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 4

24-band industry standard EQ.

Since its original release in 2009, FabFilter Pro-Q has become the trusted workhorse EQ plug-in for many engineers and producers around the world, widely praised for its workflow, sound quality and feature set. With version 4, FabFilter are bringing exciting new features to Pro-Q, introducing spectral dynamics, the instance list, EQ Sketch, vintage saturation and much more.

FabFilter Pro-Q 4 gives you the highest possible sound quality, a complete feature set, and a gorgeous, intelligent interface that is designed to help you get 'that' sound quickly and easily.

Mixing and mastering features

Pro-Q 4 offers everything that a demanding engineer could wish for: top-quality linear phase operation in addition to the zero latency and unique Natural Phase modes, smooth dynamic EQ, per-band mid/side processing, full surround support (up to Dolby Atmos 9.1.6), an intelligent solo feature, optional Auto Gain and a built-in, fully customizable spectrum analyzer.

Effortlessly sculpt your sound

Unique features like Spectrum Grab, Full Screen mode and EQ Match will speed up your workflow even more. Try it yourself!

FabFilter Pro-Q 4 is designed to help you achieve your sound in the quickest way possible. Via the large interactive EQ display, you can create bands where you need them, enable dynamic EQ for any band, and select and edit multiple bands at once.

FabFilter goodies

All the goodness of the Pro-Q 3 is still here: highest possible sound quality, dynamic EQ, Natural and Linear Phase processing, universal slope support for all EQ shapes, EQ match, a gorgeous, resizeable interface with full screen mode for easy and precise editing, up to 24 EQ bands, intelligent band solo mode, stereo or mid/side processing, intelligent multi-band selection and editing for maximum ease of use and efficiency, spectrum grab, GPU-powered graphics acceleration, double-click text entry of parameter values, different display ranges: 3 dB and 6 dB ranges for mastering, 12 dB and 30 dB for mixing, Pro Tools hardware control surfaces support, MIDI Learn, undo/redo and A/B comparison, and an extensive help file with interactive help hints.

New in version 4

• Usability improvements and EQ Sketch. Wondered if you could ever just draw the curves you'd like? Now you can!
• The new Instance list lets you control all instances in your session via a single plug-in interface.
• Use Spectral dynamics to treat problem frequencies more precisely and efficiently.
• Setup your mixes with one of the Character modes to add that analog, vintage feel.
• The Dynamic EQ section has been improved, with Attack and Release settings, but also optional free side-chain filtering.
• You can now choose to use fractional slope settings if you need to, e.g. a 3.5 dB/oct LP or HP filter.
• Improved dynamic EQ processing for less distortion and cleaner sound.
• Improved precision in linear phase processing.
• New All Pass filter shape.
• You can now copy and paste EQ bands or presets, also between instances or via the new instance list.
• Improved analog matching in zero latency and natural phase mode.
• Change parameters directly via the value display in the EQ controller by dragging or with the mouse wheel.
• Overall new and fresh design.

Learn more about Pro-Q 4

Pro-R 2

Give your music some space

Pro-R 2 brings a raft of new next-gen features to what was already a widely respected reverb plug-in, including comprehensive multichannel compatibility, two brand-new reverb algorithms, IR import and replication, ducking and gating functions, analog-style saturation, and much more. It is a huge technological and functional leap forward for the plug-in, and one made without any compromise to the slick workflow and stellar sound quality that Pro-R users already know and love.

Features

• Versatile, user-friendly, and sonically superlative professional reverb with three core algorithms for simulating realistic physical spaces, retro digital hardware, and electromechanical plates
• Unified room model and decay time (Space) knob, facilitating smooth transitions between reverb sizes and styles, from tiny boxes to vast arenas and everything in between
• Innovative Decay Rate EQ for incredibly precise shaping of tail frequencies over time, and six-band Post EQ for output equalization
• NEW! Full immersive audio support up to 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos, with per-band Decay Rate and Post EQ channel routing, and a dedicated panel for balancing individual reverb parameter levels between the front and back of the image
• NEW! ‘Vintage’ reverb algorithm, replicating the sound and character of early digital reverbs
• NEW! ‘Plate’ reverb algorithm, replicating the sound and character of vintage plate reverbs
• NEW! IR import function (WAV and AIFF): algorithmically recreate and manipulate the sounds of favorite impulse responses within Pro-R 2
• NEW! Ducking control for effortless separation of dry and wet signals
• NEW! Thickness control for dialing in program-dependent density and saturation
• NEW! Intelligent Auto Gate
• NEW! Freeze button for endless playback of the captured reverb buffer at the point of activation
• NEW! Full-featured preset browser, with tags, favorites, search and filter functions, and new factory preset library
• NEW! Optional piano scale in the interactive reverb display for ‘musical’ EQ frequency referencing and snapping
• NEW! Output level meters
• IMPROVED! Increased Decay Rate range (25-400%)
• IMPROVED! Mid/Side option added to Post EQ
• IMPROVED! Speakers settings added to Decay Rate and Post EQ for channel selection in immersive channel layouts
• IMPROVED! Predelay knob moved to top section

Learn more about Pro-R 2.

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 10.13 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.