saturation
Distortion mild enough to be heard as colour rather than as an effect — tape, tube and transformer emulation.
Chow Tape Model— Chowdhury DSP
Chow Tape Model is a digital emulation of a reel-to-reel analog tape machine. The original algorithm was developed to emulate the Sony TC-260, but has since been expanded to be able to model a wide variety of tape machin
Crispy— herzplatinedurchgebrannt
Saturation plugin with odd/even harmonic control, pre-saturation high/low pass filters, oversampling, matched bypass, and auto-gain
Dust Saturator— Andy Ma
Dust Saturator adds upper harmonics and a sandy, granular texture to a sound by time-shifting each sample forward based on its amplitude, without clamping the signal's peaks.
HarmonicExciter— Hermann
Based on a half-wave clipper, adds harmonics to the source signal by mixing them in.
JS Inflator— Aris Kiriki-Liszt
JS Inflator is a copy of Sonnox Inflator.
Kiln— Martin Morrell
A multiband linear-phase crossover plugin with per-band compression, limiting, and saturation, summed back together with no phase smearing.
Krunch— Matthijs Hollemans
Lowpass filter + saturation audio effect plug-in
maetning— soerenbnoergaard
A saturation plugin with multiple selectable saturation algorithms, available as VST2 and LV2.
PiMax— ArborealAudio
Loudness maximizer & multiband saturation plugin
Pult EQ— Consistent Interruption
Pult EQ is a free and open source Pultec style tube EQ VST3 plugin. Features low/high boost & attenuation (Pultec trick), mid/side & stereo modes, tube saturation with auto gain and up to 16x oversampling. For adding moj
SatuMorpher— HomerChel
Saturation plugin that morphs between two saturation types, with drive, mix, and oversampling controls
Setekh— Full FX Media
A minimalistic yet sonically powerful distortion plugin
Spectral Abyss Multiband Saturation— Philipp Schaupp
Multiband Saturation Plugin
The Kiss of Shame— Matthijs Hollemans
Magnetic tape and analog circuitry emulation processor
The Kiss of Shame Rev2— Eros Marcello
Analog tape emulation with two tape voicings, four storage environments, wow/flutter, hiss, and print-through modeling.
Tumult— Consistent Interruption
A noisemaker, texturizer and vintage-tone maker audio effect plugin
ZL Inflator— ZL Audio
A distortion/saturation plugin that increases perceived loudness, with auto-gain compensation and a dB-scaled response plot.
