Available for download, Softube's Time and Tone Plus is a plug-in bundle designed to augment the software included with Focusrite Scarlett, Saffire, or Clarett interfaces purchased after September 2015. This upgrade adds three more Softube plug-ins to your arsenal, including the Fix Flanger and Doubler, the FET Compressor, and Amp Room Essentials—an amplifier/cabinet emulation that models the tones of several classic rigs, including the Marshall JCM800.
The FET Compressor from Softube is a native based compressor plug-in modeled after what is arguably considered the most famous solid state hardware compressor. The company realized that simply approximating the most apparent features is not enough to capture the uniqueness of the original hardware, so instead of modeling individual features and putting them together digitally, they modeled the unit in its entirety - input and output stages, gain reduction feedback loops, bias differences of different transistors, etc.
Unlike the original, the plug-in features a fully variable ratio although it can still function the standard way with fixed ratios. And of course the "All Buttons In" mode has been included. The signature attack that the original is famous for is faster than a single sample, and a look-ahead detector can make it function even faster. Parallel compression functions within the plug-in and since the "Dry" signal also spends some time inside the algorithms, it can take on the subtle distortion derived from pushing the input and output stages.
Added features not found on the original hardware include external side chain support, detector look-ahead with low- and high-cut filters for the detector, two modeled VU meters, and a stereo peak meter that allows for controlling the output signal. In case there is no use for the extra features, they can be simply switched off.
The Fix Flanger and Doubler from Softube is a plug-in package that handles hands-on flanging with unique stereo-widening methods, as well as vocal doubling with lush chorus and rich textures. The plug-in is based on the Real Time Auto Doubler AD-2 originally created by Paul Wolff.
The Fix Flanger is capable of both classic guitar pedal-style flanging with an automatically swept flange, as well as direct control in the manual mode. The VSO mode features hands-on control with emulated servo motor bounce and true cross zero flanging, just like a tape machine.
The Fix Doubler provides texture and richness to vocals and polyphonic instruments. The algorithms of the Fix Flanger combined with a streamlined interface, and Paul Wolff's Auto Double algorithm, makes it easy to get lush chorus and rich layers on vocal tracks. Auto Double delivers smooth doubling without flanging at delays as low as 3 ms.