Polyend Synth: Distortion effect

[blazzr]

What is the problem?

Synth currently does not have a distortion effect, making some sounds (e.g. distorted acid bassline) impossible.

What should this feature achieve?

An additional FX, at least for the ACD engine. FX routing: insert would probably work best.

Are there any workarounds?

Using external FX is not a solution, as Synth has only one stereo out and 3-part multitimbrality (three synth engines and two outputs, if you accept mono signal).

Any links to related discussions?

Polyend Synth Engines: ACD - Distortion effect

I am confident in saying that if any new features were to be added to existing engines, they would be shared across the products for those that support said engine Take note that this is a request specifically for the ACD engine, working sort of like an Insert FX. However, with the Synth, the Reverb/Delay/Mod work more like Send FX. If you were looking for something similar for the Synth, then that would need to be a new Feature Request as it quite a different implementation, d…

Any references to other products?

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[eric.morello]

I agree and think this would make sense as an added parameter (or three, e.g. level, dist + tone) in the ACD engine itself. There’s no need to complicate things in terms of routing or added sections (i.e. “Insert FX”).

[dontspamjason]

I would love this.

[Sandroid]

It’s worth mentioning - if you want to help this request, you should put a vote on it

You can find that at the top of this post, to the left of the title

[pyha.uho]

Personally, I’d be able to make use of a distortion (or bitcrush/bit reduce) effect on all engines, but if that is unfeasible for some reason, I’d be happy to have it on whatever synth engines it might make sense to include it on.