Kombinat4: Multiband Distortion Plugin by Audio Damage

Kombinat4 includes 38 distortion engines. The set carries over the engines from Kombinat Tri and Grind, and adds thirteen algorithms built for this plugin, including Wavefold, Chebyshev, Bitwise, Fractal and Phase Distortion. Each engine has up to three custom-labeled controls, plus per-band gain and solo.

In Multiband mode, the input is split by Linkwitz-Riley crossovers into two to eight parallel bands. Each band gets its own engine and gain stage, and the bands recombine at the output. The Engine Mix knob blends the band engines from clean to fully driven without the phase cancellation a conventional dry/wet control can cause on a multiband processor.

The output section offers twelve filter types, including low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, notch, OTA-style and ladder bandpass shapes. A Rough Rider compressor with sidechain high-pass filter and external sidechain input sits at the output. A global feedback path with attack and decay envelope can produce self-oscillation or slow sustain.

AGC keeps levels matched when comparing heavy distortion settings. Lock buttons beside AGC, Bypass and DC Block hold those settings while you audition presets. Oversampling runs at 2x or 4x, and the plugin reports its full latency to the host so delay compensation keeps parallel routing in phase.