Transit 2

Transit (version 1) is already obsolete in less than a year. Now it's $29 to stay current and doesn't replace existing instances. Baby Audio, you've got some great products, but I hope you don't treat them all like this. I'm stepping off the Trainsit train.

Update 11/11/25: there is an update to the transit2, but I cant log into their site because they do "fastspring" and this is blocking me from receiving the update. I have no account, but I have an account? I bough this in pluginboutique, and they dont have the update, and baby audio has no account for me. Great! Par for the effing course. 2 stars.

Edit: I want to say something I dont usually say: this was better than I thought it was. It took hours and a few different sessions over days for me to come to this conclusion and add another star, and I wanted to say this. The quality and complexity of premade effects stacks is actually very good, and it works, and increases the value of this despite how soon after v1 was this released, how it looks identical, etc. Still - its a cash grab lol, but its also a good product if you just buy this and not the first version.

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I wrote a lengthy review for the first Transit, released... about 1 year ago. I gave that plugin 4 stars, minus 1 for weak MIDI binding, and overall I enjoyed it and found it useful when shortcutting or speeding up my post-processing and tweaking workflows.

Cut to today -- Baby Audio/Huang sent me an email that I thought was about a major update to the recently released Transit, but instead it was an email offering me a special price for... Transit 2, a new release already.

This new version of Transit is also nice, it also looks good(identical), and this version has a lot more presets and a good number more effects than version 1, but.... I cant help but feel that this was not necessary and that the idea was, indeed, a modest cash grab.

If Transit 2(and 1) were not just tools that streamline existing DAW-based workflows and effects chains, and were not plugins whose main functions can be replicated in most DAWs at a stock level, I would not criticize this brand for making a paid version 2 which is basically an updated version 1, but that is the reality here.

I did indeed buy this because the $30 upgrade offer fits into my budgets and I was genuinely curious to see how far this had been developed, but I'll only give 3 stars to an otherwise 4-5 star product because attaching a YouTube streamer personality to this to try to sell + its minimal value warrants it.

Usefull like a swiss army knife, this is absolutely true. This Multi Effekt Plugin offers a wide range of possibilyties. To combine and chain different effects, each with unique settings let you find nearly endless new ways to use this plugin.

If you are someone who searches for more and more refined, purpose-built effects and/or transition sequencers/tools/toys, this is among the very best out there.

This brings to mind plugins such as NI's "The Finger" (a Reaktor-based effects sequencing tool), Sugar Byte's Turnado, or Cableguys Shaper Box, but imo the interface, sound quality, and overall feature set of Transit are more refined. The transitions and/or effects sequences you can design with this are attention-grabbing, mind-melting, liquid audio-style sounds, and I am immediately a big fan.

One star removed for (apparently) no MIDI mapping or binding?? I see a menu item that says "Randomize MIDI assign on/off/DAW", but I see no other options anywhere, including right click/context, that allow me to map anything. This was just released, so hopefully a patch? I cant possibly be missing something so obvious, and I've put some time into reading docs, etc. Ill add the star when I find MIDI mapping.

Update: dev got back, doesnt seem super interested in making MIDI map features any better, and Im not sure if this is just in Bitwig or all DAWs. I can make Bitwig and Cubase map MIDI directly and overcome this issue, but it would be nice to have a native right-click or mode switch MIDI map function for efficiency.

Very beautiful GUI design, using very simple operations to achieve complex and interesting transition effects. I'm glad that Baby's plug-ins are becoming more and more interesting. That's right, this is the plug-in I want.