The best FREE music tools in 2019!

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Links for the music stuff:
Garageband desktop: www.apple.com/ca/mac/garageband/
Cakewalk: www.bandlab.com/products/cake...
LMMS: lmms.io
Ardour: ardour.org
Audacity: www.audacityteam.org
Jeskola Buzz: jeskola.net/buzz/
u-he: u-he.com/products/
Glitchmachines: glitchmachines.com/products/f...
Dexed: asb2m10.github.io/dexed/
Spitfire LABS: www.spitfireaudio.com/labs/
Native Instruments Komplete Start: www.native-instruments.com/en...
VCV Rack: vcvrack.com
SunVox: www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
Automatonism :www.automatonism.com
Pure Data: puredata.info
Garageband app: itunes.apple.com/app/garageba...
Bandlab app: www.bandlab.com/download
Links for the videos I used:
Garageband: • How To Make A FULL Son...
Cakewalk: • How To Use Cakewalk by...
LMMS: • LMMS running on Apple ...
Ardour: • Example Ardour Session...
Audacity: • Audacity Basics (OLD/O...
Jeskola Buzz: • Old school Goa trance ...
Zebralette: • Zebralette Free - Top-...
Podolski: • PODOLSKI by u-he plugins
Triple Cheese: • Triple Cheese by U-HE
Spitfire LABS: • LABS Strings
Native Instruments Komplete Start: • Introducing KOMPLETE S...
Hysteresis: • Video
Fracture: • Video
Dexed: • DEXED - Open source DX...
VCV Rack: kzbin.infocvy4TWoLhxE/
SunVox: • How to create a Vangel...
Automatonism: • AUTOMATONISM 3 - Atria
Pure Data: • Pure data algorithmic ...
Garageband app: • GarageBand Tutorial Fo...
Bandlab app: • Record & Share Multi-T...
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[@whosanton248]

Him: If you are watching this video then you have something to make music with. Me: Finally my smart fridge can be used for something

[@i.suk.6146]

For real though, do smart fridges have microphones?

[@briannacoreo5001]

@@i.suk.6146 idk, I think SerGnes ate too much food from it ;-;

[@benjixx1990]

LMAOOOO

[@ignous]

I mean if it has android running on it you could probably use it, and possibly be the first person to release an album made entirely on a smart fridge.

[@qndrewqndrewqndrew]

@@i.suk.6146 yes they do

[@greenlightdragon3319]

Finally I can make professional music on my 3DS

[@JamesGecko]

Alas, KORG DSN-12 and M01D aren't free.

[@MetaProductions3]

...(Speechless)

[@illford6921]

@@JamesGecko yeah but they are cheap comparatively, and so are virtually free

[@bright_chan8367]

Christian Shumpert actually you can bandlab also works in the web browser

[@aelphind4954]

rytmik ultimate for 3ds is pretty cheap

[@Treehootz]

It's really reassuring that you took notice of Garageband. A lot of people hate on free apps and software... I don't know why. In one of Mac Miller's interviews, the interviewer guy asked (as a joke) "Hey man, can you hook me up, get me into the music business?" And Mac said "Yeah, I got a guy, etc. etc.,(I forgot the rest of what he said) you can use Garageband..." And the guy just looks at Mac like he was offended by that. (he replied, joking...) "Oh your gonna set me up on that cheap trash." (or something like that) But what he *doesn't* know, is that a lot of his best tracks were created in GB. It just goes to show how ignorant people can really be in regards to music production.

[@darkmadder9897]

It is the American Capitalist mindset. Folks just (foolishly) refuse to believe that you can get ANYTHING free or low-cost of any substance. This is why Corps like Apple take three dollars worth of plastic and tech and mark it up to three thousand bucks, while the Chinese churn out identical tech at low cost. The thing is, most of these emulations of expensive hardware are essentially identical - it has become increasingly simple to match the frequencies and dynamics of analog. The starving artist seems to be a tradition, so I am GRATEFUL for all the generous developers that have set us free to create, instead of these tools remaining only in the hands of privileged kids with rich daddies...

