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CHAPTERS
00:00 INTRO
00:22 SYNTHESIZERS / SAMPLERS
04:18 SOUND DESIGN TOOLS
06:44 MULTI-EFFECT
08:10 MIXING
16:04 MASTERING / POST PRODUCTION
18:43 ????
19:58 COLOR BASS TOOLS
20:49 OUTRO
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[@AlburpCatstein]

Massive spender here

[@PlayaPhonkOfficial]

A good OTT alternative is OxyOTT which comes with linear phase every feature in the demo trial is unrestricted

[@saylezz]

Ayyyy not all heros wear capes... You're not wearing a cape are you?

[@Weaverbeats]

Sauce

[@realoxygenetix]

thanks for the shoutout!

[@PlayaPhonkOfficial]

@@realoxygenetix especially like your spectral phaser plugin goes great with colorbass sound design

[@Arcessitor]

@@realoxygenetix You deserve to have more people know about Oxy. It's everything I ever wanted out of OTT, put into OTT.

[@RomanTowerMusic]

I can also suggest these plugins: Reverbs • Arturia Rev Intensity (very good) • UA Capitol Chambers (super good) • Lexicon 224 Delays • Arturia Delay Eternity • US Cooper Time Cube MkII • Galaxy Tape Echo • Echo Boy by Soundtoys Synths • Diva u-he • Omnisphere by Spectrasonics • Sylenth by Lennar Digital (so clean) • Analog Lab V by Arturia • Synplant 2 by Soniccharge • PolyMax by UA Bass • Modo Bass 2 by IK Piano • Pianoteq 8 by Modartt • Keyscape by Spectrasonics • Noir by Native Instruments • VSL Viaenna Synchron Concert D-274 Dynamics • FabFilter (all) • bx_opto by Brainworx • Manley Variable Mu by UA • Split EQ (transient/tonal EQ) by Eventide • Neutron 4 Tape • Satin by u-he • Tape Sculptor by Impact Sounds • Reels by Audio Thing • Abbey Road Vinyl Stereo by Waves Granular • EFX Fragments by Arturia • Graindad by Sugar Bytes • FRMS by Imaginado • Polygon 2 by Glitchmachines • Quanta 2 by Audio Damage • Glow by Lese • Ableton Granulator III Physical modeling • AAS Chromaphone 3 • Imagine by Expressive E • Object by Reason Studios • SWAM Instruments Drums • Drum Computer by Sugar Bytes • Battalion by Unfiltered Audio • Heartbeat by Softube • Microtonic by Soniccharge • Borsta by Klevgrand

[@Garnassium]

Great list, mine would be very similar.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 👀

[@Inversible100]

Did you bought all of them?😮

[@mdee2581]

this list does help me a lot. thx bro

[@Rhythmattica]

For Synths, Surge XT... Free.. Open source... Amazing... It never gets mentioned and blows many a free & paid options away.

[@saylezz]

I used surge for like a week. Vital is a million times better.

[@mudi2000a]

Surge sounds very good but the UI is very complicated.

[@Rhythmattica]

@@mudi2000a Personally I dont think so... Truth is at first I sort of did.. But changing the skin to my preference, seems to make it more accommodating... But also.. Simplicity can also mean less capable... Not saying theres not better GUI's, But for free, and if your into deep dive synthesis.. It is a beast.

[@TheValueOfN]

@@Rhythmattica Weirdly, the skin change made it make more sense to me too.

[@DSWL_]

yea surge ui is 😬👎

[@nicoschmitt9857]

Massive used to be Serum before Serum came out, yikes now i feel old

[@Weaverbeats]

Same 😔

[@axxojaxx2510]

Massive is still cool for that retro modern grit, i do use it amongst the newer synths. It's got a very recognisable tone.

[@TheValueOfN]

VCV used to be VAZ Modular before VCV came out. I know that I'm old.

[@axxojaxx2510]

@@TheValueOfN Massive used to be ReFx Vanguard before Massive. 😄 Before that .. there was Neon by Steinberg..

[@RDSYproductions]

Massive is the grandady of bass synths, I still love using it for the that vintage bass sound.

