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Emberlight · Saturation

Saturation that shows you every harmonic it adds.

Emberlight renders the harmonic series it is generating — fundamental to the fourteenth — as columns of ember light with incandescent tips. You see the color while you add it.

  • In development
  • macOS
  • AU + VST3
  • $119 launch price
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Emberlight Saturation — full interface, reference render

Reference render — Sonaurelis Visual Standard v2.0

  • Every generated harmonic drawn live, F through 14
  • Odd and even structure visible at a glance
  • A gold onset line marks where clipping actually begins
  • Live THD readout — measured, not modeled

The hero display

Watch the color arrive

Drive the input and the bloom answers: each generated harmonic rises as a luminous column, odd and even structure plainly visible, tips glowing hotter as they grow. Saturation stops being a mystery box — you watch second and third harmonics trade places as you bias the circuit.

A gold dashed saturation onset line marks where the current drive begins clipping your actual signal, with a live THD figure beside it. Hover any column and it reports the harmonic number and its level, measured from the real output.

Beneath the display, the audition rail keeps judgment one click away:

  • Bypass
  • Delta
  • Harm Solo
  • HQ
Emberlight hero display, detail — reference render

Feel-first macros

Eight controls by default

Five macros, labeled by feel, exact values in the chips beneath — double-click any of them and type.

Emberlight macro band, detail — reference render
  • CleanEmber

    Drive

    How hard the signal leans on the circuit.

  • DarkBright

    Tone

    The tilt of the color being added.

  • LeanThick

    Body

    The weight the saturation puts under the mids.

  • SoftFierce

    Edge

    How gently or abruptly peaks give way.

  • OpenPressed

    Dynamics

    How much the drive levels the signal as it colors it.

The expert drawer

Bias, hysteresis, air guard — one key away

Press E and the full plugin slides out — Circuit (bias · harmonics · hysteresis), Spectral (low focus · high focus · air guard), Level (input · comp · auto level) — each parameter a knob with its exact value in a chip beneath it. The macro band and meters stay live while it is open.

Hidden, never removed: every parameter stays automatable and preset-addressable whether the drawer is open or closed.

  • Oversample 4×
  • DC Guard
  • Mid Focus
Emberlight expert drawer, detail — reference render

Truthful by construction

Distortion character as a number

The rail’s drive-energy meter carries an even/odd balance caption and a live THD percentage — the character of the distortion stated plainly, not left as a vibe.

Suite-wide rule: every moving pixel traces to real telemetry from the plugin’s own DSP. No decorative spectra, no idle animation imitating signal. When nothing plays, the displays hold their calibrated scales at rest — never a synthetic waveform.

Emberlight signal rail — Mix, calibrated meters, telemetry; reference render

Specifications

Where it stands today

Status
In development
Platform
macOS
Formats
AU · VST3
In Logic
manufacturer folder “Sonaurelis”
Default controls
8 — five macros · Mix · audition rail
Full parameter set
expert drawer · everything automatable
Window
resizable from 1024 × 640, free corner drag
Privacy
no cloud · no accounts · no telemetry
Launch price
$119 — or the suite of five for $349

Pre-release. Specifications describe the current development target and state nothing that is not true of the design today.

Development, documented

Hear and see the real build when it exists.

Real audio demonstrations and shipping captures will appear only when release-candidate builds exist. Follow the journal for dated build notes—not placeholder proof.

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