What is the best distortion plugin

[Jafo]

No gui's, but i'm sure the sound is what counts........right?

At the risk of starting another flame war (although it's been, what, ten minutes since the last one, so maybe we're overdue), I've never understood why people care so much about their guis. In what way is it valid to even consider a gui, much less criticize it? If you look at KVR's "User Ratings" link to the upper left, you'll see that "GUI" is the first choice to view ratings, right after "Overall" and before "Sound." What the fsck is up with that? Aren't we supposed to be musicians, not commercial art otaku?

Bah. The only thing a pretty gui ever did for anybody was seduce them into playing with it, and keeping them from making music. Let's hear it for ugly and absent guis, guys!

[DWb]

Bah. The only thing a pretty gui ever did for anybody was seduce them into playing with it, and keeping them from making music.

And made it clear to them what control does what, and enabled them to get the sound they wanted quicker by having every control in the place that they expected it to be, and didn't give them a headache with its horribly clashing colours, and generally kept them in a positive frame of mind for creating music...

I'm talking elegantly functional not extravagantly artistic here, but I do often ignore GUIless plugins because in EnergyXT it's often more trouble than it's worth to tell what they do.

[tl]

wish things are as easy as they seem.. but they are not.. i installed Guitar Rig2 to try out H20 style. and now when i load the standalone it says this:

"sorry but your computer does not fulfill the minimum requirements to run Guitar Rig2. you need a CPU that supports SSE or Altivec."

and when i load the VSTi in to soundforge this error happens:

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D:\Program Files\OrionPlatinum\VstPlugins\G-RIG\GuitarRig 2.dll
Exception 0xC000001D (illegal instruction) IP:0x2AABCEE
In Module 'GuitarRig 2.dll' at Address 0x29D0000 + 0xDBCEE
Thread: SfVstMap_CreateEffect ID=0x874 Stack=0x12E000-0x130000
Registers:
 EAX=046d6ec0 CS=001b EIP=02aabcee EFLGS=00210202
 EBX=0012e138 SS=0023 ESP=0012e0c0 EBP=041c7f08
 ECX=000000b0 DS=0023 ESI=00000002 FS=003b
 EDX=00000000 ES=0023 EDI=000000b0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
 02AABCEE: 0F 28 04 24 0F 29 40 10 .(.: 8B 45 1C C7 44 24 0C 79 .E..Dy
Stack Dump:
 0012E0C0: BD2FC59A 
 0012E0C4: 3DB36520 
 0012E0C8: BE3E500E 
 0012E0CC: 3F209BB9 
 0012E0D0: 00000000 
 0012E0D4: 00000000 
 0012E0D8: 00000000 
 0012E0DC: 00000000 
 0012E0E0: 00000000 
 0012E0E4: 00000000 
 0012E0E8: 00000000 
 0012E0EC: 00000000 
 0012E0F0: 041C7F14  04170000 + 57F14 
 0012E0F4: 041C7F08  04170000 + 57F08 
 0012E0F8: 00000000 
 0012E0FC: 00000000 
> 0012E130: 029ECF7A  029D0000 + 1CF7A (GuitarRig 2.dll)
  0012E134: 00000000 
  0012E138: 472C4400 
> 0012E13C: 029E5573  029D0000 + 15573 (GuitarRig 2.dll)
  0012E140: 472C4400 
  0012E144: 47AC4400 
  0012E148: 00000002 
  0012E14C: 47AC4400 
> 0012E158: 02B4E56B  029D0000 + 17E56B (GuitarRig 2.dll)
  0012E15C: 472C4400 
> 0012E160: 029ED965  029D0000 + 1D965 (GuitarRig 2.dll)
  0012E164: 041C7E00  04170000 + 57E00 
  0012E168: 472C4400 
> 0012E16C: 02A024D9  029D0000 + 324D9 (GuitarRig 2.dll)
  0012E170: 472C4400 
  0012E174: 00000080 
  0012E178: 041C7B28  04170000 + 57B28 
  0012E17C: 0001ADB1 
> 0012E188: 02E4018C  029D0000 + 47018C (GuitarRig 2.dll)

im running an AMD duron 2ghz with 512 ram..(not enough ram for guitar rig mabey?)
what should i do

You are in big trouble.

Woop-woop!
That's the sound of da [warez] police!

tl.

[Donnie Darko Brasco]

Woop-woop!
That's the sound of da [warez] police!

tl.

HAHAHA FUNY!

best distrosion:
channel up to most end and gaining input minimum +60 deciballs!
sound more analogg!


donnie

[soma]

G-rig too really does have some sweet stuff! It was well worth the purchase as it's great for switching effects very fast and has all the basic done very well. I don't use the controller much at all though.

I don't even use my guitar, but I use guitarrig all the time on drums and synths. It adds so much character.

[cptgone]

rumour has it there's a new distortion plug heading our way

[LOGAN]

The SCREAM in Reason is AWESOME.
Ohm Force Pretadohm is very good if you want some FEEDBACK too.
For nice sounding distortion you can't beat Tubiflex in the Powercore system.

[bduffy]

No gui's, but i'm sure the sound is what counts........right?

At the risk of starting another flame war (although it's been, what, ten minutes since the last one, so maybe we're overdue), I've never understood why people care so much about their guis. In what way is it valid to even consider a gui, much less criticize it? If you look at KVR's "User Ratings" link to the upper left, you'll see that "GUI" is the first choice to view ratings, right after "Overall" and before "Sound." What the fsck is up with that? Aren't we supposed to be musicians, not commercial art otaku?

Bah. The only thing a pretty gui ever did for anybody was seduce them into playing with it, and keeping them from making music. Let's hear it for ugly and absent guis, guys!

You're forgetting something: some host's default GUI-less controls suck. Like mine, for example. You ever try scrolling (vertically only) down a list of 100 controls? I won't even use a GUI-less synth in Cubase, it's just not worth the time when there are so many pretty, easy to see and control synths out there.

[Paul_FX]

Delta Force is free from Exponent

http://www.expdigital.co.uk

Multi band distortion with filtering...

Paul

[allofdrab]

I really like Jonas Norberg's PWMDrive.
http://www.acc.umu.se/%7Ebedev/software/vst/#PWMDRIVE