hello 👋 fellow producer, what are you most excited and most anxious about for your first year of music production? Let everyone watching know because we'd love to hear from you and support you 🫂.
This video was so helpful for us beginners. It's overwhelming trying to figure out which plugins are really needed and what to learn first. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
That's wonderful to hear! Glad this video hit home for you. Learning music production is such a steep learning curve and there's a lot of confusion around where to start first. Hope this video proves to keep being helpful for you!
Thanks for your chat at the end there, very kind of you! Motivates me to spend more time on improving my skill/craft rather than pressure myself to make something great 🙌
I'm glad that you were able to receive some encouragement, I love that 🫂. Keep improving and developing those skills and you'll start to see great moments in your work. Almost like greatness is starting to peek through more and more. Please keep in touch, and let me know of any big moments of growth 🌱!
You got it! Glad the pep talk could help. I'm thinking of doing more of those as YT Shorts. Anyways, thanks for watching all the way to the end. I hope you found the encouragement you needed, and if you're starting out, please forget about becoming "the best", just fall more in love with music and the messy process it is.
You got it! Thanks for watching to the end. Those pep talks were things I tucked in the end to just bring encouragement. Learning a new skill, especially in music production is tough, so we all need some cheering up from time to time.
Thank you for your help and suggestions. The hardest part about music production in first year for myself was process of trying to learn Ableton live. I’m a drummer who wanted to get into Ableton live/daw’s/music production because I saw all the amazing things you can create and the importance to learn how to use these tools the future of music creation.
The learning curve can feel very steep at the beginning, but I'm glad that you're determined to keep learning about Ableton and music production. Thanks for watching and I'm really happy this video was helpful!
It's a joy to offer anything I can give. As a heads up, I'll be releasing another vid on Friday about what plugins to get for your second year, so hopefully you can get a little inspired by that.
@@DARKBassRsR Haha it'll be great to look forward then! But seriously, pace yourself. Learning the fundamentals at the beginning is 1000X more important than having the "best" plugins.
The correct answer is 'none' and learn to use logic pro plugins. But im here to listen. EDIT: get the soundtoys, i got it quite late in life and wish i had it sooner. Also uad spark (this video came out before spark) Blackfriday soundtoys 250$ Blackfriday uad mix bundle 300$ (or get spark for 150$/yr) Serum for instruments, get it from splice at the rent-to-own deal.
Of course, thanks for watching! I’m working on another video about the plugins I think beginners should buy first. Be on the lookout for that. I’m sure it could help some more.
I started using REAPER around 2 years ago but didn't take it too seriously, only used it to record some bass and guitar tracks so that my 'creations' didn't get lost. Now I decided to make a more serious aproach, downloaded ther offical guide which is 440 pages long (good luck for me ig) and started digging more around DAWs in general. I'm glad I stumbled upon your video, which was very helpful and motivational, can't wait to try out all the features these software have to offer. Thank you. P.S. I subscribed :)
These are my favorite comments to get. I'm thrilled for you. I hope you have the best time ever digging into music production. I encourage you to have fun, and take pride in your journey/growth. I'm rooting for you every step of the way. And I'm so thankful that this video could offer some help. Please keep in touch and fill me in on exciting music prod moments.
you’re awesome man lmao that was so encouraging! i’m very early on in trying to take music production seriously. it’s been hard to figure out if it’s something i wanna pursue or not, i feel like you can ask any room full of random people to raise their hand if music has impacted them personally some way in their life and they’ll all do it. ive been wrestling with feeling unworthy to try to seriously do something with it because it’s not like i’m a musical prodigy or ive been playing instruments since i was a kid. i also just realized i’m only 20 and if i have enough of a passion/interest for this then it’s something i should put serious time and effort into, even if it’s just so i don’t regret not chasing a dream alongside a completely different career.
