Three rings of heat. One ember that shows it. Free, forever · VST3 and AU on macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) · VST3 on Windows.
“Alev” is Turkish for flame. ALEV splits the sound at 200 Hz and 3 kHz and heats each part on its own: turn a steel ring and that band saturates, from a faint warmth to a dense, driven sound. The ember in the centre is the only light on the unit and shows the heat of all three bands, breathing with the music.
Each ring is loudness-matched: turning one band from 0 to 100 changes the loudness of pink noise by less than 0.1 LU, so what you hear is the saturation, not a louder signal. The output never passes −1 dBTP.
The saturation runs 8 times oversampled with antiderivative anti-aliasing: with HIGH at 100, a 10 kHz tone leaves no fold-back above −85 dBc. DRY/WET is phase-coherent, so blending in the dry signal never thins the sound.
Three pushers on the case set how the rings move. FREE: each on its own. LINK: the heat spreads to the neighbouring bands, each step 30 % behind (turn HIGH and MID follows, then LOW). GANG: all three turn together.
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