

Timeless, for example, is a great delay effect, but although it's lived in my plug‑in folder for a decade or more, I still have only the vaguest idea of how to program it. However, the FabFilter catalogue also includes older plug‑ins that weren't designed along the same elegant lines. Products like the Pro‑Q3 equaliser, Pro‑C2 compressor and Pro‑MB multiband dynamics processor are used by almost every engineer featured in our 'Inside Track' series, and have inspired homages from rival developers. I've never really had a look at them before but they look really smart! I love the metering on the compressor! Where you can see the input and output super imposed on one another, so that after you compress the signal you can get it back to the same volume really easily! And Volcano 2 just looks stunning and can be retriggered via midi which for me is the holy grail of external filters (all the ones i have can't retrigger and i've been looking for one that can for ages).There's rather more to FabFilter's redesigned multiband saturator than a slicker GUI.įabFilter's Pro series of plug‑ins is, arguably, the benchmark for current user interface design. I have to say i'm also really impressed by the other Fabfilter pluggins too. This new Fabfilter pluggin looks a lot nicer too use and the different distortion types (although fewer than ohmicide) look a lot more usable and sound nicer to my ears (going from the preview video).

I mostly just split the bands up manually using Lives multiband compressor and then use Lives built in saturator (i particularly like the "waveshaper" setting). Especially when a lot of the distortion types sound very similar to many of the other types. I think there is a problem with ohmicide of having too much choice. Partly because of the UI and partly because i don't like the sound of a lot of the distortion types and as mentioned before i don't use many of them. I've got ohmicide and haven't really gotten along with it.
