FabFilter Pro-C 3

FabFilter Pro-C 3

FabFilter Pro-C 3 is a high-quality compressor plug-in for the most demanding engineers. Whether you need subtle mastering compression, an upfront lead vocal, that magic drum glue or deep EDM pumping: Pro-C 3 gets the job done with style.

Electronic Delivery

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Description

Pro-C 3 offers 14 different, program-dependent compression styles and various character modes to introduce smooth saturation, vintage color and analog drift. But there’s more! You also get full immersive / Dolby Atmos® functionality (up to 9.1.6), up to 32x oversampling, unique auto-threshold, intelligent auto-gain and auto-release, a variable knee and hold, smooth lookahead external side-chain and host tempo sync triggering, variable stereo linking and mid/side processing, all packed in a beautifully designed user interface.

The fully redesigned interface in FabFilter Pro-C 3 offers insightful metering with real-time displays that will greatly improve workflow. The large animated level/knee display visualizes exactly when, why and how compression is applied to incoming audio. Accurate level meters show the exact peak and loudness values, while the circular side-chain input meter turns finding the perfect threshold setting into a trivial task. And the large side-chain EQ controller makes it easier than ever to filter the trigger signal any way you like.

A Modular Channel Strip

Control all of your Pro-Q 4, Pro-C 3, Pro-DS and Pro-G instances in one convenient overview: the instance list in Pro-Q 4. You will discover this to be a huge time-saver, making it much easier to dial in initial settings for all plug-ins when starting your mix session.

Of course, you also get all the usual FabFilter bonus: perfectly tuned knobs, a modern preset browser to easily navigate the carefully designed factory presets, 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, advanced optimization and much more.

Features

• Fourteen different compression styles, of which six are new in version 3: Versatile, Smooth, Vari-Mu, El-Op, Upward and TTM (To The Max)
• Gorgeous Retina interface, with (optional) animated level knee displays and accurate peak/loudness metering
• Character modes: carefully designed analog saturation, coloring and drift bring Pro-C 3 to life with customizable Drive and Pre/Post-compression routing settings
• Full Screen mode, offering a large level display and side-chain EQ controller
• Introducing host tempo triggering, with customizable sync, offset and pulse length settings
• Auto Threshold: Make the threshold knob level-independent — very useful for dialog processing
• Pro-C 3 instances can now be controlled via the Instance List in Pro-Q 4, together with Pro-G and Pro-DS
• Full immersive / Dolby Atmos functionality (up to 9.1.6), with customizable channel/stereo linking
• Mix setting, which scales the gain change from 0% to 200%
• Side-chain EQ section: add or remove up to 6 bands of any shapes, including brickwall or all-pass filters, and mid- or side-only EQ’ing per band
• New-style preset browser, with easy search, tags and meta data
• Accurate, large level and gain change meters, with peak and loudness level visualization (complying with the Momentary mode of the EBU R128 / ITU-R 1770 standards)
• Up to 32x oversampling

Tech Specs

Mac

• macOS 10.13 or higher (64-bit only)
• AU, VST 2/3 or CLAP host, or Pro Tools
• Apple Silicon or Intel processor

Windows

• Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 or Vista
• 64-bit or 32-bit
• VST 2/3 or CLAP host, or Pro Tools

Formats

All FabFilter plug-ins are available in VST, VST3, Audio Units, CLAP, AAX Native and AudioSuite formats.