Boutique saturation with house & techno sound DNA.
Torchit is a free, high-fidelity saturation and drive plugin built for electronic music production — from subtle mix-bus warmth to full-blown sonic destruction. Designed by a producer, for producers.
Fully signed and notarized for macOS as AU, VST3, and Standalone.
Torchit ships as a clean, notarized macOS installer — no zip, no manual file routing.
- Go to the latest release.
- Download
Torchit_Installer.pkg. - Double-click it and follow the installer. Because it's signed & notarized by Apple, it installs cleanly — no security warnings, no right-click, no "Open Anyway."
- Restart your DAW and rescan plug-ins. Torchit appears under Remi Blaze.
Full guide: remiblaze.com/support.
- Four saturation modes — Warm (smooth tanh), Grit (asymmetric rational clip), Tube (triode character), Tape (magnetic compression).
- Knee selector — Hard / Medium / Soft, controlling the bend radius at the clipping threshold.
- Drive — from gentle enhancement to heavy distortion.
- Oversampling — Draft (4×) for low CPU while tracking, HQ (8×) for pristine anti-aliased mixdowns.
- Auto-Gain (AG) — inverse drive→output link that keeps loudness stable as you push the drive.
- Three tone modes — BAL (volume-stable tilt EQ), GLW (precision shelf for air/weight), FX (morph filter for creative sweeps).
- Anti-mud HP filter — 20–500 Hz low-cut with three slopes: Smooth (12 dB/oct), Standard (24 dB/oct), Hard (48 dB/oct).
- Delta monitor — solo exactly what the plugin adds, via phase-aligned forensic subtraction.
- Live transfer curve — real-time visual of the saturation shape.
- 21 factory presets, plus user preset save/load and one-click randomize.
- Input / Tone / Mix / Output controls, instant bypass A/B, resizable UI.
- Static latency reporting — a fixed latency to the host regardless of Draft/HQ, so switching oversampling never causes playback hiccups.
- Phase-aligned delta — separate oversampler instances give a forensic-grade null with zero dry-signal bleed.
- DC blocker — a 5 Hz high-pass that removes DC offset from asymmetric saturation, preserving headroom.
- 0 dBFS soft-clip ceiling — a tanh soft clip at the end of the chain catches overs at the output.
- Universal binary — native on Apple Silicon (M1–M4) and Intel.
- macOS 15.0 or later
- Apple Silicon or Intel Mac (Universal Binary)
- Any AU or VST3 host (your DAW of choice)
| Preset | Mode | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Init | Warm | Clean starting point |
| Subtle Warmth | Warm | Gentle bus saturation |
| Tape Heat | Tape | Lo-fi tape character |
| Vocal Glow | Tube | Vocal presence and air |
| Dirty Bass | Grit | Bass distortion |
| Acid Line Heat | Grit | acid bass lines |
| Kick Crunch | Grit | Drum transient bite |
| Hi-Hat Sizzle | Warm | High-frequency sparkle |
| Bus Glue | Tape | Mix bus cohesion |
| Vocal Grit | Grit | Aggressive vocal edge |
| Full Send | Grit | Maximum destruction |
| Remi Blaze Heat | Grit | Signature aggressive tone |
| Tube Warmth | Tube | Vintage tube character |
| Tape Compress | Tape | Tape-style compression |
| Bass Heat | Warm | Low-end enhancement |
| Master Soft Clip | Tape | Transparent master limiting |
| Kick Thump | Tape | Kick drum body and weight |
| Drum Bus Glow | Tube | Drum bus air and polish |
| Vocal Polish | Warm | Clean vocal enhancement |
| Synth Morpher | Grit | Synth grit and movement |
| Tape Lo-Fi | Tape | Lo-fi tape degradation |
Found a UI glitch, resize bug, or DAW-specific quirk (especially AU window behaviour)? Please open an issue:
- Issues tab → New Issue.
- Include your macOS version, DAW + version, and steps to reproduce.
- Developer: designed and programmed by Remi Blaze.
- Framework: built with JUCE.
- License: free under a proprietary Freeware License (see also our terms). Reverse-engineering, repackaging, binary redistribution, or reselling the compiled installer is strictly prohibited.
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