Hey man, I went through something really similar, and in fact I still feel like I wrestle with that same feeling. Sometimes you have to ignore that feeling and pursue a passion, sometimes you have to listen to it and make a plan to make sure your life doesn't fall apart. I encourage you to take music production one day at a time. Here's some advice that I wish I took to heart when I first started. Your first goal should be to have as much fun as possible and fall more in love with music. Your secondary goal should be to get a little better each week. If you grow by leaps and bounds, great, but "success" right now might just be getting 1% better. Hope this all helps. Thanks for this comment too, it made my day.
Just finally saw you on CZcams ....WOWWWWW,......Very cool indeed----NEW SUBSCRIBER--and looking forward to LEARNING ALOT---SEEING N HEARING ALOT---and want to see and learn the BEST WAYS---WHAT TO DO's----WHAT TO GET(Plug Ins,etc...)---and HOW TO's---- I SHOULD HAVE STARTED THIS A LONG TIME AGO----always wanted to just PLAY the music-NEVER cared about the recording stuff---BUT MAN OH MAN---IT-IS AWESOME TO DO SO!!!
serum+free drumkits/serum preset banks is probably all you need first year, good tutorial tho, got majority of plugins you mentioned and they definently worth to buy
If you're starting your producer journey, then I do strongly recommend focusing on the stock and basic plugins. I regret that I didn't do this and felt like I wasted a bunch of time trying to learn things that were not most important at the time. Third-party plugins are super fun to get into, but I really believe that learning the fundamentals will help you grow faster, and you'll end up having more fun with those other plugins. Thanks again for watching, and I hope this helps!
@@ThisIsOnesto I'm very much at the start and have found myself spending more time looking at plugins than actually learning the basics. Will focus now ones I already have 👍 Do you have any guides for stock/basic plugins? Or know any good places to start? I have very little idea about how any of the buttons and dials will effect the sound and find myself just maxing out to try and hear the difference.
@@DarrenRoberts123 great question. I would check out the channel In The Mix. He has a lot of great videos on the basics. Also try John Gilder, Hyperbits, and EDM Prod. All their videos are more educational based rather than entertainment based. They're the ones I learned from when I started, so I owe a lot to them.
Thank you for this video, similar to other comments I was getting pulled in a lot of directions, particularly on the verge of buying Fab filter pro q 3. Instead I picked up your recommended handful of year 1 plugins for less (waiting on echoboy and decapitator to go on sale) and am going to look into educational content (ie syntorial, sonic academy).
this makes me so happy that this video can help. and definitely please wait on a soundtoys sale. they happen a lot. Thanks for the feedback, and i hope you have fun!
I've never heard of them! I just checked out their site/patreon and it looks like they have a lot of solid plugins to get you started. Thanks for the tip!
Hey Onesto, great video and awesome pep talk. I'm curious, did you know how to play piano prior to starting music production? I'm personally feeling overwhelmed with all the things to learn that I struggle with knowing "what I should be doing" at any one point. Keep making awesome content!
Thanks for watching and the comment. I did know how to play piano before music production. I had playing for a long long time in bands and then got bored at work one day and fell into the music production rabbit hole. And I remember how overwhelming everything was at first. The learning curve was the steepest thing I ever encountered even though I was comfortable playing piano. So if you're feeling that way, that's good and normal. Now, you're going to encounter countless videos and articles scaring you to "learn this technique or else!" There might be a good tip or two, but you don't "need" to master this or that, especially at the beginning. In fact, right now I would try to avoid CZcams as much as possible so you don't get confused and overwhelmed. Instead stick with your DAW's/digital tool's manual (which might be on YT but that's ok). You can go back to CZcams once you feel ready to get pummeled by a million voices telling you 10 million different things. I got caught up in that and felt like I had to master every tool before I could make a decent song. What a mistake. So if I had to do it all over again, I would stick with all the tools in my DAW, grab some samples, maybe use a virtual instrument or two and make a song, a very bad song in fact. It can even be a mini song with just a verse and chorus. Just make something, and don't judge it based on good or bad. Judge it based on "incomplete" and "complete". Be inspired by artists you love, but don't compare yourself to them. Eventually you'll learn what you actually love about music production. Whether it's composing, sound design, mixing, mastering, and all the other disciplines involved. And please, above all, try to enjoy it as much as possible.
