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FabFilter Software Instruments was founded in 2002 by Frederik Slijkerman MSc and Floris Klinkert MSc, and is based in the center of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In their roles as professional musicians and studio engineers, they have always loved the sound of old analog gear but also kept up with new software synthesis developments.
However, none of the available software instruments met their high quality standards or suited their needs. Most software instrument companies just tried to emulate old analog gear, giving their plugins vintage-look interfaces, or just added tons of features like thousand-voice polyphony and crappy effects, using as many knobs and faders as possible, diverting you from the most important point: the sound.
Both also being professional software engineers, Frederik Slijkerman and Floris Klinkert decided to do things differently and created the software instruments they dreamed of themselves, resulting in the release of the FabFilter One synthesizer in early 2004. To accomplish their goals, a lot of effort has been put into developing highly advanced filter techniques, smart parameter interpolation algorithms and a superb digital oscillator.
FabFilter strongly believes that musicians do not just need more knobs, faders or options on their synthesizer or effect plug-ins: they need better sound quality and better interfaces to start with. That's why FabFilter creates simple but powerful plugins, with a user-friendly interface and superb sound quality, for a reasonable price.
At the moment, FabFilter offers FabFilter One, FabFilter Volcano, Fabfilter Twin, FabFilter Timeless and FabFilter Simplon. FabFilter will keep expanding their range of plug-ins in the future, supporting both Windows and Mac OS X platforms, providing the best ever sound quality, filter designs and user interfaces. We hope that you will enjoy our products and please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions.
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