Shape. Saturate. Dominate. Split your signal into low, mid and high, then saturate each band independently. From subtle analog warmth to full-on destruction, Crucible gives you total control over your harmonics.
The same 190 BPM psy loop, without and with Crucible. Loudness-matched (both −16 LUFS), so you hear tone and density, not just volume.
Five reasons Crucible earns a slot on your master bus and every channel in between.
Independent Low, Mid and High control. Drive your bass hard while keeping highs clean, no mud, no compromise.
Hard Clip, Wavefolder, Tube, Diode and Tape, chosen per band. Mix and match characters to sculpt exactly the tone you hear in your head.
Per-band Drive, Mix, Gain, Mute and Solo, two adjustable crossovers, output gain and bypass. Dial in surgical detail or go all in.
Clean, alias-free saturation even when you push hard. Crucible stays tight where lesser saturators fall apart.
Designed by an active Hitech & Psycore producer for real sessions. Mix. Master. Destroy.
Runs in any VST3 host on Windows 10+: REAPER, Ableton Live, Cubase, Studio One, FL Studio, Bitwig and more. Standalone app included.
Assign a different saturation character to each band and stack them into a sound that's unmistakably yours.
Set the Low/Mid and Mid/High crossover points to carve your signal into three independent frequency bands.
Choose a saturation type per band and push Drive. Add weight to lows, bite to mids, air and edge to highs.
Blend with per-band Mix, trim Gain, Solo to audition, and use oversampling to keep it all clean. Done.
Crucible is a 3-band harmonic saturation plugin from Code Chaos Audio, the plugin arm of Code Chaos, one of Germany's most active Hitech Psytrance, Psycore and Darkpsy producers. It was built to solve a real problem in fast, dense psychedelic music: how do you make a track loud, warm and aggressive without turning the mix to mush?
The answer is multiband saturation. Instead of saturating the whole signal at once, Crucible splits it into low, mid and high bands so you can treat each one with its own character. Drive a Hard Clip into your sub and kick for relentless low-end punch, warm up your leads with a gentle Tube in the mids, and add Tape smear and air to the highs, all in a single instance.
Harmonic saturation adds musical overtones to a sound. Those extra harmonics make a signal feel louder, warmer and more present even before you touch a fader. Used carefully it's the secret behind tracks that translate on big festival rigs and tiny earbuds alike, and Crucible's per-band control plus up to 8x oversampling keeps that energy clean and alias-free no matter how hard you push.
Crucible was forged for the fast and the dark, but harmonic saturation is universal. Drum & bass, techno, dubstep, hip-hop, rock, mastering: anywhere you'd reach for a saturator, Crucible's 3-band approach gives you more control than a single-band box ever could. Shape. Saturate. Dominate.
Crucible gives you the power, from subtle warmth to full-on destruction. Out now on Gumroad for Windows (VST3 + standalone).
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