Hi, my name is Yannek Maunz, and in this article we will make a groovy pluck sound. Let’s get started! Let’s insert Diva and add a single tone playing all the time and decrease the volume. Let’s turn the sound into a basic pad (increase the sustains and decrease the cutoff slightly, add chorus and reverb) We’re mixing it in very, very slightly - it’s not supposed to be an obvious, audible element. We can also automate the cutoff in Live: That’s just so that people get some tonal information - and it’s perfect for getting started with our...

  Hi Everyone! This is Leo Lauretti from Abstrakt Music Lab and in today’s article on Production Music Live we’re going to create a preset in Vital. It sounds like this:   This preset was taken from the Cercle Deep Sounds preset pack for Vital that you can check here in the description below - it’s a new preset pack that Production Music Live has available, so go check it out for sure. Let’s get started with our sound design. First, you need an LFOTool or other volume ducking tool - like Volume Shaper or Flux Mini 2 to create...

  What’s up guys! My name is LAR and today we’re going to take a look at a synth stab in Serum - so let’s have a little look at what I’m working on. It’s a very nice, clean sound - very useful to use as a lead or something like that. The MIDI we’re using here is taken from a pack from Ben Bohmer. As for the sound it’s taken from the pack by Furcloud called Innerbloom - really nice sound called Radiance. Let’s deconstruct this sound and go through all its elements. First let’s engage the A Oscillator,...

  Hi guys! In this tutorial you’re going to see how to make a pretty basic bass sound for deep house productions or also for techno and electronic music productions. It’s a long bass and it has a lot of power - and it’s also very easy to make for example with Serum. Let’s check out how it sounds: It’s this wam and long thing you want to put in the back - if you’re not looking for a rhythmic bass. Let’s make this patch from scratch! We can take the default wave from Oscillator A. We definitely need a...

  Hi! I’m Francois. If you’ve been following me for a while you might know that I enjoy learning about sound design by reverse engineering tracks from artists that I like.  Casper Koman is an artist I really like. I listen to a lot of his music and I like his style which is sort of spherical, but also very intelligent and groovy. He’s paying a lot of attention to details and it’s also great to listen to from a producer’s perspective. It was quite a challenge to sit down and remake his work as there are many layers to...

  What's up guys! Welcome to The Sound Design Channel - my name is LAR and today we're going to look at five key elements from Ben Böhmer’s sound - so let's have a listen to what we've got:     It's this really nice, warm, melodic sound that was really signature from Böhmer. I used some patches from Serum to make this. Let's go through some of the things in here including the drums. Everything is taken from Ben Böhmer’s pack which he made with Production Music Live. Let's have a look at the drums which are also taken...

In this article you'll find the absolute best VST plugin manufacturers in 2023. Let's get started!   1. FabFilter FabFilter are makers of incredibly popular plugins like the Pro Q (equalizer), the Saturn (saturator), Pro R (reverb) and Pro L (limiter) - as well as plenty of other useful tools. Check out FabFilter Pro Q on PluginBoutique 2. Soundtoys Soundtoys develop some of the most popular creative processing plugins in electronic music. Their products include the legendary Decapitator (distortion) and the popular Crystallizer (reverse shimmer delay). Check out Soundtoys 5 on PluginBoutique     3. Solid State Logic SSL are known...

In this article you'll find the top 10 most widely used music production VST plugins in 2023. Let' get started!  1. Xfer Serum - Wavetable Synthesizer Serum has been the go-to plugin of EDM producers over the recent years for a reason. It features an incredible set of functions and doesn’t fail to deliver bright, punchy sounds. Despite the built-in library of presets being quite small, multiple preset packs have been made for Serum, allowing you to make every genre possible. Check our Serum preset packs here. 2. Spectrasonics Omnisphere - Hybrid Synthesizer Omnisphere is a hybrid synth that continues...

In this article you’ll find VST plugins which are most widely used in 2024 by music industry professionals - producers, mixers and mastering engineers. We’ll start with the best free plugins available, and then go through all the categories of paid plugins. It's a complete overview of the plugins which are definitely worth getting in 2024.  Let’s get started!   1. Free plugins2. Synthesizers3. Processing plugin bundles4. Reverb plugins5. Vocal processing6. Distortion & saturation7. Drums plugins8. Sampled instruments9. Other processing plugins   I. Free plugins 1. Vital This wavetable synth VST continues to be incredibly popular because of the fact that...

In this article you'll find the absolute best VST plugins for processing vocal performances in 2023. Let's get started! 1. Antares Auto-Tune Antares AutoTune is the most popular plugin for treating vocal recordings. It’s used by countless professionals and makes working with vocals incredibly easy. New features of AutoTune include flex-tune as well as time correction and humanization. Check out Antares AutoTune on PluginBoutique 2. Pro-Q FabFilter make incredible processing plugins, including EQs, Compressors, Limiters, Reverbs and much more. The most popular FabFilter plugin is the Pro Q which offers ease of use with absolutely pro equalization quality as well...