Dist COLDFIRE

Doble reactor de distorsión

Dist COLDFIRE es un efecto con dos motores de distorsión que pasa con unos clics de una deliciosa saturación a válvulas a la más absoluta destrucción sonora. Combina algoritmos analógicos y digitales con modulación y personalización avanzadas, y disfruta de opciones casi ilimitadas de distorsión para tu sonido.

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Dist COLDFIRE
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To create is
to destroy

Twist the simplest groove into a gnarled web of crushed resonance; bring your instruments, vocals, and loops to life with stacked analog drive; zap a synth drone into glitchy bit-crushed mayhem that dances to your beat.

Dist COLDFIRE lets you harness not one, but two powerful distortion engines, exploring their unique and explosive synergy, and creating entirely new sounds with any input signal. This is sonic alchemy on an unprecedented level, yours to master and manipulate - what will you create?

Totally custom distortion

This is no ordinary on/off, dry/wet, analog/digital distortion. Pair up any of the 11 distortion types, from emulated tube heat to icy digital bit crush, customize your routing, sprinkle in some modulation, and forge sonic carnage that’s totally your own.

More than crunch

Create resonant metallic melodies, introduce artificial harmonic reflections, trigger wildly destructive feedback loops; go beyond conventional distortion with 6 custom modulation slots, 16-step sequencing, comb filtering, and much more.

For any sound

Enrich, saturate, pulverize, or transform any sound beyond recognition. Whether you’re looking for warm vocal enhancement, monstrous kick drum impacts, speaker-rattling bass fuzz, or denser-than-black-hole wavefolding, Dist COLDFIRE packs every punch you need.

Intuitive but powerful

Simple enough to create exciting dual distortion effects in just a few easy clicks, but flexible enough to become totally immersed in destructive sound design, Dist COLDFIRE strikes the balance between quickfire plugin and deep processing powerhouse.

Preset
library

For when you need to quickly turn up the analog heat or shatter your sound with sub-zero digital crush, Dist COLDFIRE comes loaded with more than 150 specialized presets. From mix enhancers to wild modulated chaos, you'll find your distortion flavor in seconds.

Artificier

Give your simple percussive loops & drum machine stems an android voice with edgy bit-crushing, erratic filter modulation, and erratic bursts of glitchy feedback.

Drums Sidechain Big C

A drum loop becomes an ominous bassy drone, with a pumping sidechain response and aggressive snarling quality that swells with each hit.

Random Bit Sounding

Big Stepper

Simple and familiar synth sounds become punchy, powerful, and perfect for those euphoric dancefloor moments. Create huge basses, leads, and pads that'll have you hooked.

Drum Bus Transformer & Tape

Emulating the sound of classic studio hardware, breathe new life into your drum bus with the Transformer and Tape modes, saturating your transients and accentuating the high end with band split processing.

Gentle Lo Fi

Using classic tape-style saturation, give your drums that coveted lo-fi vibe, making even the cleanest stem sound like an unearthed reel from the archives.

The sound
of alteration

Distortion is a universal thing, a cause and effect, a means and an end. The folding of an analog waveform; the dense fizziness of a classic ‘70s guitar stompbox; the bite of a sound that’s passed its threshold.

In the sphere of contemporary music, it can mean the pumping analog imperfections of artists like Caribou and Floating Points; the hybrid industrial soundscapes of acts like Nine Inch Nails and Skinny Puppy; the seismic guitar sounds of everyone from Eric Gales to Bring Me The Horizon; the gritty, intimate production of today’s songwriting pioneers like Billie Eilish and Phoebe Bridgers.

Distortion says ‘don’t settle for a sound’. Engage Dist COLDFIRE and alter, experiment, twist, smash, and savor both the means and the end.

The distortion
catalyst

From worn out magnetic tape to clipped-signal circuitry to dramatic folds in analog waveforms, distortion can exist in many forms.

Dist COLDIRE fuses 11 of these forms into a single explosive plugin, from red-hot analog to ice-cold digital, each with distinctive controls. Get experimental and discover wild compound reactions yet unheard.

Analog

Tape

Dial in some grainy tape-style saturation and degradation, particularly effective on the low-end, perfect for that organic lo-fi sound.

