Distortion That Dances

Disto Disco turns distortion into movement with 28 sound-shaping modes across five sonic territories. Start with gentle drive or classic distortion, then venture into stranger territory: distorting delays, vocoders, spectral effects, granular clouds, and more. Make every dial dance with the beat, or use Random to send the whole patch somewhere new.

Disto Disco plugin interface

Driven, Twisted and Set in Motion

Disto Disco starts as a distortion effect but quickly goes somewhere stranger. Classic distortion modes share a dropdown with degrading echoes, spectral effects, morphing vowels, filters, raw math distortions and granular showers. Start with something smooth, tuned and shimmering, push it toward harsh, brutal and broken, or take it somewhere weird and otherworldly. Add a modulator and the patch begins to groove with the beat.

Features

A Different Instrument in Every Mode

28 modes each bring their own set of dials, from familiar drive controls to parameters that bend time, reshape the spectrum or scatter sound into grains. Switch modes and the controls change with it, giving each effect room to feel distinct without turning the interface into a wall of knobs.

Every Dial Can Dance

Each dial has its own rhythmic modulator. Draw a pattern, pick a shape, or let the modulator roll its own, and the dial swings and dances, turning a static sound into movement that follows the beat.

Random, as Wild as You Like

Random gives the whole patch a fresh direction, changing the mode, its dials and how they move. Spice sets how adventurous it gets, from a gentle nudge to complete chaos. Keep the parts that work, then shape everything else by hand. Whatever comes back is still yours to grab, refine and make your own.

28 Modes Across Five Sonic Territories

7x DriveSoft, Growl, Fold, Fuzz, Roar, Lead and Crush. Reshapes the signal with different forms of distortion, from gentle warmth to folding, fuzz, bit crushing and high gain.

7x SpectralLowpass, Bandpass, Vowel, Vocoder, Distorted Vocoder, Spectral Gate and Phase Swap. Reshapes the frequency content, filtering, moving, swapping or silencing different parts of the sound.

7x MathMax, Subtract, Absolute Difference, Divide, Squared, Sign Multiply and XOR. Applies basic mathematical operations to the signal, producing raw, harsh and often surprising textures.

4x TimeDelay, Helix, Resonator and Scrub. Repeats recent sound as echoes, loops and resonances, then bends, shifts or scrubs that history into motion.

3x GranularRain, Hail and Cloud. Cuts recent sound into tiny pieces, then scatters, repeats and layers them into everything from sparse grains to continuous clouds.

Each mode and dial is documented in detail in the full manual.

Disto Disco with the mode list open
28 FX modes to choose from in 5 families: Drive, Time, Spectral, Math and Granular
Disto Disco in Lead mode, with the step modulator running
Every mode also has additional sound-shaping possibilities: Tone, Envelope Follower, Dry/Wet and a clipper
Disto Disco in Cloud mode
Granular modes like Cloud cut your sounds into grains that get reassembled
Disto Disco in Vocoder mode
Spectral modes like Vocoder reshape the frequency content of your sound (Dark theme)

Distortion That
Dances

A different kind of distortion. Turn static effects into rhythmic, evolving sound.

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€59 €29
VST3 + AU·Win + Mac
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