Noise Suite Stacks 18 Pitch and Glitch Modules
Avalanche Tones Noise Suite chains 18 pitch, ring-mod, and glitch modules for heavy guitar tones. It's $39.99 direct, VST3 and AU, with a 7-day free trial.
Avalanche Tones has released Noise Suite, a modular effects plugin aimed at metalcore, djent, and thall guitarists. It costs $39.99, and you can start a 7-day trial from the product page before you pay. The idea is simple. You stack pedal-style modules, drag them into whatever order you like, and build a chain that pushes a solid heavy tone somewhere much stranger.
At a glance: Noise Suite costs $39.99 and comes in VST3 and AU formats. It runs on Windows 10 (version 1607 or later) and Windows 11, and on macOS 10.15 or later with Intel and Apple Silicon support, 64-bit only. You can load up to 10 modules at once from a list of 18, with a built-in gate on top. You buy it directly from Avalanche Tones.
What Noise Suite is
Think of Noise Suite as a pedalboard that lives inside your DAW. Avalanche Tones designed it for modern heavy guitar, where pitch dives, ring modulation, and broken-tape glitches are already part of the vocabulary. Each block has been developed far enough to sit in a finished mix. Because the modules chain in any order, two players loading the same 18 effects can walk away with very different sounds.
Noise Suite isn't an amp sim. It doesn't include amp or cabinet modeling, and there's no IR loader, so the guitar tone you already like stays in whichever amp plugin you trust. You can place Noise Suite before or after that plugin. Its job is the chaos stage: the dive, the metallic ring, the stutter, and the tape stop.
That's a narrower role than Guitar Rig 7, a full amp-and-effects rack listed at €199. It's also a different role from Archetype: Gojira, a €154 metal amp plugin with its own effects section. If your riff already sounds like the record and you want it to fall apart on the chorus, Noise Suite fits. If you still need the amp itself, start with Gojira or Guitar Rig and put Noise Suite after it.
Eighteen modules, ten slots
You can load up to 10 modules at a time and drag them around to change the order. A built-in gate comes with the suite. The 18 modules fall into four groups, and Avalanche Tones sums up the sound as wild pitch dives, metallic ring-mod tones, stuttering gates, and glitchy broken-tape textures. The module list lines up closely with that description.
Pitch covers Transpose, Octaver, Semitone Doubler, Havoc, and Rainbow Generator. This group handles dives and doubled intervals. If a djent riff needs to drop an octave under the chorus, or split into a second note a semitone away, this is where you start. Placement matters, too: a pitch block after a ring modulator behaves very differently from one placed in front of it.
Shift / Ring includes Frequency Shifter, Auto Frequency Shifter, Ring Mod, and Track Ring. A frequency shifter moves every partial by the same number of hertz, which breaks the natural harmonic relationships and quickly turns a guitar into something like an out-of-tune bell. Ring modulation multiplies your signal by an oscillator and produces metallic sidebands, a texture thall and mathcore players already lean on. Track Ring follows the notes you play instead of sitting on one fixed frequency. Auto Frequency Shifter moves on its own.
Glitch / Rhythm is the largest group, with Step Gate, Stutter Gate, Glitch Delay, Tape Stop, Freeze, and Oscillating Screech. The two gates handle rhythmic cuts. Glitch Delay and Tape Stop cover broken playback, giving you repeats that fail and a stop that drags the pitch down as the virtual tape slows. Freeze holds a slice of audio in place. Oscillating Screech is the one to reach for when a breakdown should sound like a speaker on its last legs.
Lo-Fi rounds things out with Bitcrusher and Sample & Hold. A bitcrusher lowers the bit depth for gritty digital distortion. Sample and hold grabs the signal at clocked intervals and holds each value, which creates the stair-stepped tone behind a lot of glitch guitar. Together, they make a clean DI sound cheap on purpose.
Every parameter supports MIDI mapping and DAW automation. The preset system lets you save, delete, import, and export, and you can store presets for a single module as well as for full chains. That's handy when you've dialed in a ring-mod setting and want to try it in front of three different gates without rebuilding it each time.
The official walkthrough from Avalanche Tones shows the modules in action.
Where it runs
Avalanche Tones lists compatibility with Cubase, Reaper, Fender Studio, FL Studio, Ableton Live, Reason, and Logic Pro. Noise Suite is 64-bit only. On Windows, you'll need Windows 10 version 1607 or later, or Windows 11. On a Mac, it runs on macOS 10.15 or later, on both Intel and Apple Silicon.
Formats are VST3 and AU. Logic loads the Audio Unit version, while the Windows hosts use VST3. There's no AAX build, so Pro Tools users will need to run the effect in another host and bring the printed audio back into their session.
You can buy it directly from Avalanche Tones for $39.99, or start the 7-day free trial from the same page.
