Tag Archives: distortion

CamelCrusher ~ Compressor | Distortion

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CamelCrusher is a free ‘colouring’ multi-effect plugin. It offers two characteristically different distortion sounds which can be blended together to create a wide variety of tones and textures. Great for guitars, drums and plenty more!

There’s also a warm, smooth analogue-style low-pass filter with buckets of resonance. Assign a MIDI controller and start tweaking!

Finally, let’s not forget the easiest-to-use compressor you’ll find anywhere. It can ‘phatten’ up your sound as quickly as you can turn up the ‘Amount’ knob! Find out more in the manual.

Best of all, CamelCrusher is available free of charge!

Features:
  • Two different distortion types.
  • Warm, analogue-modelled resonant low-pass filter.
  • High quality, easy-to-use compressor, with ‘Phat’ mode.
  • Powerful ‘MIDI Learn’ function.
  • A collection of useful Preset patches to get you started.
  • Randomize for instant inspiration.”

www.audiopluginsforfree.com/camelcrusher
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s54b0-mfq4
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Distorder ~ Audio Distortion Analyser

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The Distorder is a psychoacoustic stand-alone or VST application to check audibility of various forms of linear and nonlinear distortions applied to a stereo audio signal, including an ABX tester.

In simpler words, it’s just a soft to be sure if you’re not completely deaf.

Distorder

AudioMass ~ Opensource Web Audio Editor

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AudioMass lets you record, or use your existing audio tracks, and modify them by trimming, cutting, pasting or applying a plethora of effects, from compression and paragraphic equalizers to reverb, delay and distortion effects. AudioMass also supports more than 20 hotkeys combinations and a dynamic responsive interface to ensure ease of use and that your productivity remains high. it is written solely in plain old-school javascript, weights approximately 65kb and has no backend or framework dependencies.

  • Loading Audio, navigating the waveform, zoom and pan
  • Visualization of frequency levels
  • Peak and distortion signaling
  • Cutting/Pasting/Trimming parts of the audio
  • Inverting and Reversing Audio
  • Exporting to mp3
  • Modifying volume levels
  • Fade In/Out
  • Compressor
  • Normalization
  • Reverb
  • Delay
  • Distortion
  • Pitch Shift
  • Keeps track of states so you can undo mistakes
  • Offline support!

audiomass.co

Calf Studio Gear ~ Free Your Sound!

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You have the need for professional and state-of-the-art audio plug-ins – but don’t have thousands of bucks to spend on it? Then we believe you will love Calf Studio Gear! Focused on high-quality sound processing and a highly usable interface Calf Studio Gear is designed to give you a professional production environment for your open source operating system. Play your SF2 sample banks, create filthy organs, fatten your sounds with phasers, delays, reverbs and other FX, process your recordings with gates, compressors, deesser and finally master your stuff with multiband dynamics – for free! Calf Studio Gear is available exclusively for LINUX-based operating systems and runs as a stand-alone effect rack connectable through Jack sound server or as plug-ins in every audio host that is able to fire up LV2 compliant devices, e.g. the highly recommended Ardour Audio Workstation

calf-studio-gear.org
github.com/calf-studio-gear
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf_Studio_Gear

CHOW ~ Maximally Truculent Distortion

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CHOW is a digital distortion effect designed for maximum truculence, somewhere between a true half-wave rectifier and a noisy vintage compressor. Useful for mixing guitars, drums, even vocals when a heavily degraded sound is desired. Feel free to build and use for your own enjoyment!

chow

github.com/jatinchowdhury18/CHOW

ScorchCrafter ~ Guitar FX DAW Plugins

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A group of audio DAW plug-ins targeting Windows (VST), Mac (VST/AU), and Linux, mostly for guitar amplifier simulation, with the C-120 being the flagship product (which started off long ago as a closed-source VST). Open source, mostly under GPL.

Features:

  • Up to 128-bit (internal) Multi-Stage Guitar Amplifier Layered Distortion, also runs in 64 and 32 bit modes
  • Native Mac and Linux ports coming soon
  • Advanced maths for tube-like guitar amplifier distortion, doesn’t use cheap waveshaping
  • Designed with dynamic response that changes according to the input level – Much more than just a basic “sample in, sample out”
  • Up to 12x Internal Oversampling, separate controls for live/online and off-line render
  • Multi-Band EQ – low, mid, high, contour, presence
  • Built-in custom convolution-based cab-mic effect, works with almost any sample rate and/or audio buffer size
  • New version of C120 has less clutter in GUI, separate page for advanced features
  • No commercial bloat!
  • GPL license, but just for the plug-in itself
  • Any rendered/processed audio is YOURS (any license you want)!
  • Hand-Coded in C++, pre-fab code or “wizards” were NOT used to build this!
  • Primarily built with MinGW-w64 and Code::Blocks IDE
  • NEW Jykwrakker plugin also features custom stereo reverb FX you won’t find elsewhere.
  • NEW Source code available under zlib license (long overdue)
scorchcrafter

sourceforge.net/projects/scorchcrafter

INFAMOUS Plugins ~ Linux LV2 Audio Plugins

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These are audio plugins in the LV2 format, developed for Linux. Most are suitable for live use (exceptions are noted in the description).

  1. Cellular Automaton Synth
  2. Envelope Follower
  3. Hip2B
  4. Cheap Distortion
  5. Stuck

github.com/ssj71/infamousPlugins
ssj71.github.io/infamousPlugins/plugs