[@gdp_98]

@@sunscreech it's not that it sucks, GB is limited in certain aspects while fl or ableton are powerful daws that provides you with a vast list of features. Being limited doesn't mean it sucks, you need to know how to use it in order to get the best of it, trust me eventhough GB has its limits, it's really useful.

[@mrjoeybeats]

I have a rich daddy but I still make good music so don't bully me bro........

[@RewindOfficialDoesMusic]

I started on GarageBand. (No promo) the sing on my channel was actually made with Gb for iOS so free stuff isn’t always cheap.

[@brosiog3764]

@@gdp_98 i one hundred percent agree with this. I recently moved from gb to fl studio and while fl studio is very obviously more powerful and efficient, I've made some of my best work on mobile garage band. It is an incredibly powerful (yet limited) tool if you take the time to fully understand it

[@RogueShadowTCN]

There is this thing called C++, let's you customize your own DAW from the ground up. Even plugins. Steep learning curve though, very very steep.

[@sandee527]

c++ is well known programming language

[@odaxi9200]

sandee5 thats the joke

[@vlusky_husky]

Shoot, i use C#.

[@bloopyikes7177]

underrated

[@alanzhou6334]

Under-rated comment

[@InLoveWithAGhostMusic]

the valhalla freq echo is definitely a top tier free delay too!

[@andrewhuang]

Omg totally forgot about it after I bought Halls of Valhalla but yessss

[@ashtonmoore5692]

Hi i love your music and youre a big inspiration

[@nekkowe]

Nice!!

[@orateusdijin6557]

Yasssss bro yaaas

[@yxwns]

did not expect to see you here, love your work!

[@lostrobotmusic]

**IMPORTANT NOTE:** LMMS 1.1.3, while listed as the "stable version", is significantly worse and significantly less stable than LMMS 1.2, the "Beta" version. You should try it out, the difference between 1.2 and 1.1.3 is the difference between a massive synthesizer keyboard and a broken toy piano that only plays dog sounds. EDIT: LMMS 1.2 stable has now been released!

[@thespeedyyoshi]

Douglas that's pretty dumb haha.

[@Seyah]

ayyyyye we top comment. this is major info tho. get the recent version

[@Seyah]

better UI, Better spectrum analyzer/eq, better sidechain, just get the beta

[@lostrobotmusic]

@@Seyah You forgot to mention that the VST success rate goes from around 25% to over 99%. External plugin support is almost flawless now.

[@attila.m.magyar]

The UI of the built-in ZynAddSubFX VST didn't work in older versions of LMMS - my life changed when it started working in the new version. Seriously, that synth is a beast, it can do anything and some more.

[@adamslawson]

"It's never been a better time to get into music production." Such great positive inspiration! Thx Andrew!

[@biomechanoid]

As one wise man said: Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

[@suhandatanker]

linux user*: it free real estate

[@WangleLine]

You're helping out new A LOT of musicians with this - Very sweet of you! :D

[@TheCraftero]

@@Satwamassive You really just said that? smh

[@justinc2633]

@@Satwamassive if people like him didnt make lists of the best software then no, a quick google search would be completely fucking useless. So, yes, he is helping out a lot of new musicians

[@EuanMacLennan]

camelcrusher is a free must-have plugin. used in the industry all the time:)

[@fred2027]

I can't find a place to get camel crusher.. :(

[@mikedurden]

Where can you get it? I’ve been looking for it and can’t find a download for it anywhere.

[@noahgiom341]

@@EuanMacLennan the mac dmg is dead on that link 😞anybody know where a good link is for mac? I cant find one

[@mikedurden]

@@EuanMacLennan That worked, thanks!