@@ThisIsOnesto thank you so much for this reply. Very thorough and enlightening. I'll dive into music production and cool it with the information overload. Thanks a bunch.
But I think most of the producers who are beginners here couldn't invest in buying plugins at first or will be hesitant to invest (beginner's fear of failing) You should make a separate video on free but good plugins...I hope they do exist
That’s a great point! I made a video earlier this year talk ing about my favorite free plugins, you can find it here: 8 FREE VST plugins for 2024 czcams.com/video/w0PbqEaW_mM/video.html Also for this video, I made sure to encourage beginners to mostly use their stock plugins. So hopefully that helps! Thanks again for watching
Hey! Great question. There's probably a well articulated difference between the two, but I along with many others use them interchangeably. VST stands for Virtual Studio Technology. But honestly don't sweat it!
The essential bundle is such a great bundle, and not just because it's free. I think the reason why I omitted this from the list is because I think beginners should buy/learn as few plugins as possible. The first year is a steep learning curve, so I'm hoping they can focus on fundamentals rather than new plugins. I was a dumb dumb when I first started, and collected plugins of all kinds instead of making music. So I hope I can help others not make the same mistake as me.
@@ThisIsOnesto I feel ya it’s like every time a new one that you have to pay for comes out I’m just like really this again lol I don’t buy plugins anymore
Thanks for asking, that's a great question. If it's your first year into music production and learning how to make music, I would recommend getting omnisphere in your second or third year. The biggest reason being that Omnisphere might offer a little too much to a beginner. I would recommend first year producers focusing on the fundamentals of music production and learning how to compose and arrange. If you dive into Omnisphere too early, it's very easy to get caught up in all the great sounds it offers. The better you are at the fundamentals, (EQ, Compression, Saturation, basic FX, and basic mixing), you'll be able to use amazing plugins like Omnisphere more effectively. Of course this is all my opinion, and what I wish I would have done my first year. In my first year, I bought as many great plugins as possible and I regret getting distracted from the basics of music production.
hello 👋 fellow producer, what are you most excited and most anxious about for your first year of music production? Let everyone watching know because we'd love to hear from you and support you 🫂.
I enjoyed the pep talk at the end, and you actually playing the piano while you talked
Hey thanks, I love ending my videos that way. I feel like music producers sometimes need support more than tutorials. Hope it gave you a boost
This video was so helpful for us beginners. It's overwhelming trying to figure out which plugins are really needed and what to learn first. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
That's wonderful to hear! Glad this video hit home for you. Learning music production is such a steep learning curve and there's a lot of confusion around where to start first. Hope this video proves to keep being helpful for you!
Thanks for your chat at the end there, very kind of you! Motivates me to spend more time on improving my skill/craft rather than pressure myself to make something great 🙌
I'm glad that you were able to receive some encouragement, I love that 🫂. Keep improving and developing those skills and you'll start to see great moments in your work. Almost like greatness is starting to peek through more and more.
Please keep in touch, and let me know of any big moments of growth 🌱!
Thanks a lot, especially for that pep talk at the end, i really needed it.
You got it! Glad the pep talk could help. I'm thinking of doing more of those as YT Shorts. Anyways, thanks for watching all the way to the end. I hope you found the encouragement you needed, and if you're starting out, please forget about becoming "the best", just fall more in love with music and the messy process it is.
The pep talk at the end really hit. Appreciate your good advice. Solid man ✊
You got it! Thanks for watching to the end. Those pep talks were things I tucked in the end to just bring encouragement. Learning a new skill, especially in music production is tough, so we all need some cheering up from time to time.
