The Destroyer's Pixel Saturator

The Destroyer's Pixel Saturator is a free Windows VST saturation and distortion plugin by THE DESTROYER. It is designed as a small, light and pixel-perfect sound-shaping tool.

Main features

• Zero latency.
• Built-in oversampler with internal sidechain for improved saturation quality.
• Four waveshaping algorithms: odd harmonics, odd wavefolder, even harmonics, and even two octaves up.
• Odd and even lo-cut / hi-cut filters with filter slope switching.
• Waveshaping attack and release to shape harmonic sustain over time.
• Dry channel, channel on/off, 38 dB channel boost and channel phase invert.
• Input gain, output gain, pre-clip and output clip.
• x2 zoom / zoom mode.

The idea behind

Inspired by Saturation-2 by Yuri Semenov, a simple and versatile free plugin THE DESTROYER used for years. Since many instances were often stacked on a single sound, the goal was to build a smaller, lighter plugin with more features and faster workflow.