[@Ithron5]

@@noahgiom341 I had the same problem, try this one: www.mpcindia.co/download-camel-crusher/ Worked for me

[@rosaconneely8112]

I love how you didn't try to spread it out, you just told us the important stuff and that's it

[@noahleach7690]

Hysterisis and fracture are great but you can add a great sound to anything with gorgon (works pretty great on drums especially).

[@quantum_psi]

A few free ones that i use that are amazing not in the vid: Izotope Vinyl Izotope Imager Izotope Vocal Doubler Softube Saturation Knob Valhalla Freq Echo Xfer OTT Voxengo Tube Amp Cableguys PanCake 2 Vember Audio Surge

[@ulvhedinowski]

Izotope Imager is used in everyone of my song

[@user-it9ho3lm2z]

You forgot TDR Nova

[@miguelserpa8649]

just installed all of them and goddam it. izotope imager is like the best like... i don't even know what to say. It is such a plug-in dude!!!

[@frapucheno2726]

sebastian can I use these for fo studio ?

[@obsoleteocto2782]

Audiotool

[@dexadrinn]

Shocked not to see Synth1 by Ichiro Toda on here! Also, Surge by Claes Johanson (a Bitwig founder) is now free, open-source, and it's VERY powerful as always

[@autumnbrushtail]

Synth1 is very buggy on MacOS, only the 24dB lowpass filter works correctly. as good as it is, it's only that good on Windows.

[@monowavy]

oh my God I think I have spent several hundred hours on that synth. It's the synth I learned a bunch of stuff about synthesis with. Definitely deserved a mention.

[@dexadrinn]

@@autumnbrushtail I use it on both and have comparable results. No worry about failures or crashes on either platform, though I also prefer the Windows version. I wouldn't suggest it be avoided entirely by Mac users, but rather that they try both versions if they can do so

[@dexadrinn]

@@monowavy That's great! I've been using Synth1 since I was 12, meaning it's been in my toolkit for quite literally more than half my lifetime, haha (I'm 23)

[@blancmull3886]

Check out Modulair. Probably the best free plugin to make growls and stuff like that. But surge is definitely the best for melodic synths

[@cataldocappiello]

This is one of the most useful videos I've ever stumbled upon. Thank you so much, dude.

[@johnnyguitarra3448]

I’ve dedicated a lot of time in the last eight years loading dozens and dozens of apps into both an iPhone and an android. I have participated in early release critiques/beta and so forth. In a roughly 6 minute video, Andrew has provided me with a master list and it’s absolutely fantastic. Like Andrew, I have a very very hard time buying and spending money on an app, so use focus on free tools is amazing. He is unbelievably talented and a real gift to everyone who loves music so thank you so much Mr. Huang!

[@IsaiahSugar]

u-he's tyrell n6 is one of my favorites!

[@daybrink1267]

Thank you! Nobody talks about it, so I figured nobody knew...

[@prodbyluis7693]

Isaiah Sugar and zebralette

[@IsaiahSugar]

@@prodbyluis7693 its there 2:01

[@Cryosion]

So glad you mentioned that, it's always my number one recommendation when people ask for free plugins!

[@liamivancic8353]

thank you so much! this is a really awesome synth

[@matthewpassage65536]

Andrew Huang: Liberator of the Proletarian Musician (Seriously though, thank you for doing this!)

[@popodon6907]

*Proletarian. Proletariat is a noun.

[@kangarooshorts7275]

huh?

[@matthewpassage65536]

@@popodon6907Thank you for letting me know, I've corrected it!

[@soberlessbeats3138]

I just got the spitfire set, it's got a semi limited amount of perimeters, but just enough to make incredible additions to your composition. This one might be my next go to. Y'all should get at it

[@that90sgirlSuthy]

Hi Andrew! Just want to say thank you for making all of these useful and interesting video! KZbin recommended one of your videos to me just today and it instantly reignited my withered passion of making songs, I feel so so motivated now THANK YOU

[@dylankearney3629]

Keyzone classic is an amazing free Piano plug-in

[@virginboy3d78]

Agreed!

