effect question - distortion

[Lunahorum]

Is there a type of distortion that only clips one side of the wave such as the bottom or the top? I was just wondering.

[audio fidelity]

just what is it you are you trying to do sonically?

[OverCoat]

just what is it you are you trying to do sonically?

something awesome

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/757.html here is a 3-band distortion VST that will probably do what you are asking - Beatdrop recommended this thing to me like 30 years ago and I think it is neat.

[Yoozer]

Yes, those things exist. They're called diode clippers.

http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_3/chpt_3/6.html

D16 Devastor seems to have something like that.

[Lunahorum]

Oh I found something cool with lots of freebies - http://www.wavosaur.com/

The original website is down, but can be accessed here - http://web.archive.org/web/20041009155611/www.noizware.com/software.htm - or not...

[Nutritious]

Been tryin to get this VST since I read the thread earlier last month, but the download from web.archive.org seems to be a bad zip file. Anyone around here happen to have the Tridirt VST and wouldn't mind sending it to me?

[analoq]

I don't have the aforementioned plugin but I don't think it does what the OP is/was looking for.

I had an analogue clipper that would do it. Most sounds just came out like a dull distortion, but there were interesting things you could do to control voltages. The clipper module in Reaktor will do this as well.

It would be really trivial to code a VST effect for this. But again, not the most useful effect.

cheers.