[@smilingerrors]

Phase plant is a beast. Cheap to rent and after 12 month's renting it they give you a 100 dollar voucher. And the best bit is their entire eco system is so much more than the synth.

[@adsm6464]

I managed to pick up Phase Plant for £75 and it's so good I feel bad for not paying full price. The workflow is amazing and the premium effects whilst expensive raise it to another level. Also the fact you can have presets with premium effects you don't own (which are un-editable) is a nice touch. Best value for money of all the Sound Design platforms for sure.

[@wasabi333]

Cracking is even cheaper.

[@Keroser1983]

@@wasabi333 Dont do that. As a former plugin junkie with all the cracks and pirated software, dont take that route. ;Insteas invest on couple of plugins and learn them like hell. You will get all the updates, communities, client services etc etc. Also you will be giving back to the developer. I see that some plugins are ridicilous priced, however we all can live without some plugins :)

[@Frikoppie]

@@adsm6464 NICE. (N.I.C.E is a military related surveillance company). Just for clarification, they pretty much try to observe everything you do because they can't think for themselves.

[@Bronwyn031]

I totally agree with the price of Scaler 2. And it's currently on sale over on Plugin Boutique for 29USD. That software should easily be like 149 USD or MORE! A must buy for anyone looking to write music. The bonus is it will actually teach you music theory too.

[@cultivatedmind8352]

Logic challenges the non-stock argument. The Liner EQ doesnt cause resonant problems, the console EQ Is one of the best analog/neve EQ emulations ever, the Phat FX chain, and the different compressors actually sound pretty good and have enough filter/sidechain features to make it a swiss army plugin. The chroma verb, pedal board spring verb on any instrument, tape delay and platinum verb get the jobs done for me for space effects, and the organ, epiano, disco strings, deep tech drums, analog sub sonic bass, liverpool bass, flabba bass amp setting. and studio horn sax patches are enough to create anything you can think up. Add the crazy good apple drum loops, some decent tuning on the current version and new mastering suite all for 200$ is the best package if plugins in history

[@aldo34]

Shout out to Phat FX, underrated

[@strangnet]

Arturia Pigments as a solid general synthesizer with a really good sequencer you can use with other synths as well.

[@Weaverbeats]

I had pigments on here also originally but ended up taking it out because I felt like I was starting to put too many synths

[@Bronwyn031]

Agreed. I own pretty much all of the popular third-party synth plugins as well as several actual hardware synths. I still prefer Pigments 3 over most of the rest.

[@deathsyrup]

@@WeaverbeatsPigments is THE best synth.

[@DeafbyDesign]

@@deathsyrup I'm obsessed with Pigments, Its part of my live rig and I run my guitar through it now, I love melting things with the PS delay and a run a slow LFO on the pitch shifting....rainbow machine man!

[@deathsyrup]

@@DeafbyDesign amazing. It really is one of the best modern designed VSTs

[@ViRiXDreamcore]

Supertone CLEAR is also great for noise remova for vocals.

[@NTMTR_OFFICIAL]

Kitchhoff EQ is even more versatile than ProQ 3

[@ricgl84]

Great Weaver! I'm glad you're making analysis or teaching music through your videos.

[@NordicBlueprint]

Love plugin videos. Gotta catch em all

[@David-gp3fd]

one of the best complete lists ive seen

[@notnoaintno5134]

I like Atlas for random sample stuff. Haven't tried Life, but Atlas is like a sample organizer / drum rack thing. I loaded a bunch of sound design sessions clips into it and now I have unlimited random 1 shot drum sets I can load up. Also I appreciate you bringing attention to Infiltrator. It does so much. Most of the FX sound really good just by themselves, and being able to sequence them... 👌

[@nickgilday8946]

Got me good with the BWB line lol. Well played.

[@TheValueOfN]

I reckon that this is one of your most valuable vids.

[@ozratman]

Thanks. This gave me 5 options that have helped me a lot.

[@0gcrypto]

thanks for the tip about UVR, going to try them out now 🙌

[@aemythjensen]

When you get it, I suggest you select the Demucs process method. It beats all the others. The results are excellent.

