Satura Advanced saturation console

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Twelve kinds of heat. One console.

Use Satura anywhere you want colour: warm a vocal with tape or a triode, thicken bass through transformer iron, glue a bus with the console, or push drums and synths into pedal drive, folding and crushing. Shape what goes in with the input stage, shape what comes out with the output stage, and watch the curve and harmonics react as you play.

Drive

Up to +36 dB into the saturation. At zero the sound passes clean in every mode; the first 6 dB fade the saturation in, and the light under the console warms from white to orange to red as you push.

Mode

Twelve saturation modes in three families: Studio, Pedal and Shape. Step through them or pick one from the list.

Character

Each mode's own second control: tape speed, transformer core size, a tube's operating point, the diode type, how starved the fuzz is, the shape of the fold.

Bias and Dynamics

Bias shifts the operating point so one side of the wave clips first, for even harmonics. Dynamics ties the drive to the transients: Punch keeps attacks clean, Crunch drives them harder.

Input stage

Low Cut, Bass, Mid and Treble shape what goes into the saturation. A boosted band is louder and distorts first; a cut one stays cleaner.

Output stage

Tone tilts the result darker or brighter, Mix blends the dry signal back in for parallel saturation, and Auto gain holds the level steady so you judge the colour, not the loudness.

Presets

12 factory presets, from Tape Bus and Warm Vocal to Fuzz Lead and Crushed Hats, plus your own presets saved as files.

Twelve modes in three families

Tape

Magnetic tape: hysteresis between record and playback EQ. The highs saturate first, and a head bump adds low-end weight.

Iron

A transformer core. Lows drive the core harder than highs, so the bass thickens while the top stays clean.

Triode

A single-ended triode: warm even harmonics, and loud hits shift its bias so notes bloom.

Pentode

A sharper knee and more odd harmonics than a triode, with sag on sustained notes.

Console

A class-A transistor channel into an output transformer: subtle 2nd and 3rd harmonics for glue.

Diode

A diode clipper, as in overdrive pedals. Germanium clips early and soft; LED late and hard.

Fuzz

A two-transistor fuzz: hard, asymmetric and nearly square. Starve its voltage for gating and sputter.

Clip

A pure clipper. A soft knee rounds the peaks off; a hard knee squares them, louder and brighter.

Fold

A wavefolder: past the ceiling the wave folds back on itself, so harmonics multiply as Drive rises.

Rectify

Half wave adds even harmonics; full wave flips the lower half up, an octave higher.

Crossover

Class-B crossover distortion: quiet signals turn gritty while loud ones pass cleaner.

Crush

Sample-rate and bit reduction, from 24 kHz and 12 bits down to 1.5 kHz and 4 bits.

Studio: Tape, Iron, Triode, Pentode and Console. Pedal: Diode and Fuzz. Shape: Clip, Fold, Rectify, Crossover and Crush. Every mode runs at eight times your session’s sample rate to keep aliasing down.

Every stage, in view

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