Diodrive
Custom Overdrive / Distortion FX
Diodrive
Custom Overdrive / Distortion FX
Inspired by the character of classic diode-driven overdrive pedals and moved beyond their traditional limits, Diodrive delivers everything from warm, touch-sensitive breakup to gritty crunch and aggressive distortion. A carefully tuned drive stage and flexible tone shaping give you the feel of a familiar pedal with a wider range of sounds.
Raw character of diode-clipping pedals
Boutique-style overdrive and distortion
The concept comes from a classic era of guitar effects where a simple gain stage and diode clipping could produce remarkably expressive sounds from light breakup and gritty rhythm tones to compressed, aggressive distortion. The MXR™ Distortion+ and DOD™ 250 are important references for this family of circuits.
Isn't designed as a museum-piece recreation.
It takes that stripped-down character and moves it into a more flexible studio instrument. Drive, Edge, Tone, filtering, Mix and Trim Drive let you shape the response far beyond what the original two-knob designs offered.
Custom drive that can sit naturally in front of an amplifier,
tighten a guitar track, add attitude to bass, or become a deliberately aggressive distortion sound in a production.
Diodrive asks a question
"What if that character had the control and flexibility expected from a modern studio plugin"?
That's where Diodrive begins. It takes inspiration from fundamental diode-drive architecture and expands it for modern production and expand scales of use: - a guitarist's drive pedal, - a producer's color box, - an engineer's distortion tool, - a sound designer's harmonic processor.
Sound Examples
Diode Overdrive, Reimagined.
DSPTONE Diodrive
Flexibility of a plugin designed for the studio. The classic pedals that inspired it were celebrated partly because of their simplicity. MXR™ Distortion+ and DOD™ 250 family demonstrate how much musical character can come from a relatively straightforward gain-and-clipping concept.
Inspired by the Classics
Diodrive explores the territory of classic diode-driven pedals
from the open overdrive of the DOD™ 250 and MXR™ Distortion+, through the aggressive clipping of the ProCo™ RAT and Boss™ DS-1, to the smoother response of the Boss™ OD-1, Tube Screamer™, Boss™ SD-1, Soul Food™, and Fulltone™ OCD. Rather than recreating one specific circuit, DioDrive brings these familiar drive territories into a single flexible plugin, with modern control
AAX, AU, VST3 versions
64-bit only
Ableton Live 11+ (Mac & PC: AU, VST3)
Bitwig 4+ (Mac & PC: AU, VST3)
Cubase 13+ (Mac & PC: VST3)
Digital Performer 11+ (Mac & PC: AU, VST3)
FL Studio 23+ (Mac & PC: VST3)
Garageband 10+ (AU)
Logic Pro 10+ (AU)
Pro Tools 12+ (Mac & PC: AAX)
Presonus Studio One 5+ / Fender Studio (Mac & PC: AU, VST3)
Reaper 6+ (Mac & PC: VST3)
Cakewalk Next by BandLab (PC: VST3)
AAX is a trademark and software of Avid Technology. Audio Units is a trademark and software of Apple Inc. VST3 is a trademark and software of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.
AAX, VST3, AU versions included
64-bit only (Mac / PC)
Mac OS X 10.15 or higher (Intel native | ARM native)
Windows 10
At least 4GB of RAM, 16GB is recommended
At least 200MB of free drive space (OS drive)
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