In this video I went in with one goal: show you why Safari Pedals VSTs are actually crazy. I’ve been following them as a plugin company because they specialize in pedal-style effects, and the designs + sounds are super creative. After listening to Gunna’s new album that morning (super fire in my opinion), I ended up cooking up two beats with heavy Gunna vibes and basically overused the Safari Pedals just to show what they can really do. For the first beat, I built the vibe around my favorite Safari Pedals plugin, Yak Delay. It’s not just a delay—there’s filtering and distortion built in, so you can get trippy movement fast. I also used Gorilla Drive, which gives you super crazy distortion without killing the low end (even though I don’t like that the tone knob also changes the volume). Then I showed Rubber Tape for tape-style saturation/distortion on the melody. For the second beat, I started with Sky Keys (giving it a second chance), layered it with a better piano in Kontakt, and ran it through Time Machine to get that old-recording texture, plus some Fox Echo Chorus. Big takeaway: resampling to audio and pitching down can sound way better than pitching MIDI because the artifacts add texture.