Plugin Bundle Guide: How to Get More out of all 40+ Plugins Included with LANDR Studio
When you subscribe to LANDR Studio Pro and LANDR Plugin bundle you get more than 40 pro-grade plugins, all specifically curated to help you make your best music.
LANDR Studio’s plugin suite comes packed with tons of plugins that make once-complex music production tasks simple—tools like LANDR FX for mixing, LANDR Composer for MIDI chords and LANDR Mastering plugin.
But with such a huge bundle of plugins, it’s not always clear how to get the most out of them.
So let’s take a deep dive into specific use cases and lesser-known tools LANDR’s plugin suite offers, so you can squeeze out every ounce of value in your subscription.
1. Real-sounding software instruments
AAS Session bundle comes with some impressive electric piano and keyboard emulations.
One of the most overlooked parts of LANDR Studio is its incredible selection of real-sounding software instrument plugins.
For example, AAS Session Bundle offers a faithful re-creation of the Fender Rhodes electric piano, a convincing electric guitar synth and a Moog-inspired analog synth.
Or grab M-Tron Select from GForce and craft vintage synth melodies inspired by the Beatles, Muse, U2 and countless others with a recreation of the famous tape-based Mellotron keyboard.
M-Tron Select from GForce is a convincing software remake of the legendary Mellotron.
For orchestral composition, LANDR Studio sets you up with The Orchestra Elements from Sonuscore, offering a variety of ways to very quickly and easily compose interesting rhythms and orchestral arrangements with simple MIDI chords.
Here’s a short video of it in action.
2. Synths and sound design
On top of all the great virtual instruments, LANDR’s plugin suite also includes a handful of excellent synth plugins.
Miniraze opens some unique synthesis capabilities with its wave slicing feature.
Whether you’re looking for vintage synth emulations with tons of presets or powerful modern synths with tons of sound design abilities to customize your sound, LANDR Plugins have you covered.
At the top of the heap is the collection of four 90s-inspired digital synths in Digital Synsations from UVI that offer 600 presets from iconic DX7, Korg M1, SY77 and Ensoniq VFX synths.
But if you’re interested in modern synth engines, LANDR Synth X and Miniraze are two powerful synth engines that offer a wide range of synthesis capabilities.
Synth X is a powerful but easy-to-learn synth that includes a ton of great presets.
Both focus specifically on wavetable synthesis, but Miniraze offers some fairly unique wave-slicing technology that can create some wild granular synthesis textures.
Synth X, on the other hand, focuses on ease of use and comes with an extensive but simple-to-understand interface and modulation matrix.
If you’re looking for dead-simple synths that won’t get in the way of your ideas, LANDR has you covered with Cube Mini, Analog Lab Intro and Usynth Core.
Each offers incredibly simple controls with great presets that’ll inspire you in seconds.
3. The ultimate lo-fi signal chain
If you want to create that crispy, warbling sound heard in lo-fi hip hop and electronic music, LANDR Studio has everything you need to create a killer lo-fi signal chain.
To build a truly lo-fi signal chain with LANDR Studio’s plugins, start with the NEED 73 channel strip EQ to give your sound that classic 1960s console pre-amp warmth with this recreation of the legendary Neve console EQ.
Add vintage British pre-amps modeled after the legendary Neve console EQ with NEED 73.
Next, grab Mixbox SE by IK Multimedia and its huge collection of FX plugins that include some handy tape emulation, plus vintage-inspired compressors and amps.
Another option to add vintage tube amp grit to your lo-fi track is with Valves from Audio Thing.
Valves is great for adding pleasing touches of tube inspired warmth to your track with its tube, cabinet and filter knobs.
If your track needs warm, vintage-sounding reverb, Arturia’s Rev PLATE-140 re-creates the legendary EMT 140 plate reverb used at Abbey Road studios on 60s rock’n’roll records.
Rev Plate is warm plate reverb, modelled after the classic EMT 140 found at Abbey Road.
Last but certainly not least in the ultimate lo-fi signal chain comes the collection of tape emulation plugins that’ll add the crispy, warbling, smashed-down sound of cassette tape.
With TAIP from Baby Audio alongside Yum Audio’s Flux Light and Pitch Dropout on the master bus, you have great plugins to saturate your track with warm tape-inspired audio while controlling tape errors and warble.
