🔥 DAW plugins vs purchased plugins? What do you think?

@priawanwibisono2261

3 жыл бұрын

As a beginner I tried to focus with stock plugin first. While there are Serum or Echoboy, I'll stick with Wavetable and Echo to really master it first. Even I still don't understand some plugin specifically compressor, I can't tell the difference from your video (maybe because I'm using phone speaker). But I heard Glue Compressor is nice enough so I don't need buy anything. Oh, maybe vocal processor though, I'm eyeing Ovox or Vocalsynth and waiting real discount

@jloiben12

3 жыл бұрын

It depends. For example, I use Presonus’s fat channel a lot for recording. But when I mix I primarily use Plugin Alliance, Izotope, and Soundtoys. Almost all of my instrument plugins are purchased (Arturia V collection, Korg Triton, Spitfire Audio, and Ample Sound)

@vinylstudi0

3 жыл бұрын

Ableton Daw plugins aren't bad

@briand1579

3 жыл бұрын

I love ableton and its plugins but visually the aren’t so nice and you can’t float or resize them... my eyes aren’t so great and they can be hard for me to read for this reason I use mostly 3rd party aside from eq8 and auto filter..... however I will say the max for live lfo tool has become necessity for me

@juansebastianmusician

3 жыл бұрын

For instruments I'd go without doubt for external plugins. For effects I think is okay to start with stock plugins, and also they have better cpu usage. But with the time, I think is really nice to try external plugins to improve workflow, discovering new sounds and stay creative 😄

I love how quick paced this video is, no time wasted, straight to the point. 🔥🔥 10/10. Always waves reverb is pretty killer

My favorite Synths are Harmor, Union, Orb Synth, Vital, and Iris 2. There's something about Granular Synthesis that's always captivated me, which is why I love Iris so much. And I love Harmor (and Morphine for that matter) for the Resynthesis capabilities. WaveTable and FM Synthesis is neat as well, which is why I also want to recommend Hybrid 3.

I love this guy, all his videos are very high quality, and he never says anything you don’t need to hear, right to the point but not vague. Also love his vibe in general. Great channel

Valhalla VintageVerb is fantastic - first $50 I spent without hesitation after trying the demo. It's so incredibly flexible and sounds super clean, I have no doubt I'll use it in every project I ever make.

You're easy to listen to. You present the material in a lucid, informative manner. Professional, creative you make learning easy! Thanks for your blessing!

Ozone took production to another level Nexus helps with generating ideas and speed It’s amazing what we can do these days

@robertlee1176

2 жыл бұрын

@@fredriksvard2603 just curious. What do you hate about it? Sound, interface, presets, all the above?

Thanks Sanjay!! Always on spot, and the friendliest presentation. It feels like home instead of a classroom!

Thanks for putting this interesting and informative video together 🙂 I think mixing utility plug-ins is another good category to add (e.g., Metric A/B for a spectrum analyzer, loudness meter, and mix comparison; Sonarworks Reference for monitor/headphone correction; and GHz Can Opener for making headphones behave more like monitors).

There is nothing more i like to see when i get home from a long day of school than a Sanjay C video!

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Haha! School first, Sanjay C next!!

Favourite Synth Sanjay is also my newest purchase, Viper. By far the best synth i've used for Hardstyle / Rave Big Room and for people who are just getting into sound design it's perfect, very easy to use. Also, as it's ( relatively ) new it's being updated and growing which means soon it'll be a competitor for any synth out there imo. Definitely more for the Harder styles but in this category, and for me personally , the best!

LOVE my arturia plugs...Pigment is LUSCIOUS, and I can pretty much get any sound out of it that i want very easily.

Excellent video. Love the previews of the different plugins and what they do.

My fav plugin in SERUM. Very easy to use, powerful, quick and light[er].

my favorite synth plugin is digits, it's a phase distortion synth that models the casio cz line and it has a really interesting and unique workflow that can create great and Interesting sounds. usually I'm wary of weird free plugins because they tend to be not great, but this one definitely is great.

Your videos are just amazing! Thank you for always giving us great content. You are an inspiration.

