Fabfilter Essentials Bundle (Download)

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The Fabfilter Essentials Bundle brings together a bundle of plug-ins that are indispensable for mixing duties - reverb, EQ, and dynamics.

Pro-R - Reverb Plug-In

Pro-R from FabFilter is a plug-in that takes a musical approach to reverb, offering user-friendly, non-technical controls like Brightness, Character and Distance to achieve the desired reverb sound. The stepless Space control allows for fading between dozens of different, carefully tuned room models, automatically choosing a matching decay time for a natural-sounding result.

The decay time of a real room often varies wildly over the frequency spectrum, which is one of the key ingredients of a room's reverb character. To simulate this, the Decay Rate EQ concept offers complete adjustment of the decay time over the frequency spectrum. Since it uses parametric EQ bands instead of a traditional crossover system, it provides much more flexibility to shape the decay time characteristics.

Additional features include perfectly tuned knobs, interactive MIDI Learn, and an undo/redo and A/B switch. Smart Parameter Interpolation delivers smooth parameter transitions, while an extensive help file with interactive help hints, sample-accurate automation, advanced optimization and much more, extend the functionality of the plug-in.

• Various room models, ranging from small ambiences and rooms, to large concert halls and huge cathedrals
• Developed to easily fit in the mix, without causing undesirable coloration, density or phase problems.
• Retina interface with large interactive reverb display featuring Decay Rate EQ and Post EQ curves
• Easy to set up, with user-friendly, non-technical controls
• Stepless Space control smoothly combines the room model and decay time of the reverb, with a choice of over a dozen carefully designed room models and the ability to seamlessly vary between them, without hearing clicks or unwanted artifacts
• Decay Rate control for changing the overall decay time from 50% to 200% of the current Space setting
• Intelligent Stereo Width control, ranging from pure mono, to true stereo, and beyond
• Distance control adjusts the proximity to the sound source in the selected space
• Character control changes the sound from a clean, transparent decay, to a lively reverb with pronounced reflections and echoes, all the way to an over-modulated chorus-like effect
• Perfectly tuned Brightness knob affects not only overall brightness, but also the decay of high frequencies
• Mix knob with a Lock Mix option prevents preset loading from overriding the current mix setting
• Pre-delay control via the bottom bar, ranging from 0 to 500 ms, with optional host tempo sync
• Six-band Decay Rate EQ provides full control over the decay rate at different frequencies
• Six-band Post EQ equalizes the final reverb sound, and together with the Decay Rate EQ, allows for designing reverbs of any style or character
• Real-time spectrum analyzer that also visualizes the decay time at different frequencies
• Full Screen mode, offering a large analyzer display and Decay Rate EQ and Post EQ controller
• Multiple interface sizes - medium, large and extra large
• Stereo and mono plug-in versions available
• Supports common Pro Tools hardware control surfaces
• MIDI Learn
• Undo/redo and A/B comparison
• Smart parameter interpolation
• Sample-accurate automation of all parameters
• Extensive help file with interactive help hints

Pro-Q 2 - Linear-Phase Mid/Side EQ Plug-In

This electronic download of the Pro-Q 2 - Linear-Phase Mid/Side EQ Plug-In from FabFilter is a production tool to help sculpt and shape audio when creating, editing, mixing and mastering recordings on Mac and Windows computer workstations. It can be used in applications such as studio recording, sound design, film editing, composing, and more. The software features a large interactive EQ display and allows you to create frequency bands where you need them, then select and edit multiple bands at once. It offers features like Spectrum Grab, full screen mode and EQ match that will help speed up your production workflow.

The Pro-Q2 offers features that engineers need, including natural phase modes, mid/side processing, variable stereo placement of EQ bands, an intelligent solo feature, optional auto gain, and a fully customizable spectrum analyzer. In addition you get perfectly tuned knobs, MIDI learn, and smart parameter interpolation for smoother parameter transitions. There is also a help file with interactive help hints. The plug-in is available in VST, VST 3, Audio Units, AAX Native and AudioSuite formats, all in both 64-bit and 32-bit, as well as RTAS in 32-bit only.

