A Saturator is a music producer’s secret weapon or their biggest addiction. In the right hands, it’s a sculpting tool, much like a compressor is when you’re searching beyond basic features and need specific colors and dynamic control. The SSL X Saturator offers an amazing palette of analog-style distortions that can be gentle and help sounds gel or driven to the extremes making sounds really stand out.
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Why Use SSL X Saturator Plugins?
Saturators are great for adding spice, sheen, and presence to your music. They add tasty forms of soft clipping, compression, and limiting resulting in punchier, louder, and fuller sounding mixes. Good saturators will also add color, weight, depth, and character and have good gluing properties as well.
They work well on both individual sounds as well as busses and groups.
The SSL X Saturator In Action
Key SSL X Saturator Features
- Harmonics: Pushes through 2nd and 3rd order harmonics
- Drive: Sets the drive level
- Depth: Governs the amplitude of the distortion
- Shape: Allows you to choose between rough or smooth-edged distortion
- Mix Knob: For easy parallel processing control
- Headroom Button: Creates an additional 6db of headroom
- Metering: Input/Output Peak hold and RMS metering
- A/B Comparison: Handy A/B preset for comparing sets of saturation settings
- Analog Style Harmonics: Both even and odd-order harmonics needed for producing pleasing distortions
- Transistor Emulation: Select between transistor and valve or blend them together
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Mac
- macOS Sierra (10.12) or higher
- Intel Dual-Core Mac running at 2.4GHz or higher
- 4GB of RAM minimum, 8GB preferable
- AU, VST2, VST3, AAX Native
Windows
- Windows 7 (64-bit), 8 (64-bit), 8.1 (64-bit), and Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Intel Core 2 (or comparable) CPU running at 2.4GHz or higher
- 4GB of RAM minimum, 8GB preferable
- VST 2 (64-bit), VST3 (64-bit), AAX Native (64-bit)
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