www.kvraudio.com/news/plugin-alliance-and-elysia-release-karacter-saturator-plug-in-37602
16th June 2017
Plugin Alliance and Elysia have announced the release of karacter, a new plug-in for Mac and Windows.
Elysia's hardware karacter Discrete Class A Stereo Saturator has been precisely modeled by Brainworx and made available as a plugin. karacter is affectionately known as "The Coloring Box" by its fans because of the various ways in which it fattens and adds sparkle to tracks.
karacter is actually a bundle of two plugins: karacter mix and karacter master:
Both plugins give you three different saturation modes for painting your project's tracks with colorful harmonics:
Choose the saturation mode you want, and then push it harder or softer using karacter's Drive control to dial in the ideal amount of sparkle or meat-grinding grit. For floor-rattling bass tracks, crank karacter's Color control counter-clockwise to simultaneously jack up the saturated signal's bottom and soften its highs. Grow a scruffy beard on clean FM synth tracks by rotating the Color control clockwise. Spawn mayhem on drum overheads in MS mode by Turbo Boost-ing the kick and snare in the mid channel while keeping cymbals in the side channel sounding crystalline—or overdrive the entire kit. On full mixes, drum subgroups and stringed instruments, karacter's Mix control lets you blend colorful distortion with your pristine input signal to produce the right balance of girth and detail.
Price: $199.
KVR Audio, Inc.
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