User Manual

Interactive multi-band display
FabFilter Saturn 2's top section consists of a large interactive multi-band display, which makes it very easy
to create and select frequency bands and adjust their level and drive settings. At
the same time, it's also a
real-time frequency analyzer.
To add a new frequency band, simply click on the small '+' button that appears at the top of the
display when you move the mouse here. By clicking this
button, the current frequency band splits
with a crossover frequency at the current mouse
position. The new band will copy its settings from
the band that has just been split.
Simply click anywhere in a band to select it.
Click and drag on the display background to select adjacent bands by dragging a rectangle
around them.
If only one band is active, it will be selected by default and the band controls
control the settings of this
single band. Once you have
multiple frequency bands available, the display highlights the level buttons of
the selected
bands and the band controls
are linked to these bands. In the screen shot above, the middle
band is selected. In addition, the band controls will slide
underneath the selected band.
Click and drag a selected level button vertically to adjust the level setting of all selected bands. If
you have multiple bands selected, the level of all selected
bands will be adjusted with the same
relative change. Alternatively, simply use the mouse wheel while hovering anywhere above one of
the selected band. You can also double-click the level button to type the level value directly.
Ctrl-click (Windows) or Cmd-click (macOS) to reset the band level.
Hold the Alt key to adjust the drive setting of the selected bands instead, while applying one of the
above changes via dragging, mouse wheel or click.
Hold the Shift key (Ctrl in Pro Tools) to fine-tune band levels or drive while applying changes via
dragging or using the mouse wheel.
To change a crossover frequency, click and drag the vertical crossover split. Alternatively, click
and drag a level button horizontally to change the crossover frequencies
at both edges of the band.
Double-click a crossover split to type a frequency value directly.
Via the crossover slope button in the middle of a crossover split, you can choose the steepness of
crossover filtering,
ranging from a gentle 6 dB/oct to a very steep 48 dB/oct.
Tip: About everything in the display can be modulated, even the cross-over splits. Simply
drag and drop
a
modulation source to it!
Solo and mute
If you hover the mouse over the top of the display and there is more than one band, small solo and mute
buttons in the left-top corner of
each band will appear. The solo button lets you listen to a single band,
while the mute button
does the opposite and mutes the band, letting you hear all other bands. Of course,
you can solo
or mute multiple bands at the same time, just like with tracks in your DAW.
Hold down the solo or mute button to solo or mute a band only temporarily, as long as the mouse
button is pressed.
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