AMANITA SATURATOR v0.6.2

Multi-model saturation

Four kinds of heat.
One continuous gesture.

Amanita Saturator turns one macro into a deliberate harmonic voice. Choose Lustre for an electric odd core, Ember for warm asymmetry, Flux for magnetic density or Velvet for rich valve weight, then move smoothly from untouched detail to full character.

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Amanita Saturator interface with the Lustre model selected

Lustre Bright / odd core

Four authored voices

Not presets.
Different instruments.

All four share one control surface and one timing contract. Lustre and Ember are Amanita's own characters. Flux and Velvet are structural models of measured saturators, each with a Clean and a RAW mode. Cores, contours and harmonic priorities stay deliberately different.

VOICE 01

Lustre

Bright / odd core

Open, immediate and predominantly odd. Lustre adds a polished upper-harmonic edge with deliberately controlled foldback.

  • Firm odd-harmonic structure
  • Airy high-band presence
  • Fast, articulate peak contour

Full-range character

Every millimetre
does something.

There is no hidden “interesting zone” at the end of the knob. Harmonic colour grows across the whole 0–100% travel, while the endpoint remains the fullest expression of the selected voice.

Saturation 68%

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One coherent path

Colour first.
Control everywhere.

Filters shape what enters the nonlinear core. Makeup lives on the wet branch. Mix returns a latency-compensated dry signal that meets the wet one in phase at every frequency, so a half blend keeps its top octave.

  1. 01InputDrive into the voice
  2. 02Cut filtersOff · 6 · 12 · 24
  3. 0316× coreOne of four voices
  4. 04ContourModel-specific finish
  5. 05Makeup + MixWet gain · aligned blend

Clean by default, RAW on request

Every voice saturates at 16× the host rate, whatever the control position, with linear-phase filters around it. Flux and Velvet add a second mode on the 16× HQ badge: lamp on is Clean, lamp off is RAW, the measured path with its own foldback left in. Latency is the same 110 samples in every voice and mode.

16× HQ

Eight decisions

Everything you need.
Nothing to hunt for.

01

Model

Move between four complete harmonic identities without a click.

02

Saturation

One continuous macro for the full character range.

03

Input

Set how strongly the source meets the nonlinear core.

04

Low Cut

Whole-Hz display with explicit Off, 6, 12 and 24 dB/oct.

05

High Cut

Trim the source before distortion without hiding the slope.

06

Makeup

Gain only the processed branch for honest level matching.

07

Mix

Blend against a latency-compensated, phase-aligned dry path.

08

16× HQ

For Flux and Velvet: lamp on for Clean, lamp off for RAW.

Preview release

Take all four voices.
Across every studio.

Amanita Saturator v0.6.2 is available as a free, unsigned preview for macOS Apple Silicon, Windows x64 and Linux x64. Every native archive includes its build report and licence notices, with an immutable SHA-256 checksum published alongside it.

New since v0.5.22: the Flux and Velvet voices with Clean and RAW modes, a Mix that keeps the top octave at every position, and a reported latency of 110 samples (was 6) for every voice.

Unsigned preview
v0.6.2
macOS

Apple Silicon

VST3 · Audio Unit · CLAP

Download ZIP · 12.4 MB

Install without security prompts: quit your DAW, paste this line into Terminal and press Return.

curl -fsSL https://saturator.amanita.music/install-macos.sh | bash

Or run Install Amanita Saturator.command from the ZIP. The plug-ins are ad-hoc signed, not Apple-notarized: macOS may ask you to allow the downloaded installer once.

Freeware · built with JUCE Starter · unsigned preview binaries

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Free for personal and commercial audio projects. Resale or redistribution of the plug-in binaries is not permitted.