This is incredibly frustrating for a musician who basically knows how to use the programs,and is also up-skilling with newer plugins suites. Now, I really think I should have stayed on my older 10.9.5 OSX. I had read of several people, who are running DAWs etc, that they were happy with this update to OSX. I finally thought yesterday that by now, surely, the initial bugs would be sorted out. The 'install' sessions also seem to have wiped my Kontakt settings, ( i tried opening Kontakt in stand-alone) and is asking that I 'activate' Kontakt etc etc.īasically, at this point, it has completely disfigured my entire iMac setup, to the point where my Trackpad won't function as it should, the system is not recognising my Apple ID / password, and the list goes on.Īt least I do have the name and contact details for the Support Tech person, so I can try to call him today to see what can be done.Īfter having read about other people having problems in these and other forums, searches etc, I was not going to install El Capitan. It has actually, on the 3rd attempt, installed per se, but has completely wiped out my entire LPX content etc, and automatically went to download the content when I initially tried to launch LPX. Without wasting space here, suffice to say that afyer an entire day / evening, and several Apple Support 'chat' sessions, as well as a long phone-support session, which was handled by their 'expert' section, El Capitan is still not fully installing. With a stonking sound and incredible flexibility, Volcano 2 is a must for anyone seeking a characterful all-in-one filter solution.Yesterday I spent 9 hours (maybe more) attempting to install El Capitan. Thankfully, with FabFilter's famously tasty filter algorithms under the hood, the sound is as slick as the graphics, and the broad range of options only sweetens the deal. Overall, Volcano's interface works beautifully, making it a snap to create anything from simple roll-offs to complex rhythmic effects and textures. Similarly, overdriving the filters can create distortion, and the envelope follower can be used to achieve compression. For example, every filter has a Delay setting ranging from 0-50ms - by modulating this, chorus and flanging can be achieved. Each modulator can be routed to one or more parameters by dragging and dropping, and each connection has its own slot in which you can manage the source, destination and polarity of the modulation.īy applying a little know-how (or using the supplied presets), you can also go far beyond the usual resonant filter sweeps. XLFOs can have up to 16 steps, with global and per-step glide settings, and each step can use a Sine, Linear or one of two Square curves.Īll this offers much more control than the original's LFOs, which couldn't manage a sine LFO. Volcano 2 displays the modulators on a scrolling panel, and it's possible to have up to six envelope generators, four envelope followers and six LFOs - or as Volcano 2 calls them, XLFOs. However, rather than being given a fixed number of modulators, you can add or remove them as you see fit. The host-syncable modulation system is superficially similar to that of FabFilter's Twin synth. The filters can be linked so that adjusting or modulating the cutoff frequency or resonance of one affects any others it's linked to - useful when creating stereo effects. The last of these modes is pretty unusual for a filter plug-in, providing great potential for stereo image manipulation.
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