A Fantastic EQ with Great Resource Efficiency
I can use this on every track because of its very clever programming to be very lightweight on the iPad’s resources. Fully featured, including dynamic EQ, side-chaining, multiple filter types and so much more. I say rubbish to the complaint about the accuracy of the on-screen scales. You EQ with your ears, not your eyes. I will use the on-screen scales to get me close when going after a known issue, but in the end you cut, boost, and filter with your ears. There’s a reason that engineers all over the world are raving about FabFilter’s EQs and the rest of their plugins. They’re all fantastic tools!!
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good, but exclusion of keybinds has made EQ-ing become fatiguing
ive been using fabfilter proq3 for 5/4 months now and its been a good experience so far. only complaint i have is the exclusion if keybinds. i got an ipad keyboard accessory recently for doing longer session editing, and not having keybinds for shaping an eq point makes for a tedious and at some times an uncomfortable experience.
it makes sense why it isnt included as not everyone has a ipad keyboard. but if you're getting serious and planning to work more hours on a song, its needed.
ive been doing longer editing sessions, cleaning up some songs i made a few hours earlier, and having to press my finger down constantly on a mouse pad to shape a bell curve or manually changing the slope of a low cut / high cut has been hurting my finger a ton while also making it slower to EQ.
It's gotten to where im just avoiding the EQ, which i don't want to.. but it's hard to give it a try after it becomes so fatiguing.
besides that, i've been enjoying proq3 so far! it's been good, but this exclusion of an important feature has made it difficult to EQ a track.
please implement keybinds as a toggle in a future update. thank you for your work :)
it makes sense why it isnt included as not everyone has a ipad keyboard. but if you're getting serious and planning to work more hours on a song, its needed.
ive been doing longer editing sessions, cleaning up some songs i made a few hours earlier, and having to press my finger down constantly on a mouse pad to shape a bell curve or manually changing the slope of a low cut / high cut has been hurting my finger a ton while also making it slower to EQ.
It's gotten to where im just avoiding the EQ, which i don't want to.. but it's hard to give it a try after it becomes so fatiguing.
besides that, i've been enjoying proq3 so far! it's been good, but this exclusion of an important feature has made it difficult to EQ a track.
please implement keybinds as a toggle in a future update. thank you for your work :)
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Inaccurate
It absolutely is inaccurate. When you do a long hold and the frequency peeks are displayed the numbers are off. Definitely not a PRO app. Fix it.
The Best
My favorite surgical+ EQ on any platform: MacOS, Windows, or iOS. It’s packed with features, but the beauty of the app is its perfect interface. It’s a joy to work in.
game changer
Pro Q helped me really grasp the concept of additive and subtractive EQ while it enabled me to perform those tasks more efficiently. The cross-track visualization component and surprisingly low DSP usage really puts the bow on the present and shuts the mouth of any fab filter naysayers. I was able to afford one FabFilter app and I was very happy I made that decision Pro Q when my mixes started immediately improving and sounding so much more professional. Looking forward to slowly collecting all of these desktop-level apps for my ipad.
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I can’t upload
How to install in my Cubasis please help me
Inaccurate!!!! 👎🏼
I used a single pure tone to measure the accuracy of this EQ and it turned out to be off by 20Hz at least. I used a free app called NA tuner for A&B, the NA tuner gave correct reading. I emailed customer service ( Ralph ) just to hear that it works fine on their end, after several emails they requested video of my test and the sample I used, I sent them multiple times, after 3 weeks of emailing back and forth all I got is, we didn’t receive the sample even though the email thread includes multiple attachments of the same wav file. They are playing me and wasting my time just so they won’t admit that their Auv3 isn’t accurate. Last time I purchase anything from this developer.
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Dec 21 Update 👎🏽
Just downloaded the update, now when I open the interface in Cubasis, I get a scratchy mess! Just resizing the window causes so much feedback, the track slows and eventually just seizes into oblivion. Thanks! 🙄
Too powerful for my iPad Pro
Great on its own, but maxes out my dsp in cubasis 3 on my iPad Pro if I try to use with any other insert. Am asking for a refund.
Wow wow
I started using my ipad for live gigs with an interface with aum , I was looking for a good equalizer for my iPad 6 generation shouldn’t take up much CPU process, also something to be able to work with midi And guess what I don’t have nothing bad to say I think it just works great. I am also very happy with the compressor on every band in two words.! Just great. !Thanks
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Bit late reviewing - released 3 singles with it.
Sidechain/Dynamic Comp/Topnotch EQ in short. The quality of my songs is another matter...but Pro-Q3 I thoroughly researched due to cost, but I only regret buying multiple apps/plugins trying to get a good one for a solitary task. Do not regret the multi-aspect precision Pro-Q3 brought.
To expand on matters, I didn’t even realise it did Dynamic actions on tracks until seeing a well-known and liked youtuber waxing over a PC/Mac based DAW using Dynamic EQ/Comp. I throw those two terms together, because I can’t see what else to call this function - Pro-Q3 is obvs an EQ program, but it dynamically affects the gain of the output waveform, so well, what the heck else is that called?!
