Rockheyday has released Tintar-S, a hybrid saturation processor that is designed to blend asymmetric tube warmth with cubic tape-style harmonics.
Overview:
- Total Character: Dial in anything from subtle thickening to aggressive, edgy grit.
- The Best of Both Worlds: Combines even-order warmth and odd-order bite to breathe life into sterile tracks.
- Stereo Control: Expand your soundstage with built-in width adjustment and Mid/Side balancing.
- Pro Alignment: A phase-aligned mix engine preserves your original punch while adding rich analog texture.
- Versatile Use: Great for adding “growl” to bass, “air” to vocals, or “glue” to a drum bus.
Key Features:
- Engine: High-fidelity Saturation with selectable 2x, 4x, and 8x Oversampling.
- Saturation Model: Hybrid Polynomial and Cubic harmonic generation.
- Drive: High-precision input gain for driving the saturation circuit.
- Density: Amplitude-dependent harmonic intensity control (0-100%).
- Stereo Width: Mid/Side based width adjustment with energy compensation.
- Mix: 0–100% parallel blend (dry/wet) with sample-accurate smoothing.
- Output Gain: -24 to +24 dB.
- Auto Gain: Automatic gain compensation.
- Protection: Integrated 20Hz DC-Blocker to ensure signal stability and headroom.
- Latency Sync: Phase-aligned, latency-matched dry path for parallel processing.
- Spectrum Analyzer: Dual-Layer spectrum display with adaptive 4096 / 8192-Point FFT.
- Spectral Calibration: 4.5 dB internal spectral tilt with 350 ms ballistic decay.
- Dual-Layer Metering: LR Peak meters (body = input level, floating peak = output level).
- Interface Scaling: Runtime dual-sizing layout (Standard and Compact).
- Preset Manager: Dropdown menu with Prev/Next navigation and XML save/load.
- Sample Rates: 44.1 kHz – 96 kHz, automatically matching the host DAW sample rate.
Pricing & Availability
Tintar-S is available for Windows and macOS in VST3 and AU plugin formats for $19.99 at rockheyday.gumroad.com
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