Can you produce music for FREE? Making a track idea with Free DAW, Free Plugins & Free Samples

Is it possible to make a full track with just free software? You'll see music producers on KZbin like myself using all the top of the range DAWs and expensive plugins and probably thought "If I had all that my tracks would be great too". Well I wanted to show that you can still make great tracks with JUST FREE software. In this video I use the free DAW Waveform, learning it from scratch to make a full track idea. I also go through some great places to get free plugins such as the amazing Vital synth and Isotope freebies, using resources like Plugin Boutique and Plugins 4 Free.
Waveform Free → www.tracktion.com/products/wa...
Vital Synth → vital.audio
Loopmasters Samples → www.loopmasters.com
Plugin Boutique → www.pluginboutique.com
Plugins4Free → plugins4free.com
Photo by Erwi on Unsplash
00:00 - Intro
01:27 - Free DAW - Waveform Free
02:31 - Setting up Waveform
03:13 - Starting the Project
03:50 - Exploring the Interface
04:29 - Starting the Drums
05:56 - Finding Drum Samples
06:56 - Creating 909 drum pattern with swing
10:02 - Free Samples from Loopmasters
11:32 - Importing loops into Waveform
12:25 - Learning to Time Stretch
15:03 - Laying more drum loops
16:02 - Adding some Vocals
17:33 - Waveform's in-build Effects
21:16 - Creating a Bass using 4OSC
22:21 - Exploring Waveform's Rompler
23:10 - Finding a free synth VST for Chords
23:59 - Free plugins at Plugin Boutique
26:16 - IMO best Free Synth VST - Vital
28:31 - Creating a new Bass with Vital
29:29 - Evolving Pad with Vital
31:29 - Grouping Drums for Processing
31:39 - Finding free plugins for Saturation/Glue/Compression
32:44 - Adding Saturation with free GSatPlus plugin
33:18 - Glue with BusterSE
34:05 - Side-chaining the Bass
34:29 - Free downloads from Izotope
35:09 - Widening Drums with Izotope's free Imager
35:52 - Dirtying up the vocals with Izotope's free Vinyl plugin
36:31 - Final Beat
36:54 - Wrap Up
↓ Want to learn Ableton? Check out my course
bit.ly/MakeDJEditsAbleton
↓ My most used plugins
Splice Samples: bit.ly/splice-samples
Output Arcade: bit.ly/OutputArcade2
Trackspacer: bit.ly/BF-TrackSpacer
RC-20 [Lofi beast!]: bit.ly/BF-RC20
XLN Audio XO [Drum Machine]: bit.ly/BF-XO
Split EQ [Really smart EQ!]: bit.ly/BF-SplitEQ
Baby Audio TAIP [Awesome saturation]: bit.ly/taip-vst
Transient Master: bit.ly/transient-master-vst
Vulf Compressor: bit.ly/vulf-compressor
Soothe2: bit.ly/soothe2-vst
Chordjam: bit.ly/Chordjam
The Sub: bit.ly/the-sub-vst
Korg M1: bit.ly/korgm1
TAL-U-NO-LX: bit.ly/tal-u-no-lx
Neutron 3: bit.ly/Neutron-2
Ozone 8: bit.ly/ozone-8
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[@ivansiviero5059]

Thanks Richie, a very useful video from which to draw many ideas for their productions with very tight budgets.🔥👍

[@gilper833]

Excellent video Richie, awesome House!! 🎹🎹🎹

[@DirtySecretz]

Thanks! 🙏🏻

[@danielribeiro4618]

cool beat

[@morgan8937]

Just found your channel today. I'm only a year into home music production. I haven't bought anything so far since there is so much that I utilise for free. I did buy Infiltrator 2 though and I'd be interested to see how it should or can be used by someone more experienced! (If you have it-just a suggestion) If I can get to grips with it, I might get duck, pitch and texture later down the road. Keep up the great content, TY!

[@danielribeiro4618]

hahaha have the same mac and Im happy with it and it works for me

[@lightningscorpion9700]

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