[@nopenope7700]

Pretty good but the 1st piano is SHITE. 2nd is standard. And the EPs are OLD. but the LFO is a nice touch for convenience purposes only.

[@pillai9786]

I guess saw that in one of Dylan Tallchief's videos.

[@nyunno]

city piano*

[@kooliooolio]

@@nyunno 4front piano*

[@Ranipla]

Some other free plugins I would recommend: Also, check the replies, there are some other neat stuff you might like. *Synths:* Helm (Great synth for a number of EDM genre's) Modulair (Amazing Modular Synth) Synth1 (Amazing Analog Synth) Nabla (Great Synth Strings) Oxe (Great FM Synth) Crystal (Another amazing FM Synth) Odin (Pretty Good) Elec7ro-II (VST from TAL, pretty great bass Plug-in) *Other Sounds:* AGML2 (Guitar) VSCO2 (Orchestral VST) DSK Saxophones (Soprano and Tenor Saxophones) Iowa Alto Sax (Alto Saxophone) MT-PowerDrumKit (Acoustic Drumkit, however the kick is really weak, so take note.) *Misc Sounds:* sforzando (Great for loading and playing soundfonts with ease.) Keyzone Classic (Great quality piano and keyboard samples) AlterEgo (A nice variant of Vocaloid) Harsh Digital Nose (An experimental synth VST, just draw something in a canvas and hear the noise go ballistic) *Effects:* PanCake2 (Really good autopanner) Proximity (As the name states, it creates virtual distance with your music - you can go wild with this.) MeldaProduction MFreeFXBundle (A lot of MeldaProduction's plugins have to be payed for, but you can get the free bundle and it has some pretty great stuff, including MAutopitch, which is a cool autotuner) ValhallaFreqEcho (Pretty Neat Echo effects)

[@OrionWeidman]

Replace the drums with Steven Slate Drums Sampler 5. It's free and comes with samples of a Pearl kit and it's fantastic!

[@sridhargs8919]

Ott is good for dubstep. And is Free.

[@BrysonPrice]

Melda has some really great tools! 👌🏼

[@benjaminsmith8928]

This is so helpful, thanks! 😁

[@enpeacemusic192]

Helm is super great

[@angelaava]

Love how much awesome info is compiled in this short and sweet video! Thank you!

[@theorist5497]

Love that you mentioned SunVox. I no longer use it very much, but its such a great and powerful program.

[@Cryosion]

I love the TAL bassline... it's so freaking good. The TAL plugins are pretty simple but sound great. Can't be beat, especially for free!

[@AtlanticRevolution]

Honestly, music is amazing, it is a language like no other, and the way you do your videos and produce music, it's unique and amazing, so I'm always happy to see your videos and learn from you, so keep up the great work! not many people say this to you but Thank you Andrew!

[@yuccajoe2133]

wholesome. :)

[@a-symfony6312]

Mr. Huang has a great teaching and presentation style that keeps you engaged and entertained at the same time!! keep up the good work bro.

[@PunkWad]

I am so confused by the slang but I'm invested

[@CoolMintMC]

Same. It's like he's speaking a different dialect that I can't understand. I just know I want to make digital music & I have no money, & no idea where to start.

[@Si74l0rd]

