Only been working in the box for 4yrs, but spent 30yrs+ before that working 100% analogue. Love ProtoVerb and the TDR/VladG stuff.. ~ I'm no pro, just a well-weathered hobbyist. Still, i would strongly recommend auditioning some *Airwindows* plugs, if you haven't already. ToTape5, BussColors4, CStrip, Channel7, Desk4, Density, NC-17, SoftGate, PyeWacket ClipOnly, Monitoring (redux) and Logical4 are all good places to start, - saturation is a key element for me, and *Airwindows* is easily among the best developers out there for tone, texture and simplicity, - couldn't work ITB without them... ~love to ALL, feel no hate~
Ignite Amps Emissary 2 is probably my favourite free high gain amp sim. I have a few paid ones but I still gravitate towards it for lead guitars. Couple it with the free Catharsis IR and you can get some killer tones.
Along with Groove Agent in Cubase (and ancient work with Rebirth), I've tried: Addictive Drums (1 & 2; both sound horrible to me). fxpansion BFD (1st version; one of the earliest virtual drum kits with surround samples & the mixer section is nice). East West ProDrummer (good if you already have East West collections and use their their Play engine a lot; Pro Drummer sounds very good and has some nice features, and the Play engine has a built in SSL style mixing console + Buss Compressor, + an excellent True Stereo convolution reverb w/ both classic Lexicon impulses and natural hall / location impulses, impeccably produced - some impulses were captured at multiple angles and sound truly jaw dropping - and Play has a great search & rating feature to find your favorite patches quickly). Toontrack EZDrummer (1 and 2) & Superior Drummer 2 & 3 (flexible, with very good sounds and a lot of grooves; SD3 has an incredible array of features). Steven Slate SSD (4 & 5) Platinum. Superior Drummer 3 is incredibly detailed and flexible; the core set offers a wide array of drums to choose from, all with close sounds, overhead, room and 11.2 ambient surround sample sets, which you can choose not to install if you don't do surround work. Its built in drum replacement tool is one of the best available, though a bit complicated to work with; it comes with a huge number of Midi Grooves, which you can rate, categorize, edit and assemble; the standalone version has both midi and audio export features (and the audio can be either stereo or individual tracks); it has a whole section designed to quickly set up and fine tune triggering from an electronic drum kit, and the mixer has an incredible array of features and great sounding plugins. That said, there's something about the sound of the Steven Slate drums that are (IMO) incredibly natural and sit nicely in a mix with minimal processing. Despite the wide range of drums and huge number of samples in SD3, the fact that most of the drums were recorded by George Massenburg and the substantial feature set, I usually reach for SSD first; Steven's drums sounds seem more 'natural' and relaxed (in a good way); the cymbals in particular sound really nice, IMO; most of the competitor's cymbal sets seem a bit strident and overly dominating, as if they are trying too hard to get an 'in your face' sound - which is not always appropriate. The only downside w SSD is the limited choice of drums; even the Platinum version w the CLA drums; but there is enough variety to meet the needs of most composers and producers; unless you are running a pro studio with a lot of demanding artists, chances are the Steven Slate drums will do what you need. If you are looking for just one virtual drum collection to invest in, I'd start with Steven Slate or Toontrack - listen to the demos, go through the feature sets, and decide which one best meets your needs.
Great video thanks for sharing these! I'm always trying to find new VSTs to try out and was really impressed with the sound of Piano One. However, I do prefer Addictive Keys. Keep on making videos!
Kotelnikov , Nova , LoudMax , Dragobfly Reverb , Antress Modern Deathcore (compressor) are my person favs. Great video. I immediately downloaded Protoverb while watching this. Seems really interesting.
Awesome content again Creative Sauce! Thank you so much! I hope you create a content/video that you mixed your subscriber song from start to finished so that we will know your decision making in terms of using EQ and Compressor.
@@CreativeSauce Yeah actually, I would love to send some of my ridiculously mixed songs which I have a ton of xD.. But awesome vid, brother.. I subbed you, and clicked the bell icon just as you were saying us to, haha.. And I loved the outro though, click the dislike twice xDxD... Cheers!!!
Well done again Mike. One plugin I would add is what I wrote to you about once earlier and that is the Youlean LUFS Meter. Very easy to use and very helpful to get overall levels right and get consistent loudness across your tracks.
