Plugin · Stereo Tube Saturation
cassiopeia
The vacuum tube saturation of our 500 series hardware module Cassiopeia – in your DAW.
AAX · VST3 · AU | macOS 10.15+ Apple Silicon · Windows 10+
€ 49
Yours forever.
Buy once, download, done – including every future update.
The interface
Power through simplicity. Easy to dial in. Easy to love.
Saturation
Drives the vacuum tubes past their designed operating range. The further you turn it, the more overtones the tubes generate — and because tubes clip softly, it stays musical instead of harsh.
Intensity
Blends the saturated signal against the untouched original. Crank the saturation all the way, then decide how much of it actually reaches the mix.
Output
Sets the level going into whatever comes next in the chain, so you can drive the tubes hard without wrecking your gain staging.
With Cassiopeia - loud is still musical. And musical is loud.
Put the Cassiopeia on the master bus and it puts a smile on your face.
Just like magic Cassiopeia easily ads 1LUFS Intergrated to the loudness of your track without noticably changing it.
Achive the modern loudness by boosting the RMS while keeping everything dynamic.
This 1LUFS is a gift you get only from Klanghabitat.
The beauty of the track hides in the details. Its soul is in the filled audio gaps.
Why tubes at all? Running a vacuum tube outside its specification is not a defect — it is the point.
The tube adds harmonics that were never in the source, and it does so gradually rather than at a hard threshold.
That is what makes saturation read as weight instead of distortion.
Hear it before you trust it.
Same take, same level. The only differnece is the tube.
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Platzhalter — optional das vorhandene Video Cassiopeia-WIDE-SoundMIx.mov als Video-Widget einbinden
what producers say
Not our words.
„Wow… I´m super happy with Lyra:MB! Such a nice style of saturation, great crossovers in and no artifacts!”
Joos van den Broek
Music Producer / Mix & Mastering
Powerwolf, Sbathon, Ayreon, Blind Guardian, Epica, After Forever.
„Cassiopeia really pushes things forward in the mix in a subtle but effective way.“
Henrik Udd
Music Producer / Mix & Mastering
Architects, Bring Me The Horizon, Hammerfall
The Cassiopeia has quickly become a go to on my stereo bus, bringing depth, punch and a really musical sense of excitement in a very balanced and even way. I also really love it on parallel drum and guitar buses.
Jaime Gómez Arellano
Music Producer – Mix – Mastering Engineer
Paradise Lost, Ghost, Opeth, Cathedral, Moonspell
„The fastest shortcut to rich and lush drum-compression. It tames your frequencies if you want it to and if you unleashed it, they will roar.“
Matten Zwei
Producer & Songwriter
„I fell in love with the unit and plugins right away. It does everything from being a smooth transient shaper to a tasteful colored saturation. I find new use for it in every session, it’s been on drums, bass, acoustic guitars and keys so far.“
David Castilo
Music Producer / Mix & Mastering
Opeth, Whitechapel, Katatonia, Carcass, Dark Tranqullity, Leprous, Soen, Soilwork, Candlemass, Bloodbath and many more
cassiopeia — € 49
One‑time purchase. Every format. Every future update. No activation, ever.
In a highly oversaturated market - the saturation that does not oversaturate.
Cassiopeia was designed to deliver tasteful tube saturation that never feels like too much – always and in every setting.
From super subtle to lovely colorful – you won’t get closer to tube saturation in digital domin than with Cassiopeia.
And never overdo.
Or take more of it
Both plugins, one price.
plugin bundle
€ 99
cassiopeia and lyra:mb together. Same terms, same freedom — no licence, no activation.
lyra:mb (plugin)
€ 79
The multiband sibling. The same tube character, split across bands so you can saturate where it helps.
Questions
Before you buy.
Which formats do I get?
AAX, VST3 and AU. One download contains all of them.
Does it run natively on Apple Silicon?
Yes. macOS 10.13 or newer, 64 bit, Apple Silicon native. On Windows you need Windows 10 or newer, 64 bit.
Do I need an account or a licence key?
No. There is no activation, no licence server and no dongle. You download the plugin and it works.
Can I try it first?
Yes, the demo is fully functional. Run it in your own sessions and buy it only once it has earned its place.
What do updates cost?
Nothing. All future updates are included, permanently.
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