{"id":1392,"date":"2015-10-12T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santoclemenzi.com\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2022-12-29T18:57:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T17:57:19","slug":"scrivere-un-brano-usando-solo-free-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santoclemenzi.com\/en\/scrivere-un-brano-usando-solo-free-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Producing a song with free plugins only"},"content":{"rendered":"It’s been a while that I’m thinking about producing an entire song with just free plugins. I’m not talking about mixing and mastering only, I mean also songwriting: vst instruments, guitar and bass amp simulators, drum samples. I already did an entire mix using just free plugins<\/a>, you can achieve very good results, free plugs are becoming better and better every day. Free VST instruments are improving too, but the quality is growing slower than other plugins.<\/p>\n
Question<\/div>
Can you really produce a good quality song using just free stuff?<\/div><\/div>\n

Of course you can, but I mean: can the outcome be “commercially acceptable<\/em>“? This is something I was asking myself and finally I discovered that it’s actually possible.<\/p>\n

Before going any further I need to point something out: to produce my song I used my laptop<\/strong>, my portable audio interface (a Line6 POD GX<\/strong>), my desktop workstation<\/strong> for mixing and mastering. Everything has been done with Reaper<\/strong>. Now, this reveals the evidence: none of this things came for free. In fact, in this case, I mean “producing song using just free stuff” provided you already have all the hardware to record your tracks and of course a DAW license. There are a lot of free ones out there but I used Reaper, which is not free but it’s very reasonably priced if you’re thinking about purchasing a license.<\/p>\n

Let’s go straight to the point and have a listen to the song I produced, it’s a heavy metal instrumental song, lots of orchestrations and some synths\/sound FX here and there. I recorded all guitars (I’m not a guitar player so you have to forgive me in advance!) and bass, everything else is free samples and virtual instruments.<\/p>\n