[@MASTAHMELO]

Such a good video. Quick, to the point and explained perfectly. Thanks man 👊

[@erasusdnb]

Thanks g As always, legend

[@EIrizarryMadOfficial]

KNOCK is such a slept-on plugin. The sound clarity passed through it alone makes it a best VST plugin to have right now. The "TONE" knob is really the Tilt EQ knob; it works well for what it does.

[@CrashPadBeats]

Love the vid thanks for the recs.

[@arcadestudio]

Great work ! Great Work!

[@DeathWishBoi666]

8:45 For that purpose Soothes sidechain function also should help. For example I use Soothe 2 for masking the beat in a vocal mix for rap, wehre the beat gets Soothe sidechained to the vocalbus so the overall processed vocals carve their way through the beat frequency wise. its really transparent and you almost dont notice the beat gets cut in some areas since the frequencies are perfeclty filled with the vocals. Just dont overdo it obviosly. But it helps a lot and a lot of clients are really surprised how "well" i can put their vocals on the beat and make it fit.. its actually a gamechanger

[@Bittamin]

Stock logic gang where we at? 😅 I mostly use my logic tools but I have been gifted a few things like the Amigo sampler and have collected some free tools and romplers. Vital and surge are must grab free synths, dexed and odin2 are great as well. Sound selection for me is all 90s, all the time so what I tend to go for will be different than others! Valhalla supermassive is an awesome free reverb too

[@JoeNorero]

I love you man this is a really great video the best one in a long time. I think it's important to revisit the flows of the work and the tools that you use along the way. The only thing I would add is maybe to have added more examples of why to purchase it. For example before effect after effect

[@prodbybigl]

Can’t forget about TDR plugins. Their EQ is similar to ProQ and it’s free. Their compressor is damn good too. I’m going to pay for their gentleman’s edition since I always use their plugins.

[@danceswith7wolves]

Great company

[@Keroser1983]

Do that, they are mostly on sale and I have all the GE editions except TDR NOVA ( For some reason I did not pick it up ). GE editions worth it, comes with so many additional features.

[@arnev2017]

Amigo Sampler would totally be on my list. They just updated it too.

[@danielcatron1979]

That thing’s amazing-solid rec!

[@arnev2017]

@@danielcatron1979 yeah, I love it. I’ve used things like Octamed and Protracker before, so when that came it was a no brainier. Use it in both Abelton and Renoise.

Best plugin ever

[@arnev2017]

Yeah, I use it in both Renoise and Abelton. Awesome Amiga crunch.

[@MrBendixxx]

PotenzaDSP also has a very nifty little clipper available to. I like it!

[@unnecessary-roughness3303]

Phase Plant rules all when it comes to synths

[@MDHeleniak]

Great plugin vid Mr. Weaver. Best thing about your vids ... I don't have to speed them up.

[@adit_3255]

i would highly recommend the UAD Plugins!

[@xmgaming2444]

A very underrated option for granular sound design is Arturia's Fragments. It's got potential for grain delay/reverb, tiny granular sequencing type stuff, grains can overlap and do comb filtering, there's a lot of good options

[@paulluckey6997]

I saw a comparison video between the Fabfilter Pro-Q and the TBT Kirchhoff-EQ and the Kirchoff was noticeably better sounding than the Pro-Q. It was a much cleaner sound I thought.

[@rottendowntime]

great video man

[@morgan0]

4:50 my favorite clipper is newfangled audio saturate, it’s very neutral sounding but also doesn’t get overwhelmed by bass. it’s not necessary but i think it’s a great neutral general purpose clipper

[@Keroser1983]

Second to that.

[@scottlarock7924]

Just getting into scaler too. I haven't really opened it up yet, but it does seem to match what people say about it. Got to give a shout out to Soundpaint. I can get so much done with the sounds inside the software that I get out of it and there's not much left to do in the DAW with other plugins or effects.

[@Griuofficial]

Thanks for the video

[@Kevhuman]

Ima' grab me that bwb tutorial today ! Do you have an affiliate link ?

[@brennanaman1]

Learn your daw inside out before you buy any plugins.

