FabFilter Releases Saturn Distortion and Saturation Plugin
FabFilter is an Amsterdam-based plugin company that is world renowned for their popular Pro-series plugins including compression and EQ. Their latest endeavor is the Saturn plugin which implements an experimental multi-band distortion feature to get a wide variety of distortion and saturation effects from standard tube to the unexpected.
Saturn plans to make our music bigger than ever. Pluto is still bitter.
Saturn is available today for $174 MSRP or $429 in their Creative Bundle, which includes FabFilter’s Saturn, Timeless 2, Volcano 2 and Twin 2 plugins. The plugin works with Mac OS X and Windows operating systems in AU, VST, VST 3, RTAS and yes – even AAX formats. Continue reading for more mouth-watering details from FabFilter:
“A crush on music
Distortion and saturation play a very important role in music production. From subtle, clean and warm tube or tape saturation to the wildest multi-band guitar amp effects: FabFilter Saturn delivers!
Warmth, harmonics, color and dynamics
FabFilter Saturn offers a range of different high quality distortion models, inspired by the vintage sound of tubes, tape and guitar amps. In addition, you also get three creative distortion styles, with which you can smudge, stretch, crush, rectify and clip your sounds in weird and unexpected ways.
With its multi-band design and per-band feedback, dynamics, drive, tone and modulation options, Saturn will bring a unique flavor to your music.
Bring your sounds to life
Using Saturn’s extensive modulation section, you can really bring life and depth to your music. By applying subtle modulation to crossover frequencies, dynamics, band levels or tone controls, great warmth and definition can be achieved.
With all the XLFOs, EGs, XY controllers, envelope followers and MIDI sources you will ever need, you get practically unlimited modulation possibilities. Creating new modulation connections could not be easier: just drag and drop.
FabFilter goodies
Finally, FabFilter Saturn contains all the usual FabFilter goodies: perfectly tuned knobs, MIDI Learn, Smart Parameter Interpolation for smooth parameter transitions, extensive help with interactive help hints, AltiVec and SSE optimization, and much more!
Key features
- Sixteen different distortion styles, from subtle saturation to heavy guitar amps and bit crushing
- Multi-band processing (up to 6 bands)
- Per-band drive, mix, feedback, dynamics, tone and level controls
- Optional HQ mode (8x oversampling)
- Mid/side processing
- Over 150 presets
- Interactive multi-band display
- Easy-to-use interface, using our innovative what-you-use-is-what-you-see concept
- Endless modulation options, with all the 16-step XLFOs, XY controllers, envelope generators, envelope followers and MIDI sources you will ever need
- Normal and wide interface layouts, with an option to show or hide the modulation section at the bottom
- Easy drag-and-drop modulation with 50-slot modulation matrix
- Modulation source signal visualization
- Interactive MIDI Learn
- Unique per-component presets
- Smart Parameter Interpolation
- Extensive help file with interactive help hints
- Undo, redo and A/B switch features
- Available in AU, VST, VST 3, AAX and RTAS formats for Mac OS X and Windows”
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