Tracktion Releases HATE Wavetable Distortion Plugin
Back in 2023, Tracktion and Dawesome unveiled Love, an “instant ambient” multi-effects plugin that combined pitch-shifting, time-stretching, reverb and granular delay to produce dreamy, ethereal sounds that’ll have you all googly-eyed.
Today, the company releases Hate, a “twisted counterpart” to Love that’s designed to achieve the opposite effect, promising to do “raw, destructive and crushing” things to your audio.
Developed by Dawesome, at its core Hate is a distortion plugin, but features a number of additional effects that push it well beyond classic distortion territory and turn it into something of a multi-effects powerhouse, much like its amorous predecessor.
Hate lets you shape sound in ways that feel fresh, musical, and inspiring — never generic. The plugin is based on a innovative wavetable distortion engine that lets you create your own wavetables: drop any audio file into Hate and it’ll be transformed into a custom saturation shape that can be tweaked using a variety of additional controls, meaning that each distortion you design is entirely unique.
Sounds can be further pulverized by chaining together up to six effects modules from a varied collection of 29 processors that includes classic effects such as compression, EQ, filter, delay, and reverb alongside a host of more unconventional sound-mangling tools.
These include several more styles of distortion, including saturation, bitcrushing and asymmetric, while the Raspator module utilizes feedback-frequency modulation to “reshape your audio in ways that oscilloscopes have nightmares about”.
Other highlights are J-60, an emulation of the famed Juno-60 chorus, Loophole, a module equipped with six parallel micro-loopers that can create glitchy and unpredictable textures, and Orbit, a novel modulation effect inspired by celestial mechanics.
Here’s the official preset demo:
Full Specs:
- Wavetable-based Saturation / Distortion.
- Some very unique distortion effects like Raspator, Mal-Sync, Atari-Punk for your signature sound.
- Pedal board with up to 6 modules chained.
- 29 modules to choose from.
- 200+ presets crafted by top sound designers.
- Creative Randomiser with the possibility to exclude parts from randomisation.
- 90 days free trial without any constraints.
- All parameters fully automate-able in the DAW.
- And finally a manual that you won’t hate.
Hate can be trial free for 90 days, and is currently available for the introductory price of $35.40 (regular price $59). It runs on PC and Mac in VST3/AU formats.
Find out more on Tracktion website.
