There's nothing resembling an exciter in my Komplete 8 Ultimate and I don't think they added one in 9 (have yet to install my update). The only two exciters I know of are the Waves Aphex and the one that comes with Ozone.

check cosmos from nomad factory , it's a steal now at 19 $ instead of 149 !!
 
http://store.dontcrack.com/product_info.php?products_id=1340
 
it's not really the same thing but you get the low harmonics , low generators and stereo imaging !

Bootsy has an exciter called Thrillseeker XTC

Zo
check cosmos from nomad factory , it's a steal now at 19 $ instead of 149 !!
 
http://store.dontcrack.com/product_info.php?products_id=1340
 
it's not really the same thing but you get the low harmonics , low generators and stereo imaging !

Thanks.. I didn't blink and I'm now using it :) Cheers!

Cosmos is not an exciter. It's a pair of filters. But go ahead and buy it, as you'll be supporting a good cause.
 
Exciters are harmonic distortion devices. Anything that generates distortion generates harmonics and can be called an "exciter". Meldaproduction has many plugins that can do this, even though they're not labeled as "exciters". Check out MLimiter from the meldaproduction free pack. It'll let you specify how much of each harmonic you want. 
 

"COSMOS - HARMONIC EXCITER and SUB GENERATOR"  taken from Noma website ....
 
"Harmonically excite an entire mix"
 
"COSMOS is designed to improve clarity and punch without increasing gain, which results in a more balanced sound. The plug-in uses harmonic enhancement instead of traditional EQ boosting to bring out desirable frequencies in your audio material. COSMOS works great to improve the sound quality of any audio source, including compressed mp3 files, podcasts and voice-over work."

bitflipper
Cosmos is not an exciter. It's a pair of filters. But go ahead and buy it, as you'll be supporting a good cause.
 
Exciters are harmonic distortion devices. Anything that generates distortion generates harmonics and can be called an "exciter". Meldaproduction has many plugins that can do this, even though they're not labeled as "exciters". Check out MLimiter from the meldaproduction free pack. It'll let you specify how much of each harmonic you want. 

Yup Zo warned me but I was looking for something like that anyway as I was previously using the Nomad EQP-2B and the Pro Channel concrete limiter together. I'm still using the Pro Channel PC4K compressor but I'm thinking about swapping it out for a standard VST plugin (to be decided) on the master bus. I'll check out the rest of the exciters as well.. thanks!

gustabo
Bootsy has an exciter called Thrillseeker XTC

Sadly 32 bit only...

All Bootsy plug ins work flawlessly via Jbridge - and most are excellent.
The Thrillseeker range are some of my most used plug ins.
Honestly for FREE his stuff is amazing.
 

Zo
"COSMOS - HARMONIC EXCITER and SUB GENERATOR"  taken from Noma website ....
 
"Harmonically excite an entire mix"
 
"COSMOS is designed to improve clarity and punch without increasing gain, which results in a more balanced sound. The plug-in uses harmonic enhancement instead of traditional EQ boosting to bring out desirable frequencies in your audio material. COSMOS works great to improve the sound quality of any audio source, including compressed mp3 files, podcasts and voice-over work."

You can't believe everything you read, Zo. I'm sure you've got SPAN and Christian Budde's VST Plugin Analyzer. Check it out for yourself. Turn the limiter off for your tests, though, as the limiter does distort pretty badly.
 
I discovered this the day I bought Cosmos but kept it to myself for fear of hurting NF's fundraising endeavor. The first thing I do with any exciter / distortion / saturator plugin is check for aliasing. To my surprise, there not only was no aliasing there were no added harmonics, either. That piqued my curiosity, and prompted me to find out exactly what the plugin actually does. Sure enough, it's primarily a bass and treble booster. "No added gain"? At full rotation of any of the bottom three knobs it'll add between 14 and 16dB! 
 
There is some harmonic distortion, but it's at -90dB.  That might as well be part of the noise floor, and is inaudible. Turn the limiter on and crank the gain, and you do get significant (and audible) distortion. This would be the basis for the "exciter" claim, although it has nothing to do with the Drive controls below. Those are just filters.