Filter fans are set to erupt as FabFilter launches the redesigned Volcano 3 plugin

 

After having updated its Timeless delay plugin to version 3 this year, FabFilter has now returned to another old favourite. Volcano 3 is – as its name so succinctly suggests – the third version of Volcano, the company’s rather excellent filter plugin.

 

New interface, more filter types and a tweaked feature set.

 

Users of Volcano 2 and Volcano 1 will immediately notice the redesigned interface, which promises to improve the visualisation of your audio and modulation signals.

 

In addition, there are new filter – in addition to the High-, Low-, and Band-Pass types-vintage-style Bell, High/Low Shelf, Notch, and All-Pass modes as well. Each filter (you can use up to four simultaneously) also gets its own variable saturation circuit, along with a 6dB/octave slope option, and independent volume and pan controls, and includes many of other tweaks.

 

Features

  • Up to four simultaneous filters, each drawing on an extensive range of modes and styles for an infinite palette of coloration
  • Wide variety of parallel, serial, and hybrid routing schemes in Stereo, L/R, and M/S modes
  • Fully redesigned, highly streamlined interface
  • Rebuilt filter control panel, including selection and adjustment of multiple filters at once, integrated spectrum analyzer, and optional piano display
  • Even better sounding filter algorithms
  • Independent Drive control for each filter
  • Vintage-style Bell, High/Low Shelf, Notch, and All-Pass filter modes, and extra 6 dB/octave slope option
  • Per-filter level and pan controls
  • Endless modulation options, with as many 16-step XLFOs, XY controllers, envelope generators, envelope followers, and MIDI sources as desired
  • New real-time modulation visualization of both targets and sources, and floating slot panels on all targets
  • High Quality (4x oversampling) mode
  • Curve shaping of Attack, Decay, and Release Envelope Generator stages
  • Envelope Follower transient detection mode
  • Resizable interface with full-screen mode
  • Carefully designed and curated factory presets, plus support for earlier Volcano presets
  • All the usual features FabFilter users have come to expect: perfectly fine-tuned knobs and controllers, interactive MIDI Learn, undo/redo and A/B switch, Smart Parameter Interpolation for smooth parameter transitions, an extensive help file with interactive help hints, sample accurate automation, SSE optimization, and more.

Find out more on the FabFilter website.

The desktop version runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU formats and is available now – you can also download a 30-day trial. It costs $129/£94/€109 – existing users should log in to their accounts to see their upgrade discount offers. iOS users will like the AUv3 plugin version that is available on the Apple App Store.


New Editors for Roland MC-707, MC-101 Grooveboxes

 

Developer Momo Müller has released MIDI editors for the Roland MC-707 and MC-101 Grooveboxes.

The Editors are designed to give you have direct access to many parameters and to let you select / start scenes and clips directly.

You can also use the plug-in versions to record controller movements in your DAW.

Features:

  • Select / start the Scenes and Clips directly from Editor.
  • Complex sound changes can be made easily and quickly.
  • Direct access to the sound parameters
  • All controllers can be automated.
  • X-Y modulation of all parameters
  • All Scatter variants can be started from the Editor.
  • You can use your MC-707 and MC-101 as a sound module in your DAW


You can preview the MC-707 editor and MC-101 editor via the videos above.

The Editors are available for PC as VST / Standalone 32/64 bit and for MAC as VST / AU / Standalone 64 bit and MAC-M1. The Roland MC-707 and MC-101 Editors are available now for € 6,90/ $ 7.90.

Baby Audio Magic Dice is a free VST plugin that delivers endless spaced-out reverb/echo effects with a single click

 

 

Baby Audio Spaced Out plugin is a superb reverb and echo processor that can deliver wildly creative results, billed as ‘a Space Echo for the 21st century’.  And now you can have all of its processing goodness in a free plugin, Magic Dice, which generates random atmospheres with a single click.

 

One of Spaced Out’s strengths is its simplicity, but Magic Dice is even easier to use. Simply click the dice and it gets to work – if you do not like what you hear, all you have to do is just continue clicking until you do. There are endless combinations and you will never get exactly the same result twice.

 

Though you can’t tweak any parameters, behind the scenes you are getting access to the same reverb/delay/modulation processors as you will find in Spaced Out. Expect to hear everything from hazy space echoes to lush reverbs and out-there modulation effects.

 

Magic Dice is the successor to Magic Switch, Baby Audio’s previous freebie, which offers one-click ‘80s style chorus effects. This will remain available.

 

Magic Dice is available for PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats.

 

You can download Magic Dice now on the Baby Audio website.