


It’s important to mention that each of them has a specific characteristic and I chose the one I liked the most, regardless of the closeness with the real hardware. You can listen to a great example of what is formant shifting in Shelter by Porter Robinson and Madeon, especially at 0:42.Īfter watching this video, I tried UAD’s, Waves’s, Cytomic’s and Ableton’s Glue compressor and, from top to bottom, Cytomic > Ableton > Waves > UAD. Little AlterBoy: Use it mostly to create formant shifts on vocals while still keeping them in key.I use this A LOT for widening vocals, especially when I pitch them 12 octaves up or down. Microshift: Good option for making things stereo.Check out the list of plugins I mostly use from it: I don’t use all the plugins from it and what got me to buy it was Microshift, but eventually ended up using a lot more of their plugins. I bought this bundle in 2018 after testing it for a bit during Black Friday and it is GREAT. If so, a great free replacement for it is the Addictive Keys Studio Grand, which is a paid plugin that offers a time unlimited free trial for four octaves of their pianos, which sound amazing. It costs $70.00 USD, which might pull you away from it. In addition, it is the piano I use for writing new melodies and checking if they are good enough. I use this piano for almost all my tracks, especially for my new House Music alias. I’ve also tried Piano V2 from Arturia and a bunch of packs for Kontakt, but the one I think comes next to it is the Nexus Grandpiano. I love how it sounds, the simplicity of it, and I love the options you have in it. But, yes, it is free and, honestly, I don’t feel you need to buy the premium version (at least I never felt I needed to). To be honest, I was suspicious with a free plugin at first, especially considering the design and functionality it has. And, the best part of this plugin is that it is FREE. Instead of just being an example, I completely replaced Insight and even uninstalled Pro-L from my machine with Youlean’s Loudness meter. In 2020, I was looking for a free Loudness Meter option to give an example of how I use metering within Ozone’s Insight 2 and Fabfilter Pro-L and I found Youlean’s Loudness Meter. To thank you for being a reader, the first five people who comment on this post will receive a FREE COPY of Ozone 9 Elements, which you could upgrade to the Music Production Suite 4 for $400 USD with this link.

In addition, during Black Friday 2019, they sold a package with an introductory version of all their plugins for $50 USD, which you could upgrade with bundles from Plugin Boutique like this one For starters, if you’re a student, you can get 50% off. Especially if you’re doing podcasts or voice-overs/how-to videos, this could be a powerful tool if you need to correct a problem. RX: The best reparation tool out there, I use it to repair vocals that could have a recording problem like a noise or crackle.
