This came up as a mashup of several parallel projects.

This track uses « clear angle » & « exhale », by seek to track zero, released under creative commons license, free for non commercial use. You may re-use it for non commercial use, under the same license.

OK, had a few question concerning the types of plugins I used. So, there you are, a bunch of free / cheap VSTs I use :

- Reaper‘s plugins. Reacomp, ReaEQ… can be downloaded as a separate VST pack from their website. Easy to use and extremely configurable.

- Atlantis VST: semi-modular synth with a cool interface (just get the interface pack). Great for basses, pads & effects

- DSK asianZ and indian Dreams. Cool sounds.

- moonoi.tk’s binaural simulator VST.  When panning isn’t enough.

- isotope vinyl. When you need the scratchy feel

- TC Electronic’s Fabrik R. hum… the VST I use most is actually just a controller for a hardware reverb. Still, great reverb, I’ll leave it here. And no, I don’t have any other recommendation for reverbs, this is the best I found so far, and it is so far ahead I barely use anything else as overall reverbs.

- Camelcrusher. Sounds very bad. I mean it is a terrible distortion simulation. Unless you stop considering it as an analogue simulation (just go and buy yourself a real lamp disto, am quite happy with my ElectroHarmonix) and consider it as digital grit. Yup. just when you need that harsh digital grit…. there it is.

I know I do not use that many VSTs on a regular basis.. but then I also make extensive use of Reason for digital sound generation. And when needing more powerful effects, I go back to my hardware with all its noises, internal non-linearities, and all the lofi that makes overall great sound.

Quick track, made in an hour or so. The piano might be a bit loud.