FabFilter Essentials Bundle

FabFilter is a name which carries a lot of weight in the sound design and engineering world. With a wealth of powerful plugins under their belt used by many of the top names in music production, their steadfast commitment to intuitive design and beautiful sound have inarguably set them apart for many from the seemingly endless field of plugin manufacturers in today's market.

If you're just starting your FabFilter journey, or have yet to get to grips with some of the company's more popular plugins, the Essentials Bundle is without a doubt the place to start. The Essentials Bundle, as you might expect, gets you full and unlimited access to FabFilter's most essential mixing tools: their professional EQ, Reverb and Compressor, all of which have been tried-and-tested the world over by millions of satisfied users, many of which have gone on to become vocal advocates of the brand's ability to boost productivity through superb sound quality and innovative, user-friendly interfaces.

Bring better sound and improved processing power to your studio today through your entryway into the world of FabFilter plugins: the Essentials Bundle!

FabFilter Pro-C 2

Professional compression for everyone

FabFilter Pro-C 2 is a high-quality compressor plug-in for the most demanding engineers. Whether you need subtle mastering compression, an upfront lead vocal, that magic drum glue or deep EDM pumping: Pro-C 2 gets the job done with style

Pro-C 2 offers eight different, program-dependent compression styles with beautiful sound and character. But there's more! Apart from the classic compressor controls, you also get 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, all packed in a beautiful Retina user interface.

  

Features

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

Learn more about FabFilter Pro-C 2.

Pro-Q 3

Highest possible sound quality, unrivalled interface workflow

An equalizer is probably the tool you use most while mixing and mastering, so you need the best of the best. With FabFilter Pro-Q 3, you get the highest possible sound quality, a very extensive feature set, and a gorgeous, innovative interface with unrivalled ease of use.

Features

• Highest possible sound quality
• Up to 24 EQ bands
• Optional Dynamic EQ mode for all bands (Bell and Shelf shapes), using any slope setting and with perfect analog matching, with optional external side chain triggering
• Gorgeous Retina interface with large interactive EQ display, multi-band selection and editing for maximum ease of use and efficiency
• Ultra-steep 'Brickwall' slope setting for LP and HP filters
• Full surround support (up to Dolby Atmos 7.1.2) with intelligent speaker selection
• External spectrum visualization from any other Pro-Q 3 instance, including collision detection
• Per-band mid/side or left/right processing, so you can EQ the mid, side, left or right signals separately
• Operates in zero latency mode, linear phase mode with adjustable latency or the unique Natural Phase mode
• Flat Tilt filter shape, a flat tilting correction curve over the whole audible frequency spectrum
• Spectrum Grab: just grab and adjust a peak in the real-time spectrum analyzer right away!
• Different interface sizes and additional Full Screen mode
• Filter shapes: Bell, Notch, High/Low Shelf, High/Low Cut, Band Pass, Tilt Shelf, Flat Tilt
• Universal filter slope support for all filter types, up to 96 dB/oct
• EQ Match feature to automatically match the spectrum of another Pro-Q 3 instance or an external signal
• Built-in spectrum analyzer with Pre-EQ, Post-EQ and external spectrum visualization, adjustable range, speed, resolution, tilt, freeze and collision detection
• Auto Gain and Gain Scale
• Optional piano roll display to quantize EQ frequencies to musical notes
• Different display ranges: 3 dB and 6 dB ranges for mastering, 12 dB and 30 dB for mixing
• Intelligent solo mode makes it easy to find problem frequencies and hear the effect of a band
• Phase Invert option to change polarity
• Large output level meter with peak level readout
• Extreme CPU optimization: Pro-Q 3 uses very little CPU and memory, so you can use hundreds of instances in a session
• GPU-powered graphics acceleration
• Double-click text entry of parameter values
• Supports stereo, mono and surround channel layouts (up to Dolby Atmos 7.1.2)
• Supports common Pro Tools hardware control surfaces
• MIDI Learn with option to control the currently active band
• Undo/redo and A/B comparison
• Smart Parameter Interpolation
• Sample-accurate automation of all parameters
• Extensive help file with interactive help hints

Learn more about FabFilter Pro-Q 3.

FabFilter Pro-R

Give your music some space

As one of the most used effects in the audio world, reverbs come in all forms and flavors. A great reverb sounds natural and sits in the mix perfectly. At the same time, it should not confuse you with over-technical controls, but must be easy to set up and a joy to work with. Enter FabFilter Pro-R.

FabFilter Pro-R takes a musical approach to reverb, offering user-friendly, non-technical controls like Brightness, Character and Distance to achieve the reverb sound you are looking for — without requiring a degree in reverb science.

The stepless Space control lets you fade between dozens of different, carefully-tuned room models, automatically choosing a matching decay time for a natural-sounding result.

  

Features

• Beautifully designed room models, ranging from small ambiences and rooms to large concert halls and huge cathedrals
• Carefully developed to easily fit in the mix, without causing undesirable coloration, density or phase problems
• Gorgeous Retina interface with large interactive reverb display featuring Decay Rate EQ and Post EQ curves
• Very easy to set up, with user-friendly, non-technical controls
• Stepless Space control, which smartly and smoothly combines the room model and decay time of the reverb. You can choose from over a dozen carefully designed room models and seamlessly vary between them, without hearing clicks or unwanted artifacts
• Decay Rate control, 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 to adjust the proximity to the sound source in the selected space
• The 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, affecting not only overall brightness, but also the decay of high frequencies
• Mix knob with a Lock Mix option, which prevents preset loading from overriding the current mix setting
• Predelay control via the bottom bar, ranging from 0 to 500 ms, with optional host tempo sync
• Innovative six-band Decay Rate EQ, giving you full control over the decay rate at different frequencies
• Six-band Post EQ to equalize the final reverb sound. Together with the Decay Rate EQ, this lets you design 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-ins 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

Learn more about FabFilter Pro-R.

System Requirements

Windows:

• 64-bit: Windows 10, 8, 7 or Vista
• 32-bit: Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista or XP
• VST 2/3 host or Pro Tools

macOS:

• macOS 10.10 or higher (64-bit only)
• AU or VST 2/3 host or Pro Tools
• Intel or Apple Silicon processor

Plugin Formats:

All FabFilter plug-ins are available in VST, VST3, Audio Units, AAX Native and AudioSuite formats.