Overloud GEM Sculptube
Tube Distortion Plugin
Sculptube is a processor dedicated to adding valve-produced harmonics to sounds.
It creates an authentic tube coloration which goes from slightly warmed-up tones to heavy distortion.
- Hyper-realistic simulation of tube warming/distortion, thanks to the 4th generation DSP technology
- Triode and Pentode simulation
- Tube biasing control
- Built-in EQ and parallel processing to sculpt the tone
- Low CPU usage: more than 1500 instances on a Macbook Pro Retina
- Multilevel undo-redo
- A/B Comparison
- Scribble Strips: take notes anywhere on the plugin panel
- Meter Calibration: calibrate the VU meters at 4 different sensibilities
Warm Up
With mild Drive settings you can recreate an authentic analog coloration to individual tracks or mixes.
Distort
The Sculptube can be used to overdrive the input and recreate different kind of tube distortions, including Triode and Pentode curves.
Excite
Thanks to its built-in eq and parallel processor, it can be used to revive the tracks by adding natural harmonics in the high-end.
The Magic of Tube Biasing
The Bias knob controls the amount of current through the tubes.
- At low current the tubes are under-biased and the sound is inclined to be thinner and break up easily.
- At medium current settings, the Sculptube distorts least, and this is the typical setting for just warming up a sound.
- At high current the tubes are over-fed and the tone becomes quite fat and harmonically rich.
3 Tube Configurations
There are 3 settings for the type of distortion:
- Program 0 (Triode) creates the typical musical effect found with triode valves, with very rich 2nd harmonic distortion, good for warming up a sound.
- Program 1 (Pentode) creates a Pentode distortion, with prevailing odd harmonics, which makes the sound more aggressive while retaining that valve character.
- Program 2 (Special) is obtained with a pretty unusual way of configuring the valve, which gives an extra octave at higher bias settings.
System Requirements
Mac
Sculptube is available as Audio Unit, VST, AAX32 (ProTools 10.3.5 and above), AAX64 (ProTools 11 and 12) plugins, as well as a standalone application.
Both 32bit and 64bit are natively supported.
You can authorize Sculptube on up to three computers that you own and one USB stick with a simple one-click software procedure (no hardware key needed).
- CPU: Intel Core i3 1.4GHz or better
- RAM: 4GB minimum
- Screen Resolution: 1280x800 minimum
- OS: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and above are supported.
Sculptube is available as VST, AAX32 (ProTools 10.3.5 and above), AAX64 (ProTools 11 and 12) plugins, as well as a standalone application.
32bit and 64bit are natively supported.
You can authorize Sculptube on up to three computers that you own and one USB stick with a simple one-click software procedure (no hardware key needed).
- CPU: Intel Core i3 1.4GHz or better
- RAM: 4GB minimum
- Screen Resolution: 1280x800 minimum
- OS: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 are supported.
Supported DAWs
- Pro Tools 10.3.5 and above (Mac & Windows)
- Logic Pro 9 and above (Mac only)
- Cubase 6 and above (Mac & Windows
- Ableton Live 6 and above (Mac & Windows)
- Digital Performer 7 and above (Mac & Windows)
- Nuendo 5 and above (Mac & Windows)
- MainStage 2 and above (Mac only)
- Garage Band 10 and above (Mac only)
- Final Cut Pro X and above (Mac only)
- Studio One 1 and above (Mac & Windows)
- Reaper (Mac & Windows)
- Sonar X3 and Platinum (Windows only)
System Requirements
- MacOS 10.9 Mavericks and above
- Windows 10 and above (32 and 64-bit)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
- 4GB RAM or more
- 1280x800 screen resolution or higher
- Includes 3 activations per license
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