As always, Great video Mike! It did bring to mind the question of whatever happen to many of the plug-ins that came with the old Sonar versions? There were several synths that were truly epic, and I miss them. I guess you can't have everything.
I don't know how long it's been around, and I'm pretty sure everybody knows about it, but... Limiter No6 Many times, I have used only this to master a well mixed track.
Your tutorials and reviews have been consistently and unimaginably helpful as I scour your channel for more content that I search for. And I somehow didn't subscribe yet? Yeah I have no excuse for that. Thanks so much for your videos, and subbed!
Hi Mike. Another nicely done video. I found a company called Soundtoys which have some nice plugins. These are not free unfortunately but you can trial their products for 30 days. I particularly like the drum enhancer called Devil Loc and their EQ called Sie-Q. I'd love to hear your opinion of these plugins. Take care my friend.
So what's the box under my tree? I was convinced it was Spitfire Audio's BBC Symphony Orchestra on a 2 Terrabite SSD and a copy of Pro Tools....Please highlight this comment so her to the left of my profile picture reads this comment!
Great video, thanks. Here are a few of my suggestions. Melda Production have some great free stuff. I'm using their pluggers a lot. Impact Soundworks Shreddage 3 is a very competent bass guitar plugin. TAL Juno Chorus sounds lovely. Finally Sitala is a brilliant quick 'n' easy sample player that I absolutely love. Hope this helps. :-)
Hi Mike... thanx for this great video. I am using Cakewlk by Bandlab and I hope you can help me with a problem, because I found no solution so far: I downloaded the free Ample Guitar M Lite. It sounds great and provides a lot of features, but: I do not succeed in dragging chord related patterns from the strummer section to the host. Example: I want to use Chords 1 - 4 from the chord bank with pattern 7. So I click chord 1 and I drag the pattern to the track. It plays ok. Then I drag the other three chords/patterns to the track in the same way. Now there are four clips in the track, but when played there is no chord change. Chord #1 will be played four times. Then I watched another tutorial about the necessarity of triggering each chord. I did as shown marked the trigger notes in Piano-roll (c1 for chord #1, c1# for chord #2 etc.) no result , it doesn't work. I dont have a midi keyboard. What do I do wrong? Or does the free version of Ample Guitar not provide these features? Greetings from Germany... Berry
Hi, very Good video! I want to buy the Sound Magic Ruby Grand, because I love Yamaha pianos (specially the CFX). Do you think this is a good invest? I actually have Pianoteq 6 ( but I doesn’t have the CFX).
Hey, installed StevenSlateDrums5, downloaded the free content packs, and navigated the instruments browser to where I put those, and hit the refresh button... but no samples show up. According to the instrument's manual that should be all I need to do... unless I'm missing something it thought too obvious to mention? I'm sure some folks here have tried it -- anybody have an idea what that obvious thing might be?
SurgeVST / HelmVST / Synth1 are the three best free synth VST's available. Surge is fucking awesome it has 6 oscillators which you can mix FM, Wavetable, and your classic wave forms in any way you like plus an added modulator at the bottom, with a huge range of inbuilt FX and stereo mixing, you can imitate nearly any sound, for free. surge-synthesizer.github.io/
best plugins? All in Samplitude prox 4 suite and Sequoia 15 from MAGIX and you will not neeed to download fre vst plugins which have lower quality. If you want to have something you haVE TO PAY FOR IT. It;s unfortunatelly with all things in this world
Bonjour Mike. I'm french and I understand everything you say ! Mystery ! Your channel is a model so merci beaucoup.
the first "Free VST" video where I actually went and downloaded all 5 of them , nice
Only been working in the box for 4yrs, but spent 30yrs+ before that working 100% analogue. Love ProtoVerb and the TDR/VladG stuff..
~ I'm no pro, just a well-weathered hobbyist. Still, i would strongly recommend auditioning some *Airwindows* plugs, if you haven't already.
ToTape5, BussColors4, CStrip, Channel7, Desk4, Density, NC-17, SoftGate, PyeWacket ClipOnly, Monitoring (redux) and Logical4 are all good places to start, - saturation is a key element for me, and *Airwindows* is easily among the best developers out there for tone, texture and simplicity, - couldn't work ITB without them...
