EYETURATE

Warm saturation, tone shaping and a soft clipper, watched over by a neon eye. Turn the pupil to drive it; the eye glows with your sound.

Tube-style saturationLow shelf & high bellSoft clip with a ceiling4× oversamplingLive 3D eye

Close view of the eye: the pupil is a knob, with a neon arc showing saturation at about two thirds

01 / DRIVE

Turn the pupil

The pupil is the saturation knob. From a touch of warmth to thick, tube-style drive, with the level kept in check as you turn it up. The neon arc shows how far you have gone.

The control panel: input gain, LOWS shape and boost, soft clip, output, oversampling, HIGHS shape and boost, clip threshold

02 / TONE

Choose what gets driven

LOWS is a shelf you can place from 20 to 100 Hz; HIGHS is a bell from 1 to 16 kHz. Both sit before the saturation, so a boost does not just get louder: it gets driven harder.

EYETURATE with LIVE EYE switched on: the eye has turned to look toward the upper left

03 / LIVE EYE

It looks back

The eye glows with your signal. Switch on LIVE EYE and it follows your cursor, looks around when left alone, and blinks. Switch it off and it holds still.

04 / FEATURES

Warm saturation

One knob, 0 to 100%. An original, tube-inspired curve, not a copy of a hardware unit.

Soft clip with a ceiling

Rounds peaks off and holds them at a ceiling you set, from −18 to −0.1 dBFS.

Clean top end

Four-times oversampling at 44.1 and 48 kHz, twice above that. It switches itself off when there is nothing to oversample.

LOWS & HIGHS

Up to 12 dB of low shelf and high bell, each with a SHAPE slider for where it works.

Honest in the host

Every control can be automated. Latency is fixed at 47 samples and reported, and bypass stays in time.

Any size

Drag the window to the size you like. Type a value to set it exactly; double-click a control to reset it.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows: 10 or 11, 64-bit
Format: VST3
Graphics: A Vulkan-capable driver for the animated eye; without one, a painted eye is shown instead
Internet: To activate. A computer that is never online can be activated offline.
macOS: Not yet. Tell me when it is ready

FAQ

How does the trial work?

Download and install EYETURATE, open it in your DAW and choose Start trial. You get every feature for 14 days. After that it stops processing until you activate a license; your projects keep their settings.

How many computers can I use it on?

Three at a time, as long as you are the one using it. Deactivate one to move to another.

My studio computer is not online. Can I activate it?

Yes. Offline activation moves a small file between that computer and one that is online. How it works

Does it copy a particular piece of hardware?

No. The saturation is an original design, tuned by ear and by measurement.

Is there a Mac, AU or AAX version?

Not yet. EYETURATE is VST3 for Windows today.

Are updates included?

Yes. A license includes the updates released for EYETURATE; download them from your account.

MAC VERSION

On a Mac?

EYETURATE is Windows-only for now. Leave your address and you get one email when the Mac version is out.