FREE Saturation Knob Mk. III
Posted: 19 Jan 2015
This was originally posted by user joshuajohn89 on the PUF. He has kindly given his permission to repost it here (I also extended an invite here as well).
"Two years ago I set out to overcome what I saw as the limitations of the Saturation Knob, ultimately assembling a combinator that I called the Saturation Knob Mk. II, which worked okay, but I did not really know what I was doing when I made it, and it really wasn't much better than the original after all. I think I have learned much since then, though, so with it being free again for a limited time and after noticing some users sharing the same complaints that I had I thought I would take another stab at it today.
Attached is my Saturation Knob Mk. III combinator, which adds all of the functionality I felt was missing, namely a smoothly variable saturation type (a 3-point crossfade between high, neutral, & low modes), output gain (pre-mix), and a mix parameter for blending the dry signal with the wet. For ease of use these four parameters (saturation amount included) are assigned to the combinator's four primary knobs, but inside I have also included an instance of Thor for an additional two rotaries controlling input gain & post-mix volume for more detailed tweaking.
This time around I am quite proud of the patch, so I hope you like it and that it will allow you to get better use out of this nice freebie from Softube. "
Saturation Knob Mk. III.zip
This really improves the functionality in ways I could not imagine and I find myself reaching for this a lot recently.
I have also put together a skin (his design ideas) to go with it.
Enjoy!
"Two years ago I set out to overcome what I saw as the limitations of the Saturation Knob, ultimately assembling a combinator that I called the Saturation Knob Mk. II, which worked okay, but I did not really know what I was doing when I made it, and it really wasn't much better than the original after all. I think I have learned much since then, though, so with it being free again for a limited time and after noticing some users sharing the same complaints that I had I thought I would take another stab at it today.
Attached is my Saturation Knob Mk. III combinator, which adds all of the functionality I felt was missing, namely a smoothly variable saturation type (a 3-point crossfade between high, neutral, & low modes), output gain (pre-mix), and a mix parameter for blending the dry signal with the wet. For ease of use these four parameters (saturation amount included) are assigned to the combinator's four primary knobs, but inside I have also included an instance of Thor for an additional two rotaries controlling input gain & post-mix volume for more detailed tweaking.
This time around I am quite proud of the patch, so I hope you like it and that it will allow you to get better use out of this nice freebie from Softube. "
Saturation Knob Mk. III.zip
This really improves the functionality in ways I could not imagine and I find myself reaching for this a lot recently.
I have also put together a skin (his design ideas) to go with it.
Enjoy!
