Saturation
V-Drive
Saturation that behaves like a circuit.
$69 $49Intro offer one-time purchase
Overview
Real analog gear behaves differently at a whisper than it does driven hard. What changes is not just the amount of distortion but the character of the unit itself, so the dynamics of a performance become changes in texture.
V-Drive is built so its behavior changes with signal level. At one Drive setting, a quiet passage and a loud one come back wearing different expressions — and how hard you drive it in matters as much as the knob.
Its two channels run independent signal paths with their own filters, the way the two sides of a real stereo unit are never quite identical. The path keeps what most plugins leave out — crosstalk between channels, a high-pass at the input stage, hum from the mains — and the XFMR stage adds the character of a transformer on top.
Key features
Drive, 1 to 11
Shapes rather than amplifies. Level barely moves across the whole knob; almost everything it does happens to the waveform.
Analog Texture
The second axis, and the one that opens the top end. Drive leaves that where it is, so the two knobs are worth learning separately.
65-sample latency, fixed
Oversampling runs at 2×, 4× or 8×, on a minimum-phase or linear-phase filter. All six modes report the same latency, so changing the factor, the phase or Bypass leaves the timing where it was.
XFMR
A modelled transformer stage: the top of the band gets airier and the bottom tightens up, and its hysteresis means the same level can hit it differently depending on where the signal was a moment before — with the harmonics that come out of that. Input Trim decides how hard it is driven; Drive does not touch it. Off by default, and independent of In.
In, which is not a bypass
With In switched off, the signal still passes through a line path of its own: high-pass, crosstalk and mains hum. Bypass is the true bypass, and it is a separate switch.
Level in, level out
Input and Output Trim sit outside the shaping section, so they move level without moving character. Settings can be compared at matched level — a louder one wins comparisons it does not deserve.
Presets live in your host
Nine controls and no preset browser of its own. Every format exposes the full parameter set to the host's preset and A/B system, so a saved setting lives in one place instead of two.
14-day full-featured trial
One-time purchase, no subscription. The license is an offline .gbc file: no account, no node-lock, no telemetry, and no internet connection at any point.
Formats & platforms
| Format | macOS | Windows |
|---|---|---|
| VST3 | Yes | Yes |
| Audio Unit (AU) | Yes | — |
| CLAP | Yes | Yes |
| AAX Native | Yes | — |
AAX is built for macOS only. On Windows the installer ships VST3 and CLAP.
Specifications
| Processing latency | 65 samples — fixed in every oversampling mode, either filter phase, and with Bypass engaged |
| Oversampling | 2×, 4× or 8×, each with a minimum-phase or linear-phase filter |
| Channel formats | Mono and stereo (input and output channel counts must match) |
| Sample rates | Whatever the host session is running |
System requirements
| macOS | Windows | |
|---|---|---|
| OS version | macOS 12.0 Monterey or later | Windows 10 version 1607 or later, 64-bit |
| CPU | Apple Silicon or Intel (Universal binary) | 64-bit Intel or AMD |
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