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Athena Ares Distortion
Saturation to full distortion, warm to wild.
FreeFree for good
Works in any DAW that loads VST3 on Windows. Mac follows in 2027.
Included in every edition of Studio Pro, Studio Lite too. Compare editions
| Characters | 8 |
| Presets | 36 |
| Formats | VST3 · Windows |
| Version | 0.3.1 |
| Download | 2 MB |
About
Ares is distortion with eight characters: warm tube and tape, overdrive, fuzz, a screaming lead drive, an octave-up rectifier, a wavefolder and saturation, run four times oversampled so the top stays clean.
Low Keep leaves the bass under a frequency you choose untouched, so 808s and basses stay solid while their tops grit up. Grit adds bit and rate reduction, and auto gain keeps the level steady as the drive rises.
36 presets for warmth, bass and 808, drums, synths, vocals, lo-fi and full destruction.
What's inside
- 8 characters, from warm to wild
- 4x oversampling
- Low Keep for solid 808s and basses
- Grit: bit and rate reduction
- Auto gain
- 36 presets
What's new
- Low Keep really keeps the lows
- Knobs you can fine-tune or type into, and hover help
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