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Description
Unleash a universe of creative delay with the FabFilter Timeless 3, a powerhouse in the world of music production software. Whether you’re looking to replicate the warm, analog charm of vintage tape slapback or explore the fringes of sonic experimentation, this plug-in delivers with finesse and flexibility. Timeless 3 not only captures the essence of classic tape delay but elevates it into a realm of endless possibilities with its comprehensive suite of features.
This delay plug-in boasts six state-of-the-art multimode filters that allow you to color your sound with an astonishing range of characteristics. The intuitive drag-and-drop modulation system invites you to sculpt your sound with ease, using XLFOs, envelope generators, and more. Each delay line offers a canvas for rhythmic precision, while the live modulation visualizer keeps you informed on every tweak and turn.
Timeless 3's interface embraces simplicity with a redesigned layout that provides a seamless workflow, while maintaining the depth needed for intricate sound design. The addition of drive, lo-fi, dynamics, and pitch effects means that your echoes are not just echoes—they are opportunities for creative expression. Whether you're crafting subtle ambient textures or bold rhythmic patterns, Timeless 3 stands ready with an arsenal of modulation and sound-mangling options.
Key Features:
- 16 delay lines with host tempo sync and panning
- Adjustable feedback, cross-feedback, and phase inversion
- Multi-tap rhythmic delays and ping-pong modes
- Six multimode filters with interactive filter display
- Innovative drag-and-drop modulation with visualizer
- Over 300 presets and extensive modulation possibilities
- Smart Parameter Interpolation for smooth transitions
- Supports Pro Tools hardware control surfaces
- GPU-powered graphics acceleration for smooth performance
Owner's manual
FabFilter Timeless 3 User ManualProduct specs
| Software Type | Delay |
| Platform | Mac, PC |
| Upgrade/Full | Full |
| Download/Boxed | Download |
| Bit Depth | 64-bit |
| Format | AAX Native, VST, VST3, AU, AudioSuite, CLAP |
| Hardware Requirements - Mac | Intel Core 2 Duo or higher, 4GB RAM minimum |
| Hardware Requirements - PC | Intel Core 2 Duo or higher, 4GB RAM minimum |
| OS Requirements - Mac | macOS 10.13 or later |
| OS Requirements - PC | Windows 7 SP1 or later |
FAQs
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What are the main features of the FabFilter Timeless 3 delay plugin?
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FabFilter Timeless 3 offers a vintage-style tape delay with extensive modulation options, effects, and filters. It includes tap patterns and a flexible interface for sound design, making it suitable for both traditional delay effects and complex sound manipulation.
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Is FabFilter Timeless 3 compatible with my DAW?
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FabFilter Timeless 3 is compatible with major DAWs that support AAX Native, VST, VST3, AU, AudioSuite, and CLAP formats, ensuring broad compatibility across different production environments.
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Can I use FabFilter Timeless 3 on both Mac and PC?
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Yes, FabFilter Timeless 3 is available for both Mac and PC platforms, requiring macOS 10.13 or later and Windows 7 SP1 or later, with a minimum of an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB RAM.
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Does FabFilter Timeless 3 offer modulation options?
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FabFilter Timeless 3 provides unlimited modulation possibilities, allowing users to creatively shape their delay effects with a variety of modulation sources and targets.
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What makes FabFilter Timeless 3 different from other delay plugins?
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FabFilter Timeless 3 stands out with its vintage tape delay sound, extensive modulation capabilities, and customizable interface, offering a unique blend of classic delay tones and modern sound design tools.
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PROS
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Replaces popular delay plugins with advanced features
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Offers a vast array of presets for diverse soundscapes
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Easily customizable interface for personalized effects
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High-quality filters for unique sound mangling
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Versatile effect options: echo, chorus, flanger, phaser, scratch
CONS
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Can sometimes be a bit complicated to use
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Less effective on certain instruments like synths and drums
Owner Insights
We analyzed real musician discussions from forums and Reddit to find what players love, question, and tweak about FabFilter Timeless 3.
