in this cakewalk tutorial I'm going to show you 4 free VST plugins that you
should add to your cakewalk by bandlab plugin library
welcome to simple green tech I'm Radio Zane and on this channel I do audio tech
tips tutorials and reviews to help you unleash your creativity now by watching
this video I'm sure you realize that cakewalk by bandlab is a very powerful
free daw but you can still add more power to it by using third party plugins and
in this cakewalk tutorial I'm going to show you 4 free VST plugins that you
should add to your plugin library I put links in the description below to all of
the free VST plugins I mentioned in this video so be sure to check out the
description for those now today I'm looking at two instrument plugins and
two effects plugins that will give you some variety and some different tonal
options if you're unsure of how to install VST plugins into cakewalk I've
actually done another video on that which I'll link in the description below
so you can check that out if you need to as well first up is a free sampler
plugin this is sitala this is a drum sampler plugin with 16
assignable pads and of course you don't specifically need to use this as a drum
plugin you can launch any sample from within sitala
but it is very powerful when used as a drum you can easily drag and drop your
sounds onto the pad of your choice then use the built-in editing features to
make the sounds truly your own and this plugin works great with MIDI
controllers that have pads like the Akai MPD218 or the mpk mini of course there
are tons of others that will work well with this too and sitala comes with two
kits that you can start using right away they're your basic 808 and 909 drum
machine samples and they actually sound great but I'm sure you'll have a lot of
fun creating your own kits and your own sounds with sitala and that's what makes
this a must-have plugin for cakewalk by bandlab users
next up is another instrument plugin now cakewalk does come with some decent
instrument plugins but it doesn't come with an analogue style synth so synthmaster
player free is a great free VST plugin to add to your instrument
library you can download this from plugin boutique which I highly
recommend for getting free plugins or premium paid plugins at a very good
discount and synthmaster player free is a slimmed down version of the bigger
plugin synthmaster but this slimmed down version still comes with 500
presets and it really is a great sounding instrument you can edit the
sounds to make them your own if you like or just use them as is they sound great
right out of the box but if you like tinkering those capabilities are there
too
now I'll get to the first effect plugin on the list
this is slick EQ I honestly use this plugin all the time I use it on my
voice in every single video that I make so you're listening to it right now I
find it very easy to use and it sounds great
once you get used to slick EQ simplistic controls I'm sure you'll be adding this
plugin to most of your tracks
now the final free plugin on my list today that you should add to your
cakewalk my band lab plugin library is the free compressor from Melda
productions this is the Melda productions Mcompressor it has a great
user interface that shows you graphically what you're doing to your
audio and you can use this on a variety of sources guitars drums keyboards
vocals or whatever and this is another plugin that I pretty much use all the
time you get a decent number of presets that you can easily edit to suit your
own needs and the one downside about the free version is that you can't save any
of your own presets you'll need to purchase the plugin and authorize it in
order to save your own presets but that's just a minor issue in my opinion
as cakewalk has an internal way to save your own presets so you don't even need
to worry about that this plugin sounds great and it's free so you can't really
complain let me know in the comments below if you use any of these plugins or
if you plan on using any of these plugins you can also let me know what
free plugins you recommend and if you want to see more free VST instruments
that I recommend click this video up here or you can click this video down
here to see what YouTube recommends you watch next thank you so much for
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