Thank you for your help and suggestions. The hardest part about music production in first year for myself was process of trying to learn Ableton live. I’m a drummer who wanted to get into Ableton live/daw’s/music production because I saw all the amazing things you can create and the importance to learn how to use these tools the future of music creation.
The learning curve can feel very steep at the beginning, but I'm glad that you're determined to keep learning about Ableton and music production. Thanks for watching and I'm really happy this video was helpful!
Love the videos man! You’re channel is gonna blow up soon
I keep telling my channel that too. It's a little shy sometimes though.
Thanks for the encouragement though, I really needed to hear that
Had to subscribe for the last bit.
Thanks for making it all the way to the end.Those pep talks are my favorite thing to make right now
@@ThisIsOnesto Looking forward to watch more of your videos.
@@danielnarzary6494 Nice! I promise to keep bringing it.
As a beginner producer. I thank you for this.
It's a joy to offer anything I can give. As a heads up, I'll be releasing another vid on Friday about what plugins to get for your second year, so hopefully you can get a little inspired by that.
@@ThisIsOnesto sure! Cant wait! Even if im still at my 7th month of producing lol
@@DARKBassRsR Haha it'll be great to look forward then! But seriously, pace yourself. Learning the fundamentals at the beginning is 1000X more important than having the "best" plugins.
The correct answer is 'none' and learn to use logic pro plugins. But im here to listen.
EDIT: get the soundtoys, i got it quite late in life and wish i had it sooner. Also uad spark (this video came out before spark)
Blackfriday soundtoys 250$
Blackfriday uad mix bundle 300$ (or get spark for 150$/yr)
Serum for instruments, get it from splice at the rent-to-own deal.
Thank you very much Onesto, especially for the pep talk 🙏
Of course, thanks for watching! I’m working on another video about the plugins I think beginners should buy first. Be on the lookout for that. I’m sure it could help some more.
I started using REAPER around 2 years ago but didn't take it too seriously, only used it to record some bass and guitar tracks so that my 'creations' didn't get lost. Now I decided to make a more serious aproach, downloaded ther offical guide which is 440 pages long (good luck for me ig) and started digging more around DAWs in general. I'm glad I stumbled upon your video, which was very helpful and motivational, can't wait to try out all the features these software have to offer. Thank you.
P.S. I subscribed :)
These are my favorite comments to get. I'm thrilled for you. I hope you have the best time ever digging into music production. I encourage you to have fun, and take pride in your journey/growth.
I'm rooting for you every step of the way. And I'm so thankful that this video could offer some help.
Please keep in touch and fill me in on exciting music prod moments.
@@ThisIsOnesto Thanks!!
nice vid, good talk at the end
Thanks for watching all the way to the end! Hope this video helped a bunch
you’re awesome man lmao that was so encouraging! i’m very early on in trying to take music production seriously. it’s been hard to figure out if it’s something i wanna pursue or not, i feel like you can ask any room full of random people to raise their hand if music has impacted them personally some way in their life and they’ll all do it. ive been wrestling with feeling unworthy to try to seriously do something with it because it’s not like i’m a musical prodigy or ive been playing instruments since i was a kid. i also just realized i’m only 20 and if i have enough of a passion/interest for this then it’s something i should put serious time and effort into, even if it’s just so i don’t regret not chasing a dream alongside a completely different career.
Hey man, I went through something really similar, and in fact I still feel like I wrestle with that same feeling. Sometimes you have to ignore that feeling and pursue a passion, sometimes you have to listen to it and make a plan to make sure your life doesn't fall apart.
I encourage you to take music production one day at a time. Here's some advice that I wish I took to heart when I first started.
Your first goal should be to have as much fun as possible and fall more in love with music. Your secondary goal should be to get a little better each week. If you grow by leaps and bounds, great, but "success" right now might just be getting 1% better.
