From subtle warmth to wild sonic mangling, Saturn 2 is your one-stop distortion and saturation plugin.
New and Improved: Experience a complete redesign in Saturn 2. The interface now features modulation visualization for clear feedback on your sonic sculpting process. Mastering engineers will appreciate new subtle saturation and linear phase processing options. A plethora of fresh distortion styles keeps your creative palette full.
Warmth, Grit, and Everything In Between: Saturn 2 delivers a wide range of high-quality distortion models. Emulate the vintage sounds of tubes, tape, transformers, and guitar amps, or explore five unique FX distortion styles for truly unconventional sonic manipulation.
Multiband Magic: Take control with Saturn 2's multiband architecture. Per-band options for feedback, dynamics, drive, tone, and modulation allow you to sculpt the character of each frequency range independently. Infuse your audio with richness and depth, tailored to your sonic vision.
Breathe Life into Your Sound: The extensive modulation section in Saturn 2 unlocks a world of creative possibilities. Apply subtle modulation to crossover frequencies, dynamics, band levels, or tone controls to introduce warmth, movement, and definition.
Unleash Your Creativity: With a comprehensive selection of XLFOs, EGs, XY controllers, envelope followers, and MIDI sources, Saturn 2 offers practically limitless modulation possibilities. Drag-and-drop functionality makes creating new modulation connections effortless. Real-time modulation visualization ensures you're always in control of your sonic sculpting.
The FabFilter Touch: As always, FabFilter equips Saturn 2 with their signature user-friendly features. Expect smooth parameter adjustments with perfectly tuned knobs, seamless MIDI Learn integration, natural-sounding transitions with Smart Parameter Interpolation, and more. Extensive help with interactive hints, GPU acceleration, and wide format compatibility ensure a smooth and efficient workflow.
Saturn 2: The ultimate distortion and saturation plugin for audacious sonic exploration and detailed audio sculpting.
Features
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IMPROVED - 28 different distortion styles, from subtle tube saturation to heavy guitar amps and bit crushing
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IMPROVED - Multiband processing (up to 6 bands), with optional linear phase processing
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NEW - Adjustable slope for the crossovers, offering 6, 12, 24 and 48 dB/oct options
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Per-band drive, mix, feedback, dynamics, tone and level controls
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NEW - Live modulation visualization for targets and sources
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Easy drag-and-drop modulation with 50-slot modulation matrix
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NEW - Supports common Pro Tools hardware control surfaces
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Mid/side processing
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NEW - Various interface sizes and Full Screen mode
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GPU-powered graphics acceleration
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Unique per-component presets
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Interactive MIDI Learn
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IMPROVED - Optional HQ modes: Good (8x oversampling) and Superb (32x oversampling)
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NEW - Fully redesigned, easy-to-use interface, including a new design of modulation sources and floating slot panel
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Interactive multiband display
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IMPROVED - Endless modulation options, with all the 16-step XLFOs, XY controllers/sliders, envelope generators, envelope followers, and MIDI sources you will ever need
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NEW - Curve control in EGs and transient detection in EFs
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IMPROVED - Carefully designed and curated Factory Presets, plus support of V1 presets
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Per-band solo and mute options
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Smart Parameter Interpolation
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Extensive help file with interactive help hints
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Undo, redo and A/B switch features
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Available in VST, VST3, Audio Units, AAX Native and AudioSuite formats (64-bit and 32-bit on Windows, 64-bit only on macOS)
Tech Specs
OS X 10.12 or higher
CPU: Apple Silicon or Intel processor
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AU, AAX, OTHER
Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 or Vista
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX, OTHER