Include – Change Your Sound Beyond Recognition!
In the world of music creation, distortion is one of the most powerful tools for adding character, aggression, warmth, or simply madness to your sound. It can transform a clean guitar signal into a roaring beast, add punch to drums, make a bassline fat and tangible, or embellish synth textures with a crunchy texture. If you are looking for a plugin capable of flexible and effective work with saturation and distortion, then the VST-processor Include from the developer 8digiARTS deserves your attention.
What is Include?
Include is a specialized effects plugin designed as a distortion processor. It doesn’t just add “dirt” to your signal, but offers a range of tools for fine-tuning and experimenting with distortion. Whether you need a light saturator to add analog warmth, a classic overdrive for rock, or extreme fuzz for electronic music, Include provides the ability to achieve the desired result.
Key features of Include:
- Individual channel saturation: This feature allows you to independently saturate the left and right channels of a stereo signal. This opens up unique opportunities for creating asymmetrical stereo effects or for delicately adding warmth and density to individual components of a stereo panorama. You can, for example, gently saturate one side of a synth panorama, leaving the other clean, or add varying degrees of harmonics to the left and right microphones of a drum kit.
- Drive Distortion: The basis of any distortion plugin. The Drive control allows you to control the level of the input signal fed to the distortion circuit. By increasing Drive, you intensify the distortion effect, moving from a light crunch to intense overload. This is the classic way to control the degree of aggression of your sound.
- Sample rate resolution: Not a typical feature for distortion, but extremely interesting for creative experiments. Changing the sample rate resolution can simulate the sound of low-quality digital equipment or create unique digital artifacts and aliasing, which add graininess and a “digital” character to the signal. This can be a great tool for electronic music or for creating low-fi effects.
- Over + Cutoff Filter + LFO: This combined block provides an additional level of control and dynamics. Over (Overdrive) adds another layer of harmonic saturation, often softer and more compressed than classic distortion. The Cutoff Filter is a filter with an adjustable cutoff frequency, which allows you to shape the tonal balance of the distorted signal, removing unwanted hum or harshness. And the integrated LFO (low-frequency oscillator) can be assigned to modulate the cutoff frequency of the filter or, possibly, other parameters, creating moving, pulsating, or cyclically changing distortion effects. This allows you to enliven static distortion and integrate it into the dynamics of the composition.
Who is this plugin for?
Include will be a useful tool for musicians, sound engineers and producers who work in various genres – from rock, metal and blues, where distortion is the basis of the sound, to electronic music, hip-hop and experimental genres, where unique textures and digital artifacts can add originality. Its flexibility allows it to be used both for barely noticeable character addition and for complete destruction and transformation of sound.
If you are looking for a free, but powerful and flexible distortion processor for your VST-plugin collection on Windows, Include from 8digiARTS is a great choice that offers interesting opportunities for shaping your unique sound.
