Two Brand-New
Multi-FX
Beautiful Aging and Distortion
Meet UFX LOFI & UFX DISTORT: Add Grit, Texture & Harmonics to Your Tracks
Meet the new DISTORTION and LOFI plugins from UJAM, focusing on everything crunchy, saturated and grainy to unleash your creativity.
November 27th, 2025
UJAM is expanding the UFX family again – say hello to UFX LOFI and UFX DISTORT.
After REVERB, DELAY, and FILTER, these two new plug-ins zoom in on everything crunchy, saturated, degraded and beautifully broken.
If you’re tired of stacking five plug-ins just to get the right kind of grit, these are for you.
Why another LOFI and DISTORTION plugin?
Modern producers are spoiled with options, there’s no shortage of reverbs, distortions or tape emulations. What’s rare is a tool that actually sparks ideas instead of slowing you down with endless tweaking.
“Producers already have countless effects — it’s the creative spark we focus on,” says Peter Gorges, Co-Founder of UJAM and the mind behind the UFX series. “Instead of building long chains of plug-ins, UFX lets you jump from a filtered bitcrush to a tape-flavored grain cloud in an instant. After REVERB2, FILTER and DELAY, the new LOFI and DISTORT continue that idea, and we’re proud of how they turned out.”
UFX LOFI: Beautiful Destruction
The UFX LOFI plugin is all about character – tape wobble, early digital grit, unstable clocks, crunchy converters, and all the little imperfections that make sounds feel alive.
20 Engine Modes for creative degradation
From subtle texture to total breakdown, LOFI gives you a wide range of character engines, including:
- Downsample & Bitcrush
- Wow & Flutter
- Tape Saturation & Vinyl
- Digital Aliasing & Granular Glitch
- Grainy, noisy, unstable flavors inspired by retro samplers and worn-out hardware
Each Mode is a starting point for a different „flavor of broken“.
Multi-effect architecture: not just one trick
Like the other UFX plug-ins, LOFI is more than a single effect:
- Dedicated Filter Section – 40 filter presets for sculpting tone before or after the LOFI engine.
- Finisher Module – 50 multi-effect chains that add movement, space, modulation, and special FX on top.
The result: the lofi plugin can help you go from “slightly dusty Rhodes” to “absolutely mangled synth meltdown” in just a couple of clicks.
Over 100 production-ready presets
UFX LOFI ships with a big preset library, including:
- Mode Templates – Quick starting points for each Engine Mode.
- Categories like:
- Drums & Beats – Crunchy hats, broken snares, smashed loops.
- Keys & Guitar – Warm, nostalgic lo-fi chords and textures.
- Synth to Crush – From subtle warmth to total mayhem.
- Creative FX – Sound design, breakdowns, transitions and weirdness
- Drums & Beats – Crunchy hats, broken snares, smashed loops.
UFX DISTORT: Drive It Like You Mean It
Where LOFI focuses on texture and degradation, the UFX DISTORT plugin is your go-to for saturation, drive, and harmonic shaping – from gentle glow to full-on destruction.
20 Engine Modes for every kind of drive
DISTORT covers a wide spectrum of distortion flavors:
- Tube Drive & Warm Saturation
- Screamer-style drive & Guitar Amp tones
- Hard Clipping & Fuzz
- Foldback, Rectify & Multiband distortion
- Ring Mod and more experimental colors
Whether you’re warming up a vocal or obliterating a drum bus, there’s an Engine Mode for it.
More than just distortion
Just like LOFI, DISTORT is a mini-rack in a single plug-in:
- Dedicated Filter Section – 40 flexible filter presets, ideal for pre/post tone-shaping.
- Finisher Module – 50 creative FX chains that can turn a simple distortion into something cinematic, rhythmic, or completely unexpected.
This makes DISTORT incredibly versatile: one plug-in can be a subtle mix tool, a guitar amp, a synth mangler, and a sound design weapon.
Over 100 presets for instant inspiration
Our new distortion plugin comes loaded with presets that drop straight into real-world mixes:
- Mode Templates – Instant setups for each Engine Mode.
- Preset Categories such as:
- Drums & Beats – Punch, smack, and impact for modern drums.
- Keys & Synth – Amp-like tones and character distortion.
- Vocals – Subtle grit, telephone effects, and hyped modern edges.
- Warm – For gentle saturation and analog-style glue.
- Disto – Full-on aggression and edge.
- Creative FX – For experimental textures and FX.
- Drums & Beats – Punch, smack, and impact for modern drums.
Introductory Pricing
- UFX LOFI:
- $29 Regular
- $19 Loyalty
- MSRP $49
- UFX DISTORT:
- $29 Regular
- $19 Loyalty
- MSRP $49
- UFX LOFI & DISTORT Bundle:
- $39 Regular
- $29 Loyalty*
Formats
UFX LOFI and UFX DISTORT support:
- VST2, VST3, AU2, AAX
- macOS & Windows
*Bundle available only during the introductory period.
For more details, audio demos and full specs, visit the UFX section on the UJAM website:www.ujam.com
About UJAM
UJAM was co-founded by Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams, two artists whose careers have been deeply shaped by music technology. The vision behind UJAM is to make that technology more accessible and inspire more people to make music.
The team behind UJAM consists of virtual instrument pioneers who previously worked on iconic products for Steinberg and Digidesign — from Steinberg Hypersonic to Virtual Guitarist, from Digidesign Xpand to Transfuser. Their mission: shorten the path from musical idea to finished track.
More fun. Better results. Less complexity.
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About UJAM
UJAM is a German-American maker of music technology co-founded by Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams that develops Virtual Instrument and Effects Plug-ins. With the Plug-in series Virtual Pianist, Usynth, Groovemate, Symphonic Elements, Virtual Guitarist, Virtual Bassist, Virtual Drummer, Beatmaker and Finisher and a range of software solutions (desktop, mobile, web), UJAM helps people to make music.
