sharke

jpetersen
That ridiculous huge space-disrespecting knob has to be the most useless ProChannel-plug ever.
 
There are soooo many distortion effects!
 

 
And just how few versions of an effect must there be before you don't consider it a waste of space? I guess every EQ and compressor is a waste of space as well? 
 
As far as saturation plugins, they're not all the same. Some are better than others. The Softube saturation knob is very good quality, so is hardly a waste of space. 
 

This!!

I use this one in other DAWs beside Sonar. I know a number of people who love it.

I'll really miss Tube. It was very much underrated, and the "secret ingredient" to a lot of my bass and drum tracks. The Softube has its own merits, but I've yet to find anything that substitutes for Tube.

dubdisciple

sharke

jpetersen
That ridiculous huge space-disrespecting knob has to be the most useless ProChannel-plug ever.
 
There are soooo many distortion effects!
 

 
And just how few versions of an effect must there be before you don't consider it a waste of space? I guess every EQ and compressor is a waste of space as well? 
 
As far as saturation plugins, they're not all the same. Some are better than others. The Softube saturation knob is very good quality, so is hardly a waste of space. 
 

This!!

I use this one in other DAWs beside Sonar. I know a number of people who love it.

I think Dave Pensado listed it in his top 10 favorite plugins. 

Anderton
I'll really miss Tube. It was very much underrated, and the "secret ingredient" to a lot of my bass and drum tracks. The Softube has its own merits, but I've yet to find anything that substitutes for Tube.

 
I've found a good "secret sauce" plugin for drum and bass tracks is Sausage Fattener. You don't have to use it to fatten tracks all the way to sausage shape - I find that if you just give it 5-10% on the dial it gives you some lovely warm grit that adds weight to drums and bass. 

Softube is a beautiful secret weapon I use on so many things but definitely the bass and drum tracks. Not even a waste of space

I agree! One of my favorite saturation plugins....   Its free with producer anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOznYyUPOTE
 
Video on using Blue Cat's free Gain control with the Softube.

All Softube software has a minimum of 2 activations (some have 3) so you only need an ILOK account and not a physical ILOK unless you require more activations, and I too like Saturation knob but the one from Softube is an updated version as well.

sweet.  i was just using the Pro Channel version of this last night!

The knob has never been a waste of space, I've had great results with it over the years.