Navigating the Plugin Pantheon: Unleashing Your Music's Full Potential with VST Mastery

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All right , let's get into the subject today , and I wanted to talk about plugins . I want to talk about VSTs , and let me just give you the definition of that , so we know we're all on the same page .

Vst is a virtual studio , virtual studio technology is what it stands for , but virtual instruments , and I said in my last episode I wanted to talk about , I wanted to talk about some plugins and some things that I use . I want to talk about some ones that I use .

I'm just gonna talk about ones that are out there so that you can go and you can take advantage of these plugins . So let's get into it . I'll just give a brief , so now says about it , as I'm going through some of these . The first one I want to mention is serum . It's great for EDM producers .

Let's see , it's an incredible synthesizer of your antide style of music . So go and check out serum on this sphere . It's a hybrid synth that continues to be among the top VSTs . It has a massive library , so go and check that out as well . I'm this fear . All right , I'm just gonna go through the line and you go and check out ones that you want to .

You know the ones that you like . The next one is Diva . It is an analog modeling synth which excels in sounding incredibly fat and realistic . Vito it is a wavetable synth VST it's incredible . It is popular . So Vito . Vital is another one Going down the list here . Nexus 4 is another one .

Nexus is a Rombler which has incredible solid sounds , perfect for mainstream EDM and dance production . All right , that's another one . Antaria , analog lab . Antaria is known for developing the best emulations of classic vintage synths . Synthesizers it's hard to say that word , all right , synthesizers . So I want you guys to know the possibilities and everything that's .

You know some of what's out there so that you can create , all right . So next I want to get into . This is going to be more for mixing and mastering or for mixing . Fab filter this is processing plugins . It is a great plugin . It has EQs , it has compressors , it has limiters , it has reverbs and much more . So I personally go with .

I personally go with IZOTope for my mixing and mastering needs . But fab filters is another company you can check out for those needs , so go check out fab filter . All right , soundtoys is another one Soundtoys and creative processing plugins . We'll stand out from the rest . It is a popular BST and this , yeah , so they have all kinds of things for sound toys .

They , you know , have this one . The capitator is a distortion , just what I'm looking at right now for you guys . So sound toys , go check out . I've looked at some mixing and mastering videos that you know . Some people have used sound toys and this , from what I understand , it's a great product , so go check it out .

I'm just going to start going to some that I personally , that I personally use or I don't use this one , but I've heard about this one's the EQ plug in . Soothe to soothe removes harshness , reduces and vocals , as well as treats uneven tonal balance in recordings . It removes mud boominess as well as treats the proximity effect . All right .

So that's soothe to all right . So obviously had the first one , so second one is out . Go and check that out . I don't have that one . Looked at videos where people have talked about that plug in , so go check it out . Of course you got your . You know , auto tune your vocal processors auto tune on to try to pronounce this on terrorist auto .

I think that's how you . I think it's how you pronounce it on terrorist auto tune . It's a popular one . Is a plug in that I use , that I actually recently just got Melodyne is a plug in that I just recently purchased , you know , because I'm working on a record and I'm editing my own stuff . So this is so much better for me .

This is so much better than the flex in logic , which is what I use to correct pitch , timing and all that kind of stuff . So now I am I've heard about Melodyne for a long time but just got it and I am definitely a fan . I have Melodyne editor .

They have another level studio , so great for your vocal stuff , even for instrumental stuff , that you can correct timing and pitch and all that kind of stuff . So go and check that out . It's another one I want to tell you about All right contact .

So so this is from complete and companies complete , but contact is is the contact is a go to plug in for sample instruments , is a sampler , for which there is an incredible selection of third party recorded instrument libraries . So this is what I use . Contact is what I've been using for some time now .

I go between stuff from logic , sounds from logic and contact and some other things . But contact is a great is great plugins . I will encourage you to go and check that out . Keyscape was another one . It's a . Key scape was a keyboard plugin which samples some of the greatest pianos , roles and digital keyboards .

It gives you easy access to all the sounds and features . Keep some very keyboards as well , which you can combine with other sounds to create combo patches . All right . So key scape is another one , amazing , amazing product . And then you get into more the processing , that ozone for mastering that's from isotope .

So these are just some of the plugins , some that I use or some that I've heard of and I've watched other producers and engineers use and talk about , and so these plugins , these VSTs , are super important for your workflow , is important to educate yourself , for you know on what each plugin does , you know , and the possibilities are literally endless .

So I want to encourage you to go and check out these plugins , check out these VSTs and just look up , look some of them up . You know , just going YouTube before you buy , read about them , make sure it's something that you want , that you want to get into , that you want to purchase these plugins . Have some of them . These have definitely changed my life .

My workflows made things so much easier , allowed me to be so creative , so I wanted to read some of them to you and encourage you to go and check them out . All right , I want to thank you so much for checking out this episode . Once again , I want to go through my , my class to care for musicianship .

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