nova has been on literally every production I've made since I heard of it.
The option to actually show you what it's cutting gives you SO MUCH CONTROL.
I found it when I needed a way to cut certain clicky sounds my bass was making on certain notes. It cut those frequencies only after they became too loud, otherwise leaves them alone allowing me to have my cake and eat it too!
a great use case scenario thanks. I similarly use it of acoustic guitar when my percussive slaps get out of control.
@@CreativeSauce Exactly! Before TDR Nova I tried simply EQ-ing those frequencies out, but it changed the sound and I thought to myself "If only I could EQ those frequencies only when they show up" :D
Thank you very much. I just started making my music and, as a beginer, I found this video very helpful. With it, at least, I have a good starting point. You've got my thumbs up!
Great episode, Mike! These are all great plugins! This was very helpful. Thanks Mike!
You've got a nice Wishbone Ash vibe going on that tune Mike!
great concept to introduce the plugins by creating a song. black and white for bypass also cool.
THANK YOU for posting this, I am now subscribed! Cheers
I enjoyed it so much that I hit the like button twice
Lol :)
Best free EQ is EQium - unlimited bell curves, sensitive low-high pass and it's got a volume control. If you've got something that doesn't have CC Changes, it's darned useful to have a volume control for it, even if onlon the E.Q. Chris.
damn ample guitar sounds BEAUUTIFUULL
excellent video
the sample song is so creative, so inspiring
thank you
Verry Good and verry helpfull... i love all your videos... Thaks for sharing all this... God Blessyou so much... keep it up bro, keep that good work... you dont only teach and help us, you also inspire us... Thank you...
Nice video... I liked the limiter 👍
Thanks 👍
kotelnikov is a super transparent compressor whereas molotok will introduce more character and saturation to the sound, In The Mix made an amazing video about them!
I am new to your channel.
The 'click the dislike button twice' comment compelled me to sub - was hilarious, never heard that before!
Was a helpful video.
Pure gold. So thanks my friend.
Great sounding song, mix, and selection! ..I saw someone mention this company below but it deserves another, Analog Obsession, it’s unreal that he’s giving his plugins for free, they sound absolutely Amazing and there are so many!
I love playing musical instruments!!!! I do it every day
You should!
That sounds amazing! Thanks for your video
Amazing video mate. Big thumb up 😉👍
Thanks Mike! Terrific as always.
Thank you David :)
Great video, I don’t know what it is about Melda Productions plug-ins but they look so visually off putting? And the paid ones are so expensive. But hey you can’t complain with the free ones.
The Meldaproduction plug-ins' look can be made much more appealing with some adjustment to the "style" (or skin) and colors. Unfortunately the default style and color are pretty unattractive, IMO. One of the first things I do when setting them up for other people is switch to the Argon style.
Super vid Mike yet again you've saved me some money :)
Lol - so you owe me now? :p
Hello sir, Spitfire Audio LABS can very well get a place here! Hope you are well! 😊
Yup LABS absolutely rocks the Free PlugIn thing too - such an amazing variety of instruments (for want of a better description) the only limits are hard drive space and your imagination!
@@electricaardvark trueee!
Great stuff! Yeah the TDR ones for me too, very much agree, especially NOVA. Also I've found myself using a lot of the LABS stuff from spitfire audio recently. For compressors I tend to use some of the klanghelm freebies too which I think are great for something a bit different.
This is exactly what I was looking for!
great work finding the plugins
Great sounding demo, nice video
All really great plugins. Nice demo song. For the acoustic guitar on the song: Some reverb would make it sound more natural, especially since it's the dominant sound at the beginning of the piece. Oril Reverb is a very good free reverb. In the context of this piece, dial down the high frequencies. Voxengo's Old School Verb is really good too.
Merci cher Monsieur!
Free, I’d say the P bass from Ample Sound is a winner, as far as what I’ve tried. I bought 3 of their basses after using that one for a while.
