Nicky Romero

Nicky Romero posted a photo of him working on a bootleg/mashup using Studio One software by PreSonus, running on his MacBook Pro.

At 30:20 in the video, Nicky Romero talks about doing a sidechain: "...we'll take the LFO Tool today, it's also a great one. I take a sidechain preset, and I just adjust it."

In this screenshot from his Instagram story, Nicky Romero answers some fan questions, including how he started his career:

by making music on Magix Musicmaker (2004)

at 3:30 you can see the sign Avenger

At the 30:12 mark in 'Nicky Romero Making Toulouse In The Studio With Future Music': "Anyway I have, like, string plugs... which are from Kontakt, because they always have, like, the nice sounding stuff."

In this video at 13:34, nicky using serum vst.

Nicky Romero tweets about using the Waves Diamond Bundle, specifically he mentions liking the SoundShifter plugin.

"So we took a very smooth instrument, and this one is Sylenth, that we just put a very high filter..."

Nicky Romero explains @ 32:40 ''it has weird sounds!!''.

Nicky Romero says "It's good for music producers too - You can analyze your entire sample library and find loops in the same key." From the Mixed In Key website

At 12:02 you can see "Substance" in the libraries list of Kontakt.

In Nicky Romero's "Studio Masterclass #01 - Ready 2 Rumble," at the 4:44 mark, he uses the Smartelectronix s(M)exoscope plugin to analyze the sidechain effect between the kick and bass. He explains this technique ensures the sidechain is both effective and powerful. Nicky also demonstrated this approach during his 2016 ADE masterclass.

Nicky Romero opts to use the software version of the classic Lexicon 224XL: "To be honest I use a software version now because so many of the tracks I do have time pressure, but it's a great reverb."

Nicky Romero mentions using the ANA synth in a studio session video.

Nicky Romero collaborated with Cableguys to create a sidechain compression plugin. In a video he talks through the features:

"We have the wet button… then we have the different presets. I made custom presets to make sure that you can work easily, nice and fast, on different kinds of instruments and different kinds of frequencies in your mix. Whenever you make a kick-bass, it's always tricky to do the right sidechain. It's hard to get it right, to get the punch, to make sure that it keeps tight and that it sounds punchy in the club. The most important thing is that the kick has space to breathe."

Nicky Romero speaks highly of the Nexus synth. From his testimonial on refx.com: "I'm a big fan of ReFX products, using the Nexus 2 since the beginning of my career, great to use as single synth, and to stack it up for layers."

"I've been missing a plugin in Logic Pro for exact sidechain timing for a while, the Vengeance Producer Suite - Multiband Sidechain was the perfect solution!"

When asked what the best synths are to produce a whole track, Nicky Romero replies, "I don’t have a particular synth I always use. I like... a new called the Cyclop, it’s a new synth by Sugar Bytes..."

Nicky Romero talks about using the ACE in this video Protocol LIVE video he posted at 1:00:52 and can be seen using the software later in the video.

29:02 in this YouTube video for Future Music Magazine, Nicky Romero demonstrates his use of the Sugar Bytes Effectrix plug-in, "...it's making this kind of funny movement, it's by the Effectrix... like vinyl."

At 29:46 in this video from Future Music Magazine Nicky brings up the M1 and says “I use this a lot because the piano sounds different than the Nexus ones, which many people use already. So I was like I want to use a different piano that nobody else uses.”

In this Instagram video clip of Nicky Romero working in the studio, he plays a sound from the Native Instruments Rise & Hit Cinematic Tension Toolkit, which is an instrument for Kontakt.

USED FOR PITCHING FOR TOULOUSE TRACK.

Nicky Romero used this to make middle part base for TOULOUSE...

At 12:02 you can see "The Giant" in the library of Kontakt.

At 12:02 you can see "Signal" in the library of Kontakt.

In this video at 21:29 nicky using endless smile plugin.

In this video at 21:29 nicky using simplon plugin.

In this video at 27:48 nicky using pro-l limiter plugin.

Nicky Romero is included in the "In Use By" artist section of the official Cableguys HalfTime video.