Hope this all helps. Thanks for this comment too, it made my day.
@@ThisIsOnesto thank you bro!
Just finally saw you on CZcams ....WOWWWWW,......Very cool indeed----NEW SUBSCRIBER--and looking forward to LEARNING ALOT---SEEING N HEARING ALOT---and want to see and learn the BEST WAYS---WHAT TO DO's----WHAT TO GET(Plug Ins,etc...)---and HOW TO's---- I SHOULD HAVE STARTED THIS A LONG TIME AGO----always wanted to just PLAY the music-NEVER cared about the recording stuff---BUT MAN OH MAN---IT-IS AWESOME TO DO SO!!!
Nice! Glad you're diving in. It's a lot of work and fun all at the same time. Get ready!
You are a lifesaver 🙏🙏
no problem, thanks for watching!
best music producers on CZcams
serum+free drumkits/serum preset banks is probably all you need first year, good tutorial tho, got majority of plugins you mentioned and they definently worth to buy
Glad you're seeing what I'm seeing. It's always good to hear that what I'm recommending is helpful. Thanks for watching
I don’t know why but I cried... not a cryer. Thanks for the encouragement. I’m a follower for live
Ooohhh dude, happy the encouragement could help. Thanks for the follow, and a bigger thanks for letting me know the pep talk did it's thing.
Super helpful video! Found myself getting distracted by all the plugin possibilities without focusing on the basics and using the stock ones
If you're starting your producer journey, then I do strongly recommend focusing on the stock and basic plugins. I regret that I didn't do this and felt like I wasted a bunch of time trying to learn things that were not most important at the time.
Third-party plugins are super fun to get into, but I really believe that learning the fundamentals will help you grow faster, and you'll end up having more fun with those other plugins.
Thanks again for watching, and I hope this helps!
@@ThisIsOnesto I'm very much at the start and have found myself spending more time looking at plugins than actually learning the basics. Will focus now ones I already have 👍
Do you have any guides for stock/basic plugins? Or know any good places to start? I have very little idea about how any of the buttons and dials will effect the sound and find myself just maxing out to try and hear the difference.
@@DarrenRoberts123 great question. I would check out the channel In The Mix. He has a lot of great videos on the basics.
Also try John Gilder, Hyperbits, and EDM Prod. All their videos are more educational based rather than entertainment based. They're the ones I learned from when I started, so I owe a lot to them.
@@ThisIsOnesto thanks, you've very much earned yourself a sub with your great content and helpful replies ☺️ keep up the good work.
Thank you for this video, similar to other comments I was getting pulled in a lot of directions, particularly on the verge of buying Fab filter pro q 3. Instead I picked up your recommended handful of year 1 plugins for less (waiting on echoboy and decapitator to go on sale) and am going to look into educational content (ie syntorial, sonic academy).
this makes me so happy that this video can help. and definitely please wait on a soundtoys sale. they happen a lot. Thanks for the feedback, and i hope you have fun!
#PIEORITIZE... sounds tasty. Such a legit video man. Ugh I always love your edits.
Haha thanks dude, and yo you broke 400 subs. That's so amazing man!
@@ThisIsOnesto Dude you're already north of 800! Closing in on 1K so fast! So stoked on you.
Analog Obsession is a place to get some free plugins that are great to learn with.
I've never heard of them! I just checked out their site/patreon and it looks like they have a lot of solid plugins to get you started.
Thanks for the tip!
I wanna learn how to do music theory on fl studio without the midi keyboard
Thanks for this great video 👻
You got it! Thanks for watching!
Ty!!!
You got it!
Hey Onesto, great video and awesome pep talk.
I'm curious, did you know how to play piano prior to starting music production?
I'm personally feeling overwhelmed with all the things to learn that I struggle with knowing "what I should be doing" at any one point.
Keep making awesome content!
Thanks for watching and the comment.
