Saturator Analog Distortion
Saturation Processor
- • 16 Flavours
- • On board LFO
- • CV In & Out
Audio examples
Sixteen flavours of saturation
Saturator Analog Distortion has 16 flavours, each modelled on a real type of circuit: transistors, op-amps, transformers, tubes, FETs, diodes, rectifiers and fuzz. Each one clips in its own way, and the output stays at the input level however hard you drive it. Use it to warm up a mix bus, thicken a bass, or turn a clean synth into something with bite.
Categories & Flavours
Saturator has 16 flavours in four families: Clean, Warm, Gritty and Heavy. Each family goes from gentle to extreme. Clean is subtle colour and glue. Warm is round, tube-flavoured drive. Gritty has folding, chip-like and rectified edges. Heavy is fuzz and full-on distortion.
AMOUNT
Amount is both drive and dry/wet in one knob. At 0 the signal is clean. By about a third of the way up it is fully wet, and above that point the dry/wet blend stays put and the drive keeps increasing, so the top of the range adds intensity. Automatic level matching keeps the output close to the input level, so you hear more character, not just more volume.
TONE
Tone is a tilt around a pivot point that is different for each flavour, with up to about 8 dB each way. Turning it right boosts the highs and trims the lows, so it sounds brighter. Turning it left cuts the highs and lifts the lows, so it sounds darker. The overall level stays roughly the same.
STYLE
Style bends each flavour in its own direction. In the centre you get the flavour’s own sound; turning left or right takes it towards two variations of the same circuit, and both sides also shift the tone (darker to the left, brighter to the right). Clean and Warm flavours respond gently, while Gritty and Heavy flavours change a lot.
LFO
The LFO can move Amount, Tone and Style. It has 7 shapes: sine, triangle, ramp up, ramp down, square, sample & hold and drift. Synced, it uses 25 note values from 16/1 to 1/64, including dotted, triplet and odd divisions, and it’s locked to the song position while Reason plays. Free, it runs from 0.05 to 60 Hz. Each destination has its own depth (±100 %, negative turns the shape upside down) and phase (0–360°).
CV In & Out
There are three CV inputs, one each for Amount, Tone and Style, and each has a trim knob. CV is added to the knob and to any LFO movement, and the result stays within the knob’s range. There is one output, LFO CV Out, which carries the raw LFO at full scale (−1 to +1), before the per-destination depth and phase. It reads 0 while the LFO is off and keeps running in Bypass and Off.