Blue Cat's Destructor

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Blue Cat's Destructor is a powerful distortion and amp sim modeling tool capable of simulating any kind of distortion: from harsh digital destruction to smooth compression or guitar amp simulation (works for clean tones too!), and most importantly, yours! It is delivered with hundreds of presets and predefined models, either inspired by existing gear (guitar & bass amps or cabinets, compressors, pedals, tape machines...) or created by our destructive minds.

But the plug-in is not limited to these predefined models: all parameters of existing presets are fully editable, which gives you access to an unlimited number of distortion simulations - no need to purchase extra presets or amp models to build your custom tone. It is also possible to import reference curves measured with Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst Multi to quickly match existing tones.

The plug-in can be loaded into Blue Cat's PatchWork to be used as a standalone application, where it can be combined with other effects to build your tone.

Main Features

• Powerful distortion and amp modeling tool.
• Simulate any kind of distortion: analog or digital, guitar and bass amps, saturation, clipping, compression, bit crushing...
• Works for "clean" sounds too.
• Get started with several hundreds of fully editable presets, inspired by real gear.
• More than 1400 visual styles to customize the user experience.
• Control the dynamics with the input gate and compressor.
• Control the tone with the pre and post filters.
• Exclusive shape dynamics control: adapt the tone to the dynamics of the signal.
• Use the internal or external side chain to trigger the distortion.
• Protect your ears with the output brickwall limiter.
• Comprehensive visual feedback: real time spectrum analysis, dynamic distortion curve display with embedded signal histograms.
• Load reference curves for tone matching.
• No latency.

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Blue Cat’s Destructor will be available for purchase and download for Windows and Mac on October 11th, 2016, priced at €79 / $99 USD (excl. VAT).

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Cool! Being an Izotope devotee, it looks a bit like a poor man's Trash 2 to me, but that's not necessarily such a bad thing. Neat looking plugin. and Blue Cat does some cool things.

Thanks for sharing Thantrax

 

but this one goes to eleven.

 

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I'm testing it and loving it.

Its algorithmic cabinet simulator is outstanding, way better than static impulse responses.

It seems to be very well programmed. It breaks up really nice and it's really responsive to playing dynamics.

Might become one of my favorite amp sims along with Revalver and Bias.

About the Trash 2 comparison comment, well, they're different beasts altogether. Trash 2 is more of an overall distortion plugin while Destructor is mainly an amp simulator.

Anyway, it's really exciting to see how amp sims are evolving. Soon enough we'll reach a point where they'll become absolutely indistinguishable from the real thing, both in terms of sound and feel.

 

Last edited: Oct 17, 2016

There are some inspiring sounds in this VST.