Distortionator mk2: A simplistic distortion plugin, with two modes. The first mode is a modified threshold-type distortion (although the modification isn't particularly noticeable, sound-wise). The second mode is called Sine Wave distortion, although it's actually closer to frequency-modulation, as the audio input is used as the index to a sin() function.
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Phasic PHInterfereVST - VST Lo-Fi/Interference style distortion effect for Windows
PHInterfereVST is a unique sounding lo-fi/interference effect that modulates and mixes pink noise with the incoming signal, giving a
grainy/interference style of distortion.
Subtle effects can be acheived by using slow LFO rates with low depths, or you can go to the extremes....
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Soul Force!: A fairly standard waveshaping distortion plugin, made more interesting through the use of feedback to control the shaping. Can get pretty loud and obnoxious. The GUI was done in Blender, and you can find the .blend file in the source code zip.
Cyanide:
Oh YEAH, baby.
At last I've found the time to update Cyanide :-).
This one has taken a long time with lot's of new features.
The shaper now updates while you drag it, there's a preview, the filters are MUCH better and smooth, the bugs in the bank/patch-saving are gone and there's some SERIOUS heavy-duty anti-aliasing.
Oh, and you can control everything but the shaper via midi too. Read the readme included...
If you like this one PLEASE donate something. It's been hard work re-coding this one like it should have been.
Retordion, a distortion plugin for vst-compatible audio software such as Steinberg Cubase. It was conceived accidentally when I was experimenting with nonlinearities inside feedback loops in a Griesinger style allpass reverb algorithm. The result is quite out of control weird distortion. To use, download the dll to the vst plugin folder of your computer.