TECHNE
TUBE
Saturation Engine
Three flavors of tube saturation in one clean panel.
Add analog weight, push it till it bites, or fully destroy it. Free — no iLok, no account.
Three Modes. Zero Friction.
Static tube glow. The curve barely reacts to the signal — smooth, even, polite. Pair with Warmth for even-harmonic weight.
The tube starts tracking your transients. Edges and attacks get driven harder than the body — grit that cuts.
Fully signal-charged. Every transient and every bit of top-end slams the tube harder — aggressive, fizzy, alive.
Drag between modes to blend — it’s one continuous circuit, not a switch.
Under the Hood
Drive doesn’t just push level — it cascades the signal through up to four tube stages in series. It gets thick, not just loud. The 65% default sits around two stages.
Warmth skews the tube curve asymmetric — even-order harmonics and analog weight — and rounds off the bite as you push it.
Output rides the wet path only, before Mix. Pull the blend back and your dry signal stays bit-perfect — real parallel saturation.
Drive, Warmth, and Mode are smoothed at the oversampled rate. Automate anything you want — no zipper noise.
Specs
Install in 30 Seconds
The macOS build lands shortly — Windows is ready now. Drop your email above and we’ll send the Mac installer the moment it’s live.
- 01 Run the .exe installer.
- 02 It installs the VST3 + CLAP automatically.
- 03 Rescan plugins in your DAW. Done.
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