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zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 6:56 pm

Oh, and while I'm at it, don't forget Amplitube. Especially the tube bass amp models. Without the cabs they can be great for adding some drive to a track.

Vectorman · Post by **Vectorman** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 7:05 pm

xiphiuz wrote:Cytomic The Drop: http://www.cytomic.com/drop

Be sure to give it a testdrive. Its just amazing!

The Drop is my first go-to for adding some nice, thickening saturation and putting a little bit of "hair" on a sound. It really is a great "sweetening" plugin on various sources. Sometimes I use it on bass guitar to sort of approximate the filter-based preamps found in some higher-end basses like Wals and Alembics.

I haven't tried pushing Satin really hard for heavy amounts of saturation yet (I've mostly used it for more modest amounts of coloration thus far). Need to play with it more.

For all-out distortion, I generally just pull up something in Amplitube 3.

Aubrey Lamont · Post by **Aubrey Lamont** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 7:47 pm

zeep wrote:Ableton Saturator and Overdrive.

I usually turn to D16 (and I used to use SDRR), but the Ableton native saturation/distortion is underrated.

Eddie TX · Post by **Eddie TX** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:10 pm

If you do Nebula, CDSM's Vintage Tube libraries are interesting. And, a VST version is available! But wait, there's more! Free VST of one of the tube models! Check it out! And I'll stop yelling now!

Cheers,
Eddie

Synthetic Wav · Post by **Synthetic Wav** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:58 am

Eddie TX wrote:If you do Nebula, CDSM's Vintage Tube libraries are interesting. And, a VST version is available! But wait, there's more! Free VST of one of the tube models! Check it out! And I'll stop yelling now!

Cheers,
Eddie

Nebula is now capable of convincing heavy saturation or it's more on the subbtle side?

electro · Post by **electro** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:48 pm

Synthetic Wav wrote:
Eddie TX wrote:If you do Nebula, CDSM's Vintage Tube libraries are interesting. And, a VST version is available! But wait, there's more! Free VST of one of the tube models! Check it out! And I'll stop yelling now!

Cheers,
Eddie
Nebula is now capable of convincing heavy saturation or it's more on the subbtle side?

I don't think Nebula can saturate anywhere as deep as something like the UAD Moog Multimode with its +20db of extra gain.

Nebula would be good for adding the weight of hardware like using a line amp program after an algorithmic distortion VST.

lacandon · Post by **lacandon** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 5:44 pm

electro wrote:
Synthetic Wav wrote:
Eddie TX wrote:If you do Nebula, CDSM's Vintage Tube libraries are interesting. And, a VST version is available! But wait, there's more! Free VST of one of the tube models! Check it out! And I'll stop yelling now!

Cheers,
Eddie
Nebula is now capable of convincing heavy saturation or it's more on the subbtle side?
I don't think Nebula can saturate anywhere as deep as something like the UAD Moog Multimode with its +20db of extra gain.

Nebula would be good for adding the weight of hardware like using a line amp program after an algorithmic distortion VST.

Oh try the Culture Vulture the harmonics are more then real , the uad one in comparision sounds like distorted noise i have couple analog filters its useful plugin but Uad cant compare in no any way with Nebula no algo can this thing is unreal !

Synthetic Wav · Post by **Synthetic Wav** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 12:57 pm

lacandon wrote:
electro wrote:
Synthetic Wav wrote:
Eddie TX wrote:If you do Nebula, CDSM's Vintage Tube libraries are interesting. And, a VST version is available! But wait, there's more! Free VST of one of the tube models! Check it out! And I'll stop yelling now!

Cheers,
Eddie
Nebula is now capable of convincing heavy saturation or it's more on the subbtle side?
I don't think Nebula can saturate anywhere as deep as something like the UAD Moog Multimode with its +20db of extra gain.

Nebula would be good for adding the weight of hardware like using a line amp program after an algorithmic distortion VST.

Oh try the Culture Vulture the harmonics are more then real , the uad one in comparision sounds like distorted noise i have couple analog filters its useful plugin but Uad cant compare in no any way with Nebula no algo can this thing is unreal !

the culture vulture do you mean the nebula program?

lacandon · Post by **lacandon** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 1:47 pm

Synthetic Wav wrote:
lacandon wrote:
electro wrote:
Synthetic Wav wrote:
Eddie TX wrote:If you do Nebula, CDSM's Vintage Tube libraries are interesting. And, a VST version is available! But wait, there's more! Free VST of one of the tube models! Check it out! And I'll stop yelling now!

Cheers,
Eddie
Nebula is now capable of convincing heavy saturation or it's more on the subbtle side?
I don't think Nebula can saturate anywhere as deep as something like the UAD Moog Multimode with its +20db of extra gain.

Nebula would be good for adding the weight of hardware like using a line amp program after an algorithmic distortion VST.

Oh try the Culture Vulture the harmonics are more then real , the uad one in comparision sounds like distorted noise i have couple analog filters its useful plugin but Uad cant compare in no any way with Nebula no algo can this thing is unreal !
the culture vulture do you mean the nebula program?

Yes,Nebula for saturation,distortion,pre amp and of course eq's is almost the same as the gear if u don't have expensive converter, i only had just problems because of the higher cpu load but in Logic i freeze it very fast and is a bless to use it!Btw i have the Uad Moog too and i use too but more for sound design.

Kaboom75 · Post by **Kaboom75** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 3:37 pm

For synths and bass guitar I really like using Soundtoys Radiator and Filterfreak. Decapitator and Devil-Loc Deluxe for drums.

Mister Natural · Post by **Mister Natural** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:43 pm

for me, if LIVE native doesn't suit (I totally agree with Aubrey above), I pull out CamelPhat and have a nice day

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