I love free VSTs/plugins... especially when they are excellent (of course, not all free plugins are great). I also believe that we should support the makers of these plugins. So, as and when funds become available, I try to donate or buy the upgrades of these plugins. And right now, Tokyo Dawn is having a sale on their plugins... 120 Euros for their Everything bundle... I just helped myself to that great deal - and I know now that I will not regret it.
Hey Mike thank you so much for your impressive video sir, i like your song too, thats lovely.
I already have half of these plug-ins & i couldn't agree more with your choice. The ones which i do not have look awesome too, thank you for sharing your selection, much appreciated. I like the sound of that bass guitar plug-in, awesome.
My "can't do without plug-in" from your list is most probably TDR Nova or TDR Kotelnikov.
Missed out are Analog Obsession (on Patreon) including Specomp, BPB Rare (Pultec EQ), very nice plug-ins imao.
I hope your injury is healing well & your not in too much pain, bless you & kind regards, keep well ☘️😉💛
Would have pick the very same ! Great vid :)
Haha, cheers Simon!
Very good presentation, innovative way to do this
Hi Mike.
You definitely have to check out the other Sonic Anomaly plugins.
Nonetheless, great selection.
Hey, I looked for this company and their website no longer works. Looks like they may be out of business. I was surprised I’d not heard of them.
@@phadrus you can still find them here plugins4free.com/dev/565/
What a fabulous piano!!
I love the Amplitube Metal collection but I have to say, the Amp sim that comes with Cakewalk is a great option too. It's very versatile and sounds awesome. The only drawback I found is the user interface is kinda hard to use.
Great video thank you. Have you looked into endlesss studio at all? Would love to see a walkthrough of that
Hi, I'm not sure if Addictive drums 2 still comes with Cakewalk or not, it was included with Sonar at no additional cost, but I think I prefer it to SSD5. The Tokyo dawn products are wonderful, for no cost you can't beat them in my opinion as well, along with Voxengo products. Although the Span, Span plus and really all the Voxengo products are not much to look at, but in terms of functionality they are also superior for the no cost units. I'm looking forward to trying Unlimited, as I have only just been acquainted to it here, thanks for that. I like your demo, nice little piece. So thanks for your fine work, looking forward to more.
Ron J.
Hey Mike. Thank you for you tutorials. Are you using just a keyboards to play those Midi instruments (bass, guitars drums etc)
Great tutorial and well done
Thank you Paul.
Really nice choice of plugins! As for console-style saturation, I'd go with IVGI by Klanghelm.
Great video Mike - you missed off the best free plugin of all time..OTT by Xfer !
Oooo - I'll look into that!
@@CreativeSauce Use it sparingly..the default preset is set to 100% which annihilates the signal !..You have to dial it back.
I would 2nd this. Also, one of the few free plugins with upward compression.
@@phadrus Also one of the few free plugins that you regularly see used by pro mixers/producers
Mike, Thoroughly enjoy your videos. Question: I have had a Yamaha Tyros 4 keyboard for a number of years. Can it be connected to my computer in such a way that, when I want to use a VST in Cakewalk, I can play the sounds of the VST using the actual keys on my Tyros 4 keyboard?
All the TDR stuff is vital. OTT is also great!
This was a great video, very helpful, thank you! I think OTT by Xfer should have been mentioned as well; it's great for sculpting the sound of a single track, and indispensable as part of an Mastering chain.
Thanks again for awesome video!
My pleasure :)
Thank you a lot for all these great recommendations. Do you know, if all the plugins you showed support NKS? For me and many other blind music producers this feature is very important, because we often work with NI's keyboard controllers which provide a voice assistant for blind people and over the browser from the keyboard the VSTs and their presets get accessible. So if you know something about that, I'd be grateful, if you shared your knowledge.
Very well done! Thank you so much!
