Tape, tube, console — reduced to feeling. Adds the warmth and body of analog gear to anything that sounds cold or thin. You pick the texture. Saelin picks the amount.
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One clip per character. Toggle Dry / Ember to hear the difference. Swap in your own clips when ready.
Digital recordings are pristine. They're also cold. There's a hardness to the transients, a thinness in the low-mids, a sterility in the high end that nothing you track in a bedroom quite escapes.
What you're hearing — on the records you love — is the character of real analog hardware: the even-harmonic saturation of a tube preamp, the soft-knee compression of tape oxide, the punch of a great console summing bus.
Ember gives you that character adaptively. It reads your signal's level, density, and dynamics, and continuously adjusts the saturation and warmth to match what the performance needs — not what you could have set manually before you started playing.
The character (Tape, Tube, Console) defines the analog flavor. Bloom and Hue define the weight and color. Everything else Ember handles in real time, continuously, tracking your performance.
Controls how much the saturation character comes through. At low settings, Ember adds a gentle warmth that listeners hear rather than notice. At higher settings, the character becomes tangible — the recording has weight. The adaptive engine scales the actual amount to match your signal level, so it sounds right whether you're quiet or loud.
Shapes the tonal emphasis of the saturation — warm and full (left) versus forward and present (right). Think of it as the balance between the low-mid body and the upper-harmonic shimmer. Different source material finds its sweet spot at different Hue settings; the adaptive engine keeps that sweet spot consistent as the performance changes.
Ember is character, not a channel strip. It's the right tool anytime you want a digital recording to feel like it touched something warm on the way to your ears.
"It's the difference between a track that sounds recorded and a track that sounds made."
On the feeling Ember adds
A one-time purchase. No subscription, no iLok, no dongle. Ember installs alongside Shine and Gloss, and activates on up to two machines simultaneously.
14-day money-back guarantee. If it doesn't make your recordings sound warmer, email us within 14 days and we'll refund you in full — no questions.
Already own Shine? Ember is the natural next step — clarity first, then warmth, then finish.
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