Free Distortion & Saturation Plugins

The Devil Inside

The Devil Inside is a free overdrive and saturation VST plugin developed by Elogoxa. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

The Devil Inside is a Distortion + Feedback Synth VSTi.

http://www.uv.es/~ruizcan/p_vst.htm

THD

THD free saturation | exciter | enhancer by digitalfishphones

THD is a free saturation and exciter and enhancer VST plugin developed by digitalfishphones. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

This is no typical high-gain distortion device, nor a ‘decimator’ or bit crusher but it is some sort of saturator. It is intended for a mixer’s insert path to act as a preamp stage. It smoothes out the transients, gives more overall gain and warms a bit.

On good days, it behaves similar to a tube input stage, adds some gentle warmth to the input signal, brings up the overall level and just sounds as if it’s consisting of analog circuits. On bad days it creates muddiness, sounds confusing, crappy and digital as hell.

Features:

Soft Saturation Simulator.

Gain, Punch, Clip shape & Output controls.

+6dB-Switch (doubles the input level).

Bypass.

http://www.digitalfishphones.com/

Temper

Temper is a free distortion VST, VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by Creative Intent. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Temper is a modern digital distortion plugin which combines a rich saturation curve and a unique phase distortion, with a resonant lowpass filter at the beginning of the signal chain and a feedback loop through the distortion stage.

Temper’s phase distortion offers unique harmonic excitement in the higher frequency components of your sound, bringing character and clarity to any element of your mix. And with a classic overdrive and versatile resonant lowpass pre-filter, Temper delivers a modern tone that brings an all new edge to your sound.

This is our first plugin, and the source code is available under GPLv3.

https://www.creativeintent.co/

TB TimeMachine v3

TB TimeMachine v3 is a free distortion and glitch VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by ToneBoosters. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

TimeMachine allows to simulate the effect of A/D and D/A aliasing, re-sampling, and bit reduction (both linear and mu-Law quantization).

Features:

Zero-latency processing.

Support of all sampling rates from 44.1 to 192 kHz.

Re-sample rate adjustable between 1000 and 44100 Hz.

Bit depth adjustable between 0 and 16-bits on a continuous scale.

Linear or mu-Law quantization, with or without dithering.

Analog saturation.

https://www.toneboosters.com/

Tarabia Distortion

Tarabia Distortion is a free distortion VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by smaolab. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Tarabia Distortion is a free distortion plug in effect that destroy nicely your sounds:

Kicks becomes Hard Kicks.

Snares becomes very consistent Snares.

On audio loops, it produces nice distortions artifacts.

This plug-in effect is based on two specials algorithms:

Tarabia formula (Hard distortion).

Yamaha 80’s synth soft distortion formula.

It is simple, efficient and fun:

For installation instructions, check our website.

NOTE: this plug in has been made using Dplug: github.com/AuburnSounds/Dplug.

http://smaolab.org

TAL-Bitcrusher

TAL-Bitcrusher is a free bit crusher VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Togu Audio Line. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

TAL-Bitcrusher is a simple bitcrusher with low- and high-shelf EQ and a noise cross modulator included.

Features:

Adjustable bit-depth (0-32-bit).

Adjustable sample rate divisor (up to / 512).

Noise cross modulator.

24 dB low- and high-shelf filter.

10 presets for bass, leads and drums.

Low CPU usage.

https://tal-software.com/

T-RackS CS

T-RackS CS is a free multi fx and overdrive and saturation and bit crusher and crunch and panner and pitch shifter and phaser and flanger and eq and compressor and limiter and amp simulator and filter VST, Audio Unit, RTAS, AAX plugin developed by IK Multimedia. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Close your eyes and picture a store full of cool, powerful processing gear including compressors, limiters, reverbs, de-essers, multiband processors, and a shelf full of vintage, legendary gear emulations. In short, a dream store for recording musicians, engineers and producers.

It is not just a fantasy. This store is real and it’s available to you 24/7. In the T-RackS 5 Custom Shop you can browse a huge collection of IK’s high-quality processing plug-ins for mixing and mastering and purchase only the ones you want, when you want them. And the best part is, you can get started for free.

Features

Free version of T-RackS including the Custom Shop, the Classic EQ and basic Metering functionality.

Standalone workstation, plugin suite and single plugins for Audio Units, VST2, VST3 and AAX formats.

Custom Shop functionality lets you purchase additional modules from inside the program.

T-RackS shell allows for chaining of up to 16 processors.

Standalone integration with ARC System 2.5 processing.

All processors available as individual plug-ins.

64-bit native support.

High-fidelity oversampling for high-quality audio processing through the entire signal path.

SCC technology coupled with IK’s unique DSM technology provides the most realistic software emulation of vintage gear to date.

Extremely easy to use, with style-based presets, full chain visualization, one-click single module or chain bypass, “compare” function and more.

What’s new

4 new processors available for separate purchase: Master Match, Dyna-Mu, ONE, EQual.

Resizable*, redesigned interface and plugin GUIs.

Expandable broadcast-ready metering suite*.

Floating meters option*.

Chains of up to 16 processors.

Album Assembly section with waveform editing and metadata*.

Enhanced audio engine.

Up to 192 kHz/32-bit floating point*.

4 dithering algorithms.

Equal gain option*.

Signature presets from the industry’s top engineers*.

* Features available by upgrading to T-RackS 5, T-RackS 5 Deluxe or T-RackS 5 MAX. T-RackS 5 CS supports projects up to 48kHz and features basic metering functions. Presets require specific modules which might not be part of this version of T-RackS 5. You can however download any processor for free and test them for 14 days before purchase.

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/

Sweetgirl luxury Compressor/Saturator

Sweetgirl luxury Compressor/Saturator is a free compressor and saturation VST plugin developed by Acidacide Media. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

The Sweet Girl Compressor/Saturation plug-in is a soft stereo processor that will fit right in with your collection of limiters, threshold VST effects, and compressors. Simple to use and easy on the CPU, not to mention that she was knitted from grandmas best fabric. Enjoy.

Designed by Marcus R. Johnson, Acidacide Media for KVR DC 2012.

https://sites.google.com/site/acidacidemedia/

SquashIt

SquashIt is a free distortion VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by Klevgränd Produktion. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

SquashIt is a multi-band distortion effect available for iOS (AudioBus 2 compatible including state saving) and as VST/AU (Mac/Windows). The effect has proven to work very well with vocals and bass.

Visit the product page for a, demo version (AU/VST) and more information.

{See video at top of page}

http://klevgrand.se

Square Distortion

Square Distortion is a free overdrive VST plugin developed by JELSTUDIO. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

JELSTUDIO’s VST2 plugin “Square Distortion”

For electric guitars (or other things) that need some no-nonsense beefy grit, with no questions asked and no cookies served.

It is simple to use; just put it on your track and it will process your signal and output it at -18 dB FS.

It has 1 user-control; left mouse-button (Click to toggle between STEREO (which is stereo-from-mono) and MONO (Which is actually a pass-through of whatever configuration the channel may be in when it enters the plugin-input, so either stereo or mono. It is called MONO since electric guitar tracks are commonly mono, but it will pass a stereo track if that is what you feed it)

Features:

32-bit and 64-bit VST2 plugin.

Can create mono-compatible* stereo-image from mono-image (Left-click mouse-button to toggle between stereo and mono), *(will have phaser-effect however, which may not be desirable).

Output-level: -18 dB FS.

Freeware.

For Windows 7, 8, 10.

Zip with .dll (no .exe installation).

No DRM.

http://jelstudio.dk/JELSTUDIO_software.html