 This video is sponsored by DistroKid. Follow the VIP link in the description down below to get 7% off an already amazing price to distribute your music to the world. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. I've got five completely free plugins for you today, two virtual instruments and three effects and I've done something a little bit different. I've decided to use them all together in one track or at least the beginnings of a track so we can see how they behave in a real life situation. Now I started off with some very strange things indeed. This is indeed strange things, basically a collection of sampled 80s electronic instruments which you can layer in these four layers that you can see at the top here. Now I've started off with something very very simple indeed and that is an electric piano sound. Now I'm going to play this for you in a moment but I want to sort of warn you upfront this isn't going to be terribly exciting okay but hang in there because we're going to tweak it and it's going to get better okay so this forms the basis of my track this electric piano and it sounds like this. Okay I told you it wasn't terribly exciting so I added a couple of pads to it. I'll switch those on now this one here and this one here and I pan them a little bit left and right. Now you'll notice with all of these layers you do have some controls over them in terms of you know volume and panning also tuning but also some envelope controls with each one attack hold decay sustain and release and you also get a global envelope control which you can see at the top here. I haven't changed it for this one but you do have that control. Let's see how this is sounding now I've got those pads on there. Okay getting there getting there now for some boring stuff we've got some settings down at the bottom here you can figure that out yourself and we've also got some presets sort of section here so you can load some factory presets save your own but the exciting part down the bottom here is the effects section which I indeed did make use of. You can see on the left we've got a delay on the right we've got a reverb also on the left we've got some LFOs and on the right we've got some filters I didn't make use of those two things but I did use the delay I pushed it up a little bit like so have a listen to this okay now we're getting somewhere yeah and I added some reverb in there as well and I also used this big knob in the middle which is a sort of a global effects I think it's called tings happen I like that name of that control let's have a listen now I've got all of those effects on there you get the idea you can really make some great sounds from this and this did form the basis of my track and the next thing I did was add an effect to this memory is described as a vintage vibrato but I think you're going to think of it more like a sort of a chorus effect there's some delay there's some pitch shifting going on there's also some filtering on this some noise that you can add and well let's just play with it and see what I came up with now when you first play with it it's going to sound a bit sort of warbly like this so you can hear that pitch shifting going on for sure by the way I've got the mix turn up full here so we're hearing the full effect none of the original but in any case let's just start off by adding a double in there we'll get a little bit of a width let's have a listen okay do you feel seasick yet we need to turn the rate down a bit and the depth let's do that and have a listen not bad starting to sound pretty dreamy now we do have this filter effect so if we turn its sensitivity or the frequency down the cut off frequency for it turn this up for the filter we'll have a listen yeah I've got rid of some of those those higher frequencies we'll just switch this high pass on have a listen okay now I've got rid of lots of the lower frequencies and I don't mind that for this piece I would probably sort of mix it a little bit like so and also add in a little bit of noise too much that's the basics of memory now you could easily underestimate this instrument Game Boy when you look at its interface you might think it's just a bit of a toy but I think it's actually got some very useful sounds in it definitely they are inspired with a gaming kind of a theme and they can get a little bit low fight times which is probably what's so useful about them but just have a listen to some random ones here let me just try this one it's called grunts okay kind of a horn sound there let's try ice crystals get the idea not too bad a quality at all now with all of these sounds you can go in using this d-pad and you can do things like adjust the reverb we've got a width control there stereo width control we've got a delay control here and we've also got a bit crusher to make it sound much more lo-fi and if you go into each of the samples you can also adjust things in there as well now I've taken a very simple approach with this I've used this kind of guitar sound which they've got here and it's a very simple part indeed have a quick listen to it that may not sound all that useful but if we blend it in with our strange strange tings track that we started off with sounds like this okay I don't mind that at all but with the next plugin we really upped the game I reckon now before we get on to what is probably my favorite plugin of this video I just want to remind you our sponsored distro kid makes it really easy for you to release your music to major platforms like Spotify Apple Music Amazon Google Play etc if you follow the VIP link in the description down below you're going to get 7% off of your first year of membership now let's take a look at my favorite plugin in this video so this is deja vu a time stretching and pitch shifting plugin which has some really nice sort of musical controls with it now before we listen to what it does I want to explain to you that while you were away I actually added some bass and drums to my track so let's just have a quick listen to the track without deja vu switched on have a listen now not only that but I've added deja vu to only two elements of this I've added it to original strange things synth and I've also added it to the drums not the other elements so let's just quickly solo those elements and then after we've listened to them for a few seconds well I'm going to switch on deja vu and you'll see it gradually comes on one of the nice things is it's got this these timing controls so it doesn't abruptly come on when you switch it on let's have a listen to see what it's doing now you can hear with those current settings you can hear this really sort of deep kick in there for sure I've adjusted and filtered out some of the frequencies let's undo that let's just have a listen to it with the mix all the way up so we can actually sort of hear the effect in this case it's really sort of slowed things down but then we can blend it in with the original and it sort of sinks really nicely now we can control things like the overall sort of loop time up at the top here so let's go to the other extreme have a really sort of quick loop have a listen to this yeah we can adjust things with the smooth control over here as well have a listen definitely smooth things off I like it a bit sharper sounding mix in with the original so I kind of like it on the original kind of settings that I had there which sound like this once I've done that I added my final plugin now I should mention that this plugin from Universal Audio Verve Analog Machines is only available for free for the month of April so get it now if you want to have it for free and by the way you don't need any Universal Audio hardware this is a native plugin it's going to run on any PC or Mac I should say now essentially it's an analog sort of saturation plugin there's hardly any controls to talk about we have four machines that we can switch through and each of them just have this drive control at the bottom I've set it to what I think is a nice setting for each of these let's just have a quick listen that last one is awesome but a bit too crazy for me so I actually settled on the thicken machine now I think the idea behind giving this to you for free is that you'll love it so much that you'll want to get more machines there is a paid version of this which has more machines I'm just going to turn that drive down a little bit on this and if you're not sure exactly what this is doing to the track we had before let's A B test it I will turn it off and then I'll turn it on you'll see the screen bright and when it's on and you'll be able to hear the difference that it's making rather like that I'm super impressed that you made it this far in the video you seem like the kind of person that would probably hit the like button down below and maybe even subscribe to this channel if you're not already let me know in the comments down below if that's you and which ones of these plugins you're going to be downloading right away and putting to use 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