Best VST’s for Reggae and Dub

[donkey tugger]

...honestly i think the cheapest and easiest way would be to get yourself some cheapo guitar and record it yourself...

No real guitar for me, too difficult. And samples, don't they have the negative "transpose" effect if not every note/chord is sampled separately? Rob Papen RG, which only produces minor and major chords, sounds nice to my ears. I read on the internet that a Fender Stratocaster guitar is often used for the Reggae rhythmic guitar. Is that right?

i'll start with a sigh
guitar is an "easy to learn hard to master" type of instrument. raggae chords and James Bond theme type melodies are way on the easy part of this spectrum.

Welll....yes, reggae guitar is generally quite sparse and it's not usually involving a lot of complex chord changes...but like any other genre, to play it well takes a bit of application. It's not just..upstroke, upstroke, upstroke, upstroke. Like funk guitar there's a lot of rhythmic subtlety and (for wont of a better word..) groove going on in terms of the muting of the strings. Its also generally done with a lot of barre chords - not easy for a beginner to master.

[peterdh]

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Really nice song Is this you DMG68?

[seangm]

If you have Maschine, Battery or Massive there's a nice reggae NI expansion:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/p ... black-arc/

[DMG68]

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Really nice song Is this you DMG68?

Give thanks. Yes, it's my track, music & mix, vocals by Fyah Wyah. There is a full vocal version, this is just the dub.

[gremlinmoon]

Modnetic (part of the Dub Machines fx duo vsts) by Surreal Machines is excellent (imo). It can do older school dub, like LSP and the earlier Burning Spear Living Dub releases as well as experimental ambient stuff very well. I probably wouldn't use it for more pop oriented reggae as I think it attenuates higher frequencies.

Little known, but Omnisphere has a sampled melodica.

[thecontrolcentre]

+1 for Surreal Machines. I've used the Live versions for some time. Perfect for dubbing things up. I'm fond of Audio Damage Dubstation and Eos too ...

[SoundPorn]

MTurboDelay is on a 75% off sale which will cover all the delay throws ya need too

[Obsolete236871]

By the way, here is a great video of a guy producing the classical Reggae sound in a DAW. He uses Maschine, but it can basically be done in any DAW.

[peterdh]

I want to thank all the contributors for their input. I learned a lot

I am still in the search process of finding more skank guitars. Learned from the http://www.how-to-play-reggae.com/ website that the top 3 guitars are: Fender Stratocaster, Fender Telecaster and the Gibson Les Paul. I am exploring now Sugar Bytes Guitarist, which provides the Fender Stratocaster ánd Telecaster. Both guitars are single coils (no damped harmonics).

[peterdh]

Hi guys,

Been making a lot of Reggae ringtones lately. Here is a selection of 3 ringtones, each 29 sec long. The low end is missing, because of a high pass filter on the master bus. Ringtones don't need the low end.

Ganga days:
http://soundcloud.com/user-782329177/ganja-days

Dub it:
http://soundcloud.com/user-782329177/dub-it

The RubaDub:
http://soundcloud.com/user-782329177/the-rubadub

[RamblinWreck]

That's OK get AudioThing's ace emulation of it instead - https://www.audiothing.net/effects/outer-space/

Seconding this, since nobody else has yet. The Space Echo was an absolute game changer for dub, and this plugin is really, really good. I absolutely love the Space Echo sound regardless, and you can get so much more out of it than just dub.

[thecontrolcentre]

https://www.genuinesoundware.com/?a=showproduct&b=26

[BezO]

Cool thread. I write/produce Roots Reggae on rare occasions. This thread reminds me that I've been meaning to search out some Dub tutorials as I'm focused on instrumental music currently.

BFD3 for drums
Session horns pro for horns
Tremor for the synth percussion sounds
Piano, I don't remember, either addictive keys upright or NI Upright.
Live bass, guitar and percussion
All mixing ITB, mixer is used as a midi controller
You can produce reggae purely with software, you need to know what style you want to focus on. You can use almost anything, it's more about what you do with it than what you use. Developing your skill is more important than what you use, your stock DAW stuff can probably go a long ways to satisfying what you need, even drums, depending on the sound you're after.

Nice tune!

Some of my arsenal is similar to yours, subbing BFD3 for Addictive Drums 2. I lean on Session Horns Pro for solo & small group horns, but I'm still working on getting the sound out of it I want.

[donkey tugger]

Hi guys,

Been making a lot of Reggae ringtones lately. Here is a selection of 3 ringtones, each 29 sec long. The low end is missing, because of a high pass filter on the master bus. Ringtones don't need the low end.

Ganga days:
http://soundcloud.com/user-782329177/ganja-days

Dub it:
http://soundcloud.com/user-782329177/dub-it

The RubaDub:
http://soundcloud.com/user-782329177/the-rubadub

Sounding good, but I'm thinking you're also needing a siren. No doubt you can probably do it with any sinthesiser (if you're some kind of nerd... ), but this looks good and free;

https://www.noisemakers.fr/siren/

[DMG68]

Cool thread. I write/produce Roots Reggae on rare occasions. This thread reminds me that I've been meaning to search out some Dub tutorials as I'm focused on instrumental music currently.

BFD3 for drums
Session horns pro for horns
Tremor for the synth percussion sounds
Piano, I don't remember, either addictive keys upright or NI Upright.
Live bass, guitar and percussion
All mixing ITB, mixer is used as a midi controller
You can produce reggae purely with software, you need to know what style you want to focus on. You can use almost anything, it's more about what you do with it than what you use. Developing your skill is more important than what you use, your stock DAW stuff can probably go a long ways to satisfying what you need, even drums, depending on the sound you're after.

Nice tune!

Some of my arsenal is similar to yours, subbing BFD3 for Addictive Drums 2. I lean on Session Horns Pro for solo & small group horns, but I'm still working on getting the sound out of it I want.

Thanks. Session Horns Pro can be a little effort at times and sometimes you just don't get what you want. Gotta mess around with the articulations and velocity, sometimes when I can't quite get what I want then I throw a phaser on the horns and it's more acceptable.