Armin Van Buuren

Armin talks about trying out other DAWs besides Logic Pro, including Studio One, in this video from Point Blank Music School.

"I've known Floris, one of the big guys behind FabFilter, for a very long time. We even did some tracks together in the past! When I heard he was involved in making his own plug-ins, I was immediately interested and followed him since. It's fantastic to see the company being so successful today. I like all FabFilter plug-ins and I've used all of them in my tracks."

"I made some pads. There are some really greta pad sounds coming form the Nexus. This particular pad is one I edited from one of the presets."

In this article from beatportal Armin says "Ordinarily, I use rekordbox to prepare my tracks for the Pioneer CDJ2000s I play on and it keeps count of the number of plays in my sets of each track".

"The Omnisphere I usually use for pads, breakdowns, or strings, or more of atmospheric things, but there are some really great baseline sounds in the Omnisphere. There's a great Arpeggio section in the Omnisphere."

"So for this particular lead I went into the Zebra plugin, but I stacked it with a few other plugins."

Armin speaks highly of the FabFilter Twin software synth, calling it very "unique".

At 9:47 you can see Armin Van Buuren open Ableton to show how he made the drums of his track "Suddenly Summer" and at 10:32 he zooms in on the loops and you can clearly read ''VTS2'' on almost all the loops (except the bottom one).

Armin Van Buuren leaves this testimony on the official Reveal Sound site: ''I love how easy you can make very simple and/or complex sounds in an instant. It works very inituitive and I love the distortion & reverb!''

He says "it's all about ES1, ES2 and EXS24, and that's it! It's so amazing what you can do with stuff like that."

From a testimonial by Armin: "I love the SynthMaster and I've been using it in all my recent productions. I really love the cool way of editing and especially love the FM sound. Essential for my set up!"

"Very cool and most of all, it delivers very fast results! Instant creativity. Easy to use and simply does have a great sound." Armin's testimonial was originally found on robpapen.com.

=“And we just put the Pultec, the UAD Pultec on and we didn’t even touch it. It was just the default setting and we are like —eek, remember that moment?" Admin says, at 15:29 in this video.

"The Lexicon® 224 Digital Reverb plug-in is just stunning on vocals. It brings dynamics, without smearing anything. It breathes magic into a track," says Armin Van Buuren, in this article.

"I use the SPL Transient Designer plug-in on almost every one of my drums. It helps get a great attack on the sound. You want the transients to shine through and 'wow,' that plug-in" - Armin Van Buuren.

"The Teletronix LA-2A sounds amazing on vocals as well. The FATSO™ Jr./Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor plug-in is also a good one on drums specifically, to make the snare sound a little more crisp." - Armin Van Buuren.

He says, "it's all about ES1, ES2 and EXS24, and that's it! It's so amazing what you can do with stuff like that."

The kick is such an important part of dance music. How do you craft yours?

I recently got into the Xfer Nerve software drum machine, which lets you combine sounds to make your own kick drum. Usually, we take the top of an existing kick drum and add our own low end, which is often just a synth filling out the oomph that we need. Then we put a compressor on there to make the kick drum more snappy, to help it blend, and to make the sound whole.

In a user-uploaded photo on the Arturia website, Armin Van Buuren is shown using the Arturia V Collection 8.

At 9:47 you can see Armin Van Buuren open Ableton to show how he made the drums of his track "Suddenly Summer" and at 10:32 he zooms in on the loops and you can clearly read ''VTS1 Lovely Day Kit 134BPM Loop 02'' on the loop below.

A 3:45 Armin opens up Omnisphere to show the bass patch, he uses a patch named Classic UpDown SH-101. This patch comes with Trillian. Trillian patches can also be used in Omnisphere.

"This is our bread and butter. We put it on almost every vocal," Armin says, at 13:10, when he shows LA-2A.

At 25:07 in this video, Armin describes how he uses UAD Precision Limiter.

"The Ampex ATR-102 Mastering Tape Recorder plug-in and the Studer A800 Multichannel Tape Recorder plug-in tape emulations give a nice edge to bass tracks.

Another favorite is the the Pultec Passive EQ Collection. I like to use it without any boost — just insert it and it gives you a wonderful tool for blending live elements with synths — just by going through the virtual circuitry." - Armin Van Buuren.

"Another favorite is the the Pultec Passive EQ Collection. I like to use it without any boost — just insert it and it gives you a wonderful tool for blending live elements with synths — just by going through the virtual circuitry." - Armin Van Buuren.

In this photo, there is a korg legacy collection box.

He says "it's all about ES1, ES2 and EXS24, and that's it! It's so amazing what you can do with stuff like that."

"Really loving this!"

Armin van Buuren endorses HalfTime on the official product webpage, giving the above quote.

Additionally, his name appears in the "In Use By" section of the product video beginning at 2:03: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y9Tr5f1UCo&feature=youtu.be&t=2m3s

Armin van Buuren
“H-Reverb is amazing for clear reverbs that don’t clog up your mixes.”

“You will find Waves plugins on almost every one of my mixes. H-Delay, H-Reverb, C6, SoundShifter and the Renaissance plugins are all essential tools for me.“