Heavyocity FURY for $39 - anything special about it?

[enCiphered]

Plugin Boutique currently offers FURY for $39
https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... /9721-FURY

For anyone who has used it seriously, how does it hold up compared to other distortion / saturation / mangling plugins? I’m thinking of tools like Ohmicide, Trash-style processors, Rift, Saturn, Thermal, etc.

Does FURY actually offer something distinctive in terms of tone, workflow, modulation, movement or character or is it mostly another “make it bigger and dirtier” plugin with a good interface?

At $39 it’s tempting, but I already have enough distortion options, so I’m trying to figure out whether this one brings anything genuinely useful to the table or if it will just overlap with what I already have.

Would appreciate any real-world opinions from people who have used it on synths, drums, drones, impacts, or soundscape material.

[Dichroism]

I bought it in a similar sale 1-2 years ago. I suppose I used it once or twice but it's not even installed any longer.
It seems you have Thermal - that's far more entertaining even tho it shows its age compared to, let's say, Dawesome Hate or that Arturia thing I just don't remember the name.

[cake builder]

that Arturia thing I just don't remember the name.

You're probably thinking of Dist Coldfire. That one is a lot of fun. There's also the free one that Okay just put out, it's just the distortion unit from their Bingo drum machine.

[enCiphered]

Ah yes, Dist Coldfire! I totally forgot about that. Hate is absolutely not my cup of tea, especially UX-wise. Thanks for the replies so far!

[kernaudioio]

$39 distortion is a crowded category and the question "anything special?" is harder to answer than it sounds because every plugin in this list does the same thing at the macro level (push the signal into nonlinearity) and differs only in second-order details (which harmonics, what envelope shape, what topology before and after the distortion stage).

three things i actually check before buying any sub-$50 effect plugin:

1. is the demo time-limited or feature-limited? 14-day full demos let you test on real material. silence-bursts every 60 seconds tell you nothing useful about how it sits in a mix.

2. does the dev answer support email within a week? sub-$50 dev companies that go silent on tickets are companies that won't be around for the next OS update.

3. does the product page name the one specific job, or does it claim to solve five? "warmth, character, color, saturation, drive, edge, presence, glue, life, vibe" is a vendor that doesn't know either, written by someone who isn't the dev.

on FURY specifically, the tells in this thread are useful. one user uninstalled it after a sale, another cited Hate and Coldfire as obvious-better. that's not a damning answer but it's not a buying answer either.

if the "make it bigger and dirtier" framing is the actual job, Coldfire is probably the right answer in this list. if the actual job is something narrower (mid-range carve, sub-bass density, vocal grit), the answer is one of the more specialised tools that didn't make it onto the OP's shortlist.

[Caine123]

also interested, got some plugins like Ohmicide, Dist Coldfire but HEavyocity always interested me, some more opinions maybe? Ohmicide is such a CPU killer.... the new version