

I’m getting 4% in normal mode and 9 - 10% on high quality mode with Twin 3. Again, this is an 8 note chord with just sine waves. Thats 4 oscillators on Twin 3 and 3 wavetable Oscillators or 7 analog style oscillators on Pigments. Next I’m doing the same test but with all the oscillators turned on for each synth.

Twin 3 is sitting at 4% CPU in normal quality and 7 to 8% in high quality. Next I’m trying one sine oscillator and no modulations and no effects and doing an 8 note chord. With no notes playing the Twin 3 is sitting at 1%, basically unaffecting the CPU and Pigments is sitting around 3 and 4%. I have an Intel i9 9900k processor with 32GB of RAM and I’m running it on Ableton at 256 samples and 48khz. I don’t think Pigments can do that, not sure how many other synths can. You can even have multiple keyboard modulation sources so if you want something to be effected linearly or something else to be effect logarithmically you can do that which I thought was neat. 6 LFOs, 6 Envelopes, and a handful of other parameters. In total I was able to add about 30 I believe. Oh, almost forgot to mention modulation sources. I think just the ease of the interface is worth check it out. It has a familiar intuitive Fabfilter workflow so if you’ve used literally any of their other plug-ins this works the same. I didn’t ever mess around with Twin 2 but I am liking what I’m hearing out of Twin 3. 4 multi mode filters that can be ran in serial, parallel, or one per oscillator, can also be panned. 4 analog style oscillators (that can be panned). I’ve been messing around with the demo and truthfully it’s a fairly basic synth.
SOUND DESIGN FABFILTER TWIN 2 SOFTWARE
I know we don’t talk much about VSTs here but I figured this deserved it’s own thread as Fabfilter are leaders in the software business.
