 The complete classics collection from Native Instruments is exclusive to Plug-In Boutique and if you buy it at the time I'm publishing this video then you'll also get a very cool plugin for free. Let's take a look. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. One of my favourite companies, Native Instruments, renowned for their great hardware and plugins for music production, have teamed up with my favourite place to go to get great deals on plugins. I'm of course talking about Plug-In Boutique. Now to celebrate their union they've put together a couple of collections which are exclusive to Plug-In Boutique. One of them being the Complete Future Classics Collection but what I'm going to be talking about in this video is the Complete Classics Collection. Now at the time of publishing this video you can also get a free Native Instruments plugin along with this collection. That's at the time of publishing. You're going to have to follow the link in the description down below to check at the time you're watching this if that's still available. Now there may be another great deal available at that time. There always seems to be a Plug-In Boutique. I can't guarantee it but definitely check out that link in the description to find out. So let's get started and see what's contained in this great collection. So Massive is a really popular wavetable synthesiser. We can see the regular controls you'd expect to see on the front here. Some oscillators down the side here, some modulation oscillation, some filters up here and you know you get the picture. You synth heads could play with this until your heart's content but us mere mortals will probably head over to the presets and then sort of adapt things a little from there. So let's go over to the browser over here and then we start here an idea of the massive amount of presets we have because if I choose one of these bank names this one here we can just slide all the way down. There's just so many presets here another one here so on and so forth. Far too many for me to show you in one video. So instead I'll just go over to some favorites a handful of favorites which I've saved. Now the idea here is just to give you an idea of the sort of quality of the sound but the range of sounds is much bigger than I'm actually going to show you here. Let's start off with I think it's called Additivum. Okay we're off to a good start. Now let's try Alpha State. Yeah I like that. This one's got a great name actually. Amsterdam'd. Now for something a little bit different. Bell or pad is a question. I guess the answer is both. Now let's try something completely different. We've had a lot of sort of pad stuff there. Let's try out this one. It's called Classic Drive. It's a kind of a bass sound this one. We could definitely use that right out of the box and finally let's go for something which is not sort of melodical basically or anything like that. Something which is a bit more I guess more like a soundscape special effect kind of a thing. This is called Displacement. So a lot of quality there as I say for me being a mere mortal I'd probably be starting off by going through those presets and then adapting those sounds a little bit using the controls we've got on the front end here. Now although it doesn't technically come with this collection I just want to quickly mention Freak from Native Instruments because if you buy this collection at the time I'm making this video then you do get Freak for free on Plugin Boutique. Now that's going to last for about another week I think or so. So if you're watching at the time of publish then it's a good time to buy. Ah for that date I'm sorry I don't think it's going to be there but there may be something else so still worth checking out the link. So what is Freak? It's an oscillator okay and if you don't know what an oscillator really does or how useful it is you're about to hear. We're going to start off with a very plain sort of synth sound with Freak switched off. Okay now let's switch it on to get some oscillation. And we can play with the stereo width here. Just change the frequency. The type. That's a harmonics in. So incredibly useful you don't have to add it to things like synths like this you could add it to you know keyboards guitars vocals if you want try on anything have some fun. Absinthe 5 is another popular and versatile synthesizer from Native Instruments and if you want to go ahead and create your own sounds there's lots of options here to do that but I am going to be heading over to the browser again. Now I think in my personal opinion the strength of Absinthe 5 is really totally in its ability to create soundscape type sounds or to use soundscape type sounds and to that end I have prepared a few favorites over here in my favorites folder. I'm just going to go through them now and that should demonstrate that point I think. Now a lot of what I'm going to do here is really just on one or two fingers I have to say in terms of what I'm playing on the keyboard because these sounds are what I'm going to describe as sort of fairly complex and I think this is a typical of the presets that you get with Absinthe. So let's start off with this one I think it's called fourth dimension. Okay so it's a bit of a sort of a special effect type thing let's go on to something with a bit more melody in it and pitch let's have a listen this is called above. So usable particularly for sort of movie stuff etc let's go to this one Ashes let's try a big piano string okay blue sun I really like this one computer keys and finally let's have a listen to what's it called a ethereal cloud pad and I think that's absolutely wonderful Absinthe 5. So included in the collection is this wonderful delay plugin called replica one of my favorites this is and I'm going to be applying it to this virtual acoustic guitar let's just have a quick listen to that guitar without replica switched on okay so let's start off by switching it on and we're going to listen to it with this modern mode selected okay now we've got a low cut and high cut filter there and also some saturation in this modern mode have a listen again now let's move on to this vintage digital mode this sounds different again here we've got a quality control I'll mess around with that a little bit and then finally in terms of the modes we go to the diffusion mode this is probably my favorite mode to be honest with you and I think you'll hear why right away absolutely gorgeous let's go back to the modern mode something a bit more straightforward sounding and I'm going to skip the middle section and go straight over to this side where we've got some modulation effects okay they switched off at the moment so we'll go to the first one which is the phaser effect and then we also have this filter effect okay so a modulated filter sounds like this so those are some nice options to have there on the delay of course we've got this control in the middle where we're controlling the sort of time of the delay there's some different modes there I'll get it set to milliseconds at the moment but you can see that we've got a number of different modes there you can obviously set it to the tempo of your particular project and then once we've got that set we've also got these sort of different types down here we're on normal at the moment I'll just cycle through what we've got so you can hear the difference wide effect ping pong so there we have it replica it's just one of those plugins very straightforward to use great fun to muck around with but I think the sound of it is absolutely gorgeous so FM 8 is a frequency modulation synth which has many features for you to create and adapt to your sounds all of which I'm going to skip over for this video and go straight to of course the browser where we can see all of the presets I'm just in one folder here and you can see that there's many many many many many presets there so I've selected just a handful pop them into my favorites I'm going to be going through those very quickly and I focused on well I'm focused but there's a few of these which use the arpeggiator feature which is in FM 8 which I think is one of the strong features in here so that's why I've included these but let's start off with this one after some ambient mallet by the way that's just done all with one finger on the keyboard just in case you're wondering this one aqua atmo now below freezing breather now dandy electric rock so much I could do with that and finally let's finish off with this one what's it called gala pagos I don't know what that means let me know in the comments if you think you know what that's all about let's have a listen and that is FM 8 so don't forget if you want to get that free freak plug in which I spoke about earlier and you're watching this around about the time of publishing follow that link in the description down below right away and even if you're watching this in the future by the way how are things in the future let me know about that in the comments down below anyway follow the link anyway in the description there may be another great deal available now completely off topic if you are one of my wonderful cakewalk users and you also happen to use facebook as well could you follow the link in the description down below for my new cakewalk group I would love to see you there everybody's friendly helping each other out inspiring each other it's a great place thank you so much for watching this video I'll see you in the next video