@@CoolMintMC Start with Cakewalk, everything in the later part of the video will plug into it. Once you've got Cakewalk, hit up KZbin for some basic tutorials, once you've mastered those then you can start thinking about what kind of plug-ins you want for your sound and you can come back to this video again. Plugins are basically anything that does a specific task not already included within your DAW ( in this case your DAW [Digital Audio Workstation] is Cakewalk.) A plug-in could be something like a drum machine, a sampler or a compressor. In the same way you can get pedals to change a guitars input sound through the amplifier, they allow you to add either sounds or extra features to your DAW, where you then sequence and arrange your samples into tracks. Then once your tracks are laid down you can get to work with the magic. If you want your vocal track to have a little extra sparkle there might be a plugin for that. If you want some reverb on your guitar and you don't have it as an option in your DAW, then go grab a plug-in. The reason free plug-ins are great is because there are hundreds, and the not free one's are rarely cheap! Some genres of music might necessitate having dozens of plugins and in some cases, separate software to complement rather than plug-in to the DAW. An example might be a drum machine. While you can create, edit and sequence a beat all within Cakewalk, you may want to use a specialist tool if the complexity you require isn't readily available within the DAW, or to streamline your workflow if you're using multiple monitors. Making music digitally is complex, just as with learning most digital skills. The first time you create a website would be using a program of some sort to create a template that you tweak, then if you're interested and you want to excel you can learn the actual language and create a webpage just typing in Notepad. So too with using a DAW, start out making basic loops and if you're interested and willing to put the time in then the sky is the limit. It's a pretty expensive hobby to make music of any sort ordinarily, but to produce music prior to the nineties would have meant tens of thousands in hardware. Rooms full of racks, recording equipment, usually of the magnetic tape type and monitors (of the speaker variety!) Over time these huge racks have been squeezed down into smaller USB connected hardware devices like the OP-1 and emulated in software. Cakewalk, or any DAW, is basically this. A roomful of racks, synths and recording equipment. So it gives you the potential to create a industry quality product. You add in your samples, be they created on a real instrument or via a plug-in and then you end up with a track you can export. Then you post it to SoundCloud or a similar service and get some feedback from people :)

[@CoolMintMC]

@@Si74l0rd I appreciate this, but this is beyond me, Oof. I hope this helps someone. :)

[@martad2281]

@@Si74l0rd dude, thanks for this. it was just what i needed. it explained so many things i could not understand

[@2brainded240]

Si74l0rd thx a lot m8. U make music?

[@mitch150]

How have I been sleeping on so many of these?? Good lord glad I watched this video.

[@cyberfox89]

More best FREE VSTs kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZ69Zp5snceWjZo

[@thewoodblock1239]

iZotope Vinyl is good for lofi

[@bvffalo5179]

TheWoodBlock123 i just downloaded that :)

[@jayjay1drum1skate]

Its awesome!

[@SeanTheGamer2k]

It does ruin audio quality a bit tho

[@meloncheck]

SeanTheGamer lmao yeah that's the point

[@Zetamen7]

My GarageBand doesn't recognize it tho

[@liefnova3534]

Huh. This is just like the best video on KZbin. There's a ton of extra great info in the description, in case you didn't notice.

[@samsmusichub]

Garageband? Cakewalk? Audacity? Ohhh that's why my songs always sound bad, I've been using Microsoft Publisher.

[@CatmanJimbo]

Man this is awesome, thank you! I hope KZbin and all the gear companies are treating you well. It's the least you deserve after all you give back to the music community

[@danialta9621]

2019 will be the year for music production!! Thank you based Andrew!

[@reaganplank]

This helped so so so much, I've been looking for this kind of stuff for months. THANK YOU!!

[@VaChiee]

thanks bro i snagged like 3 or 4 from this vid , ive been looking for some good free specific ones and you went over a few I was stoked thanks man

[@crazydonut8599]

Rad, thank you so much, I really needed this rn

[@crazydonut8599]

I'm liking BandLab a lot. I'll try to finish an album there, at least something demo-like, I'll put the link to it in my description if anyone cares, I'm so so grateful for this video, I seriously had no idea that this exists and it's so fun??

[@TheDeepGaze]

I'd love to see what Andrew could do with LMMS.

[@dancingfishfilms]

tbh he could probably do almost anything he can do with Ableton but it'd take him a really long time to get as comfortable with it as he is with Ableton so probably not worth it

[@mattelerch7066]

That would be an amazing video

[@c4shguy224]

recently started using vcv rack and i love it, thanks andrew!

