OrangeFlavor

Let's start by saying, it sounds really good, and the DSP seems great, which makes me wish the plugin itself was much better.

Firstly, if you load the plugin with drive and output gain at zero, it still adds about 2 dB of gain for no reason. There is no negative output gain, so there is no way to reduce this gain internally, so to hear the effect of the saturation clearly you have to use an external gain controller to compensate, which is quite annoying.

The display is supposed to show the added harmonics, which I think is a very neat idea and it is visually pleasing. However, for some reason the first added harmonic only shows up when the drive is above roughly 2.5 dB. This is misleading, as running a sine wave at -18 dbFS through the plugin reveals that already at a drive of 0 dB an harmonic is added. Inspecting the spectrum of this sinewave as function of the drive shows that the display does not seem to be a very good representation of which harmonics get added, which makes it kind of useless. At a max drive of 48 dB the saturation effect transformed the sine wave into a square wave with only uneven harmonics present, and no visible aliasing effects, so it does seem to be a very clean effect.

Hopefully, the developer will get rid of this unnecessary 2 dB gain increase and will add an output trim in the future. I would suggest replacing the current harmonic visualizer with little bars representing the added harmonics, as would be observed in a spectroscope when running a sine wave through the effect, as this would be way more intuitive.

Hello!
Thanks guys for your work. This very nice saturator! I'm working on finding something else of interest).

This plugin generated some excitement on its release. Its saturator effect is quite strong, much stronger then it would be on real hardware. Its one knob plugin with second knob controlling output gain.

It can't do negative output gain so your sound will be inevitably louder. Output trim is really needed for A/B tests in DAW. Output knob needs to be adjusted, to do negative gain in left position.

Since there is no wet/dry knob, its not for people wanting just slight effect. With output trim and wet/dry knobs it would be really good free plugin.

Nice plugin. On the one hand it does what it should, saturation sounds good, on the other hand I miss at least a hp filter, to avoid to much fuzzyness especially in the bass range, which - for my taste - saturates much too intense, if you eg. want to use this plugin with guitar or bass.
Even better a more complex control would be, eg. an adjustable tilt filter or some additional frequency dependent controls, which allow more precise, separate saturation intensity adjustment for at least bass, middle and treble range.

Pretty nice (and quite brainless) tool for giving anything a bit more character! The output is good for a plugin like this but I wish there were more controls, maybe different types of saturation or filters. Worth a download.