FabFilter Pro-C 3 Compressor Plug-in - Upgrade (Download)

About: FabFilter Pro-C 3 Compressor Plug-in - Upgrade (Download)

NOTE: This is an upgrade to Pro-C 3 for owners of Pro-C 2.

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.

Everything you need

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.

Beautiful interface and optimized workflow

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.

FabFilter goodies

Of course, you also get all the usual FabFilter goodies: 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.

Instance List - 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.

Character and coloration - Drive your sound

The new character panel brings Pro-C 3 to life through carefully designed analog saturation, coloring and drift, including customizable drive and pre/post-compression routing settings.

Pro-C 3's style and character options let you combine a wide range of compressor flavors with different types of analog coloring. With Pro-C 3, you don't just get one compressor, you get dozens!

Side Chain - In-depth side chaining

Add up to 6 EQ bands with all shapes from Pro-Q 4, including all-pass and brickwall filters. Optionally, bands can only target the mid- or side signal.

You can also choose to let the compressor trigger on the external side chain signal, MIDI or to a host-tempo-synched pulse.

Last but not least, Pro-C 3 offers variable channel linking, including M/S processing.

Features

• IMPROVED Fourteen different compression styles, of which six are new in version 3: Versatile, Smooth, Vari-Mu, El-Op, Upward and TTM (To The Max)
• IMPROVED Gorgeous Retina interface, with (optional) animated level knee displays and accurate peak/loudness metering
• NEW 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
• NEW Introducing host tempo triggering, with customizable sync, offset and pulse length settings
• NEW Auto Threshold: Make the threshold knob level-independent — very useful for dialog processing
• NEW Pro-C 3 instances can now be controlled via the Instance List in Pro-Q 4, together with Pro-G and Pro-DS
• NEW 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%
• IMPROVED 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 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)
• IMPROVED Up to 32x oversampling
• Program-dependent attack and release curves
• IMPROVED Smooth lookahead (optional, up to 20 ms), now with a customizable maximum between 0 and 20 ms, to finetune latency versus needed lookahead
• Retina support on macOS and High DPI support on Windows
• Intelligent Auto Gain
• External side chain triggering
• Hold (up to 500 ms)
• GPU-powered graphics acceleration
• Custom knee, variable from hard knee to a 72 dB soft knee (to enable saturation-like effects)
• Auto Release
• IMPROVED Optional MIDI triggering
• Super-fast attack times
• Supports common Pro Tools hardware control surfaces
• MIDI Learn
• Variable stereo linking and mid/side processing, with mid-only, side-only, Mid-to-side and Side-to-Mid processing
• Range setting, which limits the maximum applied gain change
• Undo/redo and A/B comparison
• Audition Triggering option, which enables users to hear on which parts of the audio Pro-C 3 is triggering and how much compression is taking place
• Smart Parameter Interpolation
• IMPROVED Multiple interface sizes: Compact, Small, Medium and Large
• Sample-accurate automation of all parameters
• Extensive help file with interactive help hints
• Available in VST, VST3, Audio Units, CLAP, AAX Native and AudioSuite formats (all both 64-bit and 32-bit)

Specifications

• 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