Free plugins: Do you know all these?
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2024
- My website: www.apmastering.com
There are many free plugins but most are not game changers. I discuss some free plugins which are so good, they may even be better than some of the best competing paid plugins.
What are your favourite free plugins?
jst inflator ♥
Apparently it’s Nova.
I like TDR Nova, maybe you've heard of it.
Nova…duh 😂
There are obvious good ones in the Melda MFreeFXBundle such as as MCompressor and MWaveshaper, but one hidden gem in there is MRatioMB. It's a crossover, but with many ways to split the signal other than frequency. My favorite is using the detailed controls of its Attack/Release device to isolate transient and tonal aspects of a signal and send them to different channels for processing. Then they can be recombined with MRatio.
"My favorite vst for cooking is also Nova". 😂
I have the impression that this guy really likes Nova
it's a great vst for sure
Have you tried the plugin called Nova from TDR? Would be great to hear your opinion on that one.
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Airwindows has always been such an underrated jem! I'm so happy Bacon Paul (from the Surge team, which is also one of the best free plugins ever) made a Consolidated version.
ive never actually checked out surge xt as I'm a eurorack guy and pretty much only use that for synthesis, but the sounds that roger linn came up with in the showreel video are great.
Had no idea dynamic EQs were available for free. Thanks 🎉
there's not many
Didn't know Nova had mid side mode and I use it all the time😭
yeah its extremely powerful
It's a plug-in called Nova. Brilliant!
Some of Chris's stuff is sneaky, amazingly good. Like game changer good. They pretty much all have settings that make it very easy for the plug into sound bad.... Extremely wild variances so it takes some doing to learn what you're doing... and which ones are going to be incredible for you and how to best use them.
agree the settings can be wild
I know Nova for long time a very love it. I use it in almost every project as deesser, dynamic eq and sometimes as expander. And don't forget, it can do sidechain multiband compression.
Hahaha, that was a great video, thanks for sharing. I have Nova, looks like I will need to revisit it in more depth!
I see what you did there!!! I have Nova GE - I'm not much of a mixer/mastering-er but I use Nova all the time. It's brilliant.
that look ahead button alone is worth getting the GE
All hail airwindows and Chris Johnson.
Airwindows plugins are hidden gems, most useful and simple plugins in universe. Can’t live without them.
I didn't find the Bass drive in this new airwindows consolidated. Is it there? that one is a gem
TDR Kotelnikov is also free and one of the best compressors available.
The paid version does have some useful additions, like frequency dependant ratio
its ok but i actually prefer molot
@@APMasteringMolot GE is so much better than the free version imo that people should just wait for a sale for when it drops to 10 or 20 bucks and just get it.
Love this!! Bravo!
Frontier by D16 es a great limiter (no brickwall) with soft clipping. Super clean and simple.
tal chorus is awesome too! my favorite chorus
Lol, you know I've had nova for a long time. I pretty much only use it for dynamics. I fully realise that dynamics make up most of audio balancing, but for some reason I've never thought about using it for all these 😂. A lot of plugins are about to get shelved in my collection.
Love your videos! You can never say too many good things about Nova. Molot is awesome too!
It's all you need.. You don't need aNova one
I like your style
This has been too funny. Hahahah yuh gotta love NOVA!!
You forgot mentioning a super cool plugin call , wait a minnuute,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, NOVA
i also love Nova and would use it a lot more, but it eats up at least 10x the amount of CPU as my stock EQ plug-in or my favorite free EQ - TinyQ.
sure. but nowadays with those new M series Macs, cpu basically is no longer an issue. My good old 2015 MacBook Pro can easily work with 20 instances.
Limiter o6 is a beast
thank you!
Good stuff ✌️
TAL Noisemaker is pretty awesome too.
Cardinal slept on yet again! You did cover VCV Rack, which Cardinal clearly derives from and is nearly identical to... But something about having all that power in the context of a plugin really changes your perspective.
tbh i've never looked at it, will look now
I think the best free plugin out there right now is Nova.
I'm wondering if vcv rack can replace something like serum. I'm not really trying to spend about $189 for serum
for monophonic it's much more powerful than serum
Great video. What is your preffered limiter ?
elephant
Great content, thanks. One question - what do you mean by saying "clean/dirty filters" when describing Nova?
just whack a distortion after it and it sounds extremely dirty when sweeping the filters on nova
@@APMastering I see, thanks.
I've been using that limiter for years, still prefer it over brainworx true peak. Can you do a video on you favorite paid plugins next? I enjoyed this/didnt know nova could do all that- thought it was just a standard eq plugin
good suggestion. yeah I can do paid plugins at some point but I think next up will be my long awaited "compressor scam" video.
