November 28, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CONTACT:
Floris Klinkert
FabFilter Software Instruments
info@fabfilter.com
www.fabfilter.com


FabFilter updates all plug-ins, introducing AAX support

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, November 28, 2011. FabFilter has released updates for all FabFilter plug-ins, introducing support for the new AAX plug-in format in Pro Tools 10. The FabFilter Pro-L limiter now offers a new 'Compact' view, and the FabFilter Pro-Q EQ plug-in features spectrum analyzer and solo mode improvements. Furthermore, all FabFilter Pro plug-ins now support the most common Pro Tools hardware control surfaces. The updates are now available on all platforms: Windows and Mac OS X, 32-bit and 64-bit.


New features and bug fixes in FabFilter Pro-Q:

- Improved the real-time spectrum analyzer: it is now more responsive and has a smoother curve release, making it easier to visually follow the curves over time. In addition, the combined Pre+Post setting now compensates the plug-in latency correctly in Linear Phase mode.

- Improved Solo mode to transparently limit its output volume to -6 dB, avoiding undesired volume spikes at all times.

- Fixed bug that caused an artificial roll-off to 0 Hz in the real-time spectrum analyzer.

- Fixed bug when dragging multiple bands in the EQ display that could cause small round-off errors in the frequency parameter values relative to each other.

- Fixed bug that caused Solo mode to function incorrectly on per-channel bands as soon as you changed the frequency of the band while in Solo mode.


New features in FabFilter Pro-L:

- Added new Compact interface layout, which hides the animated level display. Instead, larger level meters and all advanced controls including a large Output knob are shown. To switch between interface layouts, click the resize button in the bottom-right corner of the interface.


Other new features and bug fixes:

- All FabFilter plug-ins: Added support for the new AAX plug-in format for Pro Tools 10. The AAX plug-in is 100% compatible with the RTAS plug-in: Pro Tools 10 will automatically use our new AAX plug-ins instead of the existing RTAS plug-ins when loading existing sessions.

- All FabFilter plug-ins: Improved keyboard handling on Windows, fixing the "space key stealing" problem in Studio One and FL Studio.

- All FabFilter plug-ins: Improved mouse handling behavior in Pro Tools when Cmd+Ctrl / Ctrl+Win - clicking a control to show the automation timeline.

- FabFilter Pro-Q, Pro-L, Pro-C and Pro-G: Added support for the most important Pro Tools hardware control surfaces, such as Avid ICON D-Control and D-Command. In FabFilter Pro-Q, we have added a new Flat 7 Bands factory preset that can be used as your personal default preset in combination with a control surface.

- FabFilter Pro-G and Pro-C: It is now possible to double-click the low-pass and high-pass sidechain filtering buttons to enter parameter values directly.

- FabFilter Pro-Q, Timeless 2, Twin 2, Volcano 2 and Simplon: In the AU and VST3 plug-in formats, parameters are now grouped where possible to make automation easier to overview in the host.

- FabFilter Timeless 2: Fixed a bug that caused incorrect side-chain handling in the mono-to-stereo RTAS version of the plug-in.

- FabFilter Timeless 2: Fixed bug that caused the Dry Enabled parameter always to be re-enabled when loading a version 1 preset, such as Dubby 05 bM in the Best Of folder.


The updates are free for existing FabFilter customers. Updates and 30-day trial versions can be downloaded from www.fabfilter.com/download.

System requirements on Windows are either Windows 7, Vista, XP, SSE-capable processor, and a VST 2 or VST 3 host or Pro Tools, or Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) up to OS X 10.7 (Lion), Intel or PowerPC processor, and an Audio Units host, VST 2 or VST 3 host, or Pro Tools.

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Evaluation copies available on www.fabfilter.com/download. On request, we will gladly send you an NFR license key for review purposes. Screen shots and press kits are available on www.fabfilter.com/press.

About FabFilter:

FabFilter Software Instruments was founded in 2002 by Frederik Slijkerman MSc and Floris Klinkert MSc. Both being professional software engineers as well as musicians and studio engineers, they decided to create their own software instruments because none of the available products met their high standards. Currently, the FabFilter product range consists of the Volcano 2, Timeless 2, Simplon and Micro effect plug-ins, the Twin 2 and One synthesizer plug-ins and the Pro-Q, Pro-C, Pro-G and Pro-L professional equalizer, compressor, gate/expander and limiter plug-ins. FabFilter will continue to update and expand their range of plug-ins in the future, providing the best possible sound quality and new, innovative user interfaces.
