I used to think like you, but I’ve been quite impressed with some of the distortions plugins, and even on board distortions in some synths. I have plenty of hardware distortion, but even the analog distortion on some of my hardware synths are pretty tame, or on the main output. If you don’t understand the difference between per voice distortion and distortion on the mix, you should see an audiologist, because it’s a huge difference. CAN had some Prophet 5 modified with some sort of special distortion on each voice, and the results were amazing.I gave up with digital distortion. I tried to replicate my 2 vcf analogue override and analog saturation. Digital everytime is... meeehI'm waking this thread up again because I'm trying to replicate the glorious distortion I get from my Analog Four, and I'm having a bit of trouble getting the really rich harmonic crunch it does, but I just hooked up VCV Rack and I found that the following plugins behave polyphonically and do really great distortion: (note: must crank sample rate up for best results)
I don't get the idea of a mess in serial or parallel. My analag saturation is always in parallel, and there is no mess at all. Really musical.
Obviously both analog vcf override are polyphonic
I guess my quest comes from the fact that I keep the Analog Four around for basically that. It’s got a fantastic distortion built in, not just filter drive. Really rich sounding, but not harsh at all. It just seems silly to have that synth around for that one thing.
Statistics: Posted by zerocrossing — Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:36 am