Arturia Dist TUBE-CULTURE Vivid Harmonic Saturator Plug-In

Arturia 1090-110 Overview

Audio engineers and producers looking to bring authentic valve warmth and harmonic character to their productions will be impressed with the Arturia Dist TUBE-CULTURE, a software version of the studio classic, Thermonic Culture's The Culture Vulture, an all-valve stereo distortion rack unit that provides remarkable saturation and crunch.

Saturate your mix bus with responsive analog heat, or scorch your instruments and stems with destructive distortion. Enjoy the unmistakable character of tube-drive studio hardware in your DAW like never before. Dist TUBE-CULTURE is Mac and Windows compatible and works with all major DAWs utilizing the VST2, VST3, AAX Native, AU, and NKS formats (64-bit only).

At a Glance

• 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: LR, Mid, Side
• Added Dry/Wet control for parallel processing
• Dynamics control to add Gate/Compression to incoming signal
• Input and output filters module with Tilt EQ
• 2 Oversampling modes for supreme audio quality or lower CPU usage
• A-B comparison
• NKS-ready

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 and virtual valve sounds for which you've been wishing.

Choose Your Temperature

Enjoy warm mix-glue 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 for which your production is looking.

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. This is an old distortion with 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 and 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

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, when 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 proverbial 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.