As a music producer, we tend to stick to a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) as it suits our workflow in the music creation process. Investing in a Digital Audio Workstation can be a little costly therefore we should use the Digital Audio Workstation to its full potential.
But
Are you using the most out of your DAW?
For the FL Studio users, here are the top 5 underrated native effect plug-ins which you might not even heard of them or even used them when you’re writing music. The creators of FL Studio wouldn’t put them inside FL Studio for no reason.
1. Fruity Limiter
Fruity Limiter is more than just a limiter. The Fruity Limiter is a powerful single band Compressor (with sidechain), Limiter & Gate. You can switch in between limiter mode and compressor mode by clicking the LIMIT tab or the COMP tab. I personally like to use Fruity Limiter for sidechain compression because it’s really easy to use and very accurate on the sidechain compression. The display and its controls are what it special for me as well.
2. Fruity Love Philter
Fruity Love Philter is the most powerful filter plugin in FL Studio. Love Philter consists of eight identical filter units, each able to be run in parallel OR used in series by sending a filter unit to the next one in the chain. Love Philter can create complex delay, gating and filtering effects. I like to use it for “Four on the Floor” sidechain compression by drawing your own compression pattern on the volume tab, filtering and auto-pan.
3. Fruity WaveShaper
Fruity WaveShaper is a wave distortion effect which maps input (horizontal axis) to output (vertical axis) values using flexible spline-based graph. It is one of my go-to distortion/saturation plug-ins because of its flexibility in distortion or saturation. I often use it to apply soft clipping or hard clipping distortion on my leads and dubstep basses.
4. Effector
Effector provides 12 performance oriented effects that can be used one at a time. The large center X/Y pad (X/Y parm knobs) can be linked to controllers for expressive control or used with a touch interface. Since I am not really into live performance, I tend to use it for creative purposes on my sounds so that I can get some unique sounds. Are you still figuring on how to make unique sounds to stand out among other producers? Try and explore Effector to make wonders to your sounds.
5. Maximus
Maximus is much more than a pristine quality Mastering Maximizer, it's also a Compressor, Limiter, Noise Gate, Stereo Imager, Expander, Ducker and De-esser. Maximus excels equally well as a final-stage mastering plugin or as a per-track effect, Maximus indeed! I like to use Maximus for parallel compression on drums and synths to add punchiness to them. For mastering, Maximus has every features you ever need to make your track polished and ready for the crowds.
Which FL Studio native plug-ins do you think are too underrated by the producers?
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