Introducing Disto Disco, Distortion that Dances

We released Disto Disco today. What makes it unique is that each of its 28 processing modes is designed to move and breathe with the beat, so every effect becomes expressive and alive. A distortion plugin at heart, it also ventures into much stranger territory. Alongside gentle drive, folding, fuzz and gain, it can apply degrading echoes, tuned resonances, morphing vowels, spectral smears, harsh mathematical processing and granular clouds to your sound.

It can sound warm and restrained, but it can also twitch, talk, shimmer, stutter and break. Add a subtle pulse to a static effect, or turn a held note into an evolving performance. Nothing has to sit still unless you want it to.

A different instrument in every mode

The modes span five sonic families, and each one gets the controls it needs. The Drive family runs from soft saturation through wavefolding and fuzz to roaring distortion, high-gain lead and bit crushing. The Time family includes echoes that change on every repeat, a pitch-shifting delay, a tuned resonator and a playhead that scrubs through recent sound as the input changes.

Move further down the menu and things become less familiar. Spectral modes filter, morph and vocode the signal, or keep its tone while pulling its timing apart. The seven Math modes apply basic mathematical operations to the input signal, producing raw, harsh and often surprising textures. Rain, Hail and Cloud cut recent sound into grains, from isolated drops and rhythmic repeats to a continuous shifting layer.

Every dial has its own rhythmic modulator, so each control moves with its own shape. One control can swing wildly while another glides across several bars, giving your sound complex, evolving movement that feels organic and alive.

Random, as wild as you like

Random gives the whole patch a new direction. It selects a mode, sets its dials and makes them move. Use Spice to set how adventurous things will get: turn it down for a focused variation with little or no modulation, leave it in the middle for a musical reshuffle, or push it up and let nearly everything join in for a wild, chaotic and out-there result.

All the settings are still yours. Every randomized value, including every pattern, remains visible and editable. Keep the part that caught your ear, pull the rest into shape and make it fit your track, or save the patch as a preset to come back to later.

Where to get it

Disto Disco is available now. The desktop version runs as VST3 and AU on macOS and VST3 on Windows. Download it here.