Plugins for Music Production
When I started making music in 2015, I was working with FL Studio. Since then, I've made music with Logic X Pro and eventually switched to Ableton. The following plugins are a collection I've been using for production ever since.
€129
Rift 2.0 by Minimal Audio
Hyperpop reverb effects.
Free / Paid
Youlean Loudness Meter by Youlean
Measure volume for specific online distribution i.e. Spotify.
€99
Auto-Tune Access by Antares
Cheap version of the go-to auto tune plugin.
free
Player by Native Instruments
Tool for using the Native Instrument plugins.
free
Wider by Polyverse
One knob to make wider. Awesome free plugin
$189
Serum by Xfer Records
Classic with a awesome variety of synth sounds.
$149
Vocal Bender by Waves
Great for a quick pitch shift and the format knob is great to create alternative background vocals.
€119
Effectrix by Sugar Bytes
Quick drop-in effects for chaning the mood and rythmic of a melody.
$99
Little Alter Boy by Soundtoys
Adds a great secret sauce to vocals and is still great for pitching and distrotion.
$10/month
Arcade by Native Instruments
Belongs to my most favorite plugins especially the hooks category. Unfortunately it's only available as subscription.
$199
Analog Brass And Winds by Native Instruments
Way too much brass sounds to try all of them.
$199
Substance by Native Instruments
Way too much bass sounds to try all of them.
$199
Exhale by Native Instruments
I'm 100% in love with high pitched vocal samples and this one provides a lot of them.
$49
Analog Dreams by Native Instruments
A few simple unique synths.
$199
Analog Strings by Native Instruments
Way too much string sounds to try all of them.
free
Helm by Matt Tytel
So much great synths presets for free.
$79
RVox by Waves
Using it as a quick drop-in vocal compressor.
€399
Omnisphere by Spectrasonics
The good old cpu intensive Omnisphere.
Free / Paid
Vital by Matt Tytel
Best in price vs. value for me. Wide variety of synths.
€149
Pro-Q 3 by FabFilter
Beautiful equalizer with good presets.
€169
Pro-R by FabFilter
Beautiful reverb with good presets.
€50
Valhalla Vintage Verb by Valhalla VintageVerb
Go to reverb mostly by adding background space.
€39
TimeShaper 2 by Cable Guys
Using TimeShaper for Gross Beat effects to make a copy of the main melody more rythmic.
$249
Neutron 3 by iZotope
Awesome presets for mixing.
$40
SubLab by Future Audio Workshop
Quick drop in 808s for classic trap beats.
€10
Halftime by Cable Guys
Great for slow effect on trap beats which keep the time of the sample in sync.
$149
OVox by Waves
Insane how much different vocoder effect OVox has to offer.
$99.95
RC-20 Retro Color by XLN Audio
Using it to change a melody aesthetics and make it sound a little bit more unique.