~love to ALL, feel no hate~
Ignite Amps Emissary 2 is probably my favourite free high gain amp sim. I have a few paid ones but I still gravitate towards it for lead guitars. Couple it with the free Catharsis IR and you can get some killer tones.
Use the TDR NOVA eq all the time. It's also got compression.
Woaah free-amp is actually pretty sick on synths! Very nice to have, sounds clean indeed
SSD5 is amazing... Using that everyday! Also have been using that FreeG metering you mentioned in your earlier video! Thanks for that!
Along with Groove Agent in Cubase (and ancient work with Rebirth), I've tried:
Addictive Drums (1 & 2; both sound horrible to me).
fxpansion BFD (1st version; one of the earliest virtual drum kits with surround samples & the mixer section is nice).
East West ProDrummer (good if you already have East West collections and use their their Play engine a lot; Pro Drummer sounds very good and has some nice features, and the Play engine has a built in SSL style mixing console + Buss Compressor, + an excellent True Stereo convolution reverb w/ both classic Lexicon impulses and natural hall / location impulses, impeccably produced - some impulses were captured at multiple angles and sound truly jaw dropping - and Play has a great search & rating feature to find your favorite patches quickly).
Toontrack EZDrummer (1 and 2) & Superior Drummer 2 & 3 (flexible, with very good sounds and a lot of grooves; SD3 has an incredible array of features).
Steven Slate SSD (4 & 5) Platinum.
Superior Drummer 3 is incredibly detailed and flexible; the core set offers a wide array of drums to choose from, all with close sounds, overhead, room and 11.2 ambient surround sample sets, which you can choose not to install if you don't do surround work. Its built in drum replacement tool is one of the best available, though a bit complicated to work with; it comes with a huge number of Midi Grooves, which you can rate, categorize, edit and assemble; the standalone version has both midi and audio export features (and the audio can be either stereo or individual tracks); it has a whole section designed to quickly set up and fine tune triggering from an electronic drum kit, and the mixer has an incredible array of features and great sounding plugins.
That said, there's something about the sound of the Steven Slate drums that are (IMO) incredibly natural and sit nicely in a mix with minimal processing.
Despite the wide range of drums and huge number of samples in SD3, the fact that most of the drums were recorded by George Massenburg and the substantial feature set, I usually reach for SSD first; Steven's drums sounds seem more 'natural' and relaxed (in a good way); the cymbals in particular sound really nice, IMO; most of the competitor's cymbal sets seem a bit strident and overly dominating, as if they are trying too hard to get an 'in your face' sound - which is not always appropriate. The only downside w SSD is the limited choice of drums; even the Platinum version w the CLA drums; but there is enough variety to meet the needs of most composers and producers; unless you are running a pro studio with a lot of demanding artists, chances are the Steven Slate drums will do what you need.
If you are looking for just one virtual drum collection to invest in, I'd start with Steven Slate or Toontrack - listen to the demos, go through the feature sets, and decide which one best meets your needs.
Woah, this video and plugins is a gold mine!!
Great video thanks for sharing these! I'm always trying to find new VSTs to try out and was really impressed with the sound of Piano One. However, I do prefer Addictive Keys.
Keep on making videos!
Many thanks! I'm new to this and it's a very pleasant and helpful video! Thanks!!
1st view... wow!... thanks a lot for the energy this 2019!👊
Thank you for watching - I very much appreciate the support :)
Thank you soooo much! I dropped a like and subscribed! You deserve to be famous!
Kotelnikov , Nova , LoudMax , Dragobfly Reverb , Antress Modern Deathcore (compressor) are my person favs. Great video. I immediately downloaded Protoverb while watching this. Seems really interesting.
loved your channel so much and all useful tips you offer thanks a lot
Thanks Peter!
Oh !!! (Hi) - Thanks a million about u-he Protoverb, I love this room verb! Greetings from France
Awesome content again Creative Sauce! Thank you so much!
I hope you create a content/video that you mixed your subscriber song from start to finished so that we will know your decision making in terms of using EQ and Compressor.
A great idea - love it!
@@CreativeSauce Yeah actually, I would love to send some of my ridiculously mixed songs which I have a ton of xD..