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Pigments doesn't get enough credit for how good of a synth it is. I was happy to see it at your #1 spot! It has a great granular synth in it, great wavetable control (not as good as serum but still good), and a huge sample library that comes with it full of one shot guitars pianos, ethnic plucked instruments, strings, foley, voice, drums, etc that are ready to go for processing. Color coded parameters is also a huge QOL I didn't know I needed and wish I had in my other main synths I use. The best part about it is that is has one of the best integrated arpeggiators I've used in any synth and is my go-to when making any arps. Huge control of individual glide, gate, and velocity steps. Capable of polyrhythmic timing of each of those parameters. And an swing knob that works in percentages instead of just on/off so it's easy to sync to my project's swing level. I haven't touched the Ableton stock arp since getting Pigments on release! Definitely worth it for just that.

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

For sure. Happy to make sure others know about it

@rowanonx5806

3 жыл бұрын

pigments so underrated. the init preset is fire in every situation and it's all around the best synth right now imo

@RSI24

2 жыл бұрын

One of the best

@switterbeet

2 жыл бұрын

and their expansions are often on sale, where you get packs with 128 Presets for 14,99€,

@RevJ7

2 жыл бұрын

Compared to Khs Phaseplant, it's literally nothing. Might as well use Massive X at that point lol .. I mean... don't. It's shit. But Pigments doesn't have half the features of Phaseplant. Hell, Harmor came out years ago, and I'd say that's also far better.

Thanks for explaining it really well! I've been putting off learning soft soft cuz it looks so intimidating but now that I easily understood the

Good to see the love for Pigments! Spire is another powerful one and there are a lot of quality soundbanks available for it

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Yes they are!

For piano I use Noire by NI. It sounds so good, and it has amazing built-in effects. 👍

great video! im super amazed of this quality of videos being your first one, keep going and youll make it far! :D

thank u soo much it helped a lot

Soundtoys are amazing, Valhalla is amazing for the money! Nexus is inspirational, LFO tool by Xfer is vital. Acustica make the best Eq plug ins but are a little unstable, so bouncing is required

Learn your DAW. It's more powerful than you might think.

@aquaticborealis4877

3 жыл бұрын

This is true

@hectorheckler6327

3 жыл бұрын

Facts.

@adityabali1939

3 жыл бұрын

*Cries in audacity*

@mgband

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed… but a sprinkling of Valhalla stuff never hurts.

@christianschroer1999

3 жыл бұрын

And a Lot of the Stock Things are enough. Learn them First before using fancy plugins.

Woah, great video mate!

@SanjayC

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Music Production Nerd!

Thanks for the tutorial

thank you so much for mentioning pigments.. my new love

Wanted to pet you know that your videos really help me! Thanks.

You are amazing, all yoy videos are so profesional. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

you helped me a lot w my home studio! thank you for that. all of your video are straight to the point and that's cool

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome

This was really good. One of the best Plug-ins videos I have seen.

@SanjayC

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

I don’t have any other Valhalla plugins but Shimmer is absolute killer. Definitely worth checking out especially if you do ambient instrumental kinda stuff!

So helpful!

Best sounding vst - REPRO 1 and 5. Most versatile and easy to use - Serum. Those three are my favs

Thanks lot Sir.. You helping us..

I'm amazed at how few pros mention UVI. They have great sample libraries and plugin Fx. I'm in love with Spitfire Audio STRINGS

@alchemistrpm82

3 жыл бұрын

Man, I wish Falcon was a lil cheaper. UVI do make amazing stuff in general.

@flowmaka

3 жыл бұрын

They have some great synths that I use a lot!

Valhalla Vintage reverb is my favorite reverb 😍

Awesome! As always to the point and no bs!!

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!

Thanks for the video Sanjay! You’re hands down one of the best artists and people in the game. Peace

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

So nice of you

Thanks a lot man. Just subscribed to your channel because of the helpful advice.

Thanks a lot bro very nice video

I love your videos! Thanks for sharing the knowledge as always 🙏🏻

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Those acoustic piano plugs are pure 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👏

Awesome video! Quality , content , straight to the point ! Subscribed

@SanjayC

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you xxjonlp!

