what it’s about
Three saturation characters from warm to aggressive, calibrated by auto-gain: more drive means more color, not just more volume. That makes for honest comparisons — and the mix knob blends in parallel, without comb filtering.
in detail
- Three characters: Tape (warm), Tube (harmonically rich), Hard (aggressive)
- Auto-gain calibration: drive changes the color, not the level
- Oversampling with precisely compensated latency
- Tone tilt from dark to brilliant
- Parallel saturation via the mix knob — phase-locked
all parameters
| drive | 0 to +36 dB | How hard the signal is pushed into saturation |
|---|---|---|
| type | tape / tube / hard | Character of the distortion curve |
| tone | −6 to +6 dB | Tonal tilt: dark to brilliant |
| mix | 0 to 100 % | Parallel amount of the saturated signal |
| output | −24 to +12 dB | Output level after saturation |
specifications
| Formats | VST3 · Standalone |
|---|---|
| System | Windows 10 – 11, 64 bit (no ARM) |
| Price | |
| Suite features | Factory presets in categories + your own presets · A/B comparison · Undo/Redo · help mode with tooltips · continuously scalable interface 75–200 % (remembers its size) · Shift = fine mode · double-click = default value · type in values directly |
| Version | 1.0.0 |
ay saturator is part of the suite.
One installer, eleven plugins, pick what you install — free.
Windows 10/11 · 64 bit · VST3 & Standalone · v1.0.0