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Saturation Knob is the analog sounding, simple to use, yet versatile way of adding some sweet distortion to your tracks. The knob itself controls the amount of saturation, and there are three different distortion characteristics to choose from by flicking the switch.
With the switch set to Neutral, the entire frequency spectrum of the sound gets distorted when you turn up the Saturation knob. Put it on Keep Low, and the saturation will mainly affect the lower part of the frequency spectrum, while the top end stays clear. Conversely, with Keep High selected, the low end will retain its clear sound and instead only the treble parts of the sound will get distorted. This makes a wide variety of distortion characteristics available to you.
Reviewed By ps142 [all]
January 6th, 2026
Version reviewed: 2.6.22 on Windows
Nothing special. There are other options that do the same, and even better. GSat+ for example.
Plus it requires an installation of an PACE iLok service and the apple Bonjour service, plus the softube central... your email address spread over at least 2 other websites... but seriously ilok for a free plugin?
The sound is good, if you want the hussle download it, i dont think the sound justifies the extra steps and apps and services installed on your systems. 2.5 out of 5.
Reviewed By lunette [all]
June 19th, 2025
Version reviewed: 2.6.1 on Mac
One of the rare saturation I know that is easy to use with subtle rendering never going in the dirty sound. One can choose between keeping the low or high untouched or not. Works great on drums, bass voice. I never used it on guitar as usually I get that through sim.
Reviewed By RobertSchulz [all]
August 26th, 2022
Version reviewed: 2.5.46 on Windows
Great saturation plugin. Use it to up to 10 or 11 o'clock for gentle saturation, and above for a more distorted sound.
One important thing: They updated the plugin (along a generic Softube plugin overhaul) and the plugin has more parameters and most of all meters now.
You can adjust input and output gain independentely, have meters for Peak; Momentary, Short and Integrated RMS or LUFS for both stereo channel, input highpass and more.
Most important one is an automatic gain compensation feature which is absolutely great.
Set the mode, Dial in the amount of saturation and click on 'Set'. The plugin will thereafter automatically adjust the volume to unity gain.
The GUI is resizable as well now.
Reviewed By @tata_arias [all]
April 9th, 2021
Version reviewed: 2020.10 on Windows
It's an excellent, great-sounding product. it is really very easy to use. and it's free!!! It has the necessary controls so that the saturation works in bass, normal and treble. For very it is a must-have plugin.
Reviewed By pvallejosb [all]
March 27th, 2021
Version reviewed: 1 on Windows
Don't konow why this has two stars. This is an excellent plugin and it's free! It's logical the lack of features, because if it had more it would be expensive. It sounds amazing.
Also most of the negative reviews are because the process of downloading it and not about the plugin quality.
$149.00Saturn 2
You can pull the DLL out of the installer by opening it with a file archiver like 7-zip or WinRAR.
You can no longer pull the DLL out of the installer. Everything has to be installed, including their proprietary Licencing software.
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A mix and master output option would be a bonus.
This installer is small compared to IK Multimedia's T-RackS 5. over 3GB.
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