The Best FREE Distortion VST? Ohmicide is now free, but does it still stack up today...
The Best FREE Distortion VST? Ohmicide is now free, but does it still stack up today?
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Ohmicide was one of the first and best distortion plugins I came into contact with at the beginning of my producer journey, but I never got around to purchasing it for myself. However, recently the developer Ohm Force has decided to make it a legacy plugin, suspending support for it but making it available for free. All you need to do is sign up for an account on ohmforce.com and then you can download Ohmicide, a plugin that in the 2000's was considered one of the best distortion plugins on the market, and 7 other legacy plugins for absolutely nothing!
In this video I will be showing you how you can get hold of this golden oldie for nothing, the features it offers and a quick demonstration of what free distortion plugins from 20 years ago can do in 2023...
About Ohmicide (taken from ohmforce.com):
4-FREQUENCY BANDS
Break your signal down into separate frequency bands and apply individual processing to each of them. Within a single band, tune various parameters in different sections such as noise gate, dynamics, distortion, feedback and mixer. You can do this for all four, independently of one another.
ENCYCLOPEDIA DISTORTIONICUS
Thanks to the addition of new algorithms, Ohmicide offers more than 80 distortion models. From classic to extreme harsh tones, you will find the best way to distort any audio source. And if you don't know where to start, thousand of presets will help you figure out what this beast is capable of!
MELOHMAN-ABLE
Designed to support playability and expressive human feeling, the Melohman technology lets you take advantage of full MIDI compatibility to command preset changes via a hardware controller, in any 1 of 7 different modes, with the possibility of customizing the morphing speed. Perfect for live use.
*CHAPTERS*
00:00 Intro
00:36 What is Ohmicide?
01:28 What features does it have?
03:01 Demo and Testing
05:45 Summary
06:08 Thank you & Outro
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*BIOGRAPHY*
Dean Zone is now a firmly established part of the Global Hard Dance scene. After more than ten years of relentless shows all over the UK and Europe and an intense studio schedule that has seen over 20 releases, Dean Zone has risen to be one of the leading lights in the Hard Trance world.
In a career which started in front of a packed dance floor at the legendary Turnmills in 2005 to more recently dropping bombs in some of the biggest clubs all over the country on a regular basis, Dean Zone has earned the respect of clubbers, producers, promoters and fellow DJs along the way with his boundless enthusiasm and exceptional talent for Hard Trance. With appearances at many of the leading events the UK has to offer including Frantic, Tasty, Riot!, Raindance, Planet Angel, Hard Dance Ibiza & Hindsight and not to mention his own award winning parties Magnetix and Rebellion, Dean Zone has shared the stage with every major Hard Dance DJ the UK and Europe has to offer.
Past production work has resulted in some massive releases that have garnered huge support from other artists. Some of the labels which have featured Dean Zone's work include Hyper Reality Records, Bionic Digital, Digitally Infected, Traffic, Compulzion, Gearbox, Hindsight, Terminal Trax, Metamorph, High Fish Digital and Error 303 to name a few. Then there is his very own label, Zone Traxx, which since it's inception in 2011 has topped the charts with tracks from some of the biggest names in Hard Trance including Renegade System, DJ Husband, Audio Damage, DJ W & Nutty T.
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*CREDITS*
Background Music: NEFFEX - How It's Supposed To Feel (Instrumental) (taken from the YouTube Audio Library)