It works great for giving some analog “warmth”, “color” and “fatness” to your tracks, while helping reduce the sometimes too-much-clinical sound of the digital domain. The Saturation Knob is a very straightforward and versatile distortion plugin, meant to add smooth tape-like saturation to the signal it’s affecting, coloring it with some analog overdrive and a hint of compression. Note: this plugin comes already bundled with each copy of Studio One 2, and it’s available for SONAR and Reason as well! Spice Up Your Tracks The good news is that you can get it for FREE, right now, in AAX format compatible with both Pro Tools 10 and 11. However, there’s a useful tool that’s missing…Ī great plugin that’s not included, but should seriously be, is the “Saturation Knob” from the popular plugin manufacturer Softube. The DigiRack and the AIR bundles alone are fantastic and will give you all the tools you need to craft a superb sounding mix! Propellerheads Reason users can get it from the Propellerheads store: you’ve been a Pro Tools user for a while, then you’ll probably know about all the good plugins that come bundled with the DAW. This will make it ready for use in your DAW.

Sign in to the app using your Softube/Gobbler account and click the ‘Install’ button next to the Saturation Knob to install it. Then go to Download page and install the Gobbler App, which is used to install software. Saturation Knob is available for free! Simply sign in to your Softube/Gobbler account and click the ‘Get Your Free License’ button at the top of this page. – Michael Brauer, Seven Grammy awards, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Coldplay How can I get it? Saturation Knob should be renamed Attitude Adjuster! If a plugin can be addicting, the Saturation Knob is it!” Basically, it’s good on just about anything. “My response when they told me the Saturation Knob is a free plug-in was-are you nuts? Seriously? It’s too good to be free! I use it to make guitars fatter and more aggressive, snares naturally brighter, kicks punchier, vocals warmer.

Softube saturation knob