ACD has a nice filter and is a simple mono machine, but I like my acid lines a bit spicy with a good dose of distortion
What should this feature achieve?
It would be nice to add a distortion to the acid synth, Similar to how Perc has an EQ and access to the saturation/ distortion. It would give it a lot more distinct character and separate it from the VAP and FAT engines.
Are there any workarounds?
render the sound to sample and apply bit crush or distortion afterwards.
The 4 synths should have access either to the perc waveshaper, or the options found in the master saturation. As is, they sound nice but a bit too clean.
Great idea, that’s the one thing I’m missing. Samples have their overdrive and bit reduction, and the synths need something similar. Can’t have a dirty ACD line without distortion!
Agreed - just got mine and it’s by far the most intuitive small desktop synth I’ve come across so far and I can already get some great sounds out of it. But it does feel a bit too clean cut in some ways (even though there are some great, gritty sounds to be had) because there’s not a way to dial in some distortion/saturation/overdrive/waveshaping in the signal chain somewhere.
Adding a distortion send effect might be nice but wouldn’t fit with the GUI. There are two places I think it would work - in the oscillator pages, or by adding a drive to the filter. Or both would be nice. The main reason not to do it is because it couldn’t handle the extra processing required