Tube

The soft-clipping warmth and depth of the vacuum valve sound, rich in harmonics and highly responsive to your input.

Transistor

The biting response of classic echo box preamps, known for its presence and edgy character, great on guitars.

Transformer

A simulation of the nuanced distortion created by magnetic hysteresis, with two options: nickel, for subtle processing, and iron, for more low-mid emphasis

Germanium

The screaming tone made famous by Germanium diode amps, distortion pedals, and fuzz boxes, bright and red-hot.

Force

Based on classic studio outboard gear, with 4 modes of operation ranging from analog saturation to roaring overdrive, great for your mix bus.

Digital

Rectifier

Imitating the unique harmonic overtones and zapped character achieved by reshaping a waveform’s negative phase.

Bit Crusher

Edgy harmonics and glassy digital noise achieved by reducing the sample and bitrate of a sound, making anything sound harsh and robotic.

Bit Inverter

Introduce crisp digital distortion and unexpected artifacts by modulating a signal’s bit content in real-time.

Wavefolder

By distorting the shape of your signal’s waveform, this mode delivers unique overtones and harmonic alterations beyond recognition with 7 shapes.

Waveshaper

An incredibly flexible mode with 11 subtypes of operation, from shattered-signal fuzz to surprisingly resonant asymmetrical drive.

A closer,
look

Dist COLDFIRE is simple to use when you need it to be, geared up to unleash complex & thrilling sonic results.

Explore its accessible interface and flexible features, and savor whatever degree of destruction you’re looking for. On the other hand, if you’re looking to take your destructive sound design deeper, its advanced panel offers heaps of extra functionality and room for experimentation.

  • Información general

    Dist COLDFIRE

  • 1

    Distortion control panels

    Tap into each of Dist COLDFIRE’s 11 distortion modes with specialized control for each one, from bit depth to tube wiring. Each mode features controls for output level, dry/wet level, and bypass.

  • 2

    Master controls

    Control the master input and output levels of Dist COLDFIRE, inject some post-distortion tilt EQ, and tweak the dry vs. wet signal to ensure that your distorted sound is heard loud and clear.

  • 3

    Routing selection

    Rearrange the signal flow between Dist COLDFIRE’s two distortion engines to unlock an array of compound sound-alterations, from the uber-saturated to the unpredictably wild. Choose between series & parallel, stereo and mid/side, and even a band split mode to process different frequencies.

  • 4

    Routing balance

    For parallel, stereo, mid/side, and band split routing configurations, click and drag the routing balance to flow smoothly between the sound of both engines. Better still, you can modulate this parameter for unstoppable movement between your chosen distortions.

  • 5

    Visualizer

    From vivid coloration to grainy pixelated textures, see your distortion in action with the central real-time visualizer, color-coded to match your chosen algorithms. This can also be bypassed for a focused workflow.

  • 6

    Pre Filter controls

    Sculpt your sound before it reaches Dist COLDFIRE’s distortion engines; you’ve got 6 modes to choose from, including resonant low/band/high pass, plus notch and comb filtering for carving edgier input signals.

  • 7

    Post Filter controls

    Get a little bit surgical with your sound post-distortion and ensure that everything sits nicely in your mix with a simple 2-band EQ.

  • 8

    Dynamics

    The Dynamics module is a secret weapon up Dist COLDFIRE’s sleeve. With pre or post-distortion configuration, enhance your sound’s response and impact with a built-in Limiter, Compressor, and Multiband Compressor.

  • 9

    Feedback

    Create sprawling distorted reflections, make drums resonate like strings, and sprinkle warped glitchy rhythms into your projects with this filtered feedback delay module. Sync to tempo, quantize to pitch, or set it loose entirely.

  • 10

    Modulation

    Swap static sound processing for distortion that evolves, flickers, and dances to your tune. Dist COLDFIRE comes armed with 6 freely assignable custom modulation slots: choose from a syncable LFO, multi-stage function generator, custom envelope follower, or 16-step sequencer, with dozens of parameters to modulate at will.

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Ali Staton

meets Dist COLDFIRE

Between mix engineering, production, and live programming, Ali Staton’s musical flexibility has bagged him some of the most coveted gigs in modern music.

