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Period.
Drive
determines how much the input signal will be in uenced by the Waveshaper
parameters. Setting Drive to zero will negate the effect entirely.
Lin
works together with the Curve and Depth parameters to alter the linear portion of
the shaping curve.
Curve
adds mostly third-order harmonics to the input signal.
Damp
attens any signal near the grid's origin. It behaves like an ultra-fast noise gate.
Depth
controls the amplitude of a sine wave that is superimposed onto the distortion
curve.
Period
determines the density of ripples in the superimposed sine wave.
The DC button activates a DC lter at Saturator's input stage. This is mainly useful for
removing DC offsets from audio material that contains them.
Activating the Color button enables two lters. The rst of these, controlled with the Base
control, dictates how much the effect will be reduced or increased for very low frequencies.
The second lter, essentially an equalizer, is used for controlling higher frequencies. It is
shaped with the Freq (cutoff frequency), Width and Depth controls.
The Output control attenuates the level at the device output. When the Soft Clip switch is
activated, Saturator will also apply an instance of its Analog Clip curve to the output.
The Dry/Wet control adjusts the balance between the processed and dry signals. Set it to
100 percent when using Saturator in a return track.
Aliasing can be reduced by enabling Hi-Quality mode, which can be accessed via the
(PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) context menu. This improves the sound quality, particularly with high
frequency signals, but there is a slight increase in CPU usage.
