Spitfire Audio's lab plugin gives you access to 54 completely free libraries from quirky sound effects to useful everyday instruments. Here are my personal favourites. My folks, I'm Mike, and I hope you were. You know those 54 libraries add up to 26GB of samples, so to save you some download time, I'm going to point you towards my favourite 5 of the bunch, finishing off with my absolute favourite. Now it's not only time I'd like to save you, I'd also like to save you some money, by drawing your attention to the sponsor of this video, distro kid. If you follow the link in the description down below, you will get 7% off an already incredible price to distribute your music around the world. Now let's get started with one of my favourite vocal libraries in the collection. There's actually not too much to say about this one, it's called Choir, and it sounds like, well, a choir. There's no key switches or any kinds of articulations with it, it's just one preset sound which is called Choir Long, and it sounds like this. Now it does have one kind of characteristic about it, and that is a kind of a swell, if you like. If I play a single note, you'll hear sort of fairly consistent, and then it just gets bigger, and bigger, and even bigger. Now that may not be exactly what you want, but I'd rather like it, it sounds kind of expressive to me. Now just like many of these libraries, there are a few controls to change the sound, we have volume and expression here, and if we click on this button in the middle of the big dial, we can see all of the other available options we have reverb, attack, decay, sustain, and release. Sometimes you just want a straightforward bass sound without having to deal with a fancy plugin, and I guess that's what you get with this bass guitar library here. There's actually four different kind of sounds within this library, you've got your first one, which I've got here bass, guitar, classic bass amp, and then you've got classic bass DI, and then you've got warm bass amp, warm bass DI. So DI is just like having it plug straight into an interface or straight into a console, so it's not you're not getting your room sound or anything like that. Let's just have a listen to classic bass amp, and you can hear a bit of the room sound in there, which you may like, or you may not like, so if you didn't like it, you're probably better off to go for one of the DI sounds. I'm going to try out warm bass DI, okay, so I click on that, and we'll have a listen to that. Okay, but sounding a little bit sterile, so what I'm going to suggest you is when you get a DI bass sound like this, even with a virtual bass like this one, what you can do is plug it through an amp sim of some kind. Now I'm going to put it through this, which is an amp modulo, a new one from IK Multimedia called Tonex. This is the free version I've got here, and within the free version, you do get this one bass amp, so let's switch that on and see how our bass sounds now. I don't mind that at all. We do have some control over the sound of this, again the usual volume and expression, and then we've got a reverb, tightness, variation, not quite sure whether is a attack and release. I absolutely love me some cello, and this one is called cello moods. There's a few different kind of parts to this library. You can see them here for different keys. I think that's because some of the notes tail off, so they don't stay on the same note. They go to something else, which I think is why they have some different keys available. Anyway, I'm starting off with this one C or have a listen. So you get some nice changes in tone with some of these variations. For example, if I go to see whistfulness, have a listen to the difference. I'll just play a little bit. Much more direct sounding that one. I just love the sort of earthiness of this particular library. I think if I was to mix this with some piano or acoustic guitar, it would sound absolutely awesome. We do have some control over the sound with some reverb, delay, attack, and release controls here. You know, with so many libraries in this collection, it's easy for some of them to get kind of lost in the crowd. That can happen to you too when you release your music, which is why our sponsor distro kid have some amazing features to help you out, things like the wheel of playlist. So one of the ways to actually get your music heard on Spotify is to get onto a playlist. Now distro kid offers a really fun way to get onto one of their playlists with their wheel of playlist feature. Simply head over to your distro kid account, go to the top right where it says goodies, then go down to wheel of playlist, and then you start off simply by selecting a song, something you've already released, and then click on connect with Spotify. Now obviously the further up a playlist you get, the more likely people are to actually hear your music and enjoy it. So what distro kid do here with this feature is they give you three chances to spin a wheel, a kind of a wheel of fortune type of thing going on here. Now the best result of those three spins determines your number in the playlist. And as I say, the higher up you are, the better. So on this occasion, I achieved 1888. You can try every day if you like, so maybe that's something you'd like to do to actually get your music in a playlist on Spotify. I'm kind of a sucker for the kind of sounds that you would hear in sort of meditation or relaxation music, and it's very, very true of this one, Arctic swells. Let's just have a listen to the decay version of this sound. I feel like if I take this out on my boat, I could actually attract some whales as to me. The swells version of this is also rather nice, kind of warmer, I guess, or rounder sounding. Have a quick listen. I just love that. I really should create some of that kind of music one day. Now, we do have some variations that we could apply here. We've also got a reverb control, attack, decay, sustain, and release. I reckon you can never have enough drums in your life, especially very acoustic sounding ones like these. Now these are not to be confused with vintage drums, which you can also get for labs. I showed those on the channel a couple of weeks ago. These ones are just called drums, okay? I wish there was more I could tell you about them. I wish I could say there's all kinds of controls and things. There isn't. You just play the keys and you have a reverb control and this expression control, and they sound like this. I mean, amazing what you can get for free. If you were playing those with some real acoustic instruments, guitars, bass, etc., they would sound really, really great. I reckon I especially like the Tom's. They sound like this. Just nice sounding Tom's. Hey, if you're already using labs, could you let me know in the comments down below what your favourite libraries are? That really helps me out because then I'll know what to recommend to you in the future. If you'd like to find out about more free stuff, then go ahead and click on this ever growing playlist right here.