PunkDist - A distortion pedal plugin

Introduction

This is a simple vst3/au distortion plugin made with JUCE that I built to introduce myself in the JUCE framework. The goal was to replicate the behaviour of the MiniDist by Markbass. The project was mostly used to further my understanding and knowledge of digital signal processing and digital audio effects.

You can hear it in action here.

Features

• Drive gain: Uses inference to replicate the real pedal behaviour from a ML model.
• Output Gain (from -30 up to 30 dB).
• Tone 1: Selects the frequency (from 200 up to 2500 Hz) at which a small boost is applied. The boost amount also increases with the frequency, in fact, no boost is applied when the knob is at its minimum.
• Tone 2: Dips the signal (from 0 down to -20 dB) at 800 Hz. It also applies a little bump at 80 Hz.

Interesting links

• Neural Networks for Real-Time Audio
• TS-9 cloned with Machine Learning
• RTNeural