FAC Punchlab

What it does

An effect rack holding nine processors in a single chain: EQ, attack, fat, boom, tone, heat and fizz in eight reorderable slots, with a clipper and a mix stage locked to the end. Each module carries two independent gain handles plus a frequency control, and every parameter is exposed to the host for automation and LFO modulation.

In the demo

Jade works on a stem-separated hip-hop beat, soloing the kick and adding modules one at a time so each change is audible. She tunes the boom resonance to the note of the kick, then moves the same rack onto bass, piano, a live microphone vocal, and a drum bus in Logic Pro for iPad.

Worth knowing

The controls push hard by default, so subtle settings take deliberate dialling back. The high-quality toggle turns on oversampling and raises CPU noticeably when several instances run at once.