Kilohearts Bitcrush (Download)
Lo-fi simulation
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Product Description
When nostalgia hits, Bitcrush can bring you back to the digital hardware of times past. It simulates the audio being played back using a low quality sampler with limited sample rate and bit depth. Mm, crunchy.
The Bitcrush can be used to create distorting effects that sound like that of scraping analog radio, or inherently lo-fi sound sources, like old video games.
Bitcrush is a snapin
Kilohearts plugins work great together, and all the snapins can work double duty as modular components inside our snapin hosts. There are several different hosts that allow you to apply any number of snapins in various contexts, like to each individual band in the band-splitter Multipass, or add your full effects chain right inside the preset of the synth Phase Plant.
Requirements:
mac:
ram: 0
disk: 0
internet_required: False
plugins: VST-2,VST-3,AU,AAX
windows:
ram: 0
disk: 0
internet_required: False
plugins: VST-2,VST-3,AAX
Licensing:
Product Features
- Down sample the signal to a minimum of 200 Hz.
- Quantize the amplitude of each sample of the signal. A lower value will result in a more distorted sound.
- Quality of the analog-to-digital conversion. A lower value will add dissonant aliasing in the low frequencies.
- Quality of the digital-to-analog conversion. A lower value will add dissonant aliasing in the high frequencies.
- Adds noise to the signal in order to reduce distortion caused by quantization.
- The dry/wet mix of this effect. A lower value will let some of the unmodified signal through.
- Whenever you have your mouse cursor over a snapin there is a small arrow at the top right corner (not visible in screenshot). It opens a settings panel where you handle presets.
- The small checkbox to the left of the plugin name is a checkbox that bypasses the effect when disabled.
- The bottom right corner of all Kilohearts plugins is a resize handle for scaling the UI to any size. This allows you to get a good view of the controls whatever the screen resolution, and also comes in handy if you need big controls, e.g. when using Bitcrush as a real-time effect on a touchscreen monitor during a live set.