FabFilter Twin 3 4+

Powerful synthesizer plug-in

FabFilter

    • 4.6 • 37 Ratings
    • $16.99

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Description

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Compatible with AUv3 host apps such as GarageBand, Auria, AUM, Cubasis and n-Track Pro.

Since its first release in 2005, FabFilter Twin has been famous for its filter quality and oscillator sound. FabFilter Twin 3 expands and improves on its predecessors in every area, including a complete redesign of the GUI and workflow, more and better oscillators and filters, a radically powered-up modulation system, an all-new FX section, and much more. Sonically versatile, supremely intuitive, and spectacularly ‘analog’, Twin 3 is a dream instrument for creating synth sounds of all kinds, from basses, leads, and pads to plucks, drums, effects, and beyond.

The Twin 3 app lets you play via the on-screen keyboard or a MIDI keyboard connected to your iPad. To use Twin 3 as a plug-in, you need an AUv3-compatible host app like Auria, AUM or Cubasis. Twin 3 will appear in the list of Audio Unit extensions for instrument plug-ins in the host app.

Key features:

- Virtual analog synth featuring four flexible oscillators, four filters, six FX modules, and a vast modulation system with a wealth of flexible source signal generators, drag and drop source/target routing, and no limit to the number of modulation assignments that can be made
- Fully redesigned, greatly simplified interface with easier workflow
- Completely overhauled modulation system with redesigned modulation sources, and floating slot and
FX panels
- All-new FX section, housing Reverb, Delay, Chorus, Phaser, Drive, and Compressor modules
- Arpeggiator with Groove/Legato controls, note order, latch options, and more
- Full-featured preset browser, with tags, favorites, and search and filter functions, and new factory preset
library
- Per Oscillator polyphony mode: each incoming note triggers a different oscillator
- Bell, Shelf, and Notch vintage-style EQ filter shapes
- 6dB/octave filter slope option
- Modulatable filter Cutoff/Peak Offset knobs knobs, for adjusting all filters at once
- High Quality mode — 4x oversampling
- Transient mode turns Envelope Followers into transient detectors
- Curve adjustment handles for EG Attack, Decay, and Release stages
- Slider mode (vertical-only operation) and Range setting (toggles between bipolar and unipolar behavior)
for XY controllers
- Hide all modulation sources except for XY controllers and Sliders at a click
- Native sustain pedal support
- Even better oscillator and filter sound quality, with analog-modelled drift
- Maximum number of voices doubled from 32 to 64
- Lower minimum Envelope Generator Attack, Decay, and Release times
- Maximum number of XY controllers/Sliders increased to six
- Envelope Generator Threshold, XLFO Balance, and Frequency Offset made available as
modulation targets
- Modulation sources can be renamed
- Maximum number of modulation slots increased to 100
- Legato mode for MIDI-triggered XLFO
- Range options added to MIDI Sources: Negative (-1 to 0), Centered (-1 to 1), and Positive (0 to 1)
- Carefully designed and curated factory presets, plus the ability to save your own presets
- Undo/redo and A/B comparison

"FabFilter Twin is one of the best virtual analogues we've heard so far, and at this price point it's well worth the investment!"
— Computer Music

"Once I found FabFilter Twin, I immediately noticed how great it works and how amazing it sounds!"
— George Morel

What’s New

Version 3.03

- Added Show Source Flow option, available via the Add Source '+' button menu.
- Added Auto-Collapse Sources option, available via the Add Source '+' button menu. When enabled, expanding one source interface will automatically collapse the others (the default behavior). When disabled, multiple source interfaces can be expanded at the same time.
- Added Export Preset Folder command to the preset options menu that enables you to export the entire preset folder, so you can load these presets on Mac or Windows.
- You can now play the on-screen keyboard while the preset browser is open without closing it, so you can try presets while browsing.
- Fixed a bug which caused the main Frequency Offset parameter to be ignored for filters with panning and non-modulated Filter Frequency.
- The Arpeggiator Lock parameter is now always disabled for new instances of the plug-in.
- Fixed bug in the preset browser that made it impossible to use with an Apple Pencil.
- Minor fixes and improvements.

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
37 Ratings

37 Ratings

EarthisInteresting ,

Runs efficiently... even on a 2015 iPad Mini 2

We have about 6 iOS devices in our studio - and the Mini 2 is the oldest in the bunch, with 2GB of RAM (Less than a base spec iPhone 6s we have). Apple products become more worthwhile to owners as they age, because Apple actually has done pretty well with the depreciative value of their devices over the years. Especially with the integrative modular workflow these devices have - there’s really no reason not to have a ton of them to play around with in-studio.

So with that introduction, Twin 3 works amazingly well on our older devices - and that’s the kind of backward-compatability investment Fabfilter has. Many old iOS apps aren’t aging that well or get stuck in “desperate need of update\eternal Inter-App Audio” mode, a la NAVE, which is an incredibly sophisticated wavetable synth that still operates quite well with no updates for a long time. Some of its brethren are not so lucky.

For sure, there is framerate fluctuation on older devices, but the functionality is all there, and that makes Twin 3 a great multi-instance app - truly lightweight and timeless design. Fabfilter is aware of their customers and the types of setups they have. would recommend this synth to anyone.

JRSIV1975 ,

Another FabFilter classic. If you hear a sound in your head, this synth can bring it to reality.

One of the benefits of the Auria Pro DAW app early on in iOS music production was the IAP FabFilter apps that were available in the Auria store for purchase. But included with each Auria purchase was the FabFilter Twin 2 synth. When FabFilter released their plugins on the App Store in AUv3 format the Twin 2 synth wasn’t included. Now the waiting is over with Twin 3. It’s everything that made Twin 2 so special and then some. The gorgeous user interface is pure FabFilter, everything is laid out logically and is easy to operate. You can modulate modulations man, it’s deeep. Don’t sleep on Twin 3, this is a serious electronic musical instrument.

Rudabug ,

Possibly the best Synth on IOS.

FabFilter is just top of the line in every way. This synth makes you want to play it. It’s professional but still just so much fun. The interface is super clean and very easy to use, and the sounds and ways you can shape them are PHENOMENAL. BUY IT

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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