GMH Audio Wave Destroyer

 Wave Destroyer is an audio distortion plugin capable of a massive range of tones.

The distortion character is endlessly tweak-able thanks to a unique compliment of controls as well as independent pre and post EQ sections.

It can be used subtly as a saturator and exciter or it can be a tool of ultimate sonic destruction. Overdrive, distortion, fuzz, glitchy broken tones, and anything else you can dream up; its all possible with Wave Destroyer.

https://freevstplugins.net/gmh-audio-wave-destroyer/

GMH Audio Wave Destroyer,

Wave Destroyer is a free distortion effect programmed by GMH Audio, the developer behind the free Buzz Cut soft clipper plugin, which we covered back in 2018. Whereas Buzz Cut focused on a single method of audio distortion, the new Wave Destroyer effect delivers a much more extensive arsenal of distortion types. The plugin also includes a set of frequency shaping features that make it a much more powerful sound design tool.
The plugin features three distortion modes: Saturate, Distort, and Destroy. Each mode can be fine-tuned using the Drive control, as well as the Asymmetry and Bias adjustments. Wave Destroyer also includes two EQ stages (pre-distortion and post-distortion), input and output gain adjustments, oversampling, a DC filter, a mix control, and a bypass switch. The two equalizer sections feature five adjustable frequency bands. It’s possible to link the two EQs for more effortless operation.
Thanks to its three distortion algorithms, Wave Destroyer is a rather versatile distortion utility. You can use it as a subtle saturation tool, a stompbox-style fuzz distortion unit, or as a crazy distortion effect for total audio annihilation.

https://www.gmhaudio.com/wave-destroyer

Big-Sur Diode Clipper

Big-Sur is a freeware emulation of a diode clipper guitar pedal. There’s no information on which specific guitar stompbox is emulated, but the plugin seems to be based on the classic Big Muff distortion pedal. The developers describe Big-Sur as a stompbox that is suitable for distorted rhythm guitars and heavy leads, with a wide distortion spectrum and plenty of fuzz.
he interface features a bypass switch, four control knobs (Sustain, Level, Tone, and Mix), and two on/off switches – one for the Tone control and one for the oversampling feature. The user can also adjust the GUI size (from 80% to 125%) and control the graphics quality (useful for reducing the RAM usage).

https://fuseaudiolabs.com/#/pages/product?id=300982337

Misstortion 2

Distortion plugin

Does its best to be like Logic's Clip Distortion and adds a bunch of other great features, which makes it very useful for the Hardstyle genre.

- Symmetry: Make your waveform asymmetrical for more finetuned distortion.
- Hard clip: Simple hard clip distortion.
- Soft clip: Hyperbolic soft clip distortion.
- Resonance: Increase the resonance to get a great tonal sound.
- Bitcrush: Add some bitcrushing to your waveforms.
- DC Filter: Filter out that nasty DC offset quickly and efficiently.

https://nimble.itch.io/misstortion

Temper distortion

Creative Intent just announced their phase distortion plugin, Temper, is now free. (VST, VST3, AU).

Temper is a digital distortion audio plugin targeting VST, VST3, and AU for OS X and Windows. It builds upon traditional waveshaping techniques using modulated filter coefficients to produce a unique phase distortion. The primary signal processing loop is written with Faust, and compiled with JUCE for the various build targets.

https://creativeintent.co/products/temper

Mercuriall Greed Smasher

Mesa/Boogie® Grid Slammer modeling.

Guitar processing plugin. It is a highly detailed, circuit-based model of the Grid Slammer overdrive pedal by Mesa/Boogie. Being a virtual overdrive pedal, the plugin is aimed mainly at guitar players and music producers who use distorted guitars in their music, although effects like this one can work equally well for processing virtual instruments and even hardware synthesizers.

The user interface is a replica of the Grid Slammer guitar pedal, featuring a bypass switch and level, tone, and gain knobs. The top panel adds a mono/stereo input switch and a low/high processing quality switch which toggles between 2X and 4X oversampling. The desired input gain value can be typed in by clicking the black bar at the top of the GUI.

https://mercuriall.com/cms/details_freestuff

MultiCrusher

MultiCrusher is a relatively advanced distortion effect with five different distortion algorithms. The plugin comes with two distortion slots, the first one featuring overdrive fat, overdrive weak, and decimator algorithms, and the second one featuring clip and foldback distortion. The first three algorithms only come with the amount control parameter, whereas the foldback/clipper algorithm offers gain, threshold, and multiply adjustments. Setting the multiply parameter to zero effectively puts the foldback algorithm into clipping mode.

The lower section of the interface features anti-aliasing, round, pan, and mix control parameters. The anti-aliasing functionality seems to be based on filtering rather than oversampling, keeping the CPU hit low but resulting in a noticeably duller tone. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though, as it can work well for warming up harshly distorted sounds. The mix control adds some of the original audio to the output signal, which can be useful for preserving the transients of percussive sounds or slightly fattening up a sound with some subtle parallel processing.

Overall, the plugin is easy to use and offers a nice range of distortion types.

https://vst.saschart.com/multicrusher_distortion_overdrive

Regressif is an audio plugin focused on sound degradation. Combining a multimode filter with distortion, samplerate reduction and bitcrushing effects, it can turn the most innocent sound into a wall of digital noise. Two LFO modules and an additional LFO mixer can then be brought into the mix to further mutilate your audio.

https://www.ineardisplay.com/plugins/regressif/

Over Diver od82o

VST overdrive called "Over Diver od82o".

