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Arturia Dist TUBE-CULTURE

Original price was: $199.00.Current price is: $149.00.

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.

Description
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Vivid harmonic saturator

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.

909 Bassdrum Exciter

Dry
Wet

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.

Quick N Easy Mastering

Dry
Wet

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.

London Dance Synth

Dry
Wet

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

Vox Enhancer

Dry
Wet

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

Oh That S Nice Drums

Dry
Wet

Subtle loudness on the bottom of your drums. Compensate with the presence switch.

Getting Crispy E Guitar

Dry
Wet

Adding a bit of crunch to the dynamic peaks of the guitar track.

A modern crunch classic

In an age of digital precision and demanding hi-def audio, sometimes you just want good old fashioned analog fatness.

In the late '90s, as the music production world was becoming ever more focused on the flexibility of working with computers and the DAW was beginning to dominate, some manufacturers sought to buck the trend.

Enter UK-based Thermionic Culture, a small company committed to the belief that valve-driven gear couldn't be beaten on sound.

In 1998, they released The Culture Vulture, an all-valve stereo distortion rack unit, designed to counter the increasingly sterile world of digital music production.

Offering up a rainbow of saturation, coloration, and distortion applications, this unassuming piece of handwired gear ultimately became one of the world’s most coveted bits of studio hardware, used by everyone from Deadmau5 to Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme. Now you too can explore this modern classic, faithfully emulated and tastefully enhanced.

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PRODUCT SUMMARY

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

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows:
Win 10+ (64bit)
4 GB RAM
4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
1GB free hard disk space
OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
ARM processors not supported on Windows

Apple:
Mac OS 11+
4 GB RAM
4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or M1 CPU
1GB free hard disk space
OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU

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Required configuration
VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).