Getting into saturation...

holonology
holonology Member Posts: 84 Helper
edited October 22 in Komplete General

Hey, I'm looking to road test Komplete Standard's effects in my productions. As Komplete offers a few routes for this, I'd be interested to see what you are all using and if you have any favourites.

So the type of music I make works best with warm saturation (digital or analogue, I'm open to both.) So I guess my saturation preference is for something subtle and warm that brings life to tracks for the most part, to either colour the sound or fatten up a thin sounding element. I'll be judging this against Ableton stock tools for comparison also. Ideally this would be a versatile tool that could be used both on individual tracks and on the master.

In this scenario, do you have any recommendations as to what to start with first? I notice that Komplete points me in the direction of Supercharger that also features compression, but then there's Dirt which has a fair few saturation presets.

I have yet to spend my PA voucher, so I am open to picking up something specialist, if there's a go-to plugin on offer there that does this in a way that Komplete doesn't compare to.

Grateful for any pointers 🙂

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  • Gee_Flat
    Gee_Flat Member Posts: 906 Guru
    edited April 2023 Answer ✓

    Supercharger is a freebie with Komplete Start. I"m not a fan of compression, but for smoothing out vocals I genrally go with Cubase stock compressor. I guess Supercharger has its place. Not for me that much.

    Saturation in general is a weird concept. In some Kontakt sounds I find it adds some good grit to dirty sounds, but it can also ruin a sound and has to be used minimally.

    I really like the Transient Master and Tape Saturation used in the Drummer libraries. They're also available effects in Kontakt as is Supercharger.

    edit: I guess what I'm really trying to say is I don't have a clue 😎 but Standard has a ton of effects and you might want to use the voucher to grab that one synth/instrument that you didn't get instead.

  • chk071
    chk071 Member Posts: 550 Pro
    edited April 2023 Answer ✓

    Dirt.

    Best saturation/distortion plugin I ever used, and, I tried quite a few. Most sound really lame when pushed, not Dirt. Sounds very "analog" to my ears.

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  • Gee_Flat
    Gee_Flat Member Posts: 906 Guru
    edited April 2023 Answer ✓

    Supercharger is a freebie with Komplete Start. I"m not a fan of compression, but for smoothing out vocals I genrally go with Cubase stock compressor. I guess Supercharger has its place. Not for me that much.

    Saturation in general is a weird concept. In some Kontakt sounds I find it adds some good grit to dirty sounds, but it can also ruin a sound and has to be used minimally.

    I really like the Transient Master and Tape Saturation used in the Drummer libraries. They're also available effects in Kontakt as is Supercharger.

    edit: I guess what I'm really trying to say is I don't have a clue 😎 but Standard has a ton of effects and you might want to use the voucher to grab that one synth/instrument that you didn't get instead.

  • chk071
    chk071 Member Posts: 550 Pro
    edited April 2023 Answer ✓

    Dirt.

    Best saturation/distortion plugin I ever used, and, I tried quite a few. Most sound really lame when pushed, not Dirt. Sounds very "analog" to my ears.

  • holonology
    holonology Member Posts: 84 Helper
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/66098#Comment_66098

    Cool. I'll focus in on that one. Looks good from a quick test.

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