Me too. Then I found Limiter No. 6 GE :)
One issue with Nova is that it doesn't do really narrow dips, Q is limited to a rather wide values.
narrow EQ sounds bad anyway
We had a '74 Nova, dark green
LSP plugins are awesome for the price of $0, a few years back they weren't so stable or well presented, but now that has all changed: give 'em a try if you are unconvinced.
the linux plugins?
@@APMastering Yep, they can be built for Windows using MinGW/GNU Make
i used to run gentoo but not for audio
@@APMastering Audio on Linux was a mess, it has improved a lot... I have installed TDR's Nova, works a charm thanks to yabridge (`A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux`)
Linux is perfect for making music, efficient stable system, low-latency kernel. The only problem is the limited number of plugins, because developers bypass Linux. LSP plugins are great, they fill a lot of gaps. Too bad NOVA is not on Linux. I know it's WINE but it's an added complication just because there are no native solutions
now im so intrigued to know, what are your top PAID plugins?
I'm going to take a wild guess: Nova GE, Molotok GE, Limiter Number 6 GE.
LOL, actually no. I'll do a video at some point. Although nova GE is indeed on the list.
@@APMastering amazing!! Looking forward to it
What’s your mac setup?
2015 macbook pro. i recently went to buy a 16" M3 but decided isn't not all that much of an upgrade for me so I'm waiting a bit longer. the only thing thats annoying me is quicktime screen recording has gotten slow
Nova.
It also cleans dishes.
Hello, Have you got any tracks you have mastered I can check out ?
look at my discogs. i mostly work with techno
FYI there is a VST that will let you host JS plugins (ReaJS)
cool! didn't actually know about that!
Reaper users are used to ugly-ass GUI hiding extremely powerful functionality.
💯
I noticed through my cell phone speakers that nova sounds much different than pro q3, very obvious.
lol
Can somebody tell me the names of the plugins he mentioned again? I'm having a really hard time remembering them.
nova was one
@@APMastering are you sure? I know there was about 6 or 7 completely different ones in a row that got mentioned.
Love Nova, just a bit sad its cramping near Nyquist.
cramping isn't bad and on plugs that cramp you can just oversample. reaper can oversample plugs that don't have OS built in
nova is pretty decent huh
What do you think of the FREE Ozone 11 EQ Plugin? Have you tried it?
dont like ozone
@@APMasteringIt's not Ozone. It's just a free EQ with a few nice features: tonal / transient bands, per band linear phase
Mr Nova Nova 😂🎉❤
it's a great plugin
@@APMastering too good to be free for real big man
Vcv Rack was a curve ball.
Do those also work in logic?
i believe so. apart from tukan plugins, they are reaper only
@@APMastering Thank you!
My favorite DAW is Nova 😂
but i need an interface that looks like a candy store 🍬🍭
🤣 love it
my favorite reverb plugin is called NOVA...
i was going to do that using all pass filters and a delay but it was getting silly at that point
But have you looked at Nova?? You're missing out dude!
We speak the same language!
The only regret is that you don't spoke about Nova. Check it out next time !
nova, nova, nova, nova, nova and nova. got it
My authors top 5 plugins
1 nova
2 nova
3 nova
4 nova
5 nova
I like GE...
I use NOVA to fix my car engine
me too!
TDR Nova = Dylan, Dylan, Dylan
ok got it.
My new name is NOVA! LOL
My favorite plugin is called......... Yes u guessed right its called nova😅
bro kept saying nova
I am open to free plugins. However i would never let an important project depend on then. Reason is, while it is free at first glance, statistically i have had many older projects that i would open after a couple of years only to find out that some of them are not supported anymore, or the developer stopped …. developing, ceased to exist etc etc. When i bought pro q3 which was my first fab devices plugin i now know, i don`t see them disappearing that soon.
So there are advantages and disadvantages to the whole „free“ thing, though i am not trying to stop anyone from trying it , don`t get me wrong
I'm a fan of free plugins, but backwards compatibility is high priority for me, so that limits the pool of free plugin developers I'm willing to use.
TDR does their updates, they usually upload them at the same time for the paid and free versions. And tbh, I’m still running some 10 year old plugins on my new PC (from VOS, who is heavily featured in this video). No problems ever. They work fine every single time. For 10 years, that is.
@@LYFoulidisVOS is featured on this video?
That depends a lot on the DAW you're using as well. You can still use those oldass 32-bit plugs on FL Studio and Reaper, I still use a few of those myself on a regular basis.
@@sparelladon't live in the past! your life is now. use the plugins you wanna use and bounce a lot of audio so that backwards compatibility doesn't matter
I'm tired of seeing no one mention ZL Equalizer, it has 16 bands, mid/side, dynamic bands and it's not only free but OPEN SOURCE, Nova is so last-decade ngl
ZL is still version 0.x. It looks promising but using beta software in projects is very risky.
bro forgot nova
“Speakers and acoustic treatment are a myth. You can master on your og Samsung galaxy in a bathroom.”
im big on acoustics and accurate monitoring