FabFilter Saturn 2

Live musician here, bassist, been playing thru Loopy Pro on older iPad and SSL+ audio interface for a year and a half with zero hiccups. Searching for ideal plugins to mimic pedals is a big part of the challenge and while delays, compressors, audio shredders are aplenty, a real thick nasty envelope filterish distortion has been almost impossible to find until putting this into the chain. Coupled with a phaser plugin from AudioDamage with zero adjustments and it was just nasty. Really really nasty like how can an iPad be pumping that noise out. Sound engineer at both performances with it were blown away. What more could a bassist want? In terms of being an expensive IOS purchase I’ve easily spent a couple thousand on real pedals over the years that this $20ish plugin trounces so yeah… Thanks Fabfilter people, that much closer to the complete tone!!

I love how you can oversample to make the saturation more realistic. Especially when you can alter the panning of the distortion to be Mid/Side. When I do that while simulating a guitar amp, it makes the Amp sound more 3D compared to the other guitar amp apps. I love how realistic it is when you turn the dynamic knob up to simulate the noise of an amp. It really does sound like the noise of an amp if you alter the right bandwidths, but please add the option of lowering the noise, or even completely taking the noise out while still keeping the detail and sustain of the dynamics. That would be better than using a noise gate and losing some quality in the sound. Please add this feature, because after discovering that I can mimic the sound of a Fender Dual Showman Amp or a Fender Bassman ‘59 Amp, I don’t use Amplitube anymore. I even mimicked a Marshall amp with the plexiglass amp setting it has in the presets. I’ve been playing the guitar almost everyday these past couple weeks after discovering how good the guitar amp feature can be. You just have to do some eq and add some good IR reverb then you got a solid amp and cabinet simulation with this plugin. It’s so realistic, but please add the option of lowering and completely taking out the noise. That would make this sound like it’s hooked up to a futuristic noise gate pedal that keeps all the amp details in tact.

This app is amazing on so many levels. My music sounds 10 times better with this plugin alone..I add it to every channel..don’t waste your time reading the reviews...just buy it...you won’t be disappointed