I do know people who spent, members who spent lots of money  on lots of plugins they think they should have.
And then they sit there and they tell me that they don’t really use most of them,  you know, so you don’t have to spend tons of money. It’s not about the amount of money you spend. Try and find something inspiring nowadays as well. There are lots of companies  where you can try things as well. so this contact environment and all the other different instruments that they offer is kind of a bit like an eco sphere within logic. So Logic’s got its environment and contact and native instruments sit  in here.
So these are all the, companies. I’ve got an amazing trombone here, which sounds brilliant. These are the native instruments, drums sampled in Abbey Road, 60 star Kit, a 70 star kit, an 80 star kit. They sound great. Â Lots and lots of control over the drums. Â Great presets, Â midi, Â you know, MIDI, MIDI Â Midi Loops essentially and fills and whatnot that you can edit. Â You know, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s great.
 Not too dissimilar to Apple’s drummer in some ways, but this has got lots more changes. There were microphones and obviously it’s got a certain vintage quality to it.  This is a company called Output, just to show you, lots of people always ask me about output. it’s gonna take too long.  You see some of these things are very, very, very large  in terms of samples. They do take quite a long time to load. anyway, you can go and look at output instruments online, in they’re more contemporary colours,  you know, very, very, they’ve got a very different distinct personality, but they, when you buy those products, they live within contact,  they live within this.
So you have to have contact first  to buy this and remember this contact player, this one here, so this is free, you don’t have to pay for this one.  just have, look at my notes.
they’ve got an all encompassing suite of instruments that you buy with them. They’re great tools from playing guitar into, they’ve got great guitar effects  as audio effects here. If I go down here, you’ve got native instruments. These are all EQs compressors, different types of effects and drivers, sort of like an enhanced distortion kind of thing.
Guitar rig is brilliant.  If I open up guitar rig,  this is  pedal boards and amps and whatnot.  So if I plug a guitar in  straight away, it’s like playing with a whole pedalboard full of loads of effects. That’s a native instruments, product as well. I, I’ve mentioned it before,  but the native instruments plug in, I’m going to recommend that some of you may buy.
 Is this one here Noir? I’ve talked about it before. and it is just  the most incredibly versatile and it’s my go-to piano  because of these, oh, sorry, because of these knobs here.  Color, tonal, shift, dynamic, et cetera. So here’s a piano, here’s the piano, turn off a bit.  Sounds nice enough,  but this  is the game changer.
Turn the colour down  and suddenly we’re in sort of Adele Moody territory,  You know, it’s like super moody sticks and reverb on it. Bit of delay. Suddenly we’ve got a super different type of personality going on.
 You know, if you’re trying to make a ballad, he’s trying to make something sound contemporary straight away. That’s just a ballad, just based on chords,  simple chord, open chords, and then hear a female voice or any voice, just stay over the top of it.
It’s amazing.  Or film  suddenly just sounds, you know, beautiful.  Take the knob the other way. Lin’s having a play, having a fiddle. What’s, what’s gonna happen now?  Yeah, that’s sort of like the dynamic up.
What’s going on here? Turn not dry. Â Suddenly we’re in like natural energy. It’s got bags of stuff going on with it. So that for me is like a beautiful piano, to be using my favourite little button here.
All the noises, pedals, mechanics, felt  all those different noises.  Sub, this is great.  It’s a piano, but it’s got, it’s like a sub base going on underneath.
It can change the pitch.  What else? Noises,  what’s my favourite bit effects?  Just a bit of noise  just out there. If  that’s the noise turned up really loud. A bit of microphone noise or a bit of room noise or a bit of tape noise,  You know, makes all the difference.
 This is my favorite. Look at this, pianist.  Can  you hear the squeaking of the stool?  So atmospheric,  if I take those sounds off and turn the noise, it’s just sort of quite a clinical sound.
We’re in a computer, it’s digital, it’s horrible.  It’s actually, you want the sound, you know, want some humanness, particularly today  you had a bit of that noise and a bit of movement of a stool or something and, and then I hear a female voice come in and a beautiful song. Suddenly you are put in a place  and it’s all these little things now that you know are super important. They’re inspiring.  So  ditch logic, pianos, get contact free player and pay 69 quid. I think it is for noir.
 I don’t work for native instruments.  No, is really, really inspiring. And even if you play piano like this,  it’s still inspiring.  I’m playing two fingers.  I wish you could see it. I’ll get a camera hooked up here. I’m playing like that. Lingling, there’s a song  that’s the start of a beautiful song, isn’t it?
Two fingers, but, and you’re letting the plug in, in the atmosphere do the work.
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