Van Moose Audio
Distortion / Overdrive

GRIT

v1.1.0-beta — beta · Standalone + AU + VST3 · macOS Apple Silicon + Intel

Part of Saturation & Distortion →

GRIT
distortion
Drive
0.50
Tone
0.00
Mix
1.00

A minor chord through GRIT — dry vs processed via the DRY|GRIT toggle

Free download

Get GRIT.

Beta build.

Download Standalone + AU + VST3 — macOS Apple Silicon + Intel23 MB
v1.1.0-beta — What's new ▾
  • Standalone, AU and VST3 now all show the same interface you see on this page — night-blue panel, Drive/Tone/Mix, DRY|GRIT compare
  • Correct Tone display in your DAW: −1 to +1, centred at 0 (the previous VST3 showed 0 to 1 with generic controls)
  • Chord and Drums demo sounds built in — audition GRIT without loading a track; PLAY is automatable and saves with your session
  • Hard-clip nonlinearity with 1st-order ADAA — tames aliasing versus a naive clipper, at zero latency (single-rate)
  • Universal build — Apple Silicon and Intel
  • Note: sessions saved with 1.0.0-beta reopen with GRIT at default settings

Requirements

  • macOS 13 Ventura or later
  • Apple Silicon + Intel (universal) — Windows coming later
  • ✅ Standalone app (GRIT.app) — full interface, Chord / Drums demo sounds
  • ✅ AU (Audio Unit v3) — GarageBand, Logic Pro, REAPER, Ableton Live
  • ✅ VST3 — Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, REAPER

Install

  • AU → /Applications (open GRIT.app once to register)
  • VST3 → ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/

Gatekeeper

Not notarized yet. Run once:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/GRIT.app ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/GRIT.vst3
Windows version

At 100 votes we build VET for Windows — FL Studio, Ableton, Reaper.

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GRIT — Distortion / Overdrive | Van Moose Audio