Features and functionality
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Timeless 3 excels at traditional delay and short delay effects like chorus and flanger, offering precise control.
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Timeless 3 is highlighted for its deep delay capabilities, providing extensive control over sound shaping.
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Valhalla Supermassive, a free plugin, is suggested for those seeking powerful modulation effects similar to Timeless 3.
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Value and pricing
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FabFilter Creative FX Bundle offers Timeless 3, Volcano 3, and Saturn 2, with a discount applied if one plugin is already owned.
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User experience
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Owners appreciate the ability to purchase individual plugins and later complete the bundle without a cost penalty due to price adjustments.
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Critic Reviews
4.5 out of 5
Based on 5 Reviews and 67 Ratings
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Most useful for creativity
Timeless 2 provides so much more than you would think a delay plugin could. It creates entirely new sounds in whatever direction you desire - with a wide variety of presets to choose from. Highly recommend for those looking to experiment with their music and get into the more "out there" genres.
Version: FabFilter Timeless 2428
FabFilter Timeless 2 Delay Plugin
FabFilter Timeless 2 is not only a perfectly modelled classic tape delay. Its unique high-quality filters and many creative options turn it into the ultimate sound-mangling machine! Create echo, chorus, flanger, phaser, scratch effects and much more.
Version: FabFilter Timeless 2Artist usage
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Per this Nov 11, 2020 feature in Attack Magazine:
The delay I used with the vocal in the break is the Fab Filter Timeless 2, which I think is a really great delay. I love the way it moves when it’s finished, and the effect it gives for the end product sounds wicked.
Used on Cardi B's vocals for "Bodak Yellow", as mentioned by mix engineer Evan LaRay in this February 2018 Sound on Sound interview.
In his mix of ‘Bodak Yellow’, Evan LaRay used almost identical vocal chains on two auxiliary busses. The ‘Vox 1’ chain includes FabFilter’s Pro-DS de-esser and Waves’ C4 multiband compressor, plus the Waves CLA Vocals plug-in and SoundToys’ Decapitator saturation processor.
The main ‘Hook’ and ‘Verse’ vocal tracks have similar plug-in chains, incorporating the EQ3 seven-band, Waves CLA-76 and Waves De-esser, though the ‘Hook’ also has FabFilter’s Timeless 2 delay. LaRay explains, “The EQ on the ‘Hook’ has a high-pass, around 100Hz, and I’m also cutting 3dB at 300Hz, because the vocal sounded a bit muddy, and again 3dB at 4kHz, because there was a piercing frequency there. The CLA keeps the peaks in check, and the de-esser again takes some higher frequencies out, at 4270Hz, and the Timeless is another favourite plug-in. I think in general the FabFilter plug-ins are extremely dope. I wanted the ‘Hook’ vocal to stand out from the ‘Verse’ vocal, so I used a stereo delay preset, and then tweaked that. The presets on the FabFilter plug-ins are pretty good: you just run through all of them and then choose the best one. In this case I lowered the width and the wet value of the stereo delay preset, and that sounded good and gave the hook its own space. The three plug-ins on the ‘Verse’ track do pretty much the same.
“The ‘Inout’ tracks that are below the ‘Hook’ and the ‘Verse’ are vocal doubles. They are words or lines we use for emphasis and additional power on these lines and words. They come from one of her original vocal takes, which I just cut and cleaned up. Both ‘Inout’ tracks have the Waves RCompressor, just containing these words and lines so they don’t overwhelm the ‘Hook’ or the ‘Verse’ vocal, and then the FabFilter Pro-Q2, taking out some high frequencies, again to make sure it doesn’t clash with the leads, and also cutting below 200Hz. And there’s a delay on these tracks to put them in a slightly different space from the lead vocal tracks.
