BRUITAGE is a reactive distortion effect that shapes grit through your playing dynamics, featuring six algorithms, dual parallel cores, and performance macros for expressive, musical noise.
Reactive Distortion Engine
BRUITAGE turns your input into motion, using dynamics, velocity, and gestures to shape tone in real time. This makes distortion breathe with your performance—dig in for bloom, ease off for space—so it behaves like an instrument, not a static processor. Six hand-tuned algorithms are curated for immediate, mix-ready character, from parallel overdrives to wavefolded walls.
The engine includes dual parallel cores and a reactive wet/dry that follows an envelope follower. This lets the effect breathe around transients or overtake them on demand, preserving clarity or pushing chaos. Integrated mastering-grade compression and dual-mode limiting (Modern and Vintage) keep extremes musical, ensuring playable, inspiring results even at high intensity.
Six Algorithms for Diverse Texture
Two Distortions offer parallel punch and controlled bloom, stacking character while keeping transients sharp or smeared. Asymmetric Wavefolder provides an 8-stage, touch-sensitive wavefolder with subtle overdrive for harmonics that breathe. Shoegaze It!! builds immersive walls via a signal chain of distortion, reverb, further distortion, and chorus in a parallel blend.
Radio Interference delivers believable broken air with random stereo bitcrush and packet loss, ideal for adding dirt and movement to clean sounds. Bad Connection creates chaotic stereo stutters and dropouts for broken-signal drama on drums, vocals, or FX. Old Cassette Player adds worn, warm wow, flutter, wear, and speaker fatigue for human wobble when things feel too perfect.
Performance Macros and Control
The Performance Surface provides animated X, Y, and Z controls as macro knobs that move drive, character, and motion together. One gesture yields multidimensional change, letting you play the sound rather than menu-dive. This surface is designed for stage, studio, or scoring work, enabling quick, expressive adjustments during performance or composition.
The envelope follower also drives amount, texture, and motion, so your touch directly influences the effect’s evolution. This makes BRUITAGE a performable instrument where noise becomes expression. The mastering-grade limiter and transparent compressor tame volatility without dulling impact—push hard and stay musical, with clean look-ahead control or classic peak behavior.
Workflow and Applications
BRUITAGE suits artists, composers, and sound designers seeking grit, chaos, or organic imperfection. In a studio, it can inject texture into clean tracks, from walls of noise to subtle wear. On stage, the X, Y, Z macros allow real-time manipulation of the effect, making performances more dynamic. For scoring, it adds cinematic breakdowns or reactive sound design elements.
Practically, use it on guitars for shoegaze haze, on drums for broken-signal stutters, or on vocals for unstable character. The reactive wet/dry is key for preserving transients in rhythmic material. With fewer choices and faster emotion, it streamlines creative sessions—any source can benefit from touch-driven distortion that evolves with your playing.
Key features
- Six hand-tuned distortion algorithms
- Dual parallel cores with reactive wet/dry
- Performance surface with X, Y, Z macros
- Mastering-grade compressor and dual-mode limiter
- Envelope follower shapes amount, texture, motion
- Algorithms include wavefolder, bitcrush, tape emulation
Best for
BRUITAGE is best for performers and sound designers wanting a reactive distortion instrument that responds to playing dynamics, ideal for adding expressive grit, texture, or broken-signal character to music, stage performances, or cinematic sound design.