I’ve been using LANDR for several months now. If you are not familiar with LANDR, it’s a comprehensive, cloud-based music production suite designed to help creators produce, master, and distribute music in one place. It offers AI-driven mastering, millions of royalty-free samples, virtual instrument plugins, collaboration tools, and digital distribution to major streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music
tl;dr I think it’s worth it for the plugins and some of the samples. I thought I would love the sampling, and I do, but not for the reason I thought. I feel it’s too unoriginal to use the samples in my own music, but I do get inspiration from listening to the loops, and I’ve created stems from some of them using 3-10 notes. It helps get the creativity flowing.
There are some great, very comprehensive reviews and videos of all the plugins available in LANDR, so I won’t dive into that. A few of my favorites, I think, are worth mentioning.
- Spitfire Audio: Originals Intimate Grand Piano
- TRACKTION BioTek 1
- SONUSCORE The Orchestra Elements
Works flawlessly with the DAW I use, Ableton Live, but I have had a problem with switching between instruments and losing audio. I have to save, exit, and reload. Not ideal at all.
These are where I would start. The AI mastering I’ve found to be okay, I do like their synth stuff and vocal chain plugins. Their loops are a lot of fun and keep growing all the time. Like I said, I’d rather be inspired than directly use someone else’s hard work and talent and ship it as my own, so I am not using it for all its worth. I won’t renew my subscription, just because I really only want to own a few of the plugins I have access to with LANDR, but I think most musicians looking for a way to publish to platforms will find this a good value.