Can you produce music for FREE? Making a track idea with Free DAW, Free Plugins & Free Samples

Is it possible to make a full track with just free software? You'll see music producers on Youtube like myself using all the top of the range DAWs and expensive plugins and probably thought "If I had all that my tracks would be great too". Well I wanted to show that you can still make great tracks with JUST FREE software. In this video I use the free DAW Waveform, learning it from scratch to make a full track idea. I also go through some great places to get free plugins such as the amazing Vital synth and Isotope freebies, using resources like Plugin Boutique and Plugins 4 Free.

Photo by Erwi on Unsplash

00:00 - Intro
01:27 - Free DAW - Waveform Free
02:31 - Setting up Waveform
03:13 - Starting the Project
03:50 - Exploring the Interface
04:29 - Starting the Drums
05:56 - Finding Drum Samples
06:56 - Creating 909 drum pattern with swing
10:02 - Free Samples from Loopmasters
11:32 - Importing loops into Waveform
12:25 - Learning to Time Stretch
15:03 - Laying more drum loops
16:02 - Adding some Vocals
17:33 - Waveform's in-build Effects
21:16 - Creating a Bass using 4OSC
22:21 - Exploring Waveform's Rompler
23:10 - Finding a free synth VST for Chords
23:59 - Free plugins at Plugin Boutique
26:16 - IMO best Free Synth VST - Vital
28:31 - Creating a new Bass with Vital
29:29 - Evolving Pad with Vital
31:29 - Grouping Drums for Processing
31:39 - Finding free plugins for Saturation/Glue/Compression
32:44 - Adding Saturation with free GSatPlus plugin
33:18 - Glue with BusterSE
34:05 - Side-chaining the Bass
34:29 - Free downloads from Izotope
35:09 - Widening Drums with Izotope's free Imager
35:52 - Dirtying up the vocals with Izotope's free Vinyl plugin
36:31 - Final Beat
36:54 - Wrap Up

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[ivansiviero]

Thanks Richie, a very useful video from which to draw many ideas for their productions with very tight budgets.🔥👍

[gilper]

Excellent video Richie, awesome House!! 🎹🎹🎹

[morgan]

Just found your channel today. I'm only a year into home music production. I haven't bought anything so far since there is so much that I utilise for free. I did buy Infiltrator 2 though and I'd be interested to see how it should or can be used by someone more experienced! (If you have it-just a suggestion)

If I can get to grips with it, I might get duck, pitch and texture later down the road.
Keep up the great content, TY!

[danielribeiro]

hahaha have the same mac and Im happy with it and it works for me