[@Weaverbeats]

true i wish i added that statement as well

[@kevinmyrick218]

I disagree, having access to third party tools empowers the learning producer and sparks creativity with sounds that they may not otherwise hear using native plugins

[@illford6921]

​@kevinmyrick218 they did not say "don't use VSTs" but if you don't know your DAW your not gonna be able to take full advantage of it. It's like using FL without abusing the way it handles glides or using Ableton without Max. When you have good knowledge of your DAW and Plugins you can use both better as a sum of parts

[@djscratchdog]

Have you tried (Deres) by W.A Production for phase issues and artifacts?

[@UptownBoogieDown]

Ah nice suggestions. Some here I didn’t know for sure

[@DmitryPuffin]

Talking about stock, Ableton has Hybrid Reverb, which is waaay better than the old one. Echo is very good, and it could be compared to the best delays on the market. Also, for multiband distortion - Roar is an awesome new stock plugin. Ableton stock collection lacks linear phase EQ, better limiter and vocal pitch correction, other than that Suite collection is really powerful and covers almost all aspects of production.

[@red0ctane19]

KClip Zero is an awesome sounding clipper and it's free. It doesn't have the options for manipulating/shaping sounds like Knock does, but to me the clipper is top tier and most of us already have transient shapers, our favorite distortion/saturation plugins, and an EQ to still quickly and easily be able to do what knock would've done after clipping.

[@TrueFakeNews]

I felt in love with XLN Audio Life for Techno Music - everytime i press the random button i get something useful in a different rhythm plus it saves every loop in an extra folder as a wav file. So i can use it in another project or use it again in Life. For me the best thing in 2024

[@LaymensLament]

idk im using more and more of bitwig stock stuff. i feel getting plugs is mainly ease of use and different flavours. but theres so many flavours in bitwig now so again, if i get an arturia delay or something its mainly ease of use or if i get a multifx tool, i got a couple, its kinda fast too. for synths my favorites are pigments and phaseplant, i feel getting one of the big synths like serum or these youre fine. oh yeah and getting a drum tool like triaz, xo or mabye even battalion or drumcomputer helps a lot.

[@unc1589]

Did you do rip x daw pro yet? The one where you type in ?

[@og951]

Can you please do the best VST for a good vocal preset

[@drum877]

Have you tried pigments 2 bro bro?

[@morgan0]

13:50 there’s many different sounds one might want, i have a bunch of reverbs and i use different ones different times. usually goodhertz megaverb, but sometimes i want the sound of logic’s old platinumverb, which is hidden away by default, so i use that instead. reverb is more of a category rather than a single effect, and it’s helpful to have a variety and know their sounds.

[@antrave]

Do these work on windows sound recorder?

[@apoplexiamusic]

V-Clip is a really great clipper for like $30 Fuse Compressor and Rift from Minimal Audio are also really great and not too pricey

[@AirArtStudiosOfficial]

Knock does sound good so good

[@DJJustFrank]

Did i fast forward over the limiters?

[@aquaticborealis4877]

Played around with Massive X and it’s quite good.

[@TheValueOfN]

shitty GUI though compared to its peers.

[@Pxrchi]

@@TheValueOfN yeah fs, takes too long to get stuff put together, especially the performers imo. But I do like the Node based FX section, Unison Chord Morphing, FM, AM, Fbk, etc.

[@jenstornell]

Do you know if distorsion and saturation is the same thing in music? It sure looks like it.

[@anattaevergreen4115]

Hey bro, from what I undertand these two processes introduce new harmonics to the sound but achieve this in different ways in a basic sense they are similar but different

[@wmpx34]

You could think of saturation as mild distortion. Perhaps not even audibly distorted.

[@henryhill92]

Technically, yes. They result from the same process but people tend to use the word saturation to describe more subtle harmonic content and the word distortion to describe more extreme, or sometimes unwanted, harmonic content.

[@theorize999]

A good alternative to RX9 is Acon Digital’s Acoustica, some people think it’s tools are better I wouldn’t know I’ve never needed to use RX

[@MRboomchongo]

For RX10 audio transcribing why didn't iZotope use an AI language layer that reads the sentence structure and determines whether the output is contextual?

