Testimonial During the last few years I replaced a lot of mixing outboard with Voxengo Plugins, simply because they sound better. Voxengo Curve EQ has replaced nearly every digital or analog EQ I own (except the Focusrite stuff) and the various tubesim and saturation plugins have made my Telefunken tape machine obsolete. Since I use Voxengo Pristine Space / Boogex all my guitar and bass amplifiers start to rot slowly in their corner, only being used for capturing impluses sometimes. There certainly is still some use for my old stuff, but not too much since I have my Voxengo Plugins. Gregor Hennig - Le Chatelet Music Production Studio Hamburg Altona, Germany Add Your Testimonial Opinions Audio News Room review BigBlueLounge Forum Cakewalk Forum Cockos Reaper Forum Dogs On Acid Forum Gearslutz Forum KVR Audio Forum MusicRadar.com review Sonikmatter Forum Traxmusic review UAD-1 Forum Sound Examples Acoustic Drums (Original) Condensed Highs (Preset) Trasher (Preset)

VariSaturator is an audio effect plug-in designed to apply saturation effects over audio material.  VariSaturator can be used both to boost the loudness of the audio tracks without increasing their peak levels proportionally, and to apply subtle harmonic coloration that makes tracks sound more pronounced and polished.

VariSaturator features two saturation modules which are applied in sequence, in two-band mode each.  The valve saturation module applies asymmetric valve processing that closely resembles sound of valve amplifier cascade, and being a digital emulation, it applies its best sonic features without side artifacts like noise, strong phase shift and high frequency roll-off.  Another saturation module VariSaturator features is a digital “waveshaping” saturator with feedback topology.  This module applies smooth two-band saturation which can amplify signal level and apply desirable harmonic coloration.  If you have some “muffled” track in the mix that needs to cut through the mix better, VariSaturator will help you in this case easily.

VariSaturator can be used in a variety of audio processing cases: you may apply it with good results over drum, bass and vocal tracks, over sub-mixes and of course over complete mixes.  Since VariSaturator does not provide a brick-wall limiting performance, when applied over full mixes, it is best used for the final loudness boost inserted before the finishing brick-wall limiter.

Note, though, that since VariSaturator applies distortion, it may damage original sonic qualities of the audio material if used incautiously.  For initial evaluation of VariSaturator’s sonic performance you can use the factory presets VariSaturator comes with.

• Two-band processing
• Valve and digital saturation
• Multi-channel processing
• Internal channel routing
• Channel grouping
• Mid/side processing
• Up to 8x oversampling
• 64-bit floating point processing
• Preset manager
• Undo/redo history
• A/B comparisons
• Contextual hint messages

This plug-in can be loaded into any audio host application that conforms to the VST or AudioUnit plug-in specification.

This plug-in is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit) and Mac OS X 10.4.11 and above (Intel and PowerPC) computers (2 GHz dual-core or faster processor with at least 1 GB of system RAM recommended).  A separate binary distribution file is available for each target computer platform for each plug-in format.

Version 1.5, 12-dec-2008:

• Various graphics optimizations implemented.
• Channel groups can be named now.
• "VST built-in refresh" global option added.
• Quick main and routing preset selectors added.
• The "Auto" oversampling mode was fixed for most hosts.

Version 1.4, 02-jul-2008:

• A new "Soft" digital saturation mode implemented, which is now a default mode.
• Channel group output soloing implemented.

Version 1.3, 04-jun-2008:

• Various minor fixes.
• Automation in Logic/Mac OS X is now working correctly.
• "Tablet mode" global option added.
• "Auto oversampling level" global option added.
• Glitching sounds appearing in Logic/Mac OS X fixed.
• Virtual keyboard implemented.
• Output/input signal level difference readout added.
• Lock-up on program change in Adobe Audition 2 fixed.

Version 1.2, 30-mar-2008:

• The "Dry mix" parameter implemented.
• Output routing arrangement changed - it is now possible to route the same internal channel to several outputs.
• "Loud noise" issue happening in Reaper fixed.
• A possible cause of a rare occasional crash resolved.
• Cubase/Nuendo freeze after their track level meter dragging fixed.
• Parameter automation freezing in Logic/Mac OS X fixed.
• "Mouse wheel sensitivity" global setting renamed to "mouse wheel precision".

Version 1.1, 11-mar-2008:

• Parameter changes made via mouse wheel are now grouped in the change log.
• Multi-monitor window alignment issue on Windows fixed.
• "Bounce" hang-up issue on Logic 8/Mac OS X fixed.
• Preset/bank load/save error on Mac OS X volume different from the system root fixed.
• Preset/bank name entry "stuck" issue on Mac OS X fixed.
• "New folder" function fixed on Mac OS X when saving presets/banks.
• Plug-in now supports "audio channel layouts" in AudioUnit format.
• Minor optimizations and fixes implemented.

Version 1.0, 22-feb-2008:
Initial public release.