MiGiC Saturator is free
Five circuits of analogue colour, learned from measurements of tape, console stages and valves. No license, no time limit. Take it.
Two weeks ago I released MiGiC Saturator at a price. Today it is free, for everyone, for good.
Not a trial, not a lite version. The whole plugin: five circuits (TAPE, DESK, CLASS A, TRIODE, PENTODE), each with its ABUSE variant, both finishes, VST3 and AU on macOS, Windows and Linux. No license file, no activation, no account. Download it, put it on a bus, turn DRIVE up.
Why free? MiGiC is one engineer in Sweden, and for ten years the name has meant one thing: guitar to MIDI. The Saturator and MiGiC EQ come out of the same workshop, the same habit of measuring the thing I want to hear before I model it, but they are for a different room, the one where people mix. A free plugin is the honest way to introduce myself there. If the Saturator earns a place in your sessions, you will know whether the EQ is for you. And if it doesn't, you have lost nothing.
What is in it: the filters, the drive law of each circuit, the mix pot and the latency are tables I measured. The saturation itself is a small learned model per circuit and ABUSE setting, trained on thousands of stimulus and response pairs from analogue stages. The models run at 48 kHz inside a resampler, so a 44.1 kHz session and a 96 kHz one get the same harmonics. 38 samples of latency, constant, reported to the DAW. AUTO keeps the level where it was while you drive, so you judge the colour and not the loudness.
Download: migic.com/saturator
While I am at it, two more changes. MiGiC EQ is now $39.99, flat, no launch price games. And MiGiC Poly, the polyphonic guitar to MIDI, now comes with the EQ.
If you use the Saturator on something, send it to me. I read every mail.
Philip