5 AWESOME Cheap Plugins You Should Own

when the video vocal mix is too good

Rbass is $29.99. Where did the $80 come from? 🤣😂

LOL

SketchCassette = BOC in a plugin. Noice, I loike it

Great Job very interesting. Question: would any of these synthesizers allow me to link an oscillator pitch to an Envelope generator (adsr) ? Thank you, Dave

I see triad and disperser what exactly are you trying to make here

The Kilohearts plugin is a parametric linear phase allpass filter, a tool that could only be made in the digital domain. Sure we have allpass filters for phase alignment tools but what kilohearts did is take advantage of pre-ringing from linear phase allpass filters to make a VERY UNIQUE TOOL!!

Baby Audio is extremely CPU intensive.

rad!!

Hehe I got Bass XL for freee when I bought for the one paid plug-in I’ve ever bought, Poltergate, when I snagged it during a sale + Bass XL giveaway. But I just discovered Bark of Dog 2 & it seems to do something pretty similar (boosts a band centered at a chosen frequency, usually on the low end, with some options for saturating or dulling the sound.

Also Vital, Surge XT, Pendulate, Monique, & the Reaktor 6 (TRK-01 & Lazerbass) bass plugins, which come with Komplete Kontrol, are all stupidly great synths for the price of completely free!!!

And while I’m on the subject, I want to thank you, Venus Theory, for introducing me to Decent Sampler & your awesome Pianobook instruments! I especially vibe with Volitions, but they all sound phenomenal. Thanks a lot for not pinching every penny out of us you could get away with & instead giving them to us for nothing… The mutual aid for your fellow working-class musicians is cherished & appreciated. Respect! ✊✌️♥️

Also, I have to mention one of the best damn free plugins I ever did find, which I just discovered the other day & have already spent hours experimenting in: Elastik 3 (don’t forget the 1.5gb soundbank that you can download with it). It’s an amazing platform; first one so good that I’m tempted to buy soundbanks for it, or at least try to make my own if that’s possible.

Tone2 AkustiX does pretty much the same as Disperser in the phase enhance section and also a lot more. And it's also only $69 or 59€.

Did you say you treated your voice with bass enhancement in your videos?

NASA ha ha ha

$69 is not cheap

I use Camel Crusher and Tape Mello-Fi very often. I insert CC to 80% of my tracks. But recently Trash 2+Slice EQ instead.

Rather expensive…..

CHEAP plugins? Triad is 300 bucks

I note that now (Feb 2022) Automaton is a "legacy plugin" for audio damage, and thus is now free.

Klanghelm MJUC, an excellent compressor that has got rave reviews, for 24€

Spaced out sounds great and has a beautiful interface. As for reverbs, LiquidSonics Seventh Heaven is 69€ and perhaps the most realistic sounding reverb out there. An absolute must have if you are putting out professional sounding productions.

Native Instruments Prism is a physical synthesis synthesizer and I believe it's 69€ and perhaps less during sales. Native Instruments has big sales during Black Friday and you can grab their massive synths like Reaktor for half price.

Triad@Unfiltered Audio and Multipass@Kiloheats, Cameron which one you prefer?

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oh my word. I think you ought to explore comedy writing as part of your diversification strategy - man alive, you crack me up!

for bass xl, while it doesnt have as many features, analog obsession lovend is free and gets you in the same ballpark.

When u mention Waves, u should point out that there is more to pay at a later date. $29 is BS.

Can't find Automaton for sale, has it been discontinued?

That synth bass around 5.10 has been bugging me for ages. I finally worked it out.. Nitro Deluxe - Let's get brutal. late 80's house track.

Is knob cloud legit?

