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Calora

Heat that rounds every edge.

Warm magnetic-style saturation: highs round off first, lows thicken, loud passages ease back gently.

● Freeorg.sournd.distortion.calora

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Details

Engine id
org.sournd.distortion.calora
Category
Distortion
Type
Tape, saturation
Licence
Free (Apache-2.0)
Version
1.0.0
Parameters
5
Latency
15 samples (0.3 ms at 48 kHz)
Tail
0.05 s
Sidechain input
no
Channels
mono or stereo

Parameters

The id is the C ABI parameter id and the JUCE parameter id (as a decimal string).

IdKeyNameMinMaxDefaultUnitTaper
0driveDrive0309dBlinear
1warmthWarmth010040%linear
2toneTone010060%linear
3mixMix0100100%linear
4output_dbOutput-24120dBlinear

How it is made

Original sOURnd design blending general techniques: pre-/de-emphasis shelving around a soft tanh saturator, a one-sample output memory for a hysteresis-like loop, envelope-eased drive, envelope-driven auto gain compensation and 2x oversampling.