Togu Audio Line has released TAL-Tube, a saturation plugin with the characteristics of tubes plus an additional amplifier mode. It's suitable for adding higher harmonics and can give more excitement and analog character to digital sounds. At extreme values it can also be used as a grungy distortion effect.

Features:

• Amplifier mode.
• Soft and hard mode (2 different tube types).
• Dry/Wet knob.
• Gain reduction display.
• 4x oversampled processing.
• Some presets.
• Low CPU.

TAL-Tube is free and is available as a VST effect plug-in for Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary.