Klanghelm Releases Free Saturation Plug-in

Klanghelm have released IVGI, a plug-in for Mac and Windows (VST, RTAS, AU).  IVGI is a simple, soft saturation effect well-suited for strapping across your master buss.  Here's what they have to say about it:

"IVGI can deliver very soft and subtle saturation, that feels at home

on the master buss. It is equally capable of very dense and dirty

distortion effects to spice up single tracks.

IVGI's base sound is comparable to the DESK mode in the upcoming

big brother SDRR.

Just as SDRR, IVGI reacts dynamically to the input signal. Even the

modelled fluctuations react dynamically and also change depending

on the drive setting, so that it doesn't get in the way of the

SOUND. Stereo tracks benefit from it's modelled crosstalk behaviour.

Just as its big brother SDRR, IVGI features a “Controlled

Randomness”, which determines the internal drift and variance inside

the unit. It contributes to the livelyness and realness of IVGI's

saturation character. All internal processes are modulated to some

extent to make this possible.

IVGI gives you a sensible amount of controls to manipulate the

character of the saturation itself. It offers a unique ASYM MIX knob

to alter the symmetry of the signal without affecting the harmonic

content much. Usually, asymmetry leads to an increase of even

order harmonics. But in IVGI's case, dialing in the asymmetry makes

the negative part of the signal “cleaner”. This way you can preserve

the dynamic structrure of the source better and get a more

transparent result. Actually, you can think of ASYM MIX as a

transparency control.

IVGI also lets you alter the frequency dependency of the saturation

with the RESPONSE control.

IVGI is internally calibrated to 0VU = -18dBFS.

IVGI is free! So try it out for yourself."