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My Favourite Music Production Plugins: The Best Tools to Get Started as a Music Producer

Introduction

If you are a music producer, there is no doubt that you have heard about stock plugins vs third-party plugins. While stock plugins come with your DAW, third-party ones allow you to enhance your audio production experience. So which should you use? That depends on what type of music producer you are and what equipment you have available to use when producing music tracks. There are hundreds of thousands of different plugins out there, some good and others not so much. In this article, I will share with you my top 10 favorite music production plugins to help get started as an aspiring musician who wants to create great-sounding tracks without spending thousands of dollars on professional equipment!

Stock plugins vs third-party plugins

When you buy a DAW, you'll get some stock plugins included with your purchase. These are the basic tools that the DAW's developers think will be most useful for beginners, and they're usually full of great stuff like EQs, compressors, and reverbs.

But what if you want to add more variety to your sonic palette? That's where third-party plugins come in! Third-party plugins are just that: they aren't included with your DAW but can still be used in conjunction with it.

Third-party plugins can either be purchased from a vendor (like Plugin Alliance or Slate Digital) or downloaded directly from their website after purchase (like U-He Zebra 2).

The Core

The Core

This section is where you're going to find the best free plugins that can be applied across many different genres of music. Here, we've only included plugins with a maximum of five per category—this means that if there's one particular effect or instrument that you're looking for, it should be easy to find in this section. With that being said, here are some of my favorite free plugins:

Fabfilter Pro-Q 2 - $149 (Mac) / $199 (PC)

This EQ plugin has been around since 2007 and remains one of the most popular choices among producers due to its ease of use and flexibility. It also has several different versions with different features; check out our full review for more information about which Pro-Q version to get! As far as what makes it great for beginners goes—it's easy enough for anyone who knows how to use an equalizer but powerful enough for experienced users as well too!

The Essentials

If you are just starting out as a music producer, it can be hard to know which plugins to start with and which ones to leave for later. In this article, I will go through all the different types of plugins and explain how they can be useful for beginners.

I would recommend that you buy one of each plugin category: instruments, effects, and sound design. This will allow you to do everything from making simple beats using drum machine samples (instruments) to adding cool delays and reverbs in your mix (effects). These three categories cover most tasks needed while producing music at home or in studios where no mixing console is available.

The best place where I have found these tools so far is in FL Studio’s Fruity Plugin pack which comes free when buying FL Studio Producer Edition ($99). Here are some examples of how these tools can help you get started as a producer!

Honorable mentions

These are just a few of the plugins that didn't make it onto my list. You may want to check them out if you're interested, but they didn't quite make the cut for me personally:

Ultra Analog VA-2 by IK Multimedia - Although this is an amazing plugin for creating analog sounds, it's not really my cup of tea as a beginner producer. It's also been around forever, so there are tons of tutorials and guides that can teach you how to get started with it. If those things interest you, give it a shot!

iZotope Ozone 8 Standard - This one is pretty similar to the Native Instruments bundle above in terms of what it does and its price point. However, I think that some of its features might be more advanced than what most beginners will need when starting out making music on their computer. You might want to check out other options first like FabFilter Pro-L or Waves Gold Bundle before deciding whether or not this one fits your needs better than others do (and vice versa).

To begin with, add these plugins to your DAW.

I recommend using a DAW that comes with a built-in audio editor and mixer. A good example would be Logic Pro X, which comes with its own mixer and audio editor but also allows you to add other effects and instruments from the “Effects” tab in the menu bar.

Conclusion

With these plugins, you can start making your own music. You'll be able to learn how to mix tracks, create sounds and make them sound great!

[turtlele]

Wednesday: Evaporate tall person!

Enid: She called me tall ^^

[faelapis]

journey to bethlehem SLAPS. it is so fucking extra. its so "high school musical but 5% more religious" that i genuinely had to double-check to make sure kenny ortega had nothing to do with it.

