Minimal Audio Rift €129
If you’re looking for some inspiration, then this new distortion plugin from Minimal Audio could well be one of the best places to start
> Rift (AU, VST, VST3) is a new distortion plugin from Minimal Audio and alongside Rift Filter Lite (based on the filter section from Rift) forms the first pair of plugins released by this fledgling developer. We’ve seen plenty of distortion plugins before and these range from classic hardware emulations to more complex multiple stage affairs. Rift falls into the latter category, and its main distortion section is supplemented by various other modules including filter, feedback/delay, and modulation. Nevertheless, although its hybrid topology is important, where Rift moves into slightly different territory is within the distortion module itself. Here you get control over the intensity of the effect via Drive and a choice of distortion stages (between 1 and 6), and significantly you also get independent control over both the Positive (top) and Negative (bottom) portions of the waveform.