Drumbreak Loop
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Adds more noise, grit and compression/body.
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Saturation Engine
Warmth, grit or total destruction, and a pad for picking its character.
Put it on anything that needs more life.
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- macOS · Windows
- AU
- VST3
- CLAP
- 5 machines
Hear it
Press play, then flip BEFORE and AFTER while it runs. Same audio, same position, only the tube changes.
-0.1 dBFS
Bass Synth
Crunch
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Cutoff opens over the duration. Crunch mode adds body and grit, with even harmonics pushed to 84% for a denser tone.
Three Modes. One Tube.
WARM
MODE / 01
Gentle and even. Adds weight and glow without drawing attention to itself. Try it on vocals, bass and the mix bus.
CRUNCH
MODE / 02
Reacts to how hard you play. The attacks drive harder than what follows them, so drums and guitars get grit that cuts through.
DESTROY
MODE / 03
Every hit and every bit of top end slams the tube. Aggressive, fizzy, alive. For drums and synths when subtle is not the point.
MODE is a knob: the three buttons are sweet spots, and you can sweep between them.
Choose the character, not just the amount
Most saturators give you an amount and a flavor. Tube adds a pad after the tube: drag it to make the sound rounder and warmer, or brighter and edgier.
One pad for the tone
Left is rounder and warmer, right is edgier. Up adds brightness, down keeps it low.
Same at any level
Turn the input up or down and the tone holds, so fades and automation don’t change it.
Blend it in
MIX sets how much goes under the dry sound, and the dry sound stays untouched.
SAG · MID · SIDE
SAG lets long notes droop like an amp under load. MID and SIDE aim it at the center or the width.
Specs
Formats
AU · VST3 · CLAP. AU on macOS, for Logic Pro and GarageBand.
macOS
12 Monterey or later · Apple silicon and Intel
Windows
10 (64-bit) and 11 · x64
Not yet
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Price
Free, forever. Your email gets you a key that works on up to five of your machines.
CPU
Light. Session-safe on every track.
Technical details The tube stages, the harmonics stage, oversampling and the meters.
Tube stages
Past halfway, DRIVE cascades the signal through up to four tube stages in series: thicker, not only louder.
WARMTH
Skews the tube curve asymmetric, the source of even-order harmonics, and rounds off the bite as you push it.
MODE
WARM runs a static curve. Toward DESTROY the curve is charged by the signal, its transients and its top end. MODE is continuous; the buttons are three points on it.
Harmonics stage
Shapes the 2nd to the 12th harmonic directly: EVEN, ODD and ORDER, which the field drives together. Its input is normalized, so the balance set at −20 dB holds at −3 dB.
Fingerprint
Measured, not drawn: the engine itself, run on a reference tone at your settings. The LIVE view is a spectrum of the output.
Oversampling
OFF, 2×, 4×, 8× and 16×: a half-band resampler with a 90 dB stopband, and anti-derivative anti-aliasing on the harmonics stage. The added layer’s alias floor measures below −97 dB at 4×.
Formats
AU v2 on macOS (Logic Pro, GarageBand), VST3 and CLAP on macOS and Windows. Apple silicon and Intel.
Latency
Zero with oversampling OFF; a few dozen samples at 2× to 16×.
True parallel
OUTPUT rides the wet path only, before MIX, so the dry signal stays bit-perfect.
Meters
True peak (BS.1770), short-term and integrated LUFS, and SAT: how many dB the stage bent the signal this moment.
Smoothing
DRIVE, WARMTH, MODE and every harmonic control are smoothed at the oversampled rate, so automation never clicks.
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