I was experimenting with a side chained kick-clap to a gated Rapture clip, creating massive pulsing. I added the PC Softube Saturation Knob on "keep low", a little under half (5 to 12), and it really brought out some lows that were otherwise lost in the mix ... in a good way.
 
The ears have it (by more than a nose).

jb101
Is it me, or does he sound like "Godparticle"?

To be fair though after his first thread I just tuned him out. Don't care who is, don't have the time to care.
 
Regards,

Maybe it's just me, but it seems obvious who LA 2A is or it's just an amazing equipment we get a poster like this the exact same time a regular poster here who has constantly bashed sonar over the years starts posting often again. This happens every year and he usually slips up and posts to defend himself under his regular name.

Whoever it is, they've got far too much time on their hands.

Don't be so hard and cynical, it's just my opinion (albeit adamant); surely you wouldn't deny a person the right to have an opinion would you??
Seeing as you don't appear to support my right to have an opinion, i can only conclude that several of you are either moved with envy, jealousy or sheer immaturity, which is it? Or maybe you got burnt bad in the past by purchasing overpriced overhyped Waves plugins and are secretly stamping on the floor sulking about it, yeah that must be it. Just man-up mate!
 
Well just look at it this way, it's better late than never, yeah? Slate Digital now offer the real deal at a bargain price. You could either just count your loses and take the opportunity to get some decent plugins from Slate Digital, or alternatively spend $2,000,000 to purchase the actual real-life high-end analog mixing desks, three Bus compressors and two mastering grade Tape emulations that Slate has given us in VST for next to no money in comparison. The sun is still shining guys, put a smile on your face 

You absolutely have a right to an opinion. It's quite clearly not a very informed one, but hey.

Slate are a good company who make good stuff, and nobody should be put off them by this bizarre regurgitation of marketing blurb masquerading as a conversation. That said, I'm not sure what it's doing in Cakewalk's own Sonar forum.

Hopefully nobody thinks I'm a troll for actually wanting to get back on topic but here goes. 
 
I use the plug-in a lot, and have used it with great results on buses, especially the drum bus. It is a "salt to taste" effect for sure, but some of the groups I've recorded call it "the magic button". If used wisely, it does add a nice character and depth to some things. I rarely have the knob past 9 o'clock a lot.
 
 
 

Yeah, it's really useful. I use it on bass (both real and synthetic) quite a lot as a very subtle presence tool. It can also be useful at more extreme settings as a sound design tool.

To me, tube saturation plug-ins are tough to quantify and I'm sure anyone here who has used real tubes will agree that each tube has it's own character and sound. If you compared two 12ax7s one made today by Tung Sol to say an NOS Telefunken, you would hear a difference without being a hard-core audiophile. I guess it comes down to what you expect out of tube, and how closely the plug-in mimics that.