But awesome vid, brother.. I subbed you, and clicked the bell icon just as you were saying us to, haha.. And I loved the outro though, click the dislike twice xDxD... Cheers!!!
Great info! +LABS!!!
THANK YOU so much for your videos! I'm just starting to learn Cakewalk and your videos have been a great resource - keep them coming!
Well done again Mike. One plugin I would add is what I wrote to you about once earlier and that is the Youlean LUFS Meter. Very easy to use and very helpful to get overall levels right and get consistent loudness across your tracks.
As always, Great video Mike! It did bring to mind the question of whatever happen to many of the plug-ins that came with the old Sonar versions? There were several synths that were truly epic, and I miss them. I guess you can't have everything.
This is great! I'll check all of them out...some of them sound genuinely amazing.
the piano sounds great
I can not understand what u explain exactly because i am korean, but i like ur channel.
It is good for me......thanks
고맙습니다 :) Thank you for watching:)
Cheers man! Straight to the point and extremely helpful. Thank you for sharing your huge experience on music business.
Thank you!
Nice list, subscribed
Thanks you!
I like your videos on free vst plugins , helps me a lot thank u
Glad you enjoyed Wombat. We live in blessed times!
I don't know how long it's been around, and I'm pretty sure everybody knows about it, but...
Limiter No6
Many times, I have used only this to master a well mixed track.
yeah and MOLOT from the same dude, puts a lot of expensive vsts to shame
Protoverb kicks fl reverb in the face. Thanks a bunch.
Have you tried out the Convolver?
Nice video. Well made, useful one!
Thx for sharing with us, always good content mate
Thanks for the reviews. My favourite free VST before I try out yours would be the Raum reverb from Native Instruments.
Your tutorials and reviews have been consistently and unimaginably helpful as I scour your channel for more content that I search for. And I somehow didn't subscribe yet? Yeah I have no excuse for that. Thanks so much for your videos, and subbed!
Nice one Mike!
Thanks Joe :) Merry Christmas!
@@CreativeSauce You too. Really appreciate everything you've done - spent more time watching tutorials than making music ;-)
Hi Mike. Another nicely done video. I found a company called Soundtoys which have some nice plugins. These are not free unfortunately but you can trial their products for 30 days. I particularly like the drum enhancer called Devil Loc and their EQ called Sie-Q. I'd love to hear your opinion of these plugins. Take care my friend.
Absolutely, Soundtoys are awesome!
Please make a video for vocal plugins also.🙏
great video
Another one. Please make a video on best vst plugings of 2020.
Great suggestions bud...
Cheers Pat. I've told you Gary Moore story to a few people. Sorry to ruin your reputation!
@@CreativeSauce You see, now I can't tell you my Sinead O'Connor story... 😂
Dude, that piano...
RoccoX95 is it Good? Can’t hear 👂
You have become my mentor. Thanks for that.
Checkout Spitfire Audio LABS, it's a great virtual instrument...
Agreed 👍
Agreed☝🏼
i gave you a sub. good info! thanks
Subbed. Happy holidays!
What is coming for free for 2020? Would like to see drums that are less acoustic and more electronic
Will take a look thanks!
Check out Cymatics free samples, They are really high-quality.
So what's the box under my tree? I was convinced it was Spitfire Audio's BBC Symphony Orchestra on a 2 Terrabite SSD and a copy of Pro Tools....Please highlight this comment so her to the left of my profile picture reads this comment!
That's probably a pack of playing cards you have there.... But I love your dream!
@@Airlane-rq9yd Lol it was just a pack of playing cards!
Great video, thanks. Here are a few of my suggestions. Melda Production have some great free stuff. I'm using their pluggers a lot. Impact Soundworks Shreddage 3 is a very competent bass guitar plugin. TAL Juno Chorus sounds lovely. Finally Sitala is a brilliant quick 'n' easy sample player that I absolutely love. Hope this helps. :-)
Haha, love your quip about hitting the dislike button twice. Awesome video! Thanks for all the good info.
What VST could I use for more realistic MIDI wind instrument sounds?
