Samturation
Analog saturation. Raw, direct, no guardrails. A character saturator: tone shaping into a tanh saturation core with its own feedback loop. Push it as far as you want.
One purchase. Version 1.0.0.
Hear it. Turn the knobs.
This is the actual panel, running the same signal processing as the plug-in. Press play, then drag the knobs.
Drag a knob up or right to raise it (hold Shift for fine control). Double-click to reset. Click BYPASS to compare with the original sound. Turn your volume down a little first: Samturation can get loud.
Why Samturation
Saturation with character
A pre-tone filter, a tanh saturation core, and a post-tone tilt. Simple signal path, big sound.
A feedback loop you can hear
Feedback runs back into the saturation core, so Drive and Feedback interact. Turn both up for thick, harmonically dense tones.
Few controls, all musical
Six knobs and a bypass. If a control did not change the sound in a musical way, it is not on the panel.
No guardrails
Samturation lets you go overboard. That is the point.
Built to be trusted
Universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel, signed and notarized by Apple, validated with Apple's auval. Smoothed parameters.
The controls
- Pre Tone
- Tilt before saturation. Dark softens the top end going in; Bright pushes the highs into the saturator harder.
- Drive
- 0 to 24 dB of gain into the saturation core.
- Tone
- Tilt after saturation, to tame or open up the result.
- Feedback
- How much of the saturated signal returns to the input of the core. Interacts with Drive.
- Level
- Output level, 0 to 2x.
- Mix
- Dry to wet. Parallel saturation in one knob.
Requirements
| macOS | 12 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel · AU and VST3 · signed and notarized by Apple |
| Windowssoon | 10 or later · 64-bit · VST3 |
Questions
Which DAWs does it work in?
Any DAW that hosts AU or VST3 plug-ins. It is developed and tested in Ableton Live on macOS.
Is the demo the real plug-in?
The demo runs the same signal processing as the plug-in, ported to run in your browser. The plug-in itself runs natively in your DAW.
Is there a trial version?
Not yet. Try the browser demo above.
Get Samturation
$29, one time.