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Caelum Audio Flux Professional assessment
Caelum Audio Flux Professional: What’s it?
In the event you’ve used our very personal Flux Mini CM plugin then you definitely’ll already be fairly conversant in Caelum Audio’s graph-based modulation system. It will get a giant improve with the corporate’s newest plugin, Flux Professional (VST3, AU, AAX and iOS).
It’s a brand new multi-effects modulation plugin with ten modulation results unfold throughout 4 results slots. There are three user-configurable and editable modulation curves (A, B and C), a financial institution of 48 drag-and-drop preset curve shapes and a slick new interface with frequency analyser. You’ve additionally obtained 115 categorised presets to get you began.
Specs
System necessities:
macOS 10.11 or increased. AU, VST3, AAX (64bit solely).
Home windows 7 or increased. VST3, AAX (AAX is 64bit solely).
iOS 11 or increased. Standalone and AUv3.
Purchase from Plugin Boutique (opens in new tab) or Caelum Audio (opens in new tab)
Additional options embody management voltage graph output to ship to exterior {hardware} and MIDI CC output of the graph information to regulate different plugins, though as ever with inside MIDI communication, options are considerably DAW dependent.
Flux Professional has a typical array of results together with two filters, two delays, phaser, refrain/flanger, width and ring modulation. You’ve additionally obtained a utility module that features pan and acquire. The interface shows two of the 4 modules at anyone time, and they are often reordered to style utilizing drag and drop. Under every module parameter, you’ll discover a modulation depth slider (+/-100%) and this may apply whichever curve (A, B or C) is chosen within the backside left-hand nook. All three curves can management every parameter concurrently and including modulation depth additionally creates colour-coded halos across the parameter knob. It’s a very easy and clear scheme and means you may simply glean which parameters are being managed and by which curve.
Caelum Audio Flux Professional: Efficiency and verdict
Flux Professional’s 48 preset modulation curves cowl plenty of floor and, with each tempo sync and free frequency choices, chances are you’ll not really feel the necessity to really edit these curves in any respect. Nevertheless, Flux Professional has highly effective options to edit and in addition save your personal curves, and that is extraordinarily effectively applied. Merely dive in utilizing your cursor to make modifications, double-clicking so as to add nodes. There’s additionally an adjustable snap grid, floating toolbar and general graph modifier choices (shorten, prolong and clear) to assist make the entire course of as slick as doable. In the event you do wish to save your curve merely choose the Consumer financial institution and click on on the ‘+’ icon.
For a extra harmful vibe, Ring Modulation and Charge Modulation serve up all method of fuzz and crunch
We actually just like the breadth of results included. You could have 20 filter kinds together with some flavoursome ladder varieties with Drive and three Formant choices. In the meantime with Glide, Feedforward and Suggestions, the principle Delay can conjure some tasty results. There’s additionally the less complicated second Delay module, which is a non-feedback design with delay time mapped to one of many curves. This extra centered design creates some implausible time-bending sounds.
In the meantime, the Width impact, which augments its width possibility with Haas and Shuffle parameters, can also be nice for each refined and excessive wobble results. For a extra harmful vibe, each Ring Modulation and Charge Modulation serve up all method of fuzz and crunch. Lastly, the inclusion of a Utility module with Acquire means you can even create very convincing sidechain compression results.
MIDI options
In its default state Flux Professional is triggered by DAW playback. Nevertheless, you even have the choice to set off it through MIDI, with two selections out there through the Menu Bar. One-Shot triggers a one-off playthrough of all three curves; in the meantime Retrigger begins with playback as regular, however you should utilize a MIDI notice to manually restart the curve playback.
Flux Professional may also generate impartial MIDI CC output for every modulation curve. That is accessed through the menu and you may manually set the MIDI channel and particular MIDI CC of every curve (A, B and C). In Mac OS X you additionally get the choice to pick out Flux Professional as a Digital MIDI Machine, and this could help when routing MIDI between plugins, and we discovered this labored as anticipated. Nonetheless, as ever with MIDI management of plugins, you might want to comply with the particular scheme utilized by your DAW as implementations do fluctuate.
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Verdict
Caelum is step by step constructing a powerful steady of plugins. Flux Professional is the model’s strongest up to now and a fantastically inventive providing
MusicRadar verdict: Flux Professional is simple to make use of with a good alternative of results managed by a strong set of user-editable modulation curves.
Caelum Audio Flux Professional: Fingers-on demos
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Caelum Audio Flux Professional: Specs
- macOS 10.11 or increased. AU, VST3, AAX (64bit solely).
- Home windows 7 or increased. VST3, AAX (AAX is 64bit solely).
- iOS 11 or increased. Standalone and AUv3.
- CONTACT: Caelum Audio (opens in new tab)