[@breyermcjoey]

You are a hero. Thank you for this! I've been trying to find good Microsoft applications for a while now and this has really helped.

[@byteofblender]

I have played with LMMS, Ardour and Audacity on Linux and like all of them. Qtractor is also nice for simple linux multitrack recording, and some of the live FX you can do with all the many JACK plugins that exist for linux are fantastic

[@abcdefg7503]

I use the plug-in HELM and Synth1 a lot. They are also free.

[@metalzone2000]

all of this is friggen gold. I used LMMS, Ardour and such on linux over 10 years ago. Fantastic tools. Also big ups for Dexed and VCV Rack. I love TAL Plugins as well. You can find the Glitchmachines stuff of super cheap on plugin boutique on the regs. All of this stuff is gold. Great vid man!

[@nickychantrell5596]

Just got the Spitfire LABS Strings and they're just what I need! The sample quality is astonishing for something that is free, would definitely recommend it!

[@Redge.]

You read my mind!! Thank you for posting

[@youbutinreverse]

I didn't think Zebralette was going to be in the list. I'm impresseed!

[@genrage9747]

Thank you SOOOO MUCH mate! I've always wanted to start making my own music and now with your help, i can finally fulfill my dream, thank you! :)

[@ChuloDavidcito]

Thanks, Andrew! Just what I needed. You're my HERO!

[@tientje98]

the labs plugins are amazing thank you so much

[@eyre_]

Greetings to fellow tracker users! Sunvox and Buzz represent 😍 Also worth mentioning is that new LABS from spitfire come out every few weeks. Every single one is beautiful and so, so useful.

[@FEO]

Good to see Sunvox gettin' some love :)

[@liamhebden8857]

audacity is great for sampling... it can record from any sound source inside the computer... I have it open all the time for those moments where a great sample appears in say something i'm watching

[@Zeagods-CyberShadow]

I use audacity to make vaporwave but now I'm looking for a better software

[@Brositive]

You can record the sounds from your computer? :000

[@Adarkjet]

Very good. Melda’s free bundle deserves a mention, especially their Mauto pitch.

[@honeycooler]

Reaper is an amazing free DAW for windows and Mac and deserves a mention.

[@SpektralJo]

But it is not free. Winrar isn't free either

[@themoron786]

I love you mentioned lmms cause I use to use it and started with lmms.

[@Qambodia-]

Audio tool has some great stuff for beginners, especially the synth stuff which can be daunting at first

[@vaemusic7990]

Amazing vid! I was looking to expand my library a little, but still fancy eating, so this is fantastic!

[@TotemsMcGee]

huge huge huge shoutout to VCV rack. I've been using it to try and convert all my friends into synth-friends.

[@trash_ducc]

Is it its own app and crowd sourced?

[@TotemsMcGee]

@@trash_ducc yes! It is it's own app. And there are lots of crowd sourced (and open sourced) module packs!

[@jstarrsounds]

glitchmachines fracture has been one of my favorite plugins since forever

[@willshea6311]

My dude you are awesome! Thank you for expanding my knowledge

[@Adarkjet]

I own tons of paid for plugins and I still use the original Rough Rider by Audio Damage; it is a very unique compressor.

[@AndrewPRoberts]

I just recently became addicted to VCV rack, so now I have to spend all of my money and build a modular synth. That's how they get ya.

[@EliasJackson]

Another nice free, open-source synth that also has Linux support is Helm. A lot of its functionality and UI reminds me of Serum

[@jonytube]

helm sounds pretty sweet!

[@Almanacs]

Helm is awesome, I use it in many of my compositions and nobody believes it's a free vst when they hear it.

[@Mr.Meowgical]

As someone that's wanted to get their toes wet with modular synthesis but has lacked the means, VCV Rack looks like a gift! Thank you for sharing this.

