spitfire audio have created some great free VST plugins for film scoring now
free VST plugins in general can be hit or miss sometimes you can find a gem
that you can't live without but often you can find a free VST plugin that's
unstable and sounds like every other free VST plugin out there today I'm
looking at Spitfire audio labs free VST plugins for film scoring keep watching
and you can decide if they're worth the download for you
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 I've done
other videos on free VST plugins but the fact is there are so many great free VST
plugins out there right now that it's hard to include all of them into one
video especially when they're like the plugins that I'm looking at today it's
Spitfire audio labs and at the time of recording this video there are 16 free
instruments in Spitfire audio lab you get soft piano strings pads guitar
dulcimer drums and so much more and these all sound great for creating
dramatic music that you can use in a film score I've linked to the Spitfire
audio website in the description below so you can easily head over check out
the finer details of each instrument and download them for yourself the only
thing they ask of you is to sign up to their website so what I'm going to try
to do today is create a quick piece of music using only the spitfire audio lab
plugins and this is going to be pretty fun when i was trying out these plugins
earlier I got pretty inspired to create a horror style song and we have all the
sounds here to make a great horror movie track alright so I've come up with a bit
of a track here using six of the 16 Spitfire audio labs plugins and I'll
quickly go through each of the instruments that I used for so first I
came up with the main riff or the main pattern using the music box plug-in and
one of the things you'll note here is that all of the plugins have the same
interface so they all look the same they have the
same controls and you can play around with these if you like there's also some
presets within each of the instruments so that's pretty neat to see so yeah I
came up with the music box for the main little riff here and we'll quickly
listen to how that sounds all right so that's the main pattern right there and
then I decided to go with a synth pad to go underneath that for the next layer
and what I'm creating my horror tracks one of the things I like to do is just
kind of continue to layer sounds on top of each other to kind of create some
tension so here's what the synth pad sounds like on its own
all right so that's kind of created some drama in the sound there and then I
decided to add the guitar plug-in because there wasn't really a bass
plug-in so I figured if I used one of the lower sounds on the guitar I could
kind of get a bass sound out of it and here's what that section sounds like on
its own okay so that's the bass guitar sound there I then decided to create a
quick drum pattern using the spitfire audio drums plugin and with horror movie
tracks the drums are typically just a simple pulsing and not too prominent so
this fits that well let's give that a listen right here
all right so that's the drum pattern I then brought in the amplified cello
plugin and this one sounds really cool so I'll show you the sound that I went
with but I also want to show you some of the other presets that are included in
here so let's check out what I went with
and like this preset says it kind of creates some tension in there which is
really cool but I also want to show you what some of the other sounds in here
are like so here's one of them and you can hear how that would be very cool in
a film score all that sounds really good too
now this one you'll you'll hear this sound in a lot of horror movies listen
to this it's very cool I really like this plug-in then this section that I
created here is slightly different from the main pattern and it doesn't have the
music box in there so what I did was I brought in the soft piano plug-in and
let's just quickly hear what that sounds like
so the Tracks likely not perfect I didn't really focus on the mixing too much and
obviously I didn't add any effects on to it it's just raw how the plug-in sound
and I'm sure if I spent a little more time on this this would actually be a
usable track for a horror movie and if there's any movie directors out there
that want to use this contact me I'd be happy to talk with you I've worked on
several other movies in the past and it's always a fun time alright so let's
listen to what all of this sounds like together
as of the recording there are ten other instruments that I could have used and
you can download so be sure to head over to the spitfire site to check those out
also if you're a musician that's planning on getting some of these
instruments please let me know which ones you're most excited to use and what
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