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Reason Lite Rack Plugin | Tutorials

Reason Rack Plugin Tutorial #1 | Basic Introduction Reason Rack Plugin Tutorial #2 | Matrix Sequencer - Control Internal & External Instruments Reason Rack Plugin Tutorial #3 | MClass Compressor Sidechain - Internal & External Routing Reason Rack Plugin Tutorial #4 | Scales & Chords Player Reason Rack Plugin Tutorial #5 | Combinator Basics - Rotary & Button Macro Routing  

Best EDM VST Plugins

If you want to get that polished, highly professional EDM sound, you’re going to need to use the right tools, and at Plugin Boutique, you can find some of the most helpful VST plugins out there. But which are the best plugins for EDM? In this rundown, we’ll shed some light on the top VSTs in 2022 for crafting tearing leads and solid basslines.       5. XLN Audio XO An innovative new way to get the right drum sounds, XO analyzes your one-shots and groups th

Top 5 Friday | Best Beatmaking VST Plugins

Top 5 Friday - Best Beatmaking VST Plugins When it comes to beat making VSTs, which are the essential selections that’ll get you slick, professional and vibey beats? From drum machine plugins to instant retro-ising effects, here we’ll take you through the best beat making plugins for getting that professional edge on your beats. Far from the abilities of your DAW’s stock plugin collection, these are the best beatmaking VST instruments and effects out there… 5. XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Col

Top 5 Friday | Best Drum & Bass VST Plugins

Top Five Friday - Best Drum & Bass VST Plugins Sure, technology is important in all forms of music, but in the super-tight DnB community, the need for a great drum and bass plugin is huge, with almost as many opinions on what’s the best drum and bass plugin as there are producers. So what are the best VSTs for drum and bass, really – and what’s the best drum and bass VST that you can get yourself on Plugin Boutique? In this rundown of DnB VST plugins, we’ll let you know the answers.

Top 5 Friday | Best Techno VST Plugins

Top 5 Friday | Best Techno VST Plugins 5. FabFilter Pro-R Perfect dystopian techno needs a perfect dystopian reverb, and FabFilter’s Pro-R is just that. Pro-R has all the hallmarks of any regular reverb plugin, with Space, Decay time and many more parameters, but it’s the lower half that makes it so versatile… Here, the yellow curves act to EQ the reverb signal, and the blue curves change the decay time for different frequencies. This gives you a new way to emphasise or roll back di

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Excite Audio Lite Upgrades

Unlock the full power of your Excite Audio Lite plugin Bloom Series The full versions of the Bloom series unlocks the edit page, sample import, and much more.   Evolve Series text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text     Motion: Series text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text     Lifeline Series  text text text text text text text text te

Best EQ VST Plugin Emulations (Inc. a Free EQ VST)

Best EQ VST Plugin Emulations (Including a Free EQ VST) Are you looking for EQ VST plugins that get a little bit more old-school than today’s all-singing all-dancing best EQ VSTs? If analogue is what you need, we’ve got five recommendations that’ll get you that dusty vibe when you’re cutting your frequencies. Modern EQ VSTs today boast features like dynamic EQ, frequency matching and visual spectrograms, but old units get you the classic tones of the world’s finest and most legendary r

Top 5 Friday | Best Drum Machines

Top 5 Friday | Drum Machines (VST / AU) 5. Plugin Boutique BigKick Yes, we’re naturally a bit biased towards this one, but BigKick is a drum machine plugin par excellence. It may only do one type of drum, but that drum is the one that’s in every electronic music track ever, and this vertical monster does it to death! Choose two samples and operate their decay time, and then dial in dynamics controls with Attach, Hold and Decay, set the pitch mod depth and curve type, as well as the

Top 5 Friday | Best Bitcrusher Plugins

Top 5 Friday | Best Bitcrushers (VST/AU) 5. kiloHearts Bitcrush Snapin This might just be a tiny little device with six controls to degrade your signal quality, but sometimes that’s all you want. The Bitcrush Snapin has the standard Rate and Bits controls, and they’re flanked by two converter quality controls, a Dither and a Mix control. No filter though. At £17 / $19, the Bitcrush Snapin is actually designed as a part of a larger ecosystem. Whether you’re using kiloHearts’ Multipas

Top 5 Friday | Best Vocoder Plugins

Top 5 Friday | Best Vocoder Plugins (VST/AU) 5.  XILS Lab XILS V+ Modelled off Roland’s classic VP330 vocoder hardware, the XILS virtual vocoder brings you classic features and some modern additions as well, for when you simply need to talk some smack in a robotic voice. Of course, if you want to make a vocoder, it’s got to be at least partly a synth, and the original Roland hardware was famous for both its string sounds and its emulation of the human voice, which gave access to epi

Top 5 Friday | Best Limiter Plugins

Top 5 Friday | Best Limiter Plugins (VST / AU) 5. Sonnox Inflator V3 Sonnox are a dependable name in the classic plugin stakes, and their Inflator limiter has been squashing tracks for years without complaining or breaking up. Coming from the world of traditional mixing and mastering engineering, the Sonnox approach is all about the analogue style, as demonstrated by the four main controls here. You get Output and Input faders to set your intended reduction, and then Curve and Effec

3 Tips to Improve Your Workflow | Swift Series

Whether you’re in a bedroom or a state of the art recording studio, having an established workflow is paramount to working efficiently when you’re producing music. By defining what techniques work for you and developing a reliable set of tools, you can streamline the music production process to help you finish more tracks, quicker. Workflow in the Digital Domain When creating music in the digital domain, it is common to be recording, producing, mixing and mastering entire tracks by you

Top 5 Friday | Filters

Top 5 Friday - Best Filter Plugins (VST / AU) 5. PSP Audioware PSP stompFilter It’s the moving, animated filter that takes its inspiration from guitar stompboxes. StompFilter is a filter, sure, but the idea behind this one is that it’s paired with an LFO, creating rhythmic movement in your track. Actually, stompFilter isn’t just triggered by an LFO, it can also be triggered by the envelope of the sound going through it – auto-wah style – or both the envelope and its internal LFO. Th

Top 5 Friday | Best De-Esser Plugins

Top 5 De-Esser Plugins (VST / AU) 5. Softube Weiss Deess With two bands of de-essing, modelled off a respected hardware processor, this one is for every hardware-head out there who absolutely demands analogue-style de-essing. Those circuit modelled deharashed tracks don’t come cheap though, knocking your wallet for £170. The compression algorithms used in Weiss Deess were taken from Softube’s Weiss DS1 Mk3 compressor plugin, and you also get advanced controls such as latency and sid

Top 5 Friday | Freaky Synths

Top 5 Friday - Freaky Synths (VST / AU) 5. Sinevibes Torsion Once you’ve got your head around the flat, graphical interface, this Mac-only plugin might appear to be more of the same – three oscillators routed into a filter. But Torsion’s oscillators actually work in a different way to many other synths: you start off with some pretty simple waveforms, which are then twisted up to become more complex, meaning that there’s a huge range of tone possible before the signal even hits that fi