When it comes to Delays, man been a fan of H Delay from Waves for a long time. Does pretty much everything from straight Ping Pongs to really weird stuff.

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

H-delay is a studio standard for sure

beginners. Thank you so much! x

Wow what an acNice tutorialevent! Best of luck for the rest of your future, I’m looking forward to being able to invest when I turn 21 in November!

It's a no-brainer ... Thanks 👍👍👍 Love you work ...

Thank you very much. I need that vintage reeverb. Thanks a lot 🙏🙏🙏

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Great video, lot's of good info !!

Wow this is a reallly good list

you my man made my life, thank you for helping us with our dreams :)

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

Hello, it worked, thank you so much

With Surge and Vital synths for free, they compare and are in some cases better than Pigments or Massive. Vital has very similar visual modulation UI, which helps a ton when creating patches. They will become more and more popular over time.

Thanks a lot for sharing!! As a newbie I was kinda lost and didnt know what to buy and where to start at all😂 This vid really helped👍👍

Good stuff Jay, thanks

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

🙏🏼

my favorite synth plugin is the TAL-U-NO-LX, a emulation of the juno 60!

Thanks for the video! Those waves all-in-one vocal plugins looks so tempting 😄 I would add Izotope Neutron, it really helped me to understand in a graphic way how compression works.

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Lots of people like Neutron. Izotope really gets those types of plugins right!

Thanks a lot for sharing your work experience.

Tone2's Electra has some amazing user created expansion packs with crazy sound design.

I like plugins from Analog Obsession, they,re free yes but they model so many great vintage analog and as somebody who used a lot of waves stuff and ssl stuff before I left the studio I was working at, compared to those analog obsession stuff especially the LOADED 500 series vst and the BUSTERe which is an SSL bus comp emulation are excellent

Awesome picks!

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mike!! :-D

YESSS!! I NEED TO DECIDE PAID PLUGINS NOW & YOU JUST SHOWED US! THANK U TO BE PART OF OUR PLANS SANJAY!!❤

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Rion! These should be among the first you check out. Don't need to buy them all at once, but make sure you check out Ozone by Izotope.

@theBbOoSSss

3 жыл бұрын

what kind of music you make?

You're awesome thank you

thank you so much for thiss

straight to the point.

Great video. I enjoy using EZ keys for my Rhodes they sound amazing

Wowww thanks for this

@SanjayC

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

ank u for this ❤❤

THANK YOU SO SO MUCH

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

I have been using sononym for my sample manager - it’s more of a curator actually and great for people who have a lot of samples/loops as it has top notch similarity searching. I also second some of the comments on shaper box 2. Super intuitive and very powerful.

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

great video!

Wonderful!

Sunjay, you are too good to explain and help others. Keep it up bro..

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

TNice tutorials comnt from you is legendary. Uncomplicated like your video!!!

This is good information.

My favourites Best lofi saturation: RC - 20 and Decimort Best piano: Addictive Keys Best synth: Phaseplant (because of the synth itself) and Serum (because there are tons of Serum preset packs out there that are amazing) Reverb: Valhalla Vintage Verb

@rowanonx5806

3 жыл бұрын

whaaat im not the only one who uses decimort? amazing. great choice in plugins tho

@dr.roadbeats6605

3 жыл бұрын

@@rowanonx5806 thanks bro

@s4kib

3 жыл бұрын

Best room reverb: Raum by Native Instruments. It's one of the most beautiful sounding reverbs I've ever heard

@dr.roadbeats6605

3 жыл бұрын

@@s4kib thanks, I'll try it!

@eartimevibes5994

3 жыл бұрын

I quite like phaseplant still learning it really but you can do a few bits with it and the sounds aren't too bad, I recently got serum but now on the hunt for presets. Hopefully I won't get addicted to presets as I am to samples 🤣🤣🤣😂

I purchased IK Multimedia Total Studio 2 max when it was in promo ... Never looked back. The value is insane.