Noise Suite specifications
| Spec | Detail |
|---|---|
| Price | $39.99, direct from Avalanche Tones |
| Trial | 7-day free trial from the product page |
| Type | Modular pitch, ring, glitch, and lo-fi chain for heavy guitar |
| Modules | 18 in four groups, up to 10 loaded at once, drag to reorder |
| Pitch | Transpose, Octaver, Semitone Doubler, Havoc, Rainbow Generator |
| Shift / Ring | Frequency Shifter, Auto Frequency Shifter, Ring Mod, Track Ring |
| Glitch / Rhythm | Step Gate, Stutter Gate, Glitch Delay, Tape Stop, Freeze, Oscillating Screech |
| Lo-Fi | Bitcrusher, Sample & Hold (plus a built-in gate) |
| Control | MIDI mapping and DAW automation on every parameter |
| Presets | Save, delete, import, export; per-module presets as well as full chains |
| macOS | 10.15 and later, Intel and Apple Silicon, 64-bit; VST3 and AU |
| Windows | 10 version 1607 and later, or Windows 11, 64-bit; VST3 |
| Hosts listed | Cubase, Reaper, Fender Studio, FL Studio, Ableton Live, Reason, Logic Pro |
| Buy | Noise Suite at Avalanche Tones |
Noise Suite vs Guitar Rig 7 vs ShaperBox 3
Guitar Rig 7 is a broad, all-in-one guitar rack. ShaperBox 3 is a drawable multi-effect listed at €99, with 11 shapers that can each split into three bands. Noise Suite sits between them as an affordable specialist.
| Noise Suite | Guitar Rig 7 | ShaperBox 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $39.99 | €199 (Guitar Rig 7) | €99 (ShaperBox 3) |
| Job | Pitch dives, ring mod, stutter, tape stop, bitcrush | Amp models, pedals, and a modular rack | Drawable LFOs across volume, filter, crush, time, and more |
| Chain | Up to 10 of 18 modules, any order | A full rack, including amps | 11 shapers, each splittable into 3 bands |
| Guitar tone | Bring your own amp | The amp is the main event | No amp; it's a modulation tool |
| Formats | VST3, AU; macOS 10.15+, Windows 10 1607+ | VST3, AU, AAX | VST2, VST3, AU, AAX; macOS 10.15+, Windows 7+ |
| Reach for it when | The riff has to dive, ring, or fall apart | You need the amp and the pedals in one window | The effect should follow a shape you draw |
Which to pick. Choose Noise Suite when your part is already amplified and the missing piece is a pitch dive, a ring-mod bark, or a gate that stutters on the grid. Ten slots leave room to build a full breakdown chain and still find your way back to the clean riff.
Guitar Rig 7 makes more sense if you don't have an amp tone yet, or if you want one rack to handle chorus, delay, and a cabinet. ShaperBox 3 is the better pick when the motion needs to follow a shape you draw, like a custom stutter, a band-split crush, or a volume curve no pedal preset covers. It can gate and bitcrush, but it won't give you ready-made guitar modules like Havoc, Track Ring, and Tape Stop for $39.99.
If your DI still sounds polite, Gojira is still the metal amp to put in front. Noise Suite won't replace it.
Who Noise Suite is for
It's a good fit if
- You write metalcore, djent, thall, or mathcore and want dives, ring mod, or tape stops without leaving your session.
- You already have an amp plugin you like and want a second stage dedicated to the ugly stuff.
- You automate heavily. Every parameter maps to MIDI and host automation, and per-module presets make it easy to reuse a block across chains.
- A $39.99 purchase with a week-long trial feels like the right size of experiment. You'll have time to hear it on your own DI before deciding.
Look elsewhere if
- You work in Pro Tools and need the plugin on the track, since Noise Suite ships as VST3 and AU only.
- You want a high-gain amp, a cabinet, or a full pedalboard with drives and delays for cleaner songs. Guitar Rig or a Neural DSP Archetype covers that.
- You need Linux support or a standalone app. Noise Suite runs as a plugin on Windows and macOS.
- You only want a bitcrusher. The lo-fi pair is two modules out of 18, and the price makes the most sense if you'll stack several.
How much does Noise Suite cost?
Noise Suite costs $39.99 as a one-time purchase from Avalanche Tones. There's a single edition, and the same page offers a 7-day free trial.
For a quick summary, see the Noise Suite entry in our plugin finder.
FAQ
What is Noise Suite?
It's a modular guitar effect from Avalanche Tones with 18 modules across pitch, ring modulation, glitch, and lo-fi, and up to 10 can run at once. It's aimed at metalcore, djent, and thall players, and it costs $39.99.
Does Noise Suite include an amp?
No. Noise Suite focuses on effects like pitch shifting, frequency shifting, ring mod, gates, glitch delay, tape stop, freeze, bitcrushing, and sample and hold, plus a built-in gate. Put it after the amp plugin you already use.
Will it run in Logic and FL Studio?
Yes, Avalanche Tones lists both. On macOS, Noise Suite runs as VST3 or AU from 10.15 up, on Intel and Apple Silicon, so Logic is covered. On Windows, FL Studio loads the VST3 on Windows 10 version 1607 or later, or Windows 11. Either way, you'll need a 64-bit system.
Noise Suite vs ShaperBox 3?
ShaperBox 3 is a modulation tool with 11 drawable shapers, three bands each, and it's listed at €99 in our finder. Noise Suite is a guitar pedalboard of pitch dives, ring mod, and tape-stop glitch for $39.99. Use ShaperBox when you want to draw the motion yourself. Use Noise Suite when you want modules that already sound like heavy-guitar tricks.
Is there a trial?
Yes. The product page offers a 7-day free trial alongside the $39.99 purchase.
