Baby Audio Transit 2 is the successor to Andrew Huang’s multi-FX transition plugin, and features new motion modes, effect modules, and more.
Baby Audio teamed up with content creator and musician Andrew Huang a year ago to release the Transit plugin. The iOS version was released last November. This fun multi-FX plugin makes it easy to create rich, multi-colored transitions with a single knob twist.
It is not only a transition designer on steroids but can also be used as a powerful, wild, rhythmic multi-FX processor. Both parts have joined forces again and have now released Transit 2, a paid upgrade with many new inspiring features.
Baby Audio Transit 2
Transit 2 picks up exactly where Transit 1 left off. It is still a mighty, fun transition designer packed with effects and rhythmic elements.
A highlight of Transit is the macro control, which allows you to animate multiple effect blocks with their respective parameters. This motion can be easily automated in the DAW with classic MIDI CC.
In Transit 2, the developers have added five more motion modes to this section, each offering a unique form of movement that can be introduced to the FX chain. Something I already wanted in v1.
The first new addition is a multi-wave LFO with sine, tri, saw, and square waveforms, a sync option, and a smoothing option, giving you more possible waveforms. The LFO motion option helps generate constantly running effects.
Then, you get a gate processor with duration control, a pendulum option, and looping. Also new are handy sidechain and envelope follower modes, each with attack, release, range, and sensitivity controls. Both new modes make the plugin way more flexible than before.
Besides these, you can also find a new sequencer with various ranges, pendulum and loop options, and amount. This addition also gives the plugin a rhythmic boost. All these new motion modes are in the same clean, simple browser as the original macro controller.
New Effects
There is more to explore. Baby Audio Transit 2 also comes with ten new creative effects, including:
- loop: a stutter and repeat FX
- reverser: tempo-synced (or not) reverse playback with speed settings
- warp: pitch shift meets time-stretch
- retroverb: a 80s-style feedback delay reverb
- mod filter: stereo filter bank with simplified controls
- compressor: a downwards compressor, a counterpart to the OTT effect
- pitch+: a pitch shifter with tempo-syncable LFO
- speaker: transistor radio emulation
- analog chorus: a BBD-style chorus
- EQ: a 3-band EQ
It’s nice that the new effects bring more character to the game. They are also less classic and more experimental. I would have liked to have seen the loop and reverse algorithms already in Transit 1.
Further, Baby Audio Transit 2 ships with 838 carefully created presets by Andrew Huang and sound designers like Venus Theory, Zardonic, and more. They also include the presets from Transit 1.
Like Transit 1, the second version also features the powerful randomization mode that lets users lock parameters to affect only certain plugin parts.
First Impression
Transit 2 has one downer. It is not a free upgrade and costs $29. Considering the new features and presets (500), it is a fair price. After a year on the market, I would have been happier if these features had been added as a free update.
Nevertheless, Transit 2 is a beautiful, extensive tool for transitions and sound design improvisations/manipulations on the fly. The new modes, like the sequencer or LFO, reinforce this concept even more.
The simplicity and fast workflow are great strengths of Transit 2. No thousands of sub-menus, etc., like many other multi-FX plugins. Here you have everything, clean and straightforward, on a single page.
Baby Audio Transit 2 is available now for $79. Existing users can upgrade to the new version for $29. It runs as a VST, VST3, AU, and AAX plugin on macOS (native Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows.
If you buy your upgrade at Plugin Boutique, you can choose one of two free plugins in October: AIR Music Tech Solina or Zynaptique Orange Vocoder Nano.
More information here: Baby Audio
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I don’t get it! A second version of Transit which you have to pay for to upgrade a year after release of version 1 is really greedy and in no way customer-friendly.
The reason Andrew mentioned in the PluginBoutique video is absurd, it’s supposedly because of the additional parameters, which can’t be handled by the plugin, blah blah, but version 2 can do it, hm? It seems Transit 1 was released way too early and wasn’t well thought out.
Greedy ass, why not just updating the first version? I thought that this will happen if Andrew is involved, and it did.
So, enough trolling for today 😜
I was really annoyed by this one. barely a year goes by, and they want $29 for an upgrade. doesn’t feel like a great way to to treat customers. probably should have just waited and not bought the V1 (which is excellent btw)