The other free Tokyo Dawn plug is a series of EQ, not sure if they're supposed to be channel sims, but they include a "warming" control. They're right up there with Waves imo. This EQ comes in different layouts, such as "USA" "UK" , and the one I like best just bcos it's so funny and crazy, is "Soviet" mode. Who of us don't look up to rock's "Russian Invasion" as one of the eras of rock we derive much influence from even to this day, right? 🤣
For me, the plugin I cant do without is Amplifier by IK. The amps sound so good that I'm about to buy some of the other amps available.
👍👍👍👍 Very good choice. There is also Sinefactory by Orchestral tools its awesome
Slate Drums, Spitfire BBC, and TDR Nova would definitely be among my favorite free plugins. The Ample Bass is great too, but I'm a bassist and would rather just play my own "real" bass.
A few other free plugins I use constantly are Kiive Audio Warmy EP1A and the Kit Burier. The Warmy is a Pultec style EQ. I put it on bass, drums, and the master bus. It's probably my favorite plugin, period. The Kit Burier is an awesome saturation plugin. There are about half a dozen more I could name. I have a lot of plugins I paid for, but I end up using free ones just as often.
I'm using amplitude and it's very extensive for a free vst.
The cab section is great, but with sum good IRS it becomes a monster,. I play old school metal, cause I'm old, always used big valve amps, usually Marshall or mesa, but I'm completely sold on amplitude.
The mesa pack sounds insanity good.
Thankyou #ikmultimedia
And thankyou Mike for all the in-depth videos,
You have helped me so much, navigate CAKEWALK.
And help me produce sum quality tracks.
So thankyou good sir,👍
I think Klanghelm offers also some great free versions of it‘s paid plugins like Tokyo Dawn does.
Surge is also another great synth to use those not as visual as Vital
Fantastic video. Thanks!
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Hi Mike - some good suggestions here - I'm moving onto the mixing stages in Cakewalk so might give the mastering effects a try. Just wondering whether you know of a good free jazz rock flute vst? I've used Ixox which is quite good but cant get the articulations working in Cakewalk. Some favourite instruments I use include dvs saxaphone (gritty tenor sax), DSK range of saxes.TPS Brass, SIM Clav by Quilcom clavichord/clavinet and Ticky Clav and particularly Hanon B70 Hammond B3 emulation and Velvet elect pianos - the pianet is quite useful for a lighter sound. So many to choose from so little time. PS my other half reckons you sound like Jason Donovan.
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Hi Mike, great video and sounds amazing. Question though. What about the rhythm guitar and lead? Did you use real instruments for those and then feed them through Amplitube? Are there any instrument plugins that you would recommend for electric guitar. There seem to be so many options for acoustic guitar, bass and piano but I’m always struggling with electric guitar. Thanks in advance for any recommendations (and apologies if anyone above already asked this - your videos are so popular there are too many comments to scroll through!)
Hi Andy. Yeah, they were real guitars going through Amplitube. I have not found a free electric guitar which I find is any good. However, all of the paid ones from Ample Sound are good.
@@CreativeSauce ok thanks Mike. That’s a shame, maybe it’s too complex an instrument for the plugin makers. It’s funny, I was listening closely as you talked through the different instruments and then you mentioned rhythm and lead and I thought finally I’m going to find a great guitar. Not to be! Oh well let’s both keep looking!
Or alternatively I should just cough up some $ for the Ample guitar ones…
@@andyhampton1338 hi Andy there is a Japanese company that has some really good free electric guitars bass and other instruments which run win sforzando. They have some really good articulations and sound. Recently used one in a production and it sounded great. The companies name is Unreal Instruments.
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A plug in I like on the master is fresh air, slate digital Glass House Edition 😁
i tried ssd5 but found it too complicated as i am not a drummer and couldn't find a tutorial, so i use MT-Powerdrumkit which is free and still allows you to assign each instrument to a track so you can control the sounds. The standard sound isn't bad either