[@QueMusiQ]

11:02 shaperbox has a ducker and a great compressor that you can side chain as well.

[@lukasgruber1280]

Amigo Sampler works well in my workflow

[@mymusicmixminute]

What's a good plugin to sync voice with video?😀

[@mymusicmixminute]

BTW, thanks for the Infiltrator tip, hadn't heard of that one. I (generally) don't do subscriptions but I suppose every rule is made to be broken.

[@royalcities]

Just wanted to add - for those looking at Shimmer reverb Id check out Solaris. Its a free shimmering reverb which I actually use more than even my paid for version. Highly recommended. Also to any FL devs looking at that sample chop vst - slicex can do this right in the daw.

[@bodanerius]

Someones already mentioned Surge Synth. Great and very capable synth that has just about everything. For Kicks theres ChowKick. Simple, great sounding, open source and free.

[@KordTaylor]

I have to say that Mr Bill is brilliant 👏🏻

[@infiniterift]

Sure - Serum and Vital sounds cleaner than Massive - but - because of that, Massive has its own character. Sometimes cleaner doesn't mean better.

[@Arcessitor]

I personally hate how clean Serum sounds because it fails to blend in with pretty much every other softsynth unless you saturate or otherwise color the hell out of it. If you ever work with anything that's recorded, like real drums, serum sticks out like a sore thumb.

[@morgan0]

17:52 years ago i had to declip something that was clipped like suuuuuuper hard, rx either sucked or whatever version i have didn’t include that, some other paid one sucked, but audacity saved the day and it became like actually not painful to listen to and mostly salvaged

[@prodxaint]

Speaking of PhasePlant, I just want to mention their Snap Heap and Multipass, these are very good for some sick effect racks, modulation etc.

[@smilingerrors]

Aye, I use multipass & snapheap anytime I'm resampling. Now I've built up many templates, I just load each template on a separate track and leave my sampler recording while I replay a sample through each of them one at a time. Such a brilliant set of kit

[@dzaxys4643]

its great when vsts come with a extended frre trial

[@nolanroberts2710]

You didn't mention a single boz Digital Labs plug-in which is surprising, David Bendeths + 10 DB is my go-to for more than just my drum Channel it really made me appreciate what a channel strip can do and it's transparent as u ned it to be. BUT has this Funk to it that makes drum and bass drums sound fantastic and I just told drum tracks individual tracks are fantastic with it too and don't take away from the rest of the drum kit

[@jeffagoddard]

Well done! I forget that there are noobs that don’t know these plugins. I’m 62, how do others not know?

[@lmaoanatorhilarious2582]

If you haven’t used any softube or goodhertz then you should especially if you are mastering. Ngl goodhertz has been slowly replacing a lot of my analog gear and also helped me from spending so much on analog. Faraday compressor from them is basically like a 670. Anyone using the softube Weiss ds1 on their master? It’s fire asf. I’m surprised they aren’t on this list anywhere. Both companies are great for mixing as well as mastering

[@Durkhead]

What about invisable limiter? Is that worth the money?

[@Keroser1983]

I have the cracked version from the past. So I have tried couple of times. It is very good but very very pricey as far as I know. I am abandoning cracked software so I am not sure about the recent versions.

[@npcdisease]

Reaper has a stock alternative to melodyne and it works great

[@kevinmyrick218]

Gotta check if I have phase plant now. Serum is industry top.

[@scottlarock7924]

Had to stop the video and chime in on the Life plugin by XLN. I did the demo and had a great time and I could feel it shifting my creation process into something a little more efficient and even a bit more dynamic. In short, I can say that I freaking miss this plug-in. I do a lot of demos and obviously I don't end up buying everything, mostly because I find a way to do it for free or there's an easy enough work around to get it done. This is probably the strongest example of a plugin that I miss and will just absolutely end up paying for before this year is up.