No incentives or anything were there for me to buy this - only looking for the best most professional tool to help finish the songs off. I mastered out of GarageBand iOS by outputting a stereo pair using the ‘share’ option and see Pete Johns for more, but then grab that WAV file and bring it into a new song, and put one instance of this Pro-Q3 app in the mixer/effects chain in the GB ‘Mastering song’ and then I put my compressor in, and then another instance of Pro-Q3 afterward.
Unbeknown to me, I eventually realised the two instances of Pro-Q3 were ‘aware’ of each other, and you can see a miniature image post-stamp sized, of the ‘other’ Pro-Q3 instance’s waveform, in real time, as it happens. So you have one big half-screen on the ipad with the instance you are working on, and a little insert pic of the ‘other’ one and you can work in that way.
I am no expert on mastering or mixing, and have knife-and-forked my way bludgeoning many a waveform into a ‘Game of thrones’ demise, before reining back reverb galore, and maturing I hope, graduating to this level of plugin. This is like a complex form of the GB internal EQ - or it might be GB took the cue from FabFilter, no idea.
Dan Worrall does excellent overviews and tutorials in a very listenable voice on youtube, and the iOS Pro-Q3 really is awfully similar if not identical to the PC/Mac ones. I can’t imagine what else is needed really, the plugin fortunately is more expert than I am, which is what you need early on.
Complexity opens up, and I found I just touched on the waveform, swiped a fraction of a millimetre and a point was created, which then you can hold on for an instant and change the style of the EQ action that point has centred around it.
IE a notch downward or upward, an angled descent to get rid of anything below 20 or 30 Hz or whatever you set it to by sliding that point left or right...
There’s little tiny fragments of a curve, you hit on, to decide the style of these controls exerted on the waveform, and then you set the ‘Q’ or steepness, of the notches and so forth. I hollowed out a doubled snare drum that was boxy and boomy, and went back to the mix track to do it there eventually, putting an instance of Pro-Q3 in the original GB mix song, as opposed to my ‘master song’ in GB. But, that started with the ability to notch out properly as could be, in the final master song.
What else...so yes, I paid full price for the plugin, I watched tutorials for the Mac/PC version and learned they look and work identically almost which is future-proofing knowledge and learning...I would say, the big take-away is that if you look at the SIZE of FabFilter’s plugins, they are compact, tiny even. This gets around many memory glitching issues GB and other DAWs have on ipad and iphone, it’s quite an ask and efficient programming means multiple instances can be used.
Yes, the ‘red zones’ warrant a mention...that boxy overdone doubled snare drum I mentioned, that showed up as a red zone and I tried to ignore it. Bass sounds I also try to ignore the red zones...! The problem is, when I put the song onto a CD and play it, before releasing, I inevitably found Pro-Q3 was an impartial advisor, both of amplitudes and ‘reinforcement’ of sounds.
In other words, when I liked the sound and could see nothing wrong, Pro-Q3 showing too much energy (red) or amplitude (breaching zero dB say), is clear-headed and unbiased and forward-looking. If it warns this may sound bad when output on speakers, it usually does.
The other useful thing when streaming of course, is being able to knock down your gain or volume, and as I use two instances either side of a compressor in my GB ‘mastering song’, I can use either or both, just sliding the gain control on the right side, down or even up, to make it about -8dB give or take, although GB iOS messes this all up if you are not careful when outputting your ‘master’ it needs to be pretty quiet.
I can’t say I could really afford Pro-Q3, but a song could be out there forever, and I have not felt the need to buy another EQ plugin since. I look, but there’s never any features that are beaten, at any price. EQ/Dynamic gain/low end rumble are dealt with.
To expand on matters, I didn’t even realise it did Dynamic actions on tracks until seeing a well-known and liked youtuber waxing over a PC/Mac based DAW using Dynamic EQ/Comp. I throw those two terms together, because I can’t see what else to call this function - Pro-Q3 is obvs an EQ program, but it dynamically affects the gain of the output waveform, so well, what the heck else is that called?!
No incentives or anything were there for me to buy this - only looking for the best most professional tool to help finish the songs off. I mastered out of GarageBand iOS by outputting a stereo pair using the ‘share’ option and see Pete Johns for more, but then grab that WAV file and bring it into a new song, and put one instance of this Pro-Q3 app in the mixer/effects chain in the GB ‘Mastering song’ and then I put my compressor in, and then another instance of Pro-Q3 afterward.
Unbeknown to me, I eventually realised the two instances of Pro-Q3 were ‘aware’ of each other, and you can see a miniature image post-stamp sized, of the ‘other’ Pro-Q3 instance’s waveform, in real time, as it happens. So you have one big half-screen on the ipad with the instance you are working on, and a little insert pic of the ‘other’ one and you can work in that way.
I am no expert on mastering or mixing, and have knife-and-forked my way bludgeoning many a waveform into a ‘Game of thrones’ demise, before reining back reverb galore, and maturing I hope, graduating to this level of plugin. This is like a complex form of the GB internal EQ - or it might be GB took the cue from FabFilter, no idea.
