MultiBandDistortion
TL;DW: MultiBandDistortion is an old weird gnarly sound wrecker :)
Some plugins just want to watch the world burn :)
I don’t have all that much to say about this one. I’ve been needing to post it: I’ve got folks who ask me for soundgoodizer/OTT type things and try to get a ‘slammed’, deeply unnatural, multiband kind of effect going… and all my life I’ve been learning how to get AWAY from that kind of sonic disassociation and audio gibberish towards stuff with a very different texture. So I’m not a natural match for that kind of thing, and yet I get asked for my take on plugins like that.
So, long ago, I made MultiBandDistortion. I figured if you were going to wreck your sound, let’s REALLY wreck it, and I did some very gnarly things in there that I now don’t entirely understand. I know that if you turn ‘stable’ down, you get a choppy effect not unlike the ZVex Fuzz Factory pedal, only not: the interaction between the bands can get sketchy. Again, I don’t remember how this worked and don’t expect to be revising it or making it more controllable or cleaner: that kind of misses the point. If you’re trying to get a slick version of this kind of thing you start by not using this kind of thing :)
But, it now exists as AU, VST, Linux VST, Win32 and Win64 VST, open source that can be slurped into other people’s projects pretty easily, signed M1 AU and VST… so I’ve done my bit. I’m currently making a lot of progress on more sophisticated filters with coefficient interpolation (some of which are also bonkers, fair warning), and on a revision of my best buss compressor to help me with an album mixing project I’m doing for a favorite local musician, and a really unexpected twist that you’ll see when some new kinds of videos start coming out… but for today, you’ve got a new toy. It’s called MultiBandDistortion. Try not to cut your arm off with it unless you like that sort of thing :)
download 64 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Signed M1/Intel Mac AUs.dmg
download Signed M1/Intel Mac VSTs.dmg
download LinuxVSTs.zip
download Retro 32 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac AUs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac VSTs.zip
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All this is free and open source under the MIT license, brought to you by my Patreon.
Best developer ever.
About once a year I loose faith in the audio industry (and world) and without fail Chris comes to me in a vision (or a youtube video) with something like this! Know that your influence outstretches far beyond the immediate. The world listens when great things happen, wether it likes it or not! Sampre viva!
On 03/27/2022, I got a SPYWARE alert from the 64bit Windows download (from free Malware Bytes); the SPYWARE was called Spyware.ICED-Id (punctuation may be wrong, sorry). Thank you for all you do.
That is bad news. I found it in Airwindows Desk64. Chris?
https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/icedid-malware-analysis-part-one
Further form my IT guy:
ScuzzyEye
@ScuzzyEye
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The way antivirus signatures work, is they look for a pattern of bytes. With encrypted code, there’s very little that will be the same between different infections. So the signature will be the few bytes that are the same. But will add, not followed by these bytes…
The way they get those exclusions it to test it against all the common programs they’ve collected, and see if it matches any. So smaller devs get false positives often, because their programs aren’t in the exclusion tests.
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So I guess we’re good but Desk64 is staying in quarantine =/
These plugins aren’t big enough to hold a virus. They’re all developed on an air-gapped virtual PC that runs on a Mac on Snow Leopard which doesn’t have internet access. If Desk64, a working VST plugin, trips their flags but TubeDesk or a comparable VST plugin of the same size doesn’t, you can draw your own conclusions. See how many bytes this IcedID generally takes, it looks to me like it’s a banking trojan that is 5.1 megabytes? See if Desk64 is 5.1 megabytes and if it is, you caught IcedID :)