Hi Mike... thanx for this great video. I am using Cakewlk by Bandlab and I hope you can help me with a problem, because I found no solution so far:
I downloaded the free Ample Guitar M Lite. It sounds great and provides a lot of features, but: I do not succeed in dragging chord related patterns from the strummer section to the host. Example: I want to use Chords 1 - 4 from the chord bank with pattern 7. So I click chord 1 and I drag the pattern to the track. It plays ok. Then I drag the other three chords/patterns to the track in the same way. Now there are four clips in the track, but when played there is no chord change. Chord #1 will be played four times.
Then I watched another tutorial about the necessarity of triggering each chord. I did as shown marked the trigger notes in Piano-roll (c1 for chord #1, c1# for chord #2 etc.) no result , it doesn't work. I dont have a midi keyboard. What do I do wrong? Or does the free version of Ample Guitar not provide these features?
Greetings from Germany... Berry
thank you so much
Thank you so much!
Thanks
Does it work online all through.
hello. I use cubase10 and auto tune pro. Can you give me the free vst for vocal processing. Send the free vst download link. Thanks
This SSD one or Groove Agent in Cubase? :)
creative sauce is burning me i think i need some water
Whoa!
Hi, very Good video! I want to buy the Sound Magic Ruby Grand, because I love Yamaha pianos (specially the CFX). Do you think this is a good invest? I actually have Pianoteq 6 ( but I doesn’t have the CFX).
hi, i search downloading piano one, but impossible to offical website. you have google drive downloading plz?
thankyou.......
Are All plugins for 32 bits ?
Will it work on cubes 5
So are thes for fruity loops
Hi, yes VSTs work for Fruity Loops!
Never heard that hit the dislike button twice, that's funny
english?
@@prodbysteexy Yes, it is English. Thank you for asking. I realize I forwent the conventional grammar for a moment there.
@@whoeverofhowevermany "Never heard that hit"
@@prodbysteexy I've never heard that "hit the dislike twice" thing before. That was funny.
@@whoeverofhowevermany imagine
Everything's free if you know where to look. 😎
Or only 64 bits?
Can these vsts be downloaded to Ableton Live Lite?
Yes, they should work in every DAW
Keep the gems coming mate 😄
SSD 5
Yeah, I really like them. Also they updated them recently
I have NO IDEA why that algorithmic reverb is ALWAYS mentioned... It sounds terrible xD
Maybe with some eq and mixing it won’t sound horrible
Jeweled where is the point of using it then?
Julius Kettner If it works in-context, that's all that matters.
There are better free reverbs.
@@JayTheLane name some names i'm curious to check more out!
Labs from Spitfire
Yes, good choice!
Hey, installed StevenSlateDrums5, downloaded the free content packs, and navigated the instruments browser to where I put those, and hit the refresh button... but no samples show up. According to the instrument's manual that should be all I need to do... unless I'm missing something it thought too obvious to mention?
I'm sure some folks here have tried it -- anybody have an idea what that obvious thing might be?
You must GET Admiral Quality Naive LPF O.6, analog model filter with envelope follower plugin ! Free 😁 wait until you hear it ! OMG !
You forgot about "Keyzone Classic" vst...
Hit the dislike button twice.. rofl. I wonder if anyone actually fell for that.
that line itself deserves a like on the video.
SurgeVST / HelmVST / Synth1 are the three best free synth VST's available. Surge is fucking awesome it has 6 oscillators which you can mix FM, Wavetable, and your classic wave forms in any way you like plus an added modulator at the bottom, with a huge range of inbuilt FX and stereo mixing, you can imitate nearly any sound, for free. surge-synthesizer.github.io/
The best things in life aren’t always free
That's very true. Not only that, but some bought items are not the best either!
Creative Sauce I guess this is where we agree to disagree lol jk
"Hit dislike twice" Well played, sir.
So Beautiful
#mixingmastersupport
Hey ^^
Hey MC!
Lol, why am I watching this? I’m meant to be organizing my collection of reaktor synths 🤣
best plugins? All in Samplitude prox 4 suite and Sequoia 15 from MAGIX and you will not neeed to download fre vst plugins which have lower quality. If you want to have something you haVE TO PAY FOR IT. It;s unfortunatelly with all things in this world
Dont underestimate free. That U-He reverb sounded great.
Go for key step
Is this the guy from Home alone?
Haha hit the dislike twice. Nice one
SSD5 free version sucks.... Next !
SSUSAGE FATTENER
Thank you so much!