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  • Paul Godfrey

    Morcheeba

    Wow, Dist-COLDFIRE is so far out and psychedelic and a real mangling smorgasbord. There are tons of saturators out there now but this one is really something else! I could listen to it for hours

  • Ali Staton

    Mix Engineer

    Having the dual engines gives you the opportunity to design or treat the sound exactly the way you want - the distortions are incredible sounding.

  • Romesh Dodangoda

    Producer / Mixer Motorhead, Bring Me The Horizon, Funeral For A Friend, Twin Atlantic

    Dist-COLDFIRE is one of the most powerful distortion plugins ever! From subtle to absolutely extreme, there are so many ways to manipulate the sound and turn it into something completely unique.

  • Y3LLO KOALA

    Dist-COLDFIRE is a creative saturation tool, it has been inspiring me to make new rhythmic elements in my production and it sounds incredible.

  • Jacknife Lee

    Producer / Mixer: U2, The Killers, R.E.M

    Dist-Coldfire is insanely great. It's one of the deepest tools I have now. I thought it was going to be just a saturation/distortion plugin and i know what they do. I love them and can't have enough of 'em. but this is far more than that.

  • Anthony J Resta

    Ajax

    Dist-Coldfire is wonderful out of the box; it's the most powerful tone shaper I've ever used. I'm beyond blown away. It's a sound designer/composer's dream come true. I honestly can't remember the last time the sun came up while I was experimenting with something. Overnight, this has changed the way I make music and manipulate sound. ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES. MIND Blowing!

  • Billy Bush

    Producer / Engineer

    I love Coldfire. So many times distortion in the digital world sounds so one dimensional but this sounds like real life. COLDFIRE brings great tweakability and unique modulation options to a palette of distortion effects that can range from warm and subtle to absolutely apocalyptic.

  • Luiggy Santiago

    Arranger / Music Director / Grammy Award Nominee

    Amazing sound design tool, so inspiring! Also works incredibly on keyboards sounds and electric guitars as well. Definitively a must have plugin.

PressClippings

  • Sonic State

    On Dist COLDFIRE

    “Dist Coldfire is absolutely fantastic. The 2 engines and the modulation makes it incredible.”

  • Engadget

    On Dist COLDFIRE

    “Arturia's Dist Coldfire might be the only distortion plugin you need.”

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necesitas

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  • Control en tiempo real

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  • Explorador de presets

    El explorador simplificado de presets de la FX Collection te permite filtrar, organizar y guardar tus presets favoritos para recuperarlos al instante. Busca por tipo de instrumento, género musical, técnica de producción y mucho más: podrás encontrar rápidamente el ajuste que necesitas y ahorrar un valioso tiempo que está mejor empleado en la parte creativa.

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The exclusive analog modeling technology that makes our emulations indistinguishable from the originals.

By accurately mimicking the characteristics of analog oscillators, filters, and soft clipping, we can provide astonishing component-accurate detail and authentic analog charm in equal measure.

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Main Features

Two distortion engines

11 distortion algorithms to choose from, each with specific controls:

  • Tape
  • Tube
  • Transistor
  • Transformer
  • Rectifier
  • Germanium
  • Force
  • Bit Crusher
  • Bit Inverter
  • Wavefolder
  • Waveshaper

Hidden Advanced control panel for in-depth sound design

5 routing options: Serial, Parallel, Stereo, Mid/Side, Band Split

Routing balance slider to blend Distortions A & B, with real-time visualizer

Pre or Post 3-mode Dynamics module: Compressor, Multiband, Limiter

Feedback module

6-mode Pre Filter per distortion engine, including Comb Filtering

2-band Post Filter per distortion engine

6 assignable modulation slots, each with 4 modes: LFO, Function, Follower, 16-Step Sequencer

Over 150 presets built-in

A/B comparison

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Platforms specifications

Windows

  • Win 10+ (64bit)
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
  • 1GB free hard disk space
  • OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
  • ARM processors not supported on Windows

Required configuration

  • VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).

Apple

  • Mac OS 11+
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or M1 CPU
  • 1GB free hard disk space
  • OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU

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