I use FL Studio, Harmor, is one of the most advanced Subtractive Synths, I've ever used! Yes there's a slight learning curve, but it's advanced!

I cannot believe how small your views are because this is the content I'd expect from a channel with 100K+ subs.

so true...I did fall for that stuff too, bought plenty of vst plugins that in the end still not using. But in music and youtube its a business as most of these content creators actually get stuff for free as companies do know in the end the watchers will buy that stuff. But not only on youtube, plugin sites can send you promo emails 10 times a day with some new promos so that you spend money on. Kontakt is one of the worst to invest in. Almost every library costs more than 100 bucks (yes there are a few free ones-sadly even those can need the full kontakt) Plenty of those expensive products are made for pros,so musicians and producers that actually make a lot of cash using these tools. But beginners and bed room producers...stick with the free and low cost. If you're talented you won't be needing much else anyway.

Hey I love your videos. I am a composer and full time sample developer. Sample libraries for kontakt and especially something as large as Omnisphere are EXTREMELY resource intensive to create. You’re talking hours and hours of recording which means renting studios, paying musicians and then spending 5 times as much time in post for every hour of recording. To be completely honest there is nothing like omnisphere out there. Every preset is a song or composition waiting to happen and $500 is a STEAL for the value it offers. The same goes for NI Komplete. While it’s true that if you want to create synth based music there are lots of free and or cheap tools out there. If you’re into more organic genres of music you have a few choices: 1) rent a studio and hire musicians 2) record musicians at home (and still pay them) 3) record and play the instruments at home (if you’re super talented) 4) High quality professional (probably expensive) sample libraries.

I'm a little surprised we haven't seen much of a movement of producers who are into free/pay what you want plugins because as someone who exclusively uses them, i can say that they are awesome and i love them especially old ones from the 2000s that most pros would tell you to never use (you should buy MY plugins instead). Free plugins by airwindows, FullBucket, TAL, and melda are my bread and butter.

Its crazy what we can do today, you can do almost anything with just $100, and software wise, preaty much $0, like hitfilm, krita, gimp, obs, LMMS, blender, unity, and so on, we are in a goooooood spot to get into our dream job or hobby.

Great video! i wish more people just did the thing! rather than waiting for perfection. granted on youtube good lighting matters a lot along with great editing. With so many channels doing JUST voice over content without video and is just clips edited together (about what they're talking about) and a good voice over, there isn't much of an excuse, and you do great work squash! always informative and entertaining! Something to point out: billie eilish's music is recorded at home and mixed and mastered by professionals in big studios. and instead of going to traditional school they were trained in dance, songwriting, and music from a very young age they lived and breathed music. their parents made that investment and could afford to take that risk for them while working middle class jobs in the entertainment industry. they had the contacts and trained them to have the talent. no one expected them to get as big as they did. props to them for that! but i don't believe that talent alone is why they're famous and all, but it's truly incredible what they have accomplished as a team! what bothers me the most these days is that artists will pay tons of money for a studio just to work on their laptop and lay down a vocal in a booth. pretty much not using the huge studio they paid for. it's all for prestige and show at that point and that is kinda disgusting to me. in LA most of the people are pop singers and rap artists. they could do everything in the box and lay a vocal on top and it'll sound amazing with a halfway decent producer/engineer writing all the parts for their chord progression and melody. that's essentially all there is there. other towns are a bit different though, like nashville. Still yeah a lot of pop music is made in a laptop with some of the most basic plugins, most of which are cracked too and they think it's the best thing since sliced bread because they're so set on a certain sound and workflow they have a hard time imagining anything else. often sticking within native instruments bundle because it's easier to crack and it's great deal for a bundle, but imo outside of certain piano/string sounds they don't have much that feels amazing and is fast to use. but yeah the cost to entry is extremely small these days and anyone can do it, but to be taken seriously and be competitive it takes money and often that money is grown over time. for a while i had a day job and every penny i got from music i'd use to buy hardware. along with any extra paychecks i got (as i'd often take paid time off work to work a project so getting paid double in a way). These days i'm super picky with who i work with and focusing more on my own music and covers. A lot of artists focus on the wrong things. For me the reason to get the better gear is for a faster final product. with a good quality mic pre, mic, and interface i can hit record and most of the time the song is already mostly mixed. i don't have to F around with a million plugins to try and get the sound i hear. I can just record through some nice gear and do it. granted i currently only have 1 channel of this quality, but that's all you really need these days. Since going to hardware and higher end plugins i've cut my mix time by 60% if not more. hell sometimes artists are happy with a 4hr mix now (and sometimes less). if i wanted to i could do two tracks a day if i wasn't picky about who i work with and i'd make good money, but yeah, that's not my idea of a life i'd wanna live. i'd rather cut my work day and spend that time doing other things i enjoy. or at least now be able to have the security of a day job with needed insurance and still get the job done in a timely manner so i can only take projects that are meaningful to me and excite me, vs anyone who wants to work with me. quality > quantity. same applies to this discussion too. but the quality is the quality of the content NOT the quality of the gear. content is always top priority. If you record a sloppy performance with the best gear in the world, it's still gonna be a sloppy performance.

i use ableton intro and mostly free plugins, i make lofi so i never go past 16 tracks even on my most complex stuff, i hit maybe 13 tracks at most. you can do anything as long as you have the love for the art

It's either spending time vs spending money, up to a certain point most ppl have more time than money, but once you have money, time gets a lot more valuable

Not a musician, but I do make videos and dabble in game development stuff, I just use whatever freeware/open-source projects I can for whatever creative endevors I do. I have tried small amounts of music creation, but that has only been limited to some Audacity fiddling, or a few times I mess with some freeware MIDI editor I found somewhere...

I've done pretty well with my plugin collection, most of them I've bought when they're on sale. The most expensive was Guitar Rig pro by native instruments, it was $100 usd... my most used plugin though. I really scored when Roland discontinued their Concerto plugin too, I'm not big into synths so it does me fine... Heaps of free packs for it.

I don't use pirated software I use free plugins like Valhalla Supermassive

My good man that is why the Lord above made Black Friday!

I start using reaper and ripping vst or using old free vst and but since i got the ableton lite version i decide to buy more of it

Ive been getting it all for free since fl4 . Waves plugins got me godly

green screen looking crisp af, also spending doesnt require skill, creativity or talent lmao so ofc people who can't do shit, will buy stuff thinking it will solve their problems, kinda the same as ppl who pay tai lopez to tell them obvious things

Piracy

I don’t think you could record a signer like Céline Dion with only Logic Pro, a crappy microphone and shitty speakers…

All u need to do is LEARN HOW TO MIX. When you figure that out all u need is a few professional plugins. The hardware really aint that big of deal