Wave Arts Tube Saturator

[colonel kurtz]

http://wavearts.com/products/plugins/tube/

i read a review on this in the latest tapeop the other day...sounds like an amazingly crazy plugin, but almost unusable due to CPU usage issues...anyone here have any experiences with it so far? i'm thinking of checking out the demo, but i'm not even sure my PC will run 1 instance of it...

 

[::XeS::]

I checked the demo....only an instance of this plugin takes 30%-40% of my cpu...pretty useless

 

[FloridaRolf]

Yep, uses ~9% cpu but totally worth it

 

[LeSedna]

anyway you should print the result if you are satisfied. If it's really worth it

 

[siegfried]

Better to have truly awesome plugin which is CPU hungry than another shitty one which is light on CPU... you can use freeze

 

[Dollarosa]

I have it. Use it on vocal bus and drum buss, sounds amazing, but thinking about the soundtoys saturator (can't remember the name)

 

[Emdprodukt]

looks interesting. want.

 

[Masticore]

I use a psp saturator, very lovely plugin. Definately beefs up any signal. I use it on bass and guitar tracks. Came in a bundle that was pretty cheap, I also use the bass boost plugin also.

 

[Melodeath]

Sounds badass. Only used about 9% CPU too

 

[Emdprodukt]

Just got it. Awesome tool, very good sounding! But it's recommended to freeze tracks you use it on

 

[Ermz]

I don't think we're in the right era for plug-ins like this. I usually opt for Soundtoys Decapitator, URS Saturation or iZotope Trash for my grit needs. Nebula also has some awesome preamp drive programs you can use, at less of a hit.

 

[lordofthestring]

One of the best I've heard but definitely CPU intensive. When monitoring live with this, I only get a few crackles during playback.

 

[colonel kurtz]

I don't think we're in the right era for plug-ins like this

in the tapeop review i read, the reviewer asked the developers how long they thought it would be until your average computer could run a guitar amp sim using their modeling - answer was around 5 years

times like this i hate still having a single core CPU