Saturation

TS-999

TS-999 is a free overdrive and saturation VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Ignite Amps. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

TS-999 “SubScreamer” is a digital emulation of an overdrive pedal for guitar. It has been developed to accurately model its real hardware counterpart, built for Subhuman guitarists Matteo Buti and Elia Murgia by Ignite Amps in 2010.

The TS-999 core circuit is inspired by the most famous green “808” overdrive pedal, with additional features to increase its versatility. It can easily add dirt and bite to clean guitar tones, as well as make the amplifier distortion sound tighter, more focused and more responsive to picking, avoiding low-end muddiness and high-end fizz.

Every single component on the signal path of the real analog circuit has been taken into account and modeled in the best possible way to match the original sound, keeping an eye to CPU performances and real-time playability at the same time.

TS-999 is meant to be used as an overdrive pedal for live playing, tracking or mixing inside hosts capable of VST or AU Plug-Ins support.

Main Features:

Dynamic 2N3904 BJT input and output buffers analog modeling.

Dynamic 1N4148 diode clipping circuit analog modeling.

Op-amp saturation analog modeling.

Symmetric / Asymmetric clipping mode.

Normal / Fat bass response mode.

Mono / Stereo processing support.

Switchable Input and Output Buffer modeling to decrease CPU usage.

Selectable oversampling rate (up to 8x).

Variable Input Level control for better response to different pickups.

Double precision (64-bit) floating point mathematical model.

Fully automatable controls.

Zero latency.

http://www.igniteamps.com/

TS’ Secret

TS Secret is a free overdrive and saturation VST plugin developed by BTE Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

TS’ Secret is a vintage overdrive effect plug-in.

More information regarding TS’ Secret (Tube Screamer’s Secret) can be found in this article.

http://www.bteaudio.com/

Tiny Distort

Tiny Distort is a free overdrive and saturation VST plugin developed by Tiny God. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Distortion and bitcrusher unit. Sample decimation adjustable down to 40:1, sample quantization from 24 bit to 1 bit, several different forms of waveshaping distortion, variable-hardness clipping, and a gain knob that goes to 11.

http://www.tinygod.com/

thrummaschine

thrummaschine is a free overdrive and saturation VST plugin developed by de la Mancha. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

thrummaschine is a 3-band distortion effect with independent, LFO-driven, filters. Make your bass, mid and high frequencies oscillate at different speeds, shapes and pan, with whatever flavour and level of distortion you dial in for each band.

Features:

3 user-defined bands for bass, mid and high frequencies, with overlap if required.

3 filters with tempo-sync LFO, for each freq band.

Overdrive, distortion and bitcrush effects.

Send level for each band to each effect.

Pan and volume for each band.

https://delamanchavst.wordpress.com

The Devil Inside

The Devil Inside is a free overdrive and saturation VST plugin developed by Elogoxa. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

The Devil Inside is a Distortion + Feedback Synth VSTi.

http://www.uv.es/~ruizcan/p_vst.htm

THD

THD free saturation | exciter | enhancer by digitalfishphones

THD is a free saturation and exciter and enhancer VST plugin developed by digitalfishphones. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

This is no typical high-gain distortion device, nor a ‘decimator’ or bit crusher but it is some sort of saturator. It is intended for a mixer’s insert path to act as a preamp stage. It smoothes out the transients, gives more overall gain and warms a bit.

On good days, it behaves similar to a tube input stage, adds some gentle warmth to the input signal, brings up the overall level and just sounds as if it’s consisting of analog circuits. On bad days it creates muddiness, sounds confusing, crappy and digital as hell.

Features:

Soft Saturation Simulator.

Gain, Punch, Clip shape & Output controls.

+6dB-Switch (doubles the input level).

