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The Gorilla Drive V2 Black Friday deal takes 37% off Safari Audio's distortion and saturation plugin, bringing it to $49 until Nov 30, 2026.
The maker calls it a vintage-voiced distortion and saturation beast. It adds weight, grit and attitude without flattening the thing that made your sound hit in the first place.
The range runs from subtle analog-style warmth up to thick, aggressive distortion. Safari Audio says it stays easy to add character while your dynamics stay where you set them.
The headline addition is the Transient Shaper. One control tips the balance between snap and body.
Push it one way and the initial hit sharpens, so your attack still cuts through. Pull it the other way and weight and sustain move forward.
The interface has been redesigned from scratch, and V2 brings a new preset system with it.
The maker lists a new Transient Shaper that trades snap against body on a single control, separate Lows and Highs drive stages, an Ape Mode for added distortion and compression, and a battery emulation that starves the circuit of power to get a ragged, unsteady, well-aged texture. Level matching comes from Smart Gain and Link Gain, which counts for a lot on a saturator, and there is also A/B compare, a short-term LUFS readout and a new oversampling algorithm. Driving harder makes the output louder, and louder tends to sound better, so matched levels keep your A/B comparisons honest.
Safari Audio points to drums, bass, guitars, synths, vocals and busses, anywhere a track needs a little more grit.
Splitting the drive into separate Lows and Highs stages means you can push one end of the spectrum harder than the other.
If you want more bite from a bus, Ape Mode adds distortion and compression together. The Transient Shaper then lets you decide whether the attack or the sustain leads.
The Gorilla Drive V2 deal covers the saturation plugin only, so everything above comes in one purchase.
Yes. The Gorilla Drive V2 Black Friday deal takes 37% off Safari Audio's saturation plugin, bringing it to $49. The offer ends Nov 30, 2026.
It is one control that balances snap against body. Turn it one way to sharpen the initial hit so the attack cuts through, or the other way to push weight and sustain forward.
Ape Mode is a feature that adds extra distortion and compression. Safari Audio lists it alongside the independent Lows and Highs drive stages and the battery emulation.
Safari Audio recommends it on drums, bass, guitars, synths, vocals and busses, whenever a sound needs more grit. It covers subtle analog-style warmth through to thick, aggressive distortion.
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