Versatile Analogue Distortion Circuit Emulation

Saturation is a mix engineer’s secret weapon. Add a little to a vocal, and it pops right out of a mix. Sprinkle some on a snare, and suddenly it’s cracky and full of life. Pile it on drum overheads for an aggressive sound that will grab your listeners by their ears. X-Saturator tackles all these tasks and more with aplomb.

Choose from second-order valve-style distortion, third-order transistor distortion, or blend the two for a perfect combination of tube warmth and transistor iron. Use X-Saturator with a light touch or drive it into grotesque, mangled distortion, which can be tucked back with the Shape control or folded underneath a mix with the Wet/Dry knob. Creamy and warm or biting and fierce, you’ve never heard a saturation plug-in quite like the SSL X-Saturator.

Features

Saturation plug-in with a huge range of distortion characteristics
Adds pleasing analog-style even- and odd-order harmonics
Choose from valve saturation or transistor saturation or blend the two
Control the edge of the distortion, ranging from smooth to hard
Wet/Dry knob for processing in parallel

System Requirements

Mac

macOS 11 Big Sur - macOS 13 Ventura (64-bit only) (M1 Mac supported)
Intel Dual-Core Mac running at 2.4GHz or higher
4 GB of RAM minimum (8 GB of RAM recommended)
AU, VST2, VST3, AAX Native

Windows

Windows 10 - Windows 11 (64-bit only)
Intel Core 2 (or comparable) CPU running at 2.4GHz or higher
4 GB of RAM minimum (8 GB of RAM recommended)
VST 2, VST3, AAX Native

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