Tips & tricks

Fabfilter Twin has been designed to make sound designing fast, easy and fun. Here are some tips and tricks that will further help you to create a good preset and to get just that sound that you are looking for.

Drag-and-drop modulation
Obviously, the best tip we can give you, is to make use of the drag-and-drop modulation connection method. There is no need to go searching through the drop down menus for sources and targets: just drag a source icon of any modulation source directly to any knob that can be modulated to fill a modulation slot.
View current modulation settings
When you are using a lot of modulation slots, it can be very helpful to view the current modulation connections for a specific source or target. You can do so by double-clicking the source icon or target knob. The interface will dim and lines from sources, via slots, to targets will be highlighted! Also, at any time, the source icons of modulation sources that are in use, are highlighted, so you can see what type modulation is used the moment you load a preset.
Section presets
The settings for an EG, an LFO, the Filters section or the Oscillators section can be saved in section presets, to be re-used for future sound designing. FabFilter Twin comes with some general factory section presets, but we encourage you to save your own frequently used settings. Use the triangle button in a section to access its presets menu.
Knob linking
The level/pan knobs of the oscillators and the freq/pan and peak knobs of the filters can be linked. For example, just hold down the Alt key while turning the Filter 1 frequency knob; the Filter 2 frequency knob will change with it, relative to its current position.
Modulating an LFO frequency
You can modulate the frequency of an LFO with any modulation source other than itself. You could, for example, modulate the frequency with an envelope generator, which can be really cool.
Modulating a modulation slot level
FabFilter Twin lets you modulate the levels of other modulation slots. For example: use the first slot to modulate master tune with an LFO and use the second slot to modulate the first slots level with a slow envelope. This gets you a swelling vibrato. You can nest modulation in this way as deeply as you want.
Portamento
We have put a lot of effort in creating a very good portamento, because this really gives a magical feel to your play. Even adding just a little bit works great. We have also implemented a unique polyphonic portamento which enables you to play sliding chords. Try it!
Inversed keyboard track frequency modulation
When you use the keyboard track modulation source to modulate the Master Tune or Osc 2 Detune parameter, with the modulation level set to the maximum, and the slot switch to inverted, the oscillator will produce the same frequency for every note you play.
Play the self-oscillation
Our award-winning filters self-oscillate like no other digital filters. When you modulate the cut-off frequency of a filter with the keyboard track modulation source at full range, and set the filter frequency correctly with maximum peak, your filter actually becomes an oscillator and you can play notes with it!
Reduce CPU usage
To minimize CPU usage, you can disable one of the filters if you are not using it. Also, setting the level of an oscillator to 0 will disable it, and keeping Sync at 1 will minimize CPU usage for that oscillator.

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