THE HEARTH
The screen draws the loop the cores trace, coloured by their real temperature: warm, cherry, orange, white. Set INPUT and DRIVE by eye.
EFFECT / AUDIO FX / V1.0
SOFPREMIUMFORGE
A character saturator built on cores with memory. Six cores, up to three stages, a low end kept out of the fire and a level that stays honest when you push.
VST3 · AU
BUY69 € TAX INCL.
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VST3AUSTANDALONEWINDOWS · MACOS64-BIT2 ACTIVATIONS
VIDEO DEMO
FORGE IN MOTION.
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AUDIO DEMOS / 11
THE SOUND OF FORGE.
CORES WITH MEMORY.
NOT CURVES.
Most saturators send every sample through the same curve. FORGE uses cores with memory: what comes out depends on what came before, the way iron, tape and valves really behave. The distortion moves with the music instead of sitting on top of it.
Around those cores, everything a mix needs: a split between attack and body, up to three stages, a protected low end, honest level compensation and the HEARTH, a screen that shows how hot the cores really run. 40 factory presets in eight categories get you started.
WEAR
Slow drifts of the gain, offsets that add even harmonics, a bias that moves: WEAR gives the cores the life of real hardware.
EVERY FORGE IS UNIQUE
Each instance has its own small tolerances, like two units of the same machine, and your project keeps them.
SMOOTH UNDER AUTOMATION
INPUT, DRIVE, TRANSIENT and WEAR glide over 20 ms, and a change of core or stages crossfades in 15 ms: switch them while the music plays.
UP CLOSE
EVERY DETAIL, IN MOTION.
Captured from the real interface, while it plays.
CHARACTER · BODY · ATTACK
Six cores, six characters
BODY holds the note, ATTACK takes the first milliseconds of each hit. IRON and TAPE weigh and glue, TUBE breathes, GERMANIUM spits and dies, SILICON and FOLD go further. Each core has its own range, from x11 on TAPE to x25 on SILICON at full DRIVE, and switching crossfades in 15 ms while the music plays.
- IRON
- TAPE
- TUBE
- GERMANIUM
- SILICON
- FOLD
- SAME
HEARTH
The HEARTH shows the memory
On the left, the loop the cores trace: a curve without memory would draw a single line. On the right, the dry and the processed sound side by side. The temperature, from warm to white, follows the real output of the cores: raise INPUT until it turns warm or cherry, then DRIVE has its full travel.
- CORE
- TEMPERATURE
- DRY
- WET
FIRE · TRANSIENT
Attack and body, apart
TRANSIENT decides which part takes the DRIVE. Towards attack, the hits burn and the body stays cleaner; towards body, the note thickens and the hits stay sharp. With an ATTACK core, two cores share the sound in time, with no gap and no click.
- INPUT
- DRIVE
- TRANSIENT
ANCHOR
A low end that stays out
ANCHOR keeps a share of the band below ANCHOR HZ (50 to 260 Hz) out of the cores, then puts it back after them, in mono, with a little even-harmonic warmth that grows with DRIVE. The kick and the bass keep their weight, however hard you push.
- ANCHOR
- ANCHOR HZ
FIRE · WEAR
The life of a real machine
WEAR brings the slow drifts of the gain, offsets that add even harmonics and a bias that moves on TUBE and GERMANIUM. At 0 the cores are brand new; turned up, they have lived.
- WEAR
CHARACTER · STAGES
One, two or three stages
One stage only saturates the loud parts. Two or three in cascade reach much lower levels: the saturation window grows and the quiet details get their share. On a bus, x1 or x2 with a low DRIVE; for density, x3.
- x1
- x2
- x3
COMPENSATION · QUALITY
An honest level, clean highs
With COMPENSATION on PEAK, DRIVE turns into density, not volume: you judge the colour, not the loudness. QUALITY sets the oversampling around the cores: ECO x1, STUDIO x4 by default, MASTER x8 for the cleanest highs.
- FREE
- LOUDNESS
- PEAK
- ECO x1
- STUDIO x4
- MASTER x8
COMPATIBILITY & DELIVERY
READY FOR YOUR STUDIO.
VST3 + AU + STANDALONE
64-bit builds for Windows and macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel). VST3 and AU inside your DAW, or a standalone application.
2 ACTIVATIONS
Install the plugin on your main computer and a second machine.
INSTANT DOWNLOAD
Installer, licence and updates available once the order is confirmed.
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VST3 · AU
BUY69 € TAX INCL.
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