Lol 😂

What is RC20 Cameron

Cameron does his research

A little late to the party - but thanks so much for highlighting UA Triad/Byome/Lion. Triad/Byome just have such limitless potential for play that can just open up so many ideas/paths. PA had their Halloween special [right now] and was able to get them Bundled for 29.99!!! Deal of the year! Probably will grab Lion as well once the next promo kicks in, but am also really excited to try playing with some of this Triad automation while using your great generative Pigments seq routing video from a few weeks ago as idea generator. Your channel has been such a great late night source of inspiration lately. Cheers!

Uh so I guess you can't get Automaton anymore? The link gives a 404 and I cannot find it anywhere.

Soooo, is this 'Bass XL' what you use on your overtly-bassy monologues? 😏
The only channel channel that tests the low end in my system... with spoken word. 😂

Bruh, you need a snow blower to make room for your Lambo. White stuff is white stuff you know…

i recommend soundspot plugins, absolutely some of the best plugins ive ever used especially when they have the bundles and the individual sales

sketch cassette II + valhalla supermassive 🤯🤯🤯

Keep in mind that I'm a guitarist who wants to bang a few keyboard chords into the occasional song, not a heavyweight ambient music composer. :D That said, I've found exactly two plugins, both from Cherry Audio, on which I have actually dropped genuine US Dollars: DCO-106 and Eight Voice. I've wanted a Juno of some kind or other ever since encountering one in a music shop when they first debuted back in the 80s, but never could spend the money. Five minutes demo'ing DCO-106, and I was **hooked**. This $30 plugin does a SCARY good Juno emulation. And since I was already on the website I had to give Eight Voice a try, and promptly bought it too. The depth and breadth of capability in this one chunk of software is amazing.

Everything else I see myself wanting to accomplish I'm able to pull off with free plugins and a couple of standalone soft synths. There are TONS of excellent free packages out there that will get you where you want to go, but if you're a nostalgia hog with a Juno fixation like me, you MUST get Cherry's DCO-106, and scarf up Eight Voice too, just because. :D

SketchCassette is currently on sale for ~$20 at Plugin Boutique.

Akoustic seems similar to Morphine from FL Studio. I'm not sure if Akoustic allows sample scanning but Morphine can import user samples.

It annoys me that the tape is going in the wrong direction in the Sketch Cassette GUI 😆

Valhalla. If you can't get Valhalla, then Valhalla.

Spaced Out is really nice. Got it at $39, feels like a steal how it sounds.

Glitch>Automaton sry

Audio Damage (who make replicant) have a free compressor called rough rider which is actually just a better schlap imo.

is it making anyone else twitch to see Sketch Cassette II rolling the tape backwards (or is it an auto-reversing deck?

big fan of Caelum Audio. just picked up Beef and it's amazing. Tape Pro is on my list and your video confirmed I have to get it. I plan on pretty much grabbing all of them from them as I was very impressed with beef and after seeing the compressor in action I want it lol I don't necessarily need another compressor but both of the ones they offer look pretty nice. Thanks for the great videos as always. See if they will let you use Beef for a video cause it's dope!!! Glad you showed off Akoustic I got it when it released as my first foray into additive synths and I love it. I also picked up Triad and Lion on sale and Triad is personally one that I had my eye on forever as it's similar to multipass but has it's own flavor for sure.

I like the idea of knobcloud, but something else I've noticed even just starting out is that, unlike shopping for games or really anything on Amazon, Newegg, etc; there seems to be no consistent plugin price tracker. A wonderful reddit that announces most of the better deals, with a growing archive of posts maybe, but no truly centralized database of plugin and plugin bundle prices. And I wish there was.

Additional features that would be great is to sort by last date a plugin was updated and when it was released. And filters for what plugins have been patched to cope with Apple's decision to make everyone's lives a pain by changing to a proprietary processor for their laptops too. Things like that, to give devs who have kept busy a chance to stand out; and highlight which plugins are kind of old and neglected and should probably be only sought on a really sharp discount just in case there's no one who will bother to fix any compatibility issues that might pop up in the future. Some of Air Music Tech's products look great, for example, but they seem to be practically dead since late 2019.