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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make a Phonk beat. We’ll start with an energetic cowbell melody, add hard-hitting drums, and finally design a nasty 808 bass.. but before we start with the Phonk tutorial, let’s talk about what Phonk is in the first place.

So you’re going for the renowned 80s drum sound, but don’t want to spend a few thousand bucks on expensive drum machines like the E-Mu Drumulator, Oberheim DX, Linndrum or TR-909? No problem, you don’t need to!

So you came across the 420 (or whatever it’s called) track by Macintosh Plus and want to learn how to create something similar? Great, in this post you’ll learn how to easily make Vaporwave music – step by step. Let’s dive right into this.

Mosaic Tape by Heavyocity is a Kontakt library, specifically designed for scoring. It comes with 113 multi-sampled sound sources (1,264 samples in total), which have been processed using analog tape. Additionally there are 106 snapshot presets included.

The mvMeter2 by TBProAudio is a metering plugin, which visually reminds of an old VU meter. It comes with multiple measuring modes, including PEAK, RMS, EBU R128, VU or PPM and a bunch of useful workflow parameters.

Although Sylenth1 is without any doubt a great synth, many producers simply don’t want to see the same old GUI over and over again. Fortunately, there are plenty of Sylenth1 skins available and most of them are even free.

TransReckon is a transient shaper, empowering you to control the attack and sustain of any source sound. It’s available in different plugin formats, including VST, AAX and AU for both Mac and Windows. As I’m writing this review it can be purchased for $66.80.

Multiply by Acon Digital is a free chorus plugin with an innovative approach: every voice “is processed with a phase randomizing filter”. This means that you won’t get the same comb filter problems, which usually occur using other modulation effects.

Although pro audio brands develop new tools to record perfectly clean audio tracks, remove clicks and make precise mix downs everyday, there’s still something cool about Old School samples. Here are the best packs of 2021.

The TAL NoiseMaker is a free synth plugin, which comes with a huge collection of great sounding presets. Since the overall structure resembles hardware synthesizers it’s a great tool for creating all kinds of analog sounds.

If you’re a music producer you probably heard of reverb plugins like the Pro-R by FabFilter, some Lexicon emulations or basically everything from Valhalla. Well, one reverb not a lot of people are talking about (yet) is the smart:reverb by sonible.

Every producer knows: if you want to cook up some lit trap beats you need some high quality samples. Unfortunately the supply is incredibly huge and it’s therefore hard to spot the best trap sample packs you can find online.

LoFi music is awesome! You can listen to it while studying, driving the car, relaxing or when it’s just a rainy day and you want to spend the day at home.. In this post you’ll learn how to make a LoFi beat step by step.

One of the most important tasks while making beats is picking the right drum samples. I spent hours finding + downloading the best free drum kits on the internet and finally came up with this list of the best picks.

You want to produce Synthwave music, but don’t know which drum samples you should pick, how to make those huge snares and which effect you need to make your vocals sound like a robot? Don’t worry, I covered all these thing in this guide.