[@the_Fifteen]

All of this is amazing and it helps a lot for new musicians getting into it (like me!). I'd love if you could do a video focused on how to use these tools because, as much as they are free, they still need to get learnt, and I know there are surely a bunch of tutorials already around there, but for VCV, for example, there aren't that many tutorials and they aren't very good apart from the basics, so I'd love a huge video, or maybe a small playlist of some videos of you teaching us how these tools could be used in a more causal or starting context. Thanks you so much for this video, it will sure be useful for all of us, young and new musicians out there!!

[@5nak_music]

I highly recommend Firebird 2, Nightlife, Minimogue VA, and Density III.

[@ViktorSarge]

Tracktion 7 with it's really fast interface is my favourite by far after trying Cubase, Logic and Reaper. It was bought by Mackie but the original creator bought it back a bunch of years ago and restarted development. Now it's quite a kick ass company churning out new versions of it's DAW(s) and synths. T7 is free so not even the "unlimited trial" of Reaper.

[@robing1932]

loved the song man! I`m in the beginning stadium. and your video really helps me. Thank you!

[@nuklearboysymbiote]

Love u man, quarantine inspiring some production

[@SwedishSurfer]

For iOS, one of the best synths is completely free: Audiokit Synth One!

[@TrippEdits]

Reaper is basically free and its probably my favorite for things like physical instrument and vocal tracking as well as mixing. I use fl studio for everything else though but everything is possible in reaper its just sometimes a bit more work to get things like patterns in it. For plugins honestly the ones that come with reaper are pretty solid. W1 Limiter is also a beast for free

[@sharonah1304]

I wanted to do something with music and you reallllllyyy helped me out. THANKS!!

[@GeofclavzOfficial]

I love your channel very informative and straight to the point! love it! really love love love haha

[@benjaminvroman5553]

Honestly audacity can be pretty powerful if you know how to use it. I, personally, do not know how to use audacity very well, but I’ve seen it, I swear.

[@attila.m.magyar]

Audacity is awesome for a lot of things and it probably should be in the toolbox of everone who works with audio, -but it's not (meant to be) a DAW, e.g. it'd be quite ineffective and cumbersome to do a full mix in it.-

[@petermarsh4578]

Definitely not ideal for the full production process, but I had a ton of fun learning the fundamentals of production with only a cheap casio keyboard and audacity!

[@mykedrought]

@@attila.m.magyar and yet Burial used it on his records...

[@TheUncomfortable]

@@mykedrought was searching for this fact :) Burial is beyond amazing

[@attila.m.magyar]

@Michael Smolenkov I didn't say it was impossible, I said it'd be ineffective and cumbersome, but now that I've been thinking about it, most of the things that I do in Reaper can in fact be done in Audacity just as easily. The biggest difference is probably that Audacity "prints" immediately, so it's harder to go back and adjust parameters for effects that one had done several steps before. But that's not very hard to work around in case it's needed, and Audacity is still lightyears more convenient and flexible than e.g. analog, tape based production - if people could make awesome music with that, then it's definitely doable with Audacity. And I shouldn't forget that limitations can often spark creativity. So kudos for Audacity, and I retract the second half of my comment. :-)

[@georgetulipana8136]

Hysteresis and fracture are easily some of my favorite glitch plugins.

[@MxNoir]

Can’t wait to make some quality music on my Nintendo Wii that I’ve been watching this video on! Thanks Andrew!

[@inthesonesaypanya5275]

I'm downloading these once I get back home, thanks bro!!! 💜💯🎩

[@khurramsaeed1999]

this guy just blew my mind in 5 minutes

[@rob.carrillo]

LSDJ is a popular tracker for the original Gameboy/Gameboy color. There is a free ROM version available for download. Pair that with any free Gameboy emulator and Bam. Free Gameboy tracker synth thing on your phone.

[@mixchief]

So for iOS, what are the components needed to be able to do LSDJ efficiently, if any?

[@greggeverman5578]

This helpful vid left me speechless...and sobbing uncontrollably... Not sure why... I’m kidding ya. Thx, man!

