Boring, flat VSTs? 6 STEPS to make them sound alive and ANALOG!

Heeey, audio tribes around the globe! I thought it would be cool to make some short tutorials for you this year, sharing some of my most used techniques when producing and mixing music. Today a word on things I do to make nmy VSTs more alive nad analog-like. Let's go!

0:00 Intro
0:46 Session overview
1:21 Processing bass
3:17 Processing keys
4:45 Final results
5:43 Summing tha thingz up!

[FoliaSound]

Helllooo! What do you think of my ways to liven digital synths up? Do you have your own? Lemme know down below!

[PeranMe]

For saturation, I’ve recently fallen in love with Arturia’s recreation of the Space Echo, it does beautiful warm stuff, even if you don’t push it very hard. Thanks for a great video!

[thorstenweimar]

Thanks 🎉 Great vid! Also the UAD Manley VoxBox Channel Strip works surprisingly well on VST's. Maybe not always, but surprisingly more often than one might think. It can add some nice weight and sizzle to the sound.
I am just realizing how good a lot of UAD plugins are..better late than never 😊! Thanks again🎉 !

But back to adding more magic to vst besides compression or eq, I copy the melody to a second track but I choose a different sound (for example a simple saw tooth), then I get that sound processed quiet heavy (there are no rules, for example an extreme 100% wet Supermassive reverb or something else. I then mix it into the original sound. Works quiet well.

[SoloElROY]

Hey! This is a refreshing vibe from you! Keep it up!

[dwsel]

Bardzo mocny filmik. Niby prosty temat a rzadko kiedy się o tym pamięta.

[Joshua_Griffin]

Not sure I've ever seen you do serum videos! Please do continue! I believe the concept in this video is that the goal is to fill the listeners ear with sound. One of the difficulties I come up against while doing this is selectong the right sounds. It's easy to create things that conflict and mess up what you are trying to do

[j.stribling]

Nice work — that definitely makes those tracks come alive. Thanks for showing your whole chain — learned about some new plugins too.

[thomasgreer]

Sounds really good and it is such an important stage in adding anomalies to the vst synths. Like you I use a slow pitch drift modulation and Black Box. The first thing I usually add is PSP MicroWarmer which comes with VintageWarmer but is much less power hungry.

[stfciu]

Another great video! Excellent job as always, big fan. Wish I could visit you and meet in person. Only 1, 5h road to Warsaw :) If you'll ever plan to do some open day visits to your studio or trainings courses give a notice.

[adamcar]

Good idea with the start of short tutorials …

[jarosawcibora]

Well... another one - if you're on bitwig or on ableton 12 (I know, I know) - add a slight lfo (random/smooth - but like 2-3 % modulation) from the daw side on cutoff level. This way you can destabilize the filter, giving it some additional flavor.

[Elektranoise]

YES... i have the first
but... i dont know what to say 🙂

I love you man!

Let's make Music... with CUBASE

[gen-amb]

Pawel happy new year and I am hooked on MeldaProductions MCCGenerator VST mapped to VST controls. It is drugs. I’m not sorry.

[blue_cloud]

Every tutorial is useful but actually small changes do a big job! Thanks 😀 One more thing ... I have a question ... Why Nuendo instead of Cubase ? Is it different to work on this program ?

[nitsujism]

Making the sounds more interesting...sure. Making them sound more analog...hmmmm.

[jno]

If I want an analogue vibe. I just pick any Softube synth and job done 😂