[lilacthebooklover]

real suffering is learning that the awesome pretty girls in your chem class are also into starkid and you have no way to drop that you know what that is without it being completely out of the blue <//3 i'll just have to settle for liking all of their starkid innit reposts <///3 woe is me

[unluckyprime]

doodle for my oakworthy fic bc i am cringe but free <3

[per-the-jellicle-magician]

I'm using human ages in () as a reference point/general age brackets

[pjharvey]

it’s funny to me that ethel cain and chappell roan share such a big fan base bc i think their music theoretically appeals to like diametrically opposite types of lgbt women but i also think for more recently out people they eat up anything made by lesbian/bi/trans women no matter how disparate bc i was that way when i was younger. but ethel cain’s music genuinely makes me feel so seen and chappell roan is i think the way taylor swift haters feel about taylor swift where they think it’s less about the music and more about a cool kids’ club. i am not pretty or extraverted or fun enough to get anything from chappell roan even though i think she’s very talented and a really good vocalist in particular and i also find her vibe obnoxious actually

[iwanttostudysomething]

◇ 43'th Day of Productivity ◇

16/03/2024

To Do List:-

□ Write some Psychology Notes.

□ Check Physics Notes.

□ Check my Chemistry Notes.

□ Try to complete this week's Maths Homework.

□ Read a chapter from English.

Remarks:-

I am sooo bored 😴

Book of the Day:-

Reached the around 430/600 pages of 'The Godfather'. It is so good!

Song of the Day:-

So romantic..My heart flutters while listening to this!

[trobeds]

oh my god

i was thinking about "youre early" / "i missed you" AGAIN and. it was hades n persephones first interaction of the show but it was orpheus n eurydices last (as per nytw. will never get over hadestown bway not including this exchange)

and the tone is so incredibly different for both of them because hades n persephones seems light n kinda humorous while orpheus n eurydices is. they get a second before shes gone again. what hes defending is already gone. god. fuck. the way both pairs parallel each other while having this stark contrast. the way orpheus n eurydice lose each other (again) just when hades n persephone find each other (again). the horrors are never ending i will never stop crying about this holy fucking shit

[real-odark]

i might be biased because i was putting 9 hours a week into this show but i am currently obsessed with my schools production of little shop.... we had some of the best casting

[hilacopter]

all 3 shows of the kibbutz musical are done!!!

[ask-thearchivists]

Hey would the 4 of you mind rating these songs from 1-10? With 1 being the worst and 10 being the best. Because I wanna know what music you prefer.

(This all based solely off the preview that spotify is giving me)

The Coordinator: I am going to pretend I know how you made those noises with your mouth. In order it's 3, 7, 4, 7.

The Charmer: I think for me it's 6, 8, 3, and 5.

The Cartographer: I don't know? 1, 5, 4, 3?

The Curator: I don't know what you're all talking about that first song is an 8. And then 5, 5, 5.

[timmurleyart]

The ruler’s back. 💵☝🏽🎤🎧

[phaislife]

Viver as vezes cansa

Viver é doloroso

Sinto que a vida está me matando aos poucos

Minha cabeça dói

Meu corpo dói

Minha alma chora

Como se tudo estivesse me torturando

Uma tortura lenta e dolorosa

Eu já nem sei quem sou eu

Parece que estou definhando

Tudo dentro de mim está quebrado

Eu só preciso deixar tudo pra trás

Eu tenho 23 anos

Não é nessa fase que a gente se encontra no ápice da felicidade!?

Já estou velho

Por mais que o mundo diz que não

23 anos é muita coisa

Preciso partir

Já posso descansar em paz

[communistmarktemple]

listening to some temple songs and thinking “oh i’ve heard this used for felix before” and realizing that sooooo many ppl like felix bc they think he has temple’s personality but he straight up doesn’t. like i’m not gonna deny that felix is dramatic but it’s not that same theater kid reveling in— camp. that’s what it is. felix isn’t fucking camp. but so many ppl really fuckin want him to be.

[o2studies]

༻`` 30 Jan 24 — Tuesday

100 days of productivity 30/100

Today was quite productive if we don't count studying. Got a lot of tasks and housework done, a bit of art and self care. I always want to do so much in the afternoon — just never study 😭 its so hard at that time somehow. I still pushed through 30mins of chemistry revision but it did not go well. I was ahead of my studies on Sunday and now I'm already behind. I'm at the pathway program in QUB tomorrow so I'll have to catch up on school work and studying. Tomorrow evening will be quite hectic but I really enjoy those times whenever Im actually pushing myself and continuously doing the work.

Also here's a quote from today's '3 Good Things':

"If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes." -Andrew Solomon

Today I listened to so much of Pinguini Tattici Nucleari so thank you for reccomending them @stem-diaries !