Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Float Crush

CamSR and ArkeCode

Float Crush is a new type of bitcrusher exploiting the nature of the floating point unit. It offers something the regular bitcrusher can’t; a dual flavor distortion.

What does Float Crush do?
A floating point unit has three important segments to it, the sign, the exponent, and the mantissa. A normal 32-bit float uses 23 bits for it’s mantissa values and 7 bits for it’s exponent.

What Float Crush does is applies quantization to the exponent and mantissa range of bits, the same quantization a normal bitcrusher would. But the difference is this creates a multi-staged effect, where quantizing the mantissa range brings a soft, airy texture, and the exponent range which can completely ‘rearrange’ the sound.

There’s only a few presets but try it out for yourself. When adjusting the exponent effect, you might notice the signal gets softer, if that happens use the Pre-Gain control to compensate.



Ferox

Jeroen Breebaart

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Exciter

Christian Budde

An open source exciter. It features linkwitz-riley crossover filters of up to 8th order. Also it features a chebyshev waveshaper that produces a cosy, antialiased distortion, which is used to 'refresh' the high frequencies. The shaper has been created to adapt to other shapes easily in the future.


Ultra Phazer

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VCS UltraPhazer is a multi oscillated phaser VST plugin for Windows hosts. It sounds very cool on guitar tracks and on raw saw sound. It can also be used as stereo enhancer and auto panner. There are 14 sliders you can control, Resonance, Min Filter, Max Filter, LFO Freq, LFO Add 1-3, Filter 1-4, Num Filter, Stereo Phaz and Mix. You can also use it as multi notch filter. Windows only.


Elite Reducer

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Bit/Rate-Reducer vst audio effect with pre- and after cutoff filters. Runs on most vst hosts. Gives you the ability to create Daft Punk like chord sounds, cool lofi beats and more. Version 2 now comes with 3 interpolation algorithms, lp/hp filters, 2 bit reducers and improvements!

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Eat Me!

NovaFlash

Eat Me is a Stereo Bit Crusher


RSP10

NovaFlash

A multiFX plugin consisting of a Ring Modulator, Saturation, and a Phaser