Enter: multi-effect plugins.Ī great multi-effect plugin is almost more like an instrument than a purely technical “signal processing” tool. But while an individual effect plugin like a distortion or a resonant filter or a delay can sometimes be all that is required to enhance a sound and make it work in a project, there are certainly creative situations and alternate workflows where using tools that combine multiple effects into a single powerhouse plugin can work wonders, providing huge injections of inspiration and quickly delivering results that you just wouldn’t have thought of were you manually chaining separate plugins.

So it’s never been more important to have some great creative effects plugins in your production toolset.

How we musicians, producers and sound designers creatively combine and chain together different processing tools and plugins is a fundamental aspect of getting a modern, professional and engaging sound.Īnd particularly in most electronic-based genres, the production processes and effects are not just an afterthought or sprinkled on at the mix stage, but are often a large part of the initial idea-generating, songwriting and arrangement processes too, with clever use of unique effects contributing to the freshness or character of melodic and rhythmic hooks, or making a transition or riser leading up to a big drop sound completely different from anything else out there and instantly more attention-grabbing. Effects processing is in many ways at the heart of modern music production.

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