Unfiltered Audio Dent 2 v2.4.0

Unfiltered Audio Dent 2 Overview

It’s time to go deeper with your sound – way more profound. Sure, you’ve made your tracks sound nice – balanced the levels, added just the right EQ – maybe you even performed all the music. But that’s only the beginning. You want to get inside those waveforms, tinker and explore, realize your track’s potential, and draw out a sound that had only existed between your ears.

The original Dent was a different distortion plugin made by Unfiltered Audio for every engineer and sound designer. They had ever longed to manipulate the waveform on a molecular level. With the release of Dent 2, audio control freaks rejoice because Unfiltered Audio has gone subatomic. We’re talking about a let’s-sharpen-the-peaks-on-the-negative-half-of-the-waveform level of control! So if you’re looking for sweet analog hardware emulation, you better look elsewhere because the mad scientists at Unfiltered are digital to their core and know precisely how to turn those and zeros into magic.

When it hits Dent 2, your Audio is first met with the plugin’s sample reduction engine, which is freely adjustable and highly customizable. Next, the signal passes through as many as three different types of distortion in series, which are selectable from among ten unique clipping algorithms. Within these gain stages, users can add or subtract a DC bias, adjust the waveform’s shape by flattening or sharpening it, and independently adjust the positive and negative halves of the waveform. Next comes the bitrate engine, a continuous and automatable parameter with six different bit-crushing algorithms. And finally, the Audio passes through one of four different resonant filter types… that is, unless you opt to put the filter at the beginning of the signal path instead of the end. Or maybe you opted to make its position dynamic – alternating on dotted eighth notes between placements at the beginning and the end… now the possibilities are starting to unfold.

Features of Unfiltered Audio Dent 2

Presets from The Crystal Method, Mirrorball Entertainment, Julius Dobos, and Toby Pitman (Air Studios)
Six unique bitcrushing algorithms (including a circuit-bent toy simulation!)
Randomize Preset feature—surprise and amaze yourself with sonic madness!
Ten clippers: Hard/Soft Clip, Wavefold, Overfold, Harsh Fold, Distortion, Tube, Tape, Gloubi,Cubic
Complex Mode gives users the option to apply a different saturation algorithm to each of the three clipping stages
Continuously variable Bias and Split controls progressively add a DC signal to one or both phases of the input signal
Two waveshapers independently adjust the amplitude of—and optionally invert—positive and negative phase components of your signal
Sound-warping Shape control progressively squares off or pinches waveform peaks
Probabilistic and Sequential Waveset (internal step-sequencer) processing creates dynamic rhythmic patterns for the distorted signal with a simple twist of two knobs
Unfiltered Audio's flagship modulation system provides eight freely assignable modulators (sine LFO, - - - - sawtooth/triangle LFO, square-wave LFO, input follower, sample-and-hold noise, macro control knob, step - - - sequencer, and ROLI Lightpad) with drag-and-drop virtual patching to most of Dent 2's controls
Ability to minimize modulators by clicking on their icons
Ability to reset LFOs via a trigger input and control phase
Adjustable, analog-style multi-mode filter — with separate resonance control and four different filtering - - modes — can be placed pre- or post-distortion
Continuously variable SR control progressively degrades the sampling rate of the processed signal by directly - - manipulating Dent 2’s internal DSP
AGC (Automatic Gain Compensation) button
2x and 4x oversampling
Smooth wavelets option, available from within the Global Options menu
OpenGL toggle switch in the Option menu
Mix control provides parallel processing
ZThe zoom-in waveform display shows wave cycle shapeafter processing, guiding your control tweaks.
Get crunchy analog-style tones like guitar pedal effects or searing digital demolition like bit crushing and sample rate reduction.
Add attitude to vocals with input gain, square up bass tracks with the Shaper, obliterate samples with the - Bits and Sample Rate reducers, and run it through a screaming multi-mode filter.
FREE full license for Indent 2 with the purchase of Dent 2