[@MYPSYAI]

Dude inmho the best wavetable synth for PLAYING wavetables is Hive2. With hive2 and Vital its the best wavetable style. Hive2 is a beast and you can just use like 20 o them if you want, and go up to speeds that neither serum or vital cant handle - I think I would be lost with out Hive2

[@EliasUKMusic]

DSEQ3 by TBProAudio is a good Soothe2 alternative that's more affordable and doesn't really give up on features!

[@adsm6464]

Knock Clipper is all the Clipper I need.

[@mudi2000a]

How is it possible there is no u-he synth in here?? I don’t have any project without an u-he synth. They sound extremely good!

[@DrumNBassed]

They 100% produce the best sounding deep Reese basses

[@johanh9637]

Yes. U-HE, and softube for the classic synths

[@morgan0]

16:00 for a vintage sound, i am very biased since i made it but the bonsai distortion in surge/surge fx is great and free and open source. the ui surge provides is not the best, and limits the parameter count. someday i would like to make a much larger version as a separate paid plugin but at the rate i’m going with the related but separate eq plugin it might be 2030 when that comes out lol.

[@dannydaniel8975]

Once l got my hands on a real memory moog, Arp Odyssey, and an Oberheim Obx A, I deleted every vst synth I had.. My mind was just blown on how much better they sounded..

[@mcstrakka]

Goat

[@jenstornell]

I bought Serum on rent to buy. Then it does not feel like it costs much.

[@beatsbywoods8388]

"That guy can fit a lot of ideas in there" 😂🤣🤪

[@TheValueOfN]

There's a lot of space in that bonce.

[@snubdawg1386]

what about uad plugins? i hate that ilok shit but they have a huge sale right now

[@Pxrchi]

100%, awhile back I got Komplete 14 during the sale, for sure worth it imo. Came with some Bx plugins, which included BxTuner (kinda a melodyne alternative), BxConsole(SSL 4000 modeled ), Oberheim Synth. Not to mention Kontakt, and all the 78 other istruments/effects + 38 preset packs that include samples. Was a fucking steal tbh. But yeah the iLok shit gets kinda annoying, especially if you use multiple computers/devices in differing areas.

[@snubdawg1386]

@@Pxrchi ni uses ilok nowadays? ...it wasn't even possible to install the demo of uad...so i guess that's the answer that it's not for me

[@Inversible100]

@@snubdawg1386 Eh NI doesnt use iLok

[@TheReal_E.IRIZARRY]

KNOCK is so slept on. Makes an excellent hardware ITB emulator...but only as the last plugin on the Master chain. and this is no [DE]CAP! (PS: It must be set as: HQ = PRISTINE | TONE (TILT EQ) = low end lower than high end curve | AIR = 50% setting. You cannot lose.

[@sleeptownProductions]

“You could also use LFO Tool, but I generally find the routing for it to be kind of painful”… fuck yeah it is lol!

[@jenstornell]

I use completely different reverbs than you, interesting. For most stuff I use Raum and Superplate. For shimmer I add Solaris (free).

[@LaghimaMusic]

Serum < current

[@cyborgmetropolis7652]

I will only begin to create something once I have completly topped out all my gear with only the best gear.

[@Itsanasmusic]

the intro is already something I've wanted SOMEONE to say.

[@IvoMimica]

"Extended free trial" hahahahahahahaha man great video as always thanks for the info !

[@JayTheLane]

Pale and I like it.

[@justincallender258]

What about Ripx deepremix

[@GeorgeLocke]

Bitwig synths are amazing. If it were easier to build control interfaces you wouldn't need anything else.

[@JTAITSINGER]

Yezzir

[@songsbyblair]

THANKS WEAVER FIRST COMMENT BABY

[@Kevhuman]

I would buy life if the company was called XLNT audio...

[@TheValueOfN]

XLN Life can help to get some great results but we really have to work hard to get them. It's definitely worth half of the asking price at most though.

[@desallis]

As it so happens I have some noisy antlers that need removing.

[@Frequenaut]

try infected mushroom Pusher instead of Knock

[@Keroser1983]

I love that plugin but it changes sound. Be careful. I mean right on the loading an insert, it alters the sounds ( The Magic section in the middle does that. If you turn it off, it goes back to normal )