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, they've included great plugins in that bundle

its priceless. the slickness and the passion of the devs. priceless. what is cheaper and better than soft? Piracy is NOT the answer if you

My top favorite synths on my machine are Pigments, U-He Diva, and U-He Zebra. I also just recently acquired XO. THE BEST DECISION EVER!! For pianos I’m using Logic’s stock Steinway and AIR’s Minigrand but I’m going to add NI’s Alicia’s Keys, Noire, and Grandeur in the near future. That RC 20 is on my list, too.

@stephenroldan5107

2 жыл бұрын

Arturia's piano is better imo.

@robinbramlett110

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenroldan5107 Since I posted that I’ve added Alicia’s Keys, Grandeur, Noire, and Ravenscroft 275. I also have Arturia’s piano. All sound great to me but I use the one that best fits the music I’m working on.

@stephenroldan5107

2 жыл бұрын

@@robinbramlett110 cool. Yeah, sorry after i wrote that i saw how much time had past. And thought she must have alot more by now. There all great. Like you say whatever is suited best for the occasion is what you should be happy with. By the way great job on your music!

Thanks Sanjay, you a legend mane🦾💯

ANALOG LAB V BY ARTURIA IS FIRE 💥

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

YES!!! Which is your favorite from the Arturia synths?

@nass1887

3 жыл бұрын

@@SanjayC JUN-6-V one of my favorites for sure.. Great video by the way! Thanks for the amazing content you put out for the producers community

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome. Juno 106 is the ultimate. It made me buy the real keyboard and I love it as well.

@natigrinkrug

3 жыл бұрын

@@nass1887 agreed, but I often feel the need for the rest of the V collection to really make the most of it (still an *AWESOME* piece of software!)

@manuele.itriagom.728

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Pigments is my fav

Squad is here! 🤪

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Squad = fam

Oh, I goodly want to hear so!

My favorite plug-ins are probably the FabFilter Pro series. When it comes to sounds, Nexus and Pure Synth Platinum 2 (from MIDIculous aka the Gospel Musicians, very affordable and this rompler sounds amazing!). Valhalla DSP and Audio Damage also make great effect plug-ins. One of my favorite synths (for Trance music) is Synth One from KV331. Really amazing. The SWAM instruments from Audio Modeling are also worth to look into. They just released Solo Strings V3 bundle and it’s the most realistic you can get imho. Great video, Sanjay C!!

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Great suggestions here! Top stuff. I need to check out the SWAM instruments as well. Always here about them.

Very much helpful,,, thanks a lot ❤️❤️

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! 🙏

Sanjay C is a great music producer and a Friendly KZreadr who solves all his Subscribers doubt. Thanks 🙌🙌

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

You're very kind. Thank you!

The one effective technique I use is staying in touch with a financial coach for guidance, it might soft basic or generic, but getting in

Great Video Sanjay! Fabfilter & Softube are Great as well! Finalizer by TC Electronic for Mastering!

What the free and good daw 🙏🙏

Ujam Finisher Retro is one of my current favorites. Currently checking out their other products.

Honestly, I still haven’t really even taken full advantage of all of its features yet, but I’m really enjoying what I’m getting from Waves CLA Epic being able to mix in multiple reverbs and delays in one plug-in!

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Nice one

Your vocals sound awesome! 😀

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! 😁

Sylenth1/serum/nexus 2 are synth's holy trinity for me!

Komplete 13 Ultimate is probably the best and I own most of what you mentioned here. I own UAD and Arturia, uHe and many others as well as Serum.

Flex with your setup!

Thank you sir

Brillaint job usual.. @sanjay - I am comfortable with the instruments aspect of production but now looking to add vocals to my compositions. As I am still a beginner, understanding compressor etc is a bit tricky. Is there a good software, where I can see the waves visually. I guess that would help me learn and understand much better.

Hi Sanjay - agree with having at least one modern general purpose synth like those you mentioned. I'll add u-he Hive 2 to that list, and is the one I use most. Extremely versatile for most genres, and comes with about 2500 presets which are fantastic.

@SanjayC

3 жыл бұрын

Nice...thanks for the suggestion!

All about the fab filter plugins. Saturn 2 and Q3 are pretty darn good!

@SanjayC

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, FabFilter makes some quality plugins