If you’re already competent with FabFilter’s approach to modulation… well then you’re good to go. Here you’ll find all sorts of envelope generators, X/Y pads and more. I’d also bring your attention to 3 mixing-style presets that I seriously love:Īll the FabFilter plugins have a fairly similar modulation interface that sits below the primary window. Now lets try thickening up this sub, very slightly with some gentle saturation, and also using a high band and lowering the gain to cut out the highs (rather than needing to do this with an EQ) 220, 250, whatever your pleasure! You can draw the bands as wide or as narrow as you like. Here we’ll use Saturn to add some distortion to the snare, to make it crunch in just the right place. It’s also a useful mixing tool, for adding a touch of grit to make things sparkle a bit more. Saturn (and distortion in general) isn’t just for highly destructive sounds. You’ll just love some of the glitchy sounds that come out of this! Go to the ‘sequenced’ category, press record to resample, and then just click through the presets on the beat! So load up a drum loop, send it through saturn. Of particular note are some of the wacky sounds in the ‘sequenced’ category.
I’m a fan of making things from scratch, but FabFilter has some kind of smart-interpolation technology which makes it super smooth at transitioning between presets. Tip 3: Preset hopping & resampling with ‘Sequence’ bank I like this because when you’re done, you have one knob that does a bunch of stuff, and could be easily saved for later use on other material. when the knob is all the way up) and the divergent point (when the knob is all the way down)… this usually yields good results!Īs an additional mapping, for the sake of dynamics, you could also map Saturn’s overall dry/wet to this same macro, so that as you squash, you distort more! It takes a little bit of fine-tuning to find the right values, but I always like to think about the convergent point (i.e. Ostensibly, I’m created a knob that lets me narrow the distorted band as I move the knob up, sort of like squashing the sound and having it converge at a point. Now I’ll distort the hell out of this little band, and try a couple of different distortion modes to hear which brings out the best harmonics of my incoming signal.įor the next part I’m going to leverage macros in Ableton, but most modern DAWs should have a functional equivalent (if yours doesn’t you might want to revaluate why you’re still using it).Įssentially, we are mapping the left side of this band to move lower in the frequency spectrum when we lower the value of the knob, and doing the opposite on the right side of the band. What I basically want is one super-distorted, narrow band in the middle of my signal, so I’ll insert 2 divers in and make the mid band super narrow. Now lets take the same concept, but apply it in a more complex way! Tip 2: Make a narrow distorted band, and make a converge/diverge knob
Sweeping up and down will add cool textures and if you implement modulation stepper-style, you’ll get some interesting jagged breaks! One such application is to implement pseudo-filter sweeps by moving the crossover point – where you might normally go for a band pass or band reject filter, instead grab Saturn try making a moderately distorted or saturated band (and keep the other band mostly clean) and move the crossover point as your primary modulation source. Changes made to these crossover points can have some awesome sound-design applications. What’s so cool about Saturn is that you can modulate these crossover point you’ve drawn in straight in your DAW essentially you can control WHATS distorted HOW for the incoming signal over time.
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Create a band by hitting the plus sign, drag it to where you want it in the frequency spectrum, and then you can tune the level and the distortion type (along with the drive amount for each distortion unit) independently on each band. You can create bands in the frequency spectrum, and distort them differently. Multiband distortion is exactly as it sounds. This video is going to explore some techniques in-context that I like to use when I reach for Saturn in my workflow.
Upon first glance, Saturn might not look complicated – the FabFilter developers did a great job with functional design but under the hood there are some awesome less obvious features in this little window. Saturn it’s one of my favorite plugins and there’s a TON you can do with it. If you’ve never heard of Saturn, or Fabfilter, you can get a demo of this saturation VST plugin here.
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