The Saturator is a FREE plug-in that emulates the non-linear curve of analog tape in saturation. The Saturator can add up to 6dB of gain to the signal to push it into overdrive whereby soft clipping begins. When used properly the Saturator can add that "analog sound" to your tracks or can be used to boost low level signals giving them an "analog edge".
- Useful for general sound shaping or extreme destruction.
- The effect gets very interesting when you automate the sweep of the crossovers while the resonance is set medium to high.
- If you set the high or low bands' gain to 0, it acts almost like a
resonant LPF or HPF, or both simultaneously.
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PWMDrive is a softclipper with offset. I came up with the idea when reading about old tube-amplifiers where the distorsion wasn't symmetrical around zero.
I called it PWMDrive since it can produce sounds similar to a pulse-width-modulated square wave.
The waveshaping function is 1-(1/(1+x)). Actually its like that on positive x, and symmetrical around zero) I'm not sure if this is similar to a "real" tube, but it's ok, if you have any suggestions on different shape-functions, that have similar (or less) cost, please let me know.
An sweet-sounding oversampling option is provided, mainly meant to be used at mixdown-time, since it's rather expensive.
The steps performed are:
Measure the amplitude,
DC-Offset signal depending on amplitude (lfo-controlled),
Gain,
SoftClip,
HiPass (to remove dc),
Gain.
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BAXXPANDER:
Vintage style saturation/bass expander unit,
presented as VST effect. We think this plugin is specially good to add warmth and saturation to drums
and basses, and with vocal tracks that need a little punch. It uses very little CPU, and includes 8 factory presets.
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