“In addition to the two ‘Inout’ tracks, both the ‘Hook’ and the ‘Verse’ tracks are also accompanied by an ‘Ad Libs’ track, which were some ad libs Cardi had recorded with Mike over at Krematorium. Mike had also set up a separate aux track for these ad libs, which is ‘Vox2’, and I liked that and kept two of the plug-ins he had on that: the [Avid] Sansamp for some distortion and the SoundToys Panman. I then added the D-Verb and the [Waves] CLA Vocals. I adore the CLA Vocals. I use it on every track I work on. When I don’t use it, the vocals sound completely different. I’d love to know what exactly it does! Finally, the inserts have the Waves L1, just to control the peaks.
“The other tracks — ‘EXF1’, ‘EXF2’, ‘EXF3’ and ‘EXF4’, are because I prefer to create a new track if I want to have a specific effect on specific words or phrases. I prefer doing that to automating the effects on a track. Automation is great, but I tend to only do volume automation. So I copy audio to another track, and then put the effect on that, and in this case I created four different effects tracks with four different delays. ‘EFX1’ is the main one, and has the same three plug-ins as the Verse tracks — EQ3 three-band, CLA76 and Waves De-esser — just with the EQ3 cutting more of the high frequencies. Then there’s an eighth-note ping-pong delay from the Waves H-Delay, and then a D-Verb set to ‘hall’ with 7s decay and a 15ms pre-delay. ‘EFX2’ has another H-Delay delay, ‘EFX3’ the Timeless 2 delay, and ‘EFX4’ again has the H-Delay plus a D-Verb.”
All the main vocal audio tracks go to LaRay’s ‘Vox1’ aux group track. This, he explains, has “A FabFilter Pro-DS de-esser, then the Waves RCompressor controlling the peaks, the Waves C4 multiband compressor boosting the high end and containing the lows in her voice, so it doesn’t cut through too much, and Waves CLA Vocals. Again, it’s really making my vocals sound good. I push the Pitch fader to stereo, spank it on the compressor, also push up the treble to brighten it up, turn the reverb down to ‘tight’, and lower the delay by 9dB because my own quarter delay is my main vocal delay, and it sounds great. There’s also a SoundToys Decapitator, to add more harmonic distortion, and then there’s the Waves RVox. That was supposed to be the final plug-in on the insert, but then I realised the vocal was still peaking too much once she began rapping loudly, so I put on the L1 [limiter] to control that.”
The ‘special sauce’ in Evan LaRay’s mixes comes from a parallel aux channel containing a blend of compression, saturation, EQ and other processors. Key ingredients are Waves’ PuigChild compressor and PuigTech equaliser.
The ‘Vox1’ and ‘Vox2’ tracks also each have a Trim plug-in on an insert, and sends to the ‘Verb’ aux and to the ‘ELR’ (LaRay’s initials) track. “I put the Trim on all my tracks at the end of the vocals, and at the end of the beat, because the vocals actually began distorting in places. These two tracks were too hot, and I wanted to make sure they had a good level before going to the ‘Sub Print’ track. I have the ‘ELR’ aux track in every session. It’s most of all parallel compression, but I also always try out new things with distortion, exciters and things like that, and I label that ‘ELR’. In this case it really is the ‘ELR’ track that makes the vocals cut through the mix.
“The compression on the ‘ELR’ track comes from the Waves PuigChild 670, which is a great compressor, and it’s compressing a lot, so the vocal stays right there in the middle. The signal is then going to the PuigTech EQP-1A, which is boosting some low end to add some warmth to the vocals, and some 5kHz, and then the Waves Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter, set to AX Mix 6, for some added crispness and clarity, then the EQ3 seven-band to control the low mids, and another De-Esser cutting 4398Hz, to finalise the vocal sound. The L1 also helps keep the vocals in the same place. Finally, the ‘Verb’ send on the ‘Vox1’ and ‘Vox2’ tracks goes to the ‘Verb’ aux, which has the Waves RVerb, and that pretty much glues everything together.”
Aiden Jude utilizes the FabFilter Timeless 3 delay plugin, as evidenced by his Instagram post discussing the intricacies of sound tweaking in his music production process.
This Plugin can be seen at 0:17 in this Facebook video, uploaded by the artist himself.
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