Arturia Releases Dist COLDFIRE - Dual Engine Distortion

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yehboy1 wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:37 pm Loving the feedback option. Makes it stand out from other plugins and gets me to Emptyset type of distortion. Any other distortion plugins with feedback?
yes, thermal, rift, ohmicide, and saturn all have feedback
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databroth wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 10:04 pm
yehboy1 wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:37 pm Loving the feedback option. Makes it stand out from other plugins and gets me to Emptyset type of distortion. Any other distortion plugins with feedback?
yes, thermal, rift, ohmicide, and saturn all have feedback
Minimal actually released Rift's feedback section as its own freebie plugin a couple months back too.

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Wow just checked out videos of Rift and tried out the feedback freebie. Very impressed. But $129 is steep. I'll think about it. Amazing sounding plugin though.

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_leras wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 6:30 am
SeeingInMidi wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 7:17 pm If this had asymmetric and wilder filters. This would replace 90% of my distortion tools.
What are you using at the moment that has those?
Rift for asym and LFOtool/Serum FX for filters.

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yehboy1 wrote: Fri Sep 02, 2022 2:07 am Wow just checked out videos of Rift and tried out the feedback freebie. Very impressed. But $129 is steep. I'll think about it. Amazing sounding plugin though.
Rift is excellent. I use the separate feedback plugin quite a bit too

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rift didnt gel with me. the feedback plugin from minimal I used also, but sounds very static too me in comparison with the arturia one, but is a great freebee. This Arturia one sounds very good and I like the gui also more than the minimal rift. IMO

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Aiynzahev wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 6:54 pm So do I buy this or what?
Nah, demo it first. It has eleven distortion types which is great, but you'll have to see if any of them work for you.

Also see how easy you find it to automate parameters on existing distortion plugins that you like. Hint: this is super easy in Bitwig.

The demos on their web page sounded really great, but a non arturia YouTube video made me think I should demo it and compare.

I have lots of flavours of distortion already, but this one does seem worth demoing.

I find saturation to be very well covered these days, but to me distortion seems to have more identity and can make it more hit or miss. That said it only takes one great tone for me to think it'd be worth picking up. (€49)

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Septic Underground wrote: Fri Sep 02, 2022 5:17 am rift didnt gel with me. the feedback plugin from minimal I used also, but sounds very static too me in comparison with the arturia one, but is a great freebee. This Arturia one sounds very good and I like the gui also more than the minimal rift. IMO
This is a good comment for me to read. I'm always a sucker for good distortion. This one didn't get on my radar but I've seen a few people praising it recently.

I love a good distortion shoot out though. So this will get demoed I'm sure.

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roringtonsmithe wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:58 pm this thing rules. finally a worthy replacement for camelphat.
Is this a quote from 2007? :hihi:

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Apparently, you can qualify for the $49 price for just having the filter and reverb they gave away for free. :tu:

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And if you just have Augmented Strings INTRO, you can get FX Collection 3 + Dist COLDFIRE for only $199.

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Hey, I made a sound demo without the usual bla bla ;)
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The features of rift are interesting and cool, but the distortion algorithms on ColdFire sound better IMO.

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I demoed, maybe I'm not really into distortion all that much? Definitely a good plugin, I liked the transformer models, but the rest didn't do much for me for some reason. I'll demo it some more though.
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I picked Coldfire up. Here's a preset...

Download:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pdkxmgm36ra03 ... y.zip?dl=0

Audio example (first 30s of loop are dry):
https://plexus.bandcamp.com/track/artur ... angledelay

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