Basic features:
•64-bit internal processing;
•16x/8x/no oversampling;
•symmetrical/asymmetrical clipping;
•stereo processing;
•high/low quality processing;
•64/32-bit versions (Windows only).


http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6580879

Bug Drive

This is a three band overdrive / distortion effect made together with Multree from Betabugs Audio. It’s quite simple and easy to use, but can produce quite nice overdrive effects if adjusted well to the respective sound source.

http://blog.jewe.org/?p=675

Mercuriall TubesCreamer

Drive/Distortion effect
The modeling is based on a real circuit of the Ibanez TS-808.
Mod switch: "808" for a default sound of the Ibanez TS-808 and "Mod" for getting a cleaner sound with slightly more bass when "Drive" is at the minimum.
Low CPU usage.
Stereo and Mono modes.
Low (no oversampling) and High (4x oversampling) Quality switch.

http://mercuriall.com/cms/details_freestuff

inear display legacy plugins

These plugins were originally released between 2012 and early 2014.

GORGON
Agressive Distortion

 

  

R_MEM
Morphing Granulator

 
DANAIDES
Sequenced Sound Mangler
 

BOWECHO
Quad Modular Delay

SICKNDSTROY
Experimental LoFi Effect



https://ineardisplay.com/plugins/legacy/ 

Synthscience

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http://www.vst4free.com/index.php?dev=Synthescience

Tritik has just released Krush, an awesome freeware multi-effect (bitcrusher, clipper and multi-mode filter) in VST and AU plugin formats for PC and Mac based digital audio workstations.
What you get with Krush is a trio of distortion flavors (clipper, bitcrusher and a downsampler), paired up with a resonant multi-mode filter (high-pass and low-pass modes with a 20 Hz – 20 kHz frequency range), dry/wet signal level sliders for easy parallel processing and a great little modulation section which sets this multi-effect apart from the dozens of free bitcrushers out there.
All of this is packed in a fully resizable user interface (drag the handle in the bottom-left corner to adjust the size of the GUI to your liking) with an intuitive control layout and some handy bonus features such as the modulation amount display on the knobs (the modulated range of a parameter turns yellow). CTRL+drag increases the precision when adjusting a parameter and a double-click resets its value. You can also freeze any parameter so that loading a new preset doesn’t overwrite its current value.
The amount of distortion, bitcrushing and downsampling, as well as the filter’s cutoff frequency and resonance amount, can be modulated by an LFO with a choice of four different waveforms (sine wave, triangle, square and noise). The LFO can run freely (0.01 Hz to 10 kHz), or in sync with the host program.


https://www.tritik.com/products/krush

MeldaProduction MWaveFolder Distortion Effect

MWaveFolder is one of the most useful and versatile distortion effects that you can download for free.
Inspired by the creamy sound of analog distortion and packed in a modern interface with loads of added features, MWaveFolder is a must-have tool in your sound shaping toolkit. Whether you want to quickly distort your audio, or tweak it very precisely so that it perfectly fits a busy mix, there’s little doubt that you’ll be able to achieve your goal with this great little freebie by MeldaProduction. The coolest thing about this plugin is the insane amount of different distortion flavors that you can get out of it.

https://www.meldaproduction.com/plugins/product.php?id=MWaveFolder 

 

Qontrolr

Qontrolr is a distortion effect with four different distortion flavors: clipping, bitcrushing, fuzz distortion and static distortion. It is very handy in situations when you want to distort a certain sound with minimum fuss. The clipper and bitcrusher modules sound particularly nice.

http://sbaudio.org/qontrolr

OverToner

OverToner is a versatile and easy to use saturation tool, featuring thirteen different distortion algorithms. The included distortion types range from classic analog saturation and soft clipping to harsh digital distortion and everything in between. Also included are two analog style band-pass filters which can be used to further shape the audio signal on the output.

http://www.rebel-audio.com/

Taiga Gravel

Taiga DSP releases Gravel, a freeware bitcrusher/distortion effect with a built-in envelope follower.
The plugin offers three different types of distortion (drive, bitcrushing and sample rate reduction), paired up with an envelope follower module. The combination of a distortion effect and an envelope follower can result in a wide variety of effects, ranging from simple bitcrushing and analog style distortion to subtle transient treatment, compression and all sorts of heavy audio mangling.

http://www.taigadsp.com/gravel/

The Marauder

Originally designed as a high-gain amplifier for VA synths, The Marauder is a boutique distortion plugin providing a unique workflow for adding wear, heft and grit. Going beyond naive waveshaping methods, the core of the Marauder is configurable distortion model with colourful interplay between its four gain stages.
Inspired by feedback compressor designs, an envelope balances the input stage between two amplifier models, each with a distinct flavour. A crossover filter feeds the highs through a dedicated signal path for tonal control.

Signal routing throughout the plugin features a meticulously balanced feedback network, resulting in subtle interplay between the overdrive characteristics of the various gain stages - ensuring just the right amount of unpredictability.

http://www.audioparlour.ca/audioPlugins.html

Disto::Fx

distortion LUT unit with extra gate/loudness/bypass and unique powerful DistoCore distortion curves
linear, cosine, cubic and hermite LUT interpolation modes
filter unit including band-pass, band-stop and 12/24 dB HP/LP filters
ring modulator
phaser FX
DC Bassdrum::Murda based GUI with fancy knobs/indicators
56 built-in dirty distortion presets focused on hardcore kickdrum processing

http://www.distocore.net/