Feature update for our ring modulator
Corrosion is your tool for creating distorted, corroded sounds. You can use it to add grit to smooth basses or synth sounds. It’s also great fun on drum loops, enhancing snare drums or creating “thumpy” and “noisy” kick sounds.
Corrosion uses a simple process called ring modulation, which delivers amazing results. First, you take a synthesized source (white noise, sine, saw, or square wave). Then, you filter it using low pass, band pass, or high pass, and modulate the input sound. This process generates “intermodulation distortion,” a concept FM synthesizers also rely on. Modulating one signal with another introduces many harmonics, enriching the original sound. When the modulator and carrier are out of tune, the modulation creates dissonant metallic distortion. We designed Corrosion to let you control the modulation. You can use white noise, sine, saw, or square wave to produce the heavy, noisy, and thumpy distortion that works so well on synth bass.
Instead of using a simple filter for the modulator, we chose a resonant filter. This filter lets you tune the modulator to a specific frequency, allowing you to create harmonic resonances with your original sound. If your sound changes, you can enable the “track pitch” feature. This feature tunes the filter or modulator to match the fundamental frequency of your sound and follows any pitch variation. No other ring modulators offer this unique feature.
Corrosion’s audio path also features analog saturation. Push it hard on a drum loop, and you’ll hear how fat the sound becomes when you combine saturation and modulation. Corrosion includes the usual input, output, and bypass controls. You can even use an external audio input as the modulator source, adding more creative possibilities. For example, take one audio track and use it to modulate another.
We fixed the plugin running only on Rosetta on M1 chips.
We fixed VST3 crashes in some DAWs when external side chain was selected.