Combined, you get a signal chain that’ll process hi-fi digital audio into a nostalgic sound that could have been printed onto cassette in the ’90s and left to bake in a car windshield.
4. Vocal production simplified
LANDR Studio comes with a collection of top-tier vocal production plugins from a few of the most trusted brands in music production.
VocAlign can take multiple vocal layers and align in seconds, saving hours of time in the studio.
Most notably, SynchroArt’s VocAlign and RePitch, two supercharged pro-grade plugins that quickly align and tune vocals while saving countless post-production hours.d
On top of that, LANDR FX Voice offers quick and easy one-knob vocal EQs, compression, and effects that sound good right out of the box.
If you’re not experienced with producing vocals, or you don’t know exactly how much EQ or compression to apply, FX Voice is great way to dip your toes in without getting buried in confusing knobs and buttons.
LANDR FX Voice is a simple one-knob plugin that adjusts EQ, compression, effects and many more parameters with industry-standard precision.
5. Creativity and composition tools
Finding new ways to be creative in the studio can be challenging from week to week, but if you’re feeling stuck LANDR Studio’s plugin suite can help.
If you're in a creative rut, LANDR Composer can get you with the inspiring MIDI chords, melodies and bass lines it generates.
That’s because Studio comes with a handful of incredibly inspiring plugins designed to spur creative moments, happy accidents and new ideas.
The suite’s sample-based instruments, like LANDR Chromatic and LANDR Guitar, offer curated loops designed to be manipulated and morphed into entirely new and inspiring sounds.
Chromatic is a sample based instrument that makes it easy to manipulate inspiring loop packs with a number of effects.
LANDR Studio’s MIDI chord, melody and bassline generating plugin in LANDR Composer is a quick route to using new and unique chord progressions without having to learn all the theory.
EON Arp from Modalics is another great plugin to check out, EON Arp makes it so simple to generate wild arpeggios that control any of the synths in your plugin library.
With plugins like these, your creative well just got much deeper.
6. Powerful utilities
They may not be the most flashy plugins, and they won’t help you write tunes, but they certainly make everything else around music production so much easier.
I’m talking about the unique set of utility plugins included with LANDR Studio. Plugins like LANDR Sessions, LANDR Samples and Audified Mixchecker.
Audified Mixchecker makes it easy to hear how your mix or master will sound on a variety of listening formats.
LANDR Sessions lets you stream your DAW’s audio directly into high-quality video calls, making remote mixing and mastering sessions clearer and easier.
It’s designed to make remote mixing sessions much easier by prioritizing DAW audio so producers, audio engineers and artists can hear what’s happening during a mixing or mastering session as clearly as possible.
If you work remotely with clients or collaborators, LANDR Sessions can take guesswork and rounds of mix feedback out of the equation by enabling everyone to hear changes to a track in real time.
It’s a useful tool that solves many headaches during long-distance collaborations.
Sessions pipes your master bus into a video chat that prioritizes DAW audio.
LANDR Samples effectively takes the browser experience of LANDR Samples straight into the DAW, so you can browse samples and drop them directly into your session without navigating to a browser.
The Samples plugin makes it easier to stay in the workflow and audition everything that’s on LANDR Samples’ enormous 3+ million sample library, without getting lost in the mud of a web browser.
Finally, Mixchecker lets you hear how your mixes and masters sound on different listening devices, so you don’t have to bounce tracks and test them in the car, on the radio or AirPods over and over.
Just put Mixchecker on the master bus, hear how everything sounds right away and save time perfecting your mix.
Set yourself up for success with LANDR Plugin Bundle
With over 40 plugins at your fingertips in LANDR Plugin Bundle and LANDR Studio, the possibilities for sonic exploration are truly endless!
From crafting vintage vibes with realistic instruments to pushing boundaries with modern synths and creative tools, this suite empowers you to shape your sound and bring your musical visions to life.
So dive in, experiment, and discover the unique power this plugin bundle holds.
Alex Lavoie is a drummer, music producer, songwriter and marketing professional living in Montreal, Quebec. He works as a staff writer at LANDR by day and writes indie post-punk tunes in his band UTILS while moonlighting as drummer for folk-rock outfit The Painters. Connect with Alex Lavoie on LANDR Network!
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