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Checked Nov 2026

Best free saturation plugins. 4 free picks.

Free saturation, tape and drive for warmth and grit.

01Our pick

SCRAMBLE.

by Jordon Lumley

Glitch, stutter, tape stop, chops, reverb, delay and vocal tune in one free plugin. One button rolls a new FX chain: the cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 positions. Not just for loops: drum buses, 808s, hats, vocals and the master bus. Mac + Windows.

02

IVGI

by Klanghelm

Analog-style saturation and distortion.

03

CHOW Tape Model

by Chowdhury DSP

Physically modelled reel-to-reel tape, open source.

04

Chow Centaur

by Chowdhury DSP

Model of a famous transparent overdrive pedal, open source.

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