Osmium Distortion Matrix

Lost in the deafening blur of the loudness war lies a simple truth: distortion isn’t about breaking sound, it’s about shaping it. Osmium takes that insight and fuses it with a modular core.

We call it a Distortion Matrix. Distortion means anything from subtle tape saturation to speaker-melting noise. Matrix means nine freely routable effect slots, three frequency bands and endless combinations of effects. The result is a device so essential to your Rack that it could demand its own spot on the periodic table, right next to oxygen and carbon.

Combine four distortion types—Saturation, Overdrive, Wavefolder, and Bitcrush, with supporting effects like dynamics, filters, EQ and creative effects. Split your sound across three frequency bands and process them separately. Add grit to mids, keep your lows clean, or just mess around until it sounds great.

Fully integrated into the Reason Rack, Osmium has built-in CV connections and modulation with two LFOs, a curve sequencer, and an envelope follower. Three external effect loops also let you patch any Rack device directly into its signal chain, enabling sounds that couldn’t exist anywhere else.

Features

• Creative distortion effect for anything from subtle tape saturation to speaker-melting noise
• Four distortion modules that cover four main areas — Saturation, Overdrive, Wavefolder, and Bitcrush, with supporting modules like dynamics, filters and EQ, and creative effects
• One input effect slot, a matrix of 9 effect slots with free routing, and one output effect slot designed to easily craft complex distorted signal chains
• Multi-band operation with up to three frequency bands of processing
• Expansive modulation matrix with two LFOs, a curve sequencer, an envelope follower, and CV control
• External effect loops allows any effect in the Reason Rack to be incorporated into Osmium’s signal chain
• 200+ expertly crafted patches covering distortion, bitcrushing, speaker simulation, dynamics, destruction and beyond