SalaraTechnologies
Analog saturation · AU / VST3

Push it until it sings.

Analog saturation. Raw, direct, no guardrails. A character saturator: tone shaping into a tanh saturation core with its own feedback loop. Push it as far as you want.

$29 Coming soon Hear it first
  • $29 · one-time
  • macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon and Intel
  • AU and VST3
  • Signed and notarized by Apple
  • 14-day refund

This is the real thing. Press play.

The panel below runs the same signal processing as the plug-in, right in your browser. Pick a sound, hit play, and turn the knobs. Turn your volume down a little first.

Sound
Presets

Drag a knob up or right to raise it (Shift for fine control). Double-click to reset. Click BYPASS to compare with the original sound.

Keyboard and screen-reader controls
How it works

Three moves. Big sound.

  1. 1

    Shape what goes in

    Pre Tone tilts the signal before it hits the saturator: dark for smooth, bright for aggressive.

  2. 2

    Saturate and feed it back

    Drive pushes a tanh saturation core up to 24 dB. Feedback sends the result back into the core for dense, singing harmonics.

  3. 3

    Shape what comes out

    Tone tames or opens the result, Level sets the volume, Mix blends it with the dry signal.

In→Pre Tone→Drive · tanh core ↺ Feedback→Tone→Mix · Level→Out
What saturation does

From clean to crushed

The same sine wave (dim) and what comes out of the saturator (amber). The harder you drive it, the flatter the peaks and the more harmonics you get.

CleanBarely touched
WarmSoft rounding
CrunchFlattened peaks, dense harmonics
Where it shines

Put it on anything

6knobs. No menus.
24 dBof drive into the core
2plug-in formats: AU and VST3
0guardrails
Why people will like it

Built with care

Saturation with character

A pre-tone filter, a tanh saturation core, and a post-tone tilt. Simple signal path, big sound.

A feedback loop you can hear

Feedback runs back into the saturation core, so Drive and Feedback interact. Turn both up for thick, harmonically dense tones.

Few controls, all musical

Six knobs and a bypass. If a control did not change the sound in a musical way, it is not on the panel.

No guardrails

Samturation lets you go overboard. That is the point.

Built to be trusted

Universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel, signed and notarized by Apple, validated with Apple's auval. Smoothed parameters.

The controls

Pre Tone
Tilt before saturation. Dark softens the top end going in; Bright pushes the highs into the saturator harder.
Drive
0 to 24 dB of gain into the saturation core.
Tone
Tilt after saturation, to tame or open up the result.
Feedback
How much of the saturated signal returns to the input of the core. Interacts with Drive.
Level
Output level, 0 to 2x.
Mix
Dry to wet. Parallel saturation in one knob.
Get Samturation
$29 USD · one-time
  • AU and VST3 installer for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel)
  • Signed and notarized by Apple: installs without warnings
  • Use it on every computer you own, in any project, royalty-free
  • 14-day refund, no questions asked
Coming soon

Secure checkout by Stripe. Instant download after payment. Windows version coming.

Requirements

macOS12 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel · AU and VST3 · signed and notarized by Apple
Windowssoon10 or later · 64-bit · VST3

Questions

Which DAWs does it work in?

Any DAW that hosts AU or VST3 plug-ins. It is developed and tested in Ableton Live on macOS.

Is the demo the real plug-in?

The demo runs the same signal processing as the plug-in, ported to run in your browser. The plug-in itself runs natively in your DAW.

Is there a trial version?

Not yet. Try the browser demo above.