Ohmicide, favorite distortion type
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 5:21 pm
Started really getting into multiband distortion VST's.
Currently teaching myself the inner workings of Fabfilter Saturn and Ohmforce Ohmicide.
Working with Saturn made it much easier to understand the controls in Ohmicide,
It's just hard when you don't have an intuitive spectral analyzer in front of you, showing exactly what bands are split where.
Ohmicide has a spectral output but looking at it made things more confusing to be honest.
Ohmicide has tons of different distortions types.. looks like 80+
Porridge • • It has a nice analog feel. The brightness of the distortion is controllable
Soft Clip • Waveshaper, symmetrical and soft.
Harder • Waveshaper, symmetrical and harder.
Stronger • Waveshaper, symmetrical and stronger.
Crest • Waveshaper, symmetrical, and not bijective.
Hollowed • Waveshaper asymmetrical.
Lopsided • Waveshaper asymmetrical.
Attractor • • Multiple states distortion.
SmartE • Varying waveshape. Use Alteration to change the waveshape. 0.8 is very bright.
Sastrugi • Waveshape with ripples.
Puncher • Cyclic waveshaper. High gain will produce ”tuned” noise.
NoizE • Cyclic distortion. High gain will produce white noise.
Antipole • Crest mangler. Alteration to 50% will be similar to a hardclip. More than 50% will reverse the crest.
Rotten Luck • Same as antipole, with an additional waveshaper on the
crests.
Vacuum • Waveshaper that affects the low portion of the signal.
Cubic • Waveshaper. Will ‘dry’ the signal.
Rectifier • Will tend to produce a higher pitched sound.
Squared • Waveshaped rectifier. Will tend to dry the signal much more than Rectifier.
Slew 1 • Slew rate limiter. This is an extreme version of a physical limitation that exist on any amplifier. Alteration will change the slew rate limit, raising it will give more highs.
Slew 2 • • Waveshaped slew rate distortion.
Random Walk • Random walk
Angry Mouse • Waveshaper followed by a resonator low pass filter. The higher the distortion gain, the higher the resonnance. Alteration will change the cutoff frequency.
Decimator • • This distortions emulate an analogue sample & hold. Alteration will change the hold time.
Bitcrush • • Crushes the bit resolution of the signal. May oscillate when used in the Xxx mode.
Jellyfish • • text
Fractal • • Use a chaotic feedback equation to to distort the sound. Thisis the only distortion which sound depends on the sample rate. A bit experimental, pretty weird and analogue. Alteration will change the recursivity depth, and raising it will take more CPU. Use some Bias to make it unstable.
Accumulator • A distortion that can add low frequencies! It behaves a bit like a modulator, but it’s not. Experimental, nice on drums particularly.
Freeze • • Freezes portions of the audio signal depending on the Bias, Alteration and Gain.
And there are 3 different families of distortions
Std family • The raw algorithms!
Xxx family • This is a variation on the standard familly. The bias behave
”better” than on the normal distortions. Used with waveshaper
distortions, it will emulate amp guitars. It’s more experimental
with other distortions. Nice for guitars.
Odd familly • Use the bias to tune the distortion harmonics. There is one exception
: the Odd Fractal distortion uses the Alteration parameter
to tune the harmonics, and the Bias to set a DC offset in
the base distortion. : same as the base distortion.
29 Distortion types X 3 families
Anyone have a favorite, any advise on when and where you guys like to implement this plugin.
If you want to learn more about how Ohmicide works follow the link below:
https://www.ohmforce.com/Doc.do?p=Ohmic ... Processing
This helped me loads
Currently teaching myself the inner workings of Fabfilter Saturn and Ohmforce Ohmicide.
Working with Saturn made it much easier to understand the controls in Ohmicide,
It's just hard when you don't have an intuitive spectral analyzer in front of you, showing exactly what bands are split where.
Ohmicide has a spectral output but looking at it made things more confusing to be honest.
Ohmicide has tons of different distortions types.. looks like 80+
Porridge • • It has a nice analog feel. The brightness of the distortion is controllable
Soft Clip • Waveshaper, symmetrical and soft.
Harder • Waveshaper, symmetrical and harder.
Stronger • Waveshaper, symmetrical and stronger.
Crest • Waveshaper, symmetrical, and not bijective.
Hollowed • Waveshaper asymmetrical.
Lopsided • Waveshaper asymmetrical.
Attractor • • Multiple states distortion.
SmartE • Varying waveshape. Use Alteration to change the waveshape. 0.8 is very bright.
Sastrugi • Waveshape with ripples.
Puncher • Cyclic waveshaper. High gain will produce ”tuned” noise.
NoizE • Cyclic distortion. High gain will produce white noise.
Antipole • Crest mangler. Alteration to 50% will be similar to a hardclip. More than 50% will reverse the crest.
Rotten Luck • Same as antipole, with an additional waveshaper on the
crests.
Vacuum • Waveshaper that affects the low portion of the signal.
Cubic • Waveshaper. Will ‘dry’ the signal.
Rectifier • Will tend to produce a higher pitched sound.
Squared • Waveshaped rectifier. Will tend to dry the signal much more than Rectifier.
Slew 1 • Slew rate limiter. This is an extreme version of a physical limitation that exist on any amplifier. Alteration will change the slew rate limit, raising it will give more highs.
Slew 2 • • Waveshaped slew rate distortion.
Random Walk • Random walk
Angry Mouse • Waveshaper followed by a resonator low pass filter. The higher the distortion gain, the higher the resonnance. Alteration will change the cutoff frequency.
Decimator • • This distortions emulate an analogue sample & hold. Alteration will change the hold time.
Bitcrush • • Crushes the bit resolution of the signal. May oscillate when used in the Xxx mode.
Jellyfish • • text
Fractal • • Use a chaotic feedback equation to to distort the sound. Thisis the only distortion which sound depends on the sample rate. A bit experimental, pretty weird and analogue. Alteration will change the recursivity depth, and raising it will take more CPU. Use some Bias to make it unstable.
Accumulator • A distortion that can add low frequencies! It behaves a bit like a modulator, but it’s not. Experimental, nice on drums particularly.
Freeze • • Freezes portions of the audio signal depending on the Bias, Alteration and Gain.
And there are 3 different families of distortions
Std family • The raw algorithms!
Xxx family • This is a variation on the standard familly. The bias behave
”better” than on the normal distortions. Used with waveshaper
distortions, it will emulate amp guitars. It’s more experimental
with other distortions. Nice for guitars.
Odd familly • Use the bias to tune the distortion harmonics. There is one exception
: the Odd Fractal distortion uses the Alteration parameter
to tune the harmonics, and the Bias to set a DC offset in
the base distortion. : same as the base distortion.
29 Distortion types X 3 families
Anyone have a favorite, any advise on when and where you guys like to implement this plugin.
If you want to learn more about how Ohmicide works follow the link below:
https://www.ohmforce.com/Doc.do?p=Ohmic ... Processing
This helped me loads
