Fab Filter Saturn!

On my wishlist but haven't tried it yet.

It is indeed a honey...as is everything FF makes.

I'm slowly remixing a project that I've done over a 2 year span where almost every song used different plugins and daws, but using the Fab Filter Q,C,Saturn and L are really starting to make them sound like a collection. With Saturn you can simply raise or lower the presence fader and quickly adjust on the fly. Great for saturation as well as eq tweaks.

Sales do happen, Dan, just not often. There was one this past July and might be another around Christmas. If you can't wait, you can always get a 10% discount off single plugins by letting any existing FF customer send you a referral. PM me, or yorolpal, or cclarry or bapu or anybody else in the FF fan club and we'll send you a referral email with a link to your discount.
 
Saturn is indeed a lot of fun. It's a tape saturation emu, it's an amp sim, it's a dynamics processor, it's a harmonic exciter. It can add a gentle sheen or mangle sound beyond recognition. I use it primarily on bass and vocals, but it's certainly not limited to those applications.
 
As an amp sim, there are, IMO, better solutions. Scuffham, Vandal, Guitar Rig are all better amp sims than Saturn. As a tape emulation, there are more accurate simulations (u-He's Satin looks like it'll be the new gold standard). As a harmonic exciter, Ozone is better at that than Saturn. But only Saturn does it all. It's the one I reach for first, even if it doesn't always work out. Saturn is also the friendliest to the CPU, so I don't worry about using it on more than one track at a time.
 
Probably the coolest feature is the ability to modulate any parameter. This takes some time to wrap your head around, since modulation isn't something we're accustomed to using with distortion effects. But picture an envelope generator tied to the distortion amount, so that the percentage of distortion is higher during the instrument's initial attack, as occurs with natural distortion.

dcumpian
I watched the demos for Pro-Q and Pro-C and was impressed by how he was able to zero in on what he wanted to change. All EQ's should show spectrum this way. Now, if only there was a nice sale...
 
Regards,
Dan
 

Sales happen once or twice a year, but they are for bundles only, and always have been for 25% off.  Expect the next one before the Christmas holidays.  FF recently had a 50% off sale for the individual plug-in Timeless 2, but that sort of thing is not their usual operating procedure.

I have Pro-Q,C,L and Saturn. I bought C off of KVR for $90 and then I really got the Pro-Q bug. Long story short...I sold a Fender Twin and bought Q and L and then Fab Filter had the Summer sale. They gave me a $75 credit so I bought Saturn.
They are the best plugins I've ever used. I still have a hard time getting Pro-L to  sound as good as the free LimiterNo.6, but it has so many options and settings I'm pretty sure it's me screwing it up. Bitflipper was right when he told me the compressor lust would stop. I haven't used anything other than Pro-C since I got it. I haven't used anything other than any of the Fab Filter plugs (except LimiterNo.6) come to think about it. They are a lot of fun to work with. 
 

when I tested the FF PRO plugs (eq, comp, limiter, etc.) recently I ended up buying the total bundle
 
love the PRO plugs & Saturn; still need to get more into all the timeless options that I haven't had before in a delay plug
 
i even bought the soft synths (as they came with the bundle for little extra) despite owning too many already ... but the FF GUIs are so well designed and really intuitive, so it's real fun t mess with all of it
 
two thumbs up for FF