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Canned Heat · Post by **Canned Heat** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:34 am

Try Ugo's Metallurgy. 20$ , comes with 4 Banks (more than 384 presets) and great mangling/distorting features

More info : http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2044.html

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:42 am

tryy some freestuff too

dblues glitch and ephonics lofi, both get much usag here for crushing shit

jack darks stuff too

and dover has some nice free fsu stuff too

Kiwburger · Post by **Kiwburger** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:57 am

IMO, digital distortion just isn't as good as analog yet. So if you have a bunch of freeware distortion/saturation effects, you probably have as much range and quality as the expensive ones. People rave about Trash - I wasn't very impressed. PSP MixSaturator is my favorite VST saturator plugin. I just dislike PSP's marketing strategy. They force you buy a whole suit of stuff I don't want. And I know that they have given MixSaturator away for free with a magazine. So it annoys me to have to pay $100 for a bunch of stuff I don't want, to get something that thousands of people got free. Plus, PSP have embraced iLock or Pace or something, so I have no further interest in anything they make now.

Stick with the good guys like Voxengo.

Alex@ProgressAudio · Post by **Alex@ProgressAudio** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:11 am

Time for a shameless plug (excuse the pun!), you could give ShapeShifter a try..

Try the step-sequenced waveshaper on it to get distortion that changes character over time.. it can give really interesting tone changes that you don't get with a normal 'fixed' distortion effect.

There's another 6 effects on there as well so you can do lots more then just trashing/distorting your sound.

Thanks,
Alex

allofdrab · Post by **allofdrab** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:12 am

Shit I dunno...
HOw about
Squid Scratcher (needs Bidule) running through Glitch and into some Jonas Norberg plugs?

Squid Scratcher http://www.plogue.com/index.php?option= ... oupCatalog
Glitch http://illformed.org/glitch/
Jonas Norberg plugs http://www.acc.umu.se/%7Ebedev/software/vst/

allofdrab · Post by **allofdrab** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:25 am

What the hell Am I talking about? You want one plug, not 10, sorry.

Jeremy_NSL · Post by **Jeremy_NSL** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:13 am

+1 for Metallurgy. Great effect, especially on beats. Crazy value for $20.

Newbie Brad · Post by **Newbie Brad** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:37 am

Smartelectronix' Bram's Supa Trigga and Crazy Ivan

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:39 am

can anyone go into detail about what metallurgy does

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:42 am

Reason users can easily achieve similar effects to the fun gated distortion by taking a Matrix and grabbing the CVs, patching them into your instrument. Check the picture below to see a basic example. If I wanted to intensify this chain I would do the same thing to the Scream unit using the Matrix's CV gate and curve outs plugged into the Scream's Scale, P1, P2 or Damage Control input .

screen grab of the basic patch

This is when Reason gets more fun.

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:51 am

Metallurgy's demo has the manual for it if you download it if I recall correctly.

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:55 am

Oh yeah Metallurgy - when I tried the demo at release time it was a superb effect. I have been putting off the purchase for a while now, too long. I'll probably buy it this week alongside Sonitex.

justjazz · Post by **justjazz** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:13 am

Newbie Brad · Post by **Newbie Brad** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:01 pm

Forgot to mention Smartelectronix' Koen's KT Granulator