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I use Massive, Nexus and Hypersonic most - Just wondering if there are any plugins out there that are essential for dubstep production? Something that can create anything dark and atmopheric to heavy and bassy, I'm all ears

3xosc for nasty reeses
Alchemy for wet wubs, pads and basically anything xD
Otherwise it's all about fx and resampling for me

Synkope wrote:Something that can create anything dark and atmopheric to heavy and bassy, I'm all ears

Any synth It's all amps in feedback circuits.

no, no certain plug is ESSENTIAL imo

theres always multiple ways of doing things esp with the vast array of VSTs available

people have their preferences... its not like every big hit you love was produced using "XYZ VST"


virtually any synth can make dark amospherics, and heavy basses


you are already using Massive, thats more than capable

I'd say a great filter/eq is essential. Look to Fabfilter, Sonalksis, SoundToys, Nomad Factory, U-HE, Ohm Force.

gotta be tal-dub 3 & camelphat

Parametric EQ2
Glitch Girl

A synth

your DAW has them all, pretty convenient i'd say

For me a must have EQ is the FabFilter Pro-Q.

I fucking love that thing.

Why would someone need a third party filter/eq? Like what could they offer except a steeper Q?

Not all EQ/filters are created equal, thank goodness.

The only 2 EQs I've used are the Reason & FL Studio stock ones & the FabFilter one, I definitely get better results from the FabFilter & it has a spectrum analyser in the background to make it all that more useful.

im impressed how few people name fm8 when a single vst is soke after

id be able to produce music with just fm8 and a bunch of processing tools.

wub wrote:Parametric EQ2
Glitch Girl

Right now mine is massive, camel crusher, stereo touch, sausage fattener. Hey how are you guys liking nexus? And would you guys recommend me fabfilter volcano. Those are the next 2 things I am thinking about getting.

Volcano is great. Very nice filters, and great modulation options. I love Fabfilter's resonance sound personally. Their GUIs are also very nice to work with.
Nexus is a run of the mill ROMpler, but has a good interface. I'd recommend something from Spectrasonics instead though. Like Omnisphere. Not to say Nexus is awful though. It just seems like you'd need to keep buying more and more expansions, and I don't like 'genre-specific' packs/sounds which is what its main focus is. A bit gimmicky in my opinion.

Nexus is good for getting ideas down really quickly. I actually use the pianos on it a lot because they load in like half a second instead of the 20 or 30 it takes to get TheGrand going or some other half decent piano vst.

Whatever synth you like best will be able to do whatever you want...Image-Line Sytrus is my personal synth preference, which is very similar to FM8. The most essential tool is the eq, IMO...get a good one of those and then invest in other things like quality reverbs and compressors.

InternetSlaveMaster wrote:

wub wrote:Parametric EQ2
Glitch Girl

Seriously.

I can't remember the last project that didn't have Glitch Girl on it in one form or another. Not saying it goes 100% wet on the master or anything, but it's usually there.