• Operates in zero latency mode, linear phase mode with adjustable latency or the unique natural phase mode
• Spectrum Grab allows you to grab and adjust a peak in the real-time spectrum analyzer right away
• Filter shapes such as bell, notch, high/low shelf, high/low cut, band pass, tilt shelf
• Intelligent solo mode allows you to find problem frequencies and hear the effect of a band
• The EQ match feature automatically matches the spectrum of another track via the side-chain input
• Phase Invert option to change polarity
• Mid/side mode where you can EQ the mid and side signals separately
• Optional gain-Q interaction
• Features a built-in spectrum analyzer with pre-EQ, post-EQ and SC modes, adjustable range, speed, resolution, tilt and freeze
• GPU-powered graphics acceleration
• MIDI Learn

Pro-C 2 - Compressor Plug-In

The Pro-C 2 from FabFilter is a software compressor with eight different compressor styles and program-dependent attack and release curves. It is used in mixing and mastering audio applications such as studio recording, post production, and more. It features flexible signal routing, as for example, in Expert mode, where external side chain inputs are available, providing a choice of mono, stereo, or mid/side processing with customizable channel linking and routing.

Apart from the classic compressor controls, the plug-in provides smooth lookahead, up to 4x oversampling, intelligent auto-gain and auto-release. A variable knee, hold, range, external side-chain triggering, variable stereo linking and mid/side processing, are all packed in a beautiful Retina user interface. The redesigned interface offers insightful metering and real-time displays for improved workflow, with the large animated level knee display visualizing exactly when, why, and how compression is applied to incoming audio.

Additional features include perfectly tuned knobs, interactive MIDI Learn, and an undo/redo and A/B switch. Smart Parameter Interpolation delivers smooth parameter transitions, while an extensive help file with interactive help hints, sample-accurate automation, advanced optimization and much more, extend the functionality of the plug-in.

• Eight different compression styles - vocal, mastering, bus, punch and pumping
• Retina interface, with (optional) animated level knee displays and accurate peak/loudness metering (Retina support on OS X and High DPI support on Windows)
• Side-chain EQ section, with customizable high- and low-pass filters, plus an additional freely adjustable filter
• Program-dependent attack and release curves
• Smooth lookahead (up to 20 ms), which can be enabled/disabled to ensure zero-latency processing
• Intelligent auto-gain
• Hold (up to 500 ms)
• Custom knee, variable from hard knee, to a 72 dB soft knee (to enable saturation-like effects)
• Auto release
• Super-fast attack times
• Up to 4x oversampling
• Variable stereo linking and mid/side processing, with mid-only, side-only, M > S and S > M processing
• Audition Triggering option, which enables users to hear on which parts of the audio Pro-C 2 is triggering and how much compression is taking place
• Multiple interface sizes - small, medium, large
• Range setting, which limits the maximum applied gain change
• Mix setting, which scales the gain change from 0% to 200%
• Full Screen mode, offering a large level-display and side-chain EQ controller
• Accurate, large level and gain-change meters, with peak and loudness level visualization.
• Loudness level complies with the momentary mode of the EBU R128 / ITU-R 1770 standards
• External side-chain triggering
• GPU-powered graphics acceleration
• Stereo and mono plug-in versions available
• Supports common Pro Tools hardware control surfaces
• MIDI Learn
• Undo/redo and A/B comparison
• Smart parameter-interpolation
• Sample-accurate automation of all parameters
• Extensive help file with interactive help hints

System Requirements:

Mac System Requirements

• Intel processor
• OS X 10.6 or later

Windows System Requirements

• Windows XP (32-bit), Vista (32-/64-bit), Windows 7, 8, 10 (32-/64-bit)

Plug-In Compatibility

• AAX Native, Audio Units (Mac only), RTAS, AudioSuite, VST, VST3