RIPUL ("ripple"): Responsive, Inverted, Partial, Unsymmetrical, & Lumped.

The RIPUL-1 analog saturator is a stand-alone distortion tool that offers tons of analog character as well as a soft-knee limiter. Transform and enhance your drum mixes, vocals, and bass tracks with this fiery addition to your mixing arsenal. You can also create sheer sonic mayhem with this tool.

RIPUL-1 features:

• Tube-like saturation (input gain) between 0 dB and 20 dB.
• Output gain between -24 dB and 6 dB. A choice of either stereo or dual mono output useful for often centered vocals or bass.
• A soft-knee limiter with a configurable threshold between -12 dB and 0 dB. Leave this setting close to 0 dB for a more "breathing" sound.
• An analog section that provides various effects based on old hardware, such as hysteresis (subtle input-output lag), electrical noise, and capacitor smearing. This section also functions as a pronounced low-pass filter at higher settings.
• 4x oversampling.
• Stereo output metering.
• Input file formats: wav, mp3, aif. Output is to WAV only.

Signal path:

Input Signal Optional Mono Conversion (dual mono) Analog FX Upsampling Saturation High-pass filter Downsampling Output gain Soft-knee Limiter Clipping Protector.

Notes:

1. If your input (stereo) audio file has transients that hit one channel harder than the other, the saturation and analog emulation may magnify those differences in that channel.
2. It is recommended you do not process mp3 files at all with this tool due to their lossy nature.

This is the standalone version. A VST3 implementation of RIPUL-1 will be a separate product.

Release history:

November 2025. First release (ver 1.0).

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