I did know how to play piano before music production. I had playing for a long long time in bands and then got bored at work one day and fell into the music production rabbit hole.
And I remember how overwhelming everything was at first. The learning curve was the steepest thing I ever encountered even though I was comfortable playing piano.
So if you're feeling that way, that's good and normal. Now, you're going to encounter countless videos and articles scaring you to "learn this technique or else!" There might be a good tip or two, but you don't "need" to master this or that, especially at the beginning.
In fact, right now I would try to avoid CZcams as much as possible so you don't get confused and overwhelmed. Instead stick with your DAW's/digital tool's manual (which might be on YT but that's ok). You can go back to CZcams once you feel ready to get pummeled by a million voices telling you 10 million different things.
I got caught up in that and felt like I had to master every tool before I could make a decent song. What a mistake.
So if I had to do it all over again, I would stick with all the tools in my DAW, grab some samples, maybe use a virtual instrument or two and make a song, a very bad song in fact. It can even be a mini song with just a verse and chorus. Just make something, and don't judge it based on good or bad. Judge it based on "incomplete" and "complete".
Be inspired by artists you love, but don't compare yourself to them.
Eventually you'll learn what you actually love about music production. Whether it's composing, sound design, mixing, mastering, and all the other disciplines involved.
And please, above all, try to enjoy it as much as possible.
@@ThisIsOnesto thank you so much for this reply. Very thorough and enlightening. I'll dive into music production and cool it with the information overload.
Thanks a bunch.
@@TheWestgardener of course. I wish no one had to make the same mistakes I did. Hope you have tons of fun making music.
But I think most of the producers who are beginners here couldn't invest in buying plugins at first or will be hesitant to invest (beginner's fear of failing)
You should make a separate video on free but good plugins...I hope they do exist
That’s a great point! I made a video earlier this year talk ing about my favorite free plugins, you can find it here: 8 FREE VST plugins for 2024
czcams.com/video/w0PbqEaW_mM/video.html
Also for this video, I made sure to encourage beginners to mostly use their stock plugins. So hopefully that helps! Thanks again for watching
This guy’s the best!
Woah, love you man! And also congrats on the third baby on the way!
@@ThisIsOnesto thanks bro. We are excited. Really loving these vids so much!
Sorry I’m new.
What’s the difference between VSTs and plug ins?
Hey! Great question. There's probably a well articulated difference between the two, but I along with many others use them interchangeably.
VST stands for Virtual Studio Technology. But honestly don't sweat it!
Solid vid my dewd
Yoooo thanks 🫂, hope you learned a thing or two
Really no kilohearts?! The essential bundle is a must!
The essential bundle is such a great bundle, and not just because it's free.
I think the reason why I omitted this from the list is because I think beginners should buy/learn as few plugins as possible. The first year is a steep learning curve, so I'm hoping they can focus on fundamentals rather than new plugins. I was a dumb dumb when I first started, and collected plugins of all kinds instead of making music. So I hope I can help others not make the same mistake as me.
@@ThisIsOnesto I feel ya it’s like every time a new one that you have to pay for comes out I’m just like really this again lol I don’t buy plugins anymore
does it make sense to buy omnisphere as an 1 year amateuer?
Thanks for asking, that's a great question. If it's your first year into music production and learning how to make music, I would recommend getting omnisphere in your second or third year.
The biggest reason being that Omnisphere might offer a little too much to a beginner. I would recommend first year producers focusing on the fundamentals of music production and learning how to compose and arrange.
If you dive into Omnisphere too early, it's very easy to get caught up in all the great sounds it offers. The better you are at the fundamentals, (EQ, Compression, Saturation, basic FX, and basic mixing), you'll be able to use amazing plugins like Omnisphere more effectively.
Of course this is all my opinion, and what I wish I would have done my first year. In my first year, I bought as many great plugins as possible and I regret getting distracted from the basics of music production.