![]() SummaryĪt the risk of repeating ourselves (ahem), everything we said about the original Timeless still stands. ![]() Therefore, you could, for example, apply a stronger delay effect to the side part of the signal while keeping the centrally panned information relatively dry.Īnd, in case you're wondering, mid/side processing comes from the technique of mid/side recording, which uses a cardioid mic to record the centre channel, and a mic with a figure-of-eight pickup pattern to capture the side information. This routes the mid (mono) and side (stereo) elements to separate delay lines, enabling you to treat them individually, before they're converted back to a conventional stereo signal. However, there's another mode, offering the increasingly popular mid/side arrangement. Normally, you'll want to use Timeless 2 in the traditional 'Left/Right' mode, which enables two discrete channels of operation, each of which is pumped out of the appropriate output. From subtle ADT to swirling echoes, there's a lot of power offered here. Each source is represented as a button in the middle bar and a click scrolls the relevant mod source at the bottom of the interface into view.Īs for hooking up sources to destinations, FabFilter's brilliant click-and-drag modulation routing and MIDI learn are still in place, making this one seriously malleable processor. There's a quartet of envelope followers, too. So that's four more LFOs than last time and five more envelopes. One window alone can't contain this expandable plug-in, but rather than offering tabbed pages, Timeless 2's parameters are presented in a single, scrollable view, which is a good thing, considering that there are now six LFOs (newly fortified with 16 steps) and six envelopes, not to mention four X/Y pads. "There are four more LFOs than last time and five more envelopes." It's a blast locking on to a snippet of audio and cranking the delay time way up for some bizarre pitchbending madness, courtesy of Timeless's tape delay emulation. The delays themselves now offer a Freeze Buffer, which can be used to store a bit of incoming audio, playing it back continually while you manhandle the speed, filter settings and suchlike. However, a click of these reveals a much more detailed filter section - indicative of FabFilter's interface ethos. Basic editing of the filter's parameters is carried out from the main window via a pair of interactive filter response displays. ![]() The architecture is familiar, with two discrete signal paths (L/R stereo or mid/side - more on these later), with independent control over each, such as different filter modes per side. There's a PDF manual and built-in mouse-over help, too. It's a downloadable product with non-intrusive keyfile copy protection. The effect remains a cross-platform VST, AU and RTAS plug-in, and FabFilter even offers a PC VST3 version. Everything that earned Timeless high marks back then is still in place.
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