Bypass.

http://www.digitalfishphones.com/

T-RackS CS

T-RackS CS is a free multi fx and overdrive and saturation and bit crusher and crunch and panner and pitch shifter and phaser and flanger and eq and compressor and limiter and amp simulator and filter VST, Audio Unit, RTAS, AAX plugin developed by IK Multimedia. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Close your eyes and picture a store full of cool, powerful processing gear including compressors, limiters, reverbs, de-essers, multiband processors, and a shelf full of vintage, legendary gear emulations. In short, a dream store for recording musicians, engineers and producers.

It is not just a fantasy. This store is real and it’s available to you 24/7. In the T-RackS 5 Custom Shop you can browse a huge collection of IK’s high-quality processing plug-ins for mixing and mastering and purchase only the ones you want, when you want them. And the best part is, you can get started for free.

Features

Free version of T-RackS including the Custom Shop, the Classic EQ and basic Metering functionality.

Standalone workstation, plugin suite and single plugins for Audio Units, VST2, VST3 and AAX formats.

Custom Shop functionality lets you purchase additional modules from inside the program.

T-RackS shell allows for chaining of up to 16 processors.

Standalone integration with ARC System 2.5 processing.

All processors available as individual plug-ins.

64-bit native support.

High-fidelity oversampling for high-quality audio processing through the entire signal path.

SCC technology coupled with IK’s unique DSM technology provides the most realistic software emulation of vintage gear to date.

Extremely easy to use, with style-based presets, full chain visualization, one-click single module or chain bypass, “compare” function and more.

What’s new

4 new processors available for separate purchase: Master Match, Dyna-Mu, ONE, EQual.

Resizable*, redesigned interface and plugin GUIs.

Expandable broadcast-ready metering suite*.

Floating meters option*.

Chains of up to 16 processors.

Album Assembly section with waveform editing and metadata*.

Enhanced audio engine.

Up to 192 kHz/32-bit floating point*.

4 dithering algorithms.

Equal gain option*.

Signature presets from the industry’s top engineers*.

* Features available by upgrading to T-RackS 5, T-RackS 5 Deluxe or T-RackS 5 MAX. T-RackS 5 CS supports projects up to 48kHz and features basic metering functions. Presets require specific modules which might not be part of this version of T-RackS 5. You can however download any processor for free and test them for 14 days before purchase.

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/

Sweetgirl luxury Compressor/Saturator

Sweetgirl luxury Compressor/Saturator is a free compressor and saturation VST plugin developed by Acidacide Media. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

The Sweet Girl Compressor/Saturation plug-in is a soft stereo processor that will fit right in with your collection of limiters, threshold VST effects, and compressors. Simple to use and easy on the CPU, not to mention that she was knitted from grandmas best fabric. Enjoy.

Designed by Marcus R. Johnson, Acidacide Media for KVR DC 2012.

https://sites.google.com/site/acidacidemedia/

Soul Force!

Soul Force! is a free overdrive and saturation VST plugin developed by ndc Plugs. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Soul Force! is basically a waveshaper, but the shape control can be modulated using the feedback control and source switch, which makes things a lot more interesting.

Source code is available.

http://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs

SGA1566

SGA1566 is a free overdrive and saturation VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Shattered Glass Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

SGA1566 preamplifier is loosely based on a single channel all tube vintage preamplifier. To achieve the most authentic analog sound, the whole circuit is simulated in real time using the high performance circuit simulator. This level of sound fidelity comes at a price of high CPU utilization. For cases where such a CPU hit is prohibitive, we have added a model that is significantly less CPU intensive but slightly less accurate than the circuit simulation.

Use SGA1566 preamp to add warmth to a track, as a saturation compressor, or to add “dirt” with tube overdrive.

Features:

Authentic analog sound through real-time high-performance circuit simulation.

Preamp featuring two 12AX7 voltage amplification stages.

CPU friendly model of the circuit.

Two-band active Baxandall EQ that can be placed either at the beginning or at the end of the signal chain.

Up to 4x oversampling.

Mono or stereo processing mode.

http://www.shatteredglassaudio.com