Arturia Dist Tube-Culture

Arturia Dist Tube-CultureDist TUBE CULTURE is an enhanced software version of a modern distortion classic, bringing authentic valve powered warmth and harmonic character to your DAW production. Crank the heat in your mixes with studio grade saturation and crunch in a few clicks. Tube distortion mastered Saturate your mix bus with responsive analog heat; scorch your instruments and stems with destructive distortion; enjoy the unmistakable character of tube drive studio

Dist TUBE-CULTURE is an enhanced software version of a modern distortion classic, bringing authentic valve-powered warmth and harmonic character to your DAW production. Crank the heat in your mixes with studio-grade saturation and crunch in a few clicks.

Tube distortion mastered
Saturate your mix bus with responsive analog heat; scorch your instruments and stems with destructive distortion; enjoy the unmistakable character of tube-drive studio hardware in your DAW like never before. This is Dist TUBE-CULTURE.

Channeling tube character
Nothing saturates, colors, distorts, or breathes harmonic life into a sound quite like heated vacuum valves. Dist TUBE-CULTURE meticulously emulates this behavior for the most authentic virtual valve sound you could wish for.

Choose your temperature
Enjoy warm mix-gluing saturation, white-hot fuzz, and everything in between. Dist TUBE-CULTURE will respond to your projects with whatever heat you need.

For any sound
Enrich your guitar tracks, fatten your topline vocals, crush your drum transients, or roast your mix bus to serving temperature. This faithful emulation might just be the finishing touch that your production is looking for.

Tastefully enhanced
Overcome the limitations of studio hardware and go beyond analog circuitry with modernized features like gain compensation, post-drive EQ and expanded stereo processing. Old distortion, new tricks.

The sound of heat
Many of music's most legendary guitar riffs, iconic vocal lines, and soul-stirring mixes simply wouldn't have been possible without the humble vacuum tube.

These decades-old components are temperamental in their behavior, fragile in their operation, and limited in their lifespan. Yet their ability to produce a beautifully even harmonic response gives any valve-processed sound a rich, warm, smooth character that's hard to match.

Couple this with their unique ability to dynamically distort incoming sounds with varying levels of grit and aggression, and you've got a formula that remains irresistible to musicians, producers, and audio trailblazers to this day.

Whether it's a vocal line in need of some extra color, a drum bus that needs some crunch, or your guitar & synth tracks begging for some edgy crunch, Dist TUBE-CULTURE puts this sought-after sonic attitude in your hands. Experience the stunning sound of a modern studio classic reimagined in virtual form.

Getting Crispy E Guitar
Adding a bit of crunch to the dynamic peaks of the guitar track.

London Dance Synth
Make your synth slightly more agressive with the Triode mode. Add harshness to the high end with the presence switch.

Oh That's Nice Drums
Subtle loudness on the bottom of your drums. Compensate with the presence switch.

Vox Enhancer
All is in the title: it's an enhancer for voices to help you to bring out the vocals in the mix.

Quick N Easy Mastering
Very clean use of the Tube Culture here. The Bias meter is set to a very small value to only add subtle harmonics from the pentode.

909 Bassdrum Exciter
Here, the sound is filtered pre-distortion so it only affects low frequencies. This can be used to create harmonics on a particular frequency band, then blend it with the dry signal using the mix knob.

Authentic studio immersion
Emulating the sound, circuitry behavior, and straightforward layout of its hardware predecessor, Dist TUBE-CULTURE makes you feel like you're working with a genuine bit of studio hardware.

But Dist TUBE-CULTURE doesn't stop at authenticity; we've retrofitted this distortion workhorse with a selection of useful and creative features designed to work seamlessly with your workflow.

Main Features

• Stereo distortion and saturation effect with emulated vacuum tube character
• 4 modes of tube configuration: Triode 1, Pentode 1, Pentode 2, Pentode 3
• Drive and Bias controls for customizing your distortion character
• 2-mode Presence switch
• Analog ammeter (switches to digital when Advanced controls are in use)
• Stereo mode selector: L-R, Mid, Side
• Added Dry/Wet control for parallel processing
• Dynamics control to add Gate/Compression to incoming signal
• Input & output filters module with Tilt EQ
• 2 Oversampling modes for supreme audio quality or lower CPU usage
• A/B comparison
• NKS-ready