Dan Worrall does excellent overviews and tutorials in a very listenable voice on youtube, and the iOS Pro-Q3 really is awfully similar if not identical to the PC/Mac ones. I can’t imagine what else is needed really, the plugin fortunately is more expert than I am, which is what you need early on.
Complexity opens up, and I found I just touched on the waveform, swiped a fraction of a millimetre and a point was created, which then you can hold on for an instant and change the style of the EQ action that point has centred around it.
IE a notch downward or upward, an angled descent to get rid of anything below 20 or 30 Hz or whatever you set it to by sliding that point left or right...
There’s little tiny fragments of a curve, you hit on, to decide the style of these controls exerted on the waveform, and then you set the ‘Q’ or steepness, of the notches and so forth. I hollowed out a doubled snare drum that was boxy and boomy, and went back to the mix track to do it there eventually, putting an instance of Pro-Q3 in the original GB mix song, as opposed to my ‘master song’ in GB. But, that started with the ability to notch out properly as could be, in the final master song.
What else...so yes, I paid full price for the plugin, I watched tutorials for the Mac/PC version and learned they look and work identically almost which is future-proofing knowledge and learning...I would say, the big take-away is that if you look at the SIZE of FabFilter’s plugins, they are compact, tiny even. This gets around many memory glitching issues GB and other DAWs have on ipad and iphone, it’s quite an ask and efficient programming means multiple instances can be used.
Yes, the ‘red zones’ warrant a mention...that boxy overdone doubled snare drum I mentioned, that showed up as a red zone and I tried to ignore it. Bass sounds I also try to ignore the red zones...! The problem is, when I put the song onto a CD and play it, before releasing, I inevitably found Pro-Q3 was an impartial advisor, both of amplitudes and ‘reinforcement’ of sounds.
In other words, when I liked the sound and could see nothing wrong, Pro-Q3 showing too much energy (red) or amplitude (breaching zero dB say), is clear-headed and unbiased and forward-looking. If it warns this may sound bad when output on speakers, it usually does.
The other useful thing when streaming of course, is being able to knock down your gain or volume, and as I use two instances either side of a compressor in my GB ‘mastering song’, I can use either or both, just sliding the gain control on the right side, down or even up, to make it about -8dB give or take, although GB iOS messes this all up if you are not careful when outputting your ‘master’ it needs to be pretty quiet.
I can’t say I could really afford Pro-Q3, but a song could be out there forever, and I have not felt the need to buy another EQ plugin since. I look, but there’s never any features that are beaten, at any price. EQ/Dynamic gain/low end rumble are dealt with.
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Top quality, shame about Auria customers
On the plus side, FF make superb filters. Absolutely top notch for all manner of production. However, by IOS standards FF are expensive. Some may argue that quality needs to be paid for... but not twice. There is no deal available for those who bought FF products under Auria Pro. FF blame Apple for not giving them customer details, but such details are not required, only that FF trust Apple (a trillion dollar company) to only give discounts to genuine customers.
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Nic
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The price is worth it! (19 year old telling you this)
I was watching a lot of my favorite YouTube audio engineers use this bundle and was like “Okay lets get it so I can follow along better.”
It was way better than I ever imagined!
It can do my EQ setting for me! (Helpful with a trumpet gotta say)
It has soooo many presets as-well! I am just amazed at the detail and quality of the sounds.
I cannot thank FabFilters enough for all of their outstanding products.
Seriously, I’m a 19 year old kid telling y’all its worth it.
Your very happy customer.
-Nathan Cress
It was way better than I ever imagined!
It can do my EQ setting for me! (Helpful with a trumpet gotta say)
It has soooo many presets as-well! I am just amazed at the detail and quality of the sounds.
I cannot thank FabFilters enough for all of their outstanding products.
Seriously, I’m a 19 year old kid telling y’all its worth it.
Your very happy customer.
-Nathan Cress
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Thank You for the very Quick Update
🙏🏿. Hopefully we will see Saturn plugin come to iPad in the future as well.
Thanks again you guys are amazing!!✨💫✨
Thanks again you guys are amazing!!✨💫✨
Simply brilliant
You wouldn’t get this plugin (nor any other of the fabfilter plugins) for these prices on PC - and they are a class above the rest - If you’re into DAWs, audio production, recording, engineering or mixing then you need to try these out! Fantastic
Installed but not installed
I cannot export my tracks now, it says I am missing pro q 3 and need to install it to continue using it. I literally have an artist waiting to do a feature and this is holding everything up.
I better get a response
I better get a response
Love it
It’s all been said before - just here’s hoping more products are coming! Saturn, Volcano etc - the creative plugins would be amazing on iOS
Best EQ on iPadOS
One of the best EQ apps for iPad producers. I’ve tried a few and none of them even come close to pro q 3.
Awesome EQ
I use it on almost every Channel. 4**** as not all features work
Competitively un-Equal
There is no competition out there that comes close to this eq.
Substantially brings your music to a whole new peak, iOS has been brought to peak performance with this fabfilter bundle.
Remember your password for this one.
Substantially brings your music to a whole new peak, iOS has been brought to peak performance with this fabfilter bundle.
Remember your password for this one.