[@ZERO-vq3ys]

Thanks, this video gave me chills. Very helpful and inspiring 💚🕊

[@HnkyMnky]

Oxe FM Synth by Oxesoft is awesome, Blue Cat Audio has some nice freebees as well as Melda, iZotope and Xfer Records.

[@khoiphish]

Thank you... I cant spend money and I cant find really good programs 👌

[@jacksonbakermusic7081]

Xeonx get the app medly on your iOS device

[@MasochistMouse]

Thanks didn't know if wavepad was still a thing, or if something is better. Since your video was the newest of the 1st page videos i chose to watch yours.

[@snuzzlescuf]

Quick, informative, love it

[@derekflow]

Caustic has a free sample editor for Android that's pretty nice. It's made for the Volca Sample, but can easily be used without it

[@CaptainVita]

Caustic itself is dope. I produced a lot of dope Tracks with nothing but Caustic and the integrated Stereo Mic on my MI Pad.

[@aons5481]

I love caustic! My first DAW

[@ApesOnDaLooze]

Reaper is a slept on DAW, I started on it in high school recording guitar and vocals. It's not as advanced as some other programs but it's still noteworthy

[@VicJo]

So thoughtful of you bro, more power to you. God bless!

[@VicJo]

How to remove noise?

[@GailBecker-MSED-CM-Author]

Your song sounds really nice, I am impressed!

[@ed07722]

I started out on LMMS 1.1 before switching to FL studio. Recommended!

[@sammier.6125]

Essa Diallo which do you prefer

[@EmmanouelKatsoulakis]

The “G-Stomper” app is pretty decent for a freeware/freemium in android devices

[@DistrictMafi]

Literally just started looking at this your amazing!

oh man --- i did not know about spitfire audio ... this is soooooo goooood thanks soooooo much man, feel hugged

[@lit3work]

Andrew, I love you, but *ahem* Synth One on iOS? Powerhouse of a synth, especially with the secret page Jacob found! Oh and completely free and open source!

[@chrisrodriguez6899]

Please explain this secret page 0.o

[@darkmoon_dawg]

I just want to thank Andrew and the community here for all the helpful advice, information, and recommendations. It's been invaluable and I cannot properly articulate my gratitude.

[@2CelebrateMusic]

wowww... in just 5-6 minutes such a bundle of input... Thx 4 sharing. ☺

[@gryphka]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO. Now I actually have an idea about what I should get!

[@havenproductions1372]

Andrew! If you see this comment, i just wanted to say, your my inspiration, thanks you!

[@timothyhumphreys1231]

You're

[@havenproductions1372]

im not crying, you are

[@havenproductions1372]

AllYouKnowIsWrong xD

[@havenproductions1372]

GEMOTO your funny

[@NathanStar-vw3dm]

I'm smarter than you're

[@J.T.mus1c]

MeldaProductions has a great free pack with a great eq and comp and some sweet utility stuff. Reaper has a trial that never ends and is my go to daw, its like the perfect middle ground between Pro tools and Ableton and is all open source and insanely stable.

[@steven_porter]

Agreed! I have every free plugin from Melda and they're super useful.

[@nibblrrr7124]

Reaper isn't open source. It's still my go-to DAW on Linux (natively!). And the devs & community are really cool people.

[@RoddyFischer]

Agreed and tons of training videos on youtube and their website.

[@b.robertson9042]

Also, Tokyo Dawn Labs - Kotelnikov Compressor, Slick EQ and Nova are awesome! Klanghelm - MJUC Jr. Compressor, IVGI saturation Voxengo - SPAN spectrum analyzer Flux - Stereo Tool v3 Ignite Amps - PTeq-X Valhalla - FreqEcho

[@SurinamElephant]

Auxy needs a lot of in App purchases to do actual production, but i love it to write down ideas and get simple melodys saved up. The design and workflow is really easy to grasp and especially for beginners , perfect.