Polyend Synth Engines: ACD - Distortion effect

What is the problem?

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.

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Love it! Thanks for the wish @Aisjam.

Agreed! I’d like distortion on all the synth engines

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Makes sense to include the Play+ here as well as it has the same synths. What do you think?

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Yes, I’d like to have it in play+

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@here Thanks for your wish. It’s now ready for voting :slight_smile:

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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.

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Seems to be seriously lacking some kind of overdrive. Obviously different kinds of distortion/overdrive would be awesome.

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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! :slight_smile:

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

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