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Saturation by Softube

Softube's new Harmonics saturation processor plugin offers a wide range of tones and variations as well as an easy-to-use interface.

1. Review: Tape Saturation Plugin by Softube Softube from Sweden offers a fine array of quality plugins for recording. Their latest endeavor is TAPE, a reel to reel emulation plugin meant to give your recording the sound of having been recorded on an analog tape reel.
2. Softube has released Saturation Knob as a free download. Saturation Knob can be used in any VST, Audio Units or AAX host—and also as a Rack Extension in Propellerhead’s Reason—on both Mac and Windows platforms.

Time to get reel! Softube's Tape plug-in adds cohesion and weight to your mixes. But Tape goes far beyond your average tape machine emulation. It includes three distinctly different tape machine types, and it offers the ease of use and low CPU strain that today's music creators rightfully expect.

Even in this day and age, it's common practice for computer based professional studios to run their mixes through at least one generation of analog tape. Why? Because even when used subtly, analog tape has a smoothing effect and adds cohesion and weight to a mix—it takes the recording from a collection of individual tracks into a song where everything is connected and works together. With Softube's Tape plug-in, you can have all that and more.

Three Machines in One

Tape includes three different tape machine types in one plug-in. Type A is based on a classic Swiss high end reel-to-reel machine, known and loved for its precision and linearity. Type B is much more colorful—it's a transformer based machine which adds extra weight and cream to the low end. Lastly, Type C is based on a British tape machine with a distinct vintage vibe.

Reloader v3. Ease of Use

Select your favorite tape machine Type, and adjust the Amount knob to taste. In most cases, that's all you need to do to soak your tracks in analog tape sweetness. Easier still, load up one of the included presets, made by award winning engineers such as Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2, Strokes) and Howard Willing (Smashing Pumpkins, Sheryl Crow, Kris Kristofferson).

Feeling tweaky? Why not start by trying the different tape speed settings—you'll find that the slower the tape speed, the more pronounced is the so-called tape head bump, which adds low end to the mix. Or open the Remote Control panel where you can control the selected tape machine's speed stability, crosstalk amount and several other tape-a-liscious features.

Dense Sound, Light on CPU

Add a single instance of Tape on your master bus to emulate what most computer based studios do today—mix in the computer, then mix down to a stereo tape machine—or go vintage style by adding Tape to every single track in your mix. Yes, your computer will be able to handle it. As most Softube plug-ins, Tape is uniquely light on your computer's processor.

Extras for Studio One Users

If you run Presonus Studio One, you can not only use Tape as a standard plug-in. Adding Tape to your MixFX slot gives you Tape Multitrack. Tape Multitrack includes all the goodies of Tape, but in addition, you get selectable crosstalk between each individual track—and you can easily control the Tape Multitrack settings from a single interface. The Tape and Tape Multitrack license is one and the same. This means that if you're not a Studio One user but at some future point decide to switch to that DAW, you will already have Tape Multitrack installed, licensed and ready to go.

In Short

• Realistic analog tape sound
• Three tape machine types included
• Easy to use
• Low CPU usage
• Includes Tape Multitrack which can be used in the MixFX slot of Presonus Studio One—adding individual channel crosstalk and single interface control of all tracks

System Requirements:

Version 2.0 of the Softube plug-ins have the following minimum requirements:

All Native Versions:

• Mac OS X 10.9 or newer
• Windows 64-bit, versions 8 or 10
• Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or newer
• Screen resolution larger than 1280x800
• 1 GB RAM or more, and at least 6 GB hard disk space for installation (individual plug-ins take less space)
• Any VST, VST3, AU, or AAX (Pro Tools 10.3.7, 11.0.2 or higher) compatible host application
• Softube/Gobbler account
• Gobbler application to manage license activation and plug-in downloads
• Please make sure that you always use the latest iLok License Manager. It is not included in the Softube installer, but can be downloaded from www.ilok.com
• Broadband internet access for downloading installer and register licenses​

Please Note:

• Windows XP and Vista are no longer officially supported
• All Softube plug-ins support both 32- and 64-bit hosts, although a 64-bit OS is required. Supported sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4 and 192 kHz, in both mono and stereo

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Softube launches Harmonics, a new plugin with 5 different distortion options that analyzes the audio to respect the transients and focus its action on the harmonic part.

The distortions, a terrain in which the most common is to recommend the passage to analog systems to avoid incurring the annoying aliasing, are gaining weight in their software versions thanks to careful implementations, often with strong internal oversampling. But in addition, the ease of the digital to implement complex functions makes it possible to reach where the pure analog have it difficult.

Harmonics aims for that ‘plus’ that digital can contribute, also in the field of distortion in which Softube has a broad trajectory as its brand.

Corel draw x5 full download. The basic idea with Harmonics, apart from that of detailed analog modeling, is that the entire signal is not treated equally. Through what they call Dynamic Transient Control, the incoming audio is analyzed, its dynamics and its detail, and is reconstructed in the result of the distortion. As they say, it avoids that the sensation of dynamics is lost or embroiled as it happens with so many other distortion systems.

In the words of Softube, you can reach a higher degree of distortion to impart character without suffering the classic problems of destruction of dynamics and disappearance of transients, which are often confused in one with tails making the listening much less clear and blurred

The flexibility of different types of audio material starting with different objectives in the results is provided by five different distortion algorithms (Solid, Transf, Master, Tube, Modern), in addition to controls such as ‘character’ (which is a filter prior to distortion that allows the signal to be balanced towards low frequencies or high), high pass and low pass filters more forceful (configurable pre or post and with 1, 2 or 3 poles), or a mix control to combine original and distorted signal.

Features:

• Five genuinely different component-modelled distortion sounds
• Revolutionary ‘Dynamic Transient Control’ technology
• ‘Amount’ knob to control the amount of saturation
• ‘Character’ knob controls the tone or color of the distortion
• High and low cut filters can be placed before or after distortion
• Wet/dry blend knob for parallel processing
• THD meter allows fine control of subtle saturation
• All of the grunt, none of the drawbacks
• Includes presets by Joe Chiccarelli and Howard Willing
• VST, VST3, AU, or AAX plugin formats available

The plug-in, which can be used as a VST, VST3, AU and AAX plug-in (32-bit / 64-bit) and is now available for a discounted $ 99 ($149 regular).

More Details / Buy Link: Harmonics