While using AI is sometimes considered “cheating” by music producers, using artificial intelligence can actually be incredibly beneficial for creating tracks. In 2024, AI-enabled plugins give you more precision, faster results, and make your workflow much easier overall. These tools are also incredibly inspiring, giving you smart, unexpected MIDI patterns which you can tailor to your needs. In this article you will find 70+ top AI plugins and tools for music producers.Let’s get started!   Here’s an overview of the list: 16 Mixing and Mastering AI Tools 21 AI Plugins for Creative Music Production (Harmonies & Drums) 8 Vocal AI Tools...

AI music generator platforms are a great way of creating music for all kinds of purposes. In 2024 there are more such platforms available than ever before. These are useful both for amateurs who would like to create complete tracks without music theory knowledge, and even for professional producers who would like to “collaborate” with AI. In this article you will find which AI platforms lead the way for generating music and which is best for you. Let’s get started! 1. AIVA One of the absolute cutting-edge platforms for music generation is AIVA. It composes entire tracks for you based...

As AI has been getting incredibly popular, more and more tools for music producers have been getting attention. In this article you'll find the top 15 web applications to help you with mastering your tracks, extracting stems for remixes, composing your melodies and chords, selecting songs to sample and much more. Let's get started!   1. Landr Mastering Landr is a platform which uses AI to automatically master your tracks. In the app you are able to add reference tracks and choose between different styles and loudness levels, as well as A/B between the original and master track with equal loudness....

  In 2024, Melodic House is an incredibly popular genre. Hundreds of tracks get created every day, some of which get sent to record labels. In such an oversaturated music market, it can be pretty hard to stand out from the swarm of other producers. And if you’re looking to get signed, your music must be absolutely cutting edge. Some music makers, however, find ways to differentiate their music from the rest. They see where the genre is going and which techniques to implement to enhance their sound. So what’s the future looking like for Melodic House? One prediction is...

  When producing electronic music it’s incredibly easy to fall into the trap of making tracks which sound very synthetic. That’s because most of the sounds we use are made by using synthesizers - and almost all of them at the core use the same basic waveforms. Even most samples are synthesized, making the drums quite static sounding. In recent years a new, much more natural sound has been getting more and more popular. The genre of Organic House combines downtempo arrangements with ethnic, Indian and Middle Eastern elements. Such tracks often feature multi-layered percussion and a melodic layer that...

In this list you’ll find the absolute top 5 of free lo-fi processing plugins for both Windows & Mac. The list includes plugins from big names (Izotope, Caelum Audio) and less known developers. The plugins allow you to dial in saturation, vibrato-style effects, add noise, digital distortion and much more. Let’s get started! 1. Izotope Vinyl (Mac/Win) Vinyl simulates the dust, scratches, warp, and mechanical noise of beloved vinyl records. Try the new Lo-fi effect to add the signature tone of 80s hip-hop resampling. Bring character-filled artifacts and classic tone to your production in seconds. Get here 2. Tape Cassette...

In this list you’ll find the absolute top 5 of free sidechain plugins for both Windows & Mac. The list includes plugins from big names (TAL, MeldaProduction) and less known developers. They mostly give you access to LFO-Tool style effects, so they’re also perfect for all kinds of volume modulation. Let’s get started! 1. TAL-Filter-2 (Mac/Win) TAL-Filter-2 is a host synced filter module with different filter types, panorama and volume modulation possibilities. This can be used for tremolo or trance gate effects. Panorama modulation maybe is useful to pan your percussion, hats or sound effects in the stereo room for...

In this list you’ll find the absolute top 5 of free limiter plugins for both Windows & Mac. The list includes plugins from big names and less known developers. The limiters are specialized in different tasks, from giving you maximum transparency to an analog feel. Let’s get started! 1. D16 Frontier (Mac/Win) Frontier is a studio-grade limiter plug-in with simple and straightforward user interface. It allows for quick and efficient controlling dynamics of a channel, bus or master output. Frontier can be used as very transparent mixing / mastering limiter (at certain settings) with just licking the loudest amplitude peaks, or...

In this list you’ll find the absolute top 5 of free drum synth plugins for both Windows & Mac. The list includes plugins from more popular developers (AudioSpillage, Sampleson) and less known developers. None of the plugins use samples - only analog modelling oscillators. Let’s get started! 1. MiniSpillage (64-bit, Mac only) MiniSpillage is a free professional quality drum synthesizer plugin featuring high resolution 64-bit DSP processing. MiniSpillage includes 3 exclusive drum synthesis algorithms (Bass Drum, Wood Drum, Hihat) along with distortion effects and resonant filters. It features the same high definition 64-bit DSP engine as found in its larger...

In this list you’ll find the absolute top 5 of free acoustic drum kit plugins for both Windows & Mac. The list includes plugins from big names (Steven Slate, Spitfire Audio) and less known developers. The drum kits are all multisampled, giving you an incredibly realistic sound. Let’s get started! 1. Steven Slate Drums Free Steven Slate's free VST does the job perfectly here. It sounds incredibly solid and realistic, offers you 3 mix-ready presets, and allows for maximum customization of your sounds. With this drum kit you're all set, no matter for which genre you need it for. Get...