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A nice little noise generator.
I used to use this just for recording my vocals, as well as converting my .wav files to MP3. Recently, I learned about importing raw data, and I've been able to make some great glitch sounds, and even some sounds for noise music. Try it sometime if you're into those kind of sounds.
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Absolutely beautiful reverb
This is another great effect in Reason. Along with the DDL-1 effect, you can make your synths sound absolutely beautiful.
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Really nice
This is a really effective bitcrusher. I've used it on every sample in a sample pack I'm working on. It's great for making cool, lo-fi sounds.
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Some great samples
I thought I'd mostly used this pack for one-hit drum samples, but it turns out it has some great guitar loops, fills, and even some decent synths. It works really great for any genre.
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A crazy cheap synth, and not half bad either
I was kind of shocked when I found out that the software emulation of (from what I've observed) one of the biggest old-school synths out there was only $25 (at least when I bought it), so I reasoned, "Even if this synth sucks, I'll only have lost 25 bucks." Luckily, the M1 doesn't suck. It's really good for nice, pretty sounds.
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An amazing synth
I'm not saying that Sylenth is the best synth out there. It's not going to get you the best dubstep basses or the coolest pads, but for the music I make (IDM and techno, mostly), a simple subtractive synth is always a good thing to have. Turns out that Sylenth is an amazing synth. It's greatly customizable, and the built-in effects are amazing.
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Really useful equalizer
I know this is the industry standard EQ (at least from what I've observed), but I think it earns that title. It gives a good sound and it's easy to use.
Version: FabFilter Pro-Q 2
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Industry standard? I've never met a professional engineer who used this plugin. Never even heard of it before all the skrillex and deadmaus fans on this site started talking it up.
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A great DAW
I've had my eyes on Cubase for a while, but have never really been able to afford it. I was recently able to get it with my Christmas money, and I'm so glad that I did. It's absolutely awesome for arranging and mixing. Not that designing sounds or routing things is awful, I just found the workflow for arranging is amazing.
Version: Steinberg Cubase 8
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Not that good...
This is kind of a meh microphone, which kind of shocks me considering it sounded great on the previews. It's possible that's just my audio interface, though. The quality isn't horrible, but still...meh.
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Amazing for chiptunes
If you make 8-bit sounding music, Peach is an absolute necessity. It has some old school sounds that are amazing.
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A useful drum sampler
I've always preferred using samplers for my drums instead of audio tracks, and it's a good thing that Battery's a darn good sampler. The built-in effects are pretty nice.
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My main EQing VST
It works really well, the spectrum analyzer is super helpful, it has an analog design (always a plus), and its' free. What's not to love?
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A bundle that's definitely worth your while
I don't use every plugin in this bundle, but the ones I do use are extremely good and worth checking out.
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Really cool little glitchy VST
If you need to add some glitch effects to a track, throw this on there and sequence the effects. It works a lot better if you sequence specific effects rather than throw random all over it and see what happens.
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A good free limiter
This is really good for mastering tracks and jacking up the audio on things that are too quiet.
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A great synth for beginners
If you're just starting producing electronic music, get Synth1. It works really well and has all the basics of synthesis - nothing to complicated, just enough to get a beginner started. Even though I'm not that much of a beginner, Synth1 can still make some pretty good sounds.
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its funny, I own plenty of synths and have really been on a buying spree lately butI have been using the shit outta synth1 lately (a piece of freeware I didn't even install on my music machine until recently just because I hate using stuff everyone else uses) and its great as a low CPU hit to quickly build up draft sequences and even stays in a lot of finished music for sounds/parts that I want to keep 'in the background' without resorting to lots of EQ and ambiance and also for layers, particularly synth keys, bells and orchestral plucks.... there were no VSTs when I was a beginner, but I would say that synth1 is just a great piece of freeware and may actually